9 Low-Sugar Desserts That Taste Anything But
Secret Brownies
These raw, no-bake brownies will blow you away with its signature secret ingredient: sauerkraut. That’s right, the probiotic-laden fermented veggie used as a way to tang-up dessert! With this powerful punch in your Paleo brownie, the only added sweetness you need comes from pitted dates and just a tablespoon of honey. (Photo: Craving 4 More)
Recipe: Secret Brownies
Chocolate Mug Muffin
What’s a mug muffin, you ask? It’s a muffin you construct in a mug and bake in the microwave, of course! In this recipe, vanilla and cinnamon help round out the small amount of stevia to make this muffin-for-one just sweet enough. Try adding extra almond milk to give it more of a bread pudding consistency! (Photo: Fry Sauce and Grits)
Recipe: Chocolate Mug Muffin
Paleo Crepes Drizzled with “Nutella”
This recipe, from our own PaleoHacks kitchen, includes the most important hack of all: homemade “Nutella” made from oven roasted hazelnuts and melted chocolate. Drizzle this chocolatey spread on every dessert hereafter, especially these primal crepes, made with eggs, coconut flour, and coconut oil. (Photo: Paleo Hacks)
Chocolate Coffee Coconut Truffles
Prepare these frozen treats and harden them in ice cube trays to make the perfect accompaniment to a cup of tea. These truffles are strongly flavored with ground coffee, unsweetened coconut and cocoa powder, and sweetened ever so slightly with only a ? teaspoon of raw honey. A little bit of coconut oil poured on the bottom of the ice cube trays gives these delicious truffles a pretty marbling swirl! (Photo: Paleo Magazine)
Clean Eating Almond Butter Fudge
This super easy fudge is made up of only four ingredients. To make these super easy fudge bites, blend together almond butter, coconut oil, vanilla and sea salt and freeze for the perfect bite-sized treat whenever your sweet tooth starts acting up. (Photo: Skinny Ms)
Recipe: Clean Eating Almond Butter Fudge
Blueberry Espresso Brownies
With ground coffee and fresh blueberries in your batter, you’ll hardly miss any added sugar. These energy-boosting brownies are pumped up with cinnamon, vanilla and a little coconut cream concentrate. Don’t forget to melt some extra coconut cream to drizzle on top before serving! (Photo: Civilized Caveman Cooking)
Recipe: Blueberry Espresso Brownies
Paleo Lemon Bars
These bright, zesty lemon bars pack lots of fresh taste that won’t have you lacking for flavor. With a crunchy crust of coconut flour and oil and a topping made with lemon zest and eggs, these honey-sweetened lemon bars will nicely do the trick. (Photo: Food Faith Fitness)
Recipe: Paleo Lemon Bars
No-Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Jars
We all know dessert tastes better out of a jar, and a no-bake recipe to boot? That’s hard to beat. Surprise ingredients include raw cashews and even zucchini to boost the creaminess factor. Topped with a reduced strawberry mixture, these egg-free Paleo cheesecake jars are the superior dessert, especially for berry lovers like myself! (Photo: Clean Eating With A Dirty Mind)
Goji Tahini Chia Pudding
This super easy pudding, made with chia seeds, tahini, goji berries, Paleo milk and just a little honey, is simply stirred together and set in the fridge overnight. Breakfast will be easy and delicious! Why not double up the recipe and have some for tomorrow’s dessert, too? (Photo: Paleo Hacks)
Recipe: Goji Tahini Chia Pudding
When you’re going Paleo, it can be pretty hard to cut out dairy and gluten from your diet. But trying to go easy on the sugar, too? That’s when meltdowns start to happen, even for veterans of the primal lifestyle.
Luckily, it’s really easy to made delicious, satisfying and caveman-friendly desserts that will keep you happy and won’t overload your system. The Paleo diet is all about keeping your blood sugar levels stable, and these desserts will rescue you from those intense, often emotionally driven roller coaster rides of sugar highs and subsequent sugar crashes.
Some doctors have even identified white sugar as poison, robbing your body of necessary vitamins and minerals. By simply replacing factory sweeteners with raw, organic ones, like unfiltered honey or Vermont maple syrup, you’ll feel just as satisfied while also reaping a immunity boosting benefits along the way. Honey also includes antioxidants that are proven to help prevent certain kinds of cancers.
Eating foods high in sugar, including both the good kind and the bad kind, not only causes post-sugar crashes but also may be interfering with weight loss. If your body has excess sugar floating around, your body will use that for energy first. Without those carb freeloaders on board, your body will burn fat deposits all over your body helping you shed those unwanted pounds. Cue the low-sugar dessert plan!
Our Paleo dessert recipes often have a fair amount of healthy fats, like coconut oil, nuts, seeds, nut butters and even grass-fed butter to help boost satiation and to keep your energy levels stable, avoiding that high and low crash.
As we know, however, fat alone cannot be enough to satisfy a sweet tooth. Optimal Paleo dessert recipes often include cinnamon and coconut for their natural sweet flavors and minimal glucose levels. Fruits, especially berries, are a great way to add healthy sweetness to a dessert, while pitted dates can be used to sweeten a brownie or muffin. There are also other tricks up the sleeves of these recipes. We’ve heard of avocado mousse, but sauerkraut brownies? The creative use of veggies, fermented or otherwise, in these low sugar desserts will certainly surprise you.
So now, without further ado, here are nine delicious, low sugar Paleo recipes we’ve collected from inspirational bloggers across the web. We hope some of these make their way to your rotation of favorite treats to prepare.
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