Healthier Dessert Recipes

I have a mega sweet tooth- ice cream and baked goods are my weakness! Since I made a conscious decision to eat better, I just have to be more mindful about the treats I'm eating! I eat dessert every day- usually just a healthier dessert! And I usually splurge once a week on a real, goodness fatty fatty fat pants dessert. It's all about balance, right?

I usually always have Halo Top ice cream, Enlightened ice cream sandwiches or bars, Yasso bars, or Oreo thins stocked! (Not all at once...but there's always SOME thing healthier to choose from around here! It's how I stay sane.) Here are some of my favorite lower calorie treat options:
 

Lemon Cake & Raspberry Ice Cream 

 1/2 c. lemon cake Halo Top ice cream

1T nonfat cool whip

1T melted sugar free raspberry preserves

fresh raspberries

sprinkle of graham cracker crumbs

WW Smart Points: 4

Chocolate Raspberry Ice Cream Sundae

 

1/2 c chocolate Halo Top ice cream

1T nonfat cool whip

Fresh raspberries

1T melted sugar free raspberry preserves

Drizzle of chocolate syrup

2gm mini chocolate chips

4 mini marshamallows

6 white chocolate chips

WW Smart Points: 6

Frozen Key Lime Pie Bites

(Via My Fitness Pal Blog)

For the crust:

• 5 Medjool dates, pitted
• 1/3 cup raw walnuts
• 1/3 cup raw oats

For the filling:

• 2 tablespoons cream cheese, softened
• 3 tablespoons Greek yogurt, plain
• 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
• 1 scoop or packet key lime pie or vanilla protein powder
• 1 teaspoon honey

Directions
Place cupcake liners into a 6-count cupcake tin. Set aside.
Add the dates, walnuts and oats to a food processor and process until well combined and looks like coarse sand. It should feel sticky between your fingers. Once ready, place about a ping pong ball size of crust mixture into the bottom of each cupcake liner and flatten out with your fingers so it covers the bottom like a crust (it should be well packed). Set aside.
In a small bowl, add the softened cream cheese, yogurt, protein powder, lime juice and honey. Mix well with a whisk until smooth.
Scoop out the filling and place evenly into each cupcake tin. Place tin in the freezer for an hour or until ready to eat, allowing 5 minutes to thaw. Store leftover tarts in the freezer.

Fruity Pebble Marshmallow Ice Cream Sandwich  

1 Enlightened Ice Cream Sandwich

1T Marshmallow fluff

1T Fruity Pebbles

WW Smart points: 5

Sweet 'n Salty Ice Cream Sandwich

1 Enlightened ice cream sandwich

1T marshmallow fluff

1t peanut butter

1 pretzel thin

2 gm mini chocolate chips

WW Smart Points: 5

Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream Bar

Chocolate Yasso greek yogurt ice cream bar

1t peanut butter

2 crushed pretzel thins

WW Smart Points: 4

Clean Chocolate Brownie Bites

 In a food processor combine 1/4c walnuts, 1/4c almonds, 1/2c dried dates, 3T cocoa powder, and 1T almond milk. Make 9 tablespoon size balls and refrigerate for 30min before eating.

WW Smart Points: 3 each

Layered Strawberry Dessert 

Two graham cracker squares

5T fat free cool whip

Strawberries

1/2 T Hershey's syrup

Layer and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes to soften the graham crackers.

WW Smart Points: 4

Clean Unbaked Brownies

Recipe over at  Chocolate Covered Katie

These come in higher at 9 WW Smart Points a square, because they have higher fat ingredients like nuts and coconut oil- but because they are all natural, whole ingredients I'm totally okay with that! 

  Naked Apple Pie A la Mode

 1 Apple

2t cinnamon

1/2c vanilla Halo Top Ice cream

2gm chopped pecans

Toss apple slices in cinnamon and just a bit of water and microwave for a few minutes until soft. Top with ice cream and nuts!

WW Smart Points: 2

White chocolate Strawberry Sundae

1/2 c strawberry Halo Top

1T melted sugar free raspberry preserves

1.5T marshmallow fluff with a teeny bit of hot water mixed in to make it pourable

Sprinkle of graham cracker crumbs

A few white chocolate chips

WW Smart Points: 4

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Sundae

1/2c chocolate Halo Top Ice Cream

6 crushed pretzel sticks

1T fat free cool whip

1t melted peanut butter

WW Smart Points: 3

Lemon Coconut Sundae

1/2 c Lemon cake Halo Top Ice cream

2 Trader Joes coconut thin cookies

1T unsweetened coconut flakes, toasted

WW Smart Points: 4

Berry Pie for One A la Mode

 

 1/2c frozen mixed berries

1/4t corn starch

1/4t sugar

Pillsbury pie crust

Toss the berries in the corn starch and sugar. For the crust, I used a mason jar outer rim to "punch out" a mini pie crust. Put crust on top of berries in a ramekin and bake at 350 for 35 minutes. Top with 1/2c vanilla Halo Top.

WW Smart Points: 5