Sweets with no sugar rush or weight gain! 192 results

Is it possible? Hundreds of traditional desserts re-designed healthy? YESS! My biggest “aha” discovery is how to make sweets that taste incredible, yet cause no blood sugar spike or added pounds. How is this possible? Easy! Use original, low carb ingredients like coconut, almond, and chicory root sweetener. You’ll feel the difference. There’s no deprivation here! My #1 priority is YOUR health. Check out ALL my sweet recipes below:

Perfect Chocolate Coconut Pie Crust

If you like chocolate and toasted coconut, you'll LOVE this pie crust. Paleo, gluten-free, grain-free, and tree nut-free, it's great for gatherings when you need to accommodate diverse diets. Soft and flexible, you can press it into the pan with your fingers, or roll it out with a rolling pin! When it bakes, it gets crispy and irresistibly delicious. ...

Bewitched Apple Crisp

This easy seasonal favorite will warm your heart and fill your home with the scent of baked apples and cinnamon. Why bewitched? Well, it's spiked with a tantalizing Italian liqueur of herbs and spices called Strega, which means Witch! Think golden velvet, sweet mint, anise, juniper, fennel, and many other herbs. ...

Flourless Chocolate Pumpkin Cake

This fabulous one-step cake is an easy holiday dessert with a rich, old-fashioned flavor of chocolate spice cake. Just blend and bake! One of my new experiments in flourless sweets, this recipe uses rolled oats or any rolled whole grain. More than a yummy treat, it's a nutritious, high-fiber dessert or snack. A few months ago I would have used almond flour, but now it is very expensive, and like all flours it oxidizes quickly. ...

Sweet Potato Noodle Kugel

With Rosh Hashanah just around the corner, my inner child is already craving Noodle Kugel, that irresistible comfort food. I wondered, can sweet potatoes and coconut milk create that delirious joy of traditional kugel? The answer is YES and NO. Yes, my taste testers agreed this Kugel re-made healthy is deliriously delicious. However no, it bears little resemblance to the mouth feel of authentic noodle kugel, which requires forbidden ...

Jewish Apple Cake, Orange Caramel Glaze

There's nothing more traditional for Rosh Hashanah than apples and honey. However this is NOT your grandmother's apple cake. While enjoying familiar traditions, this gluten-free recipe integrates surprising methods and healthy ingredients, to yield a cake so moist and luscious, you'll never miss the sugar or flour. I love honey, but it sends my blood sugar ...

Vegan Avocado Brownies

Everyone loves brownies! These are for folks who don’t do dairy, eggs, gluten, or grains. But you'll never notice the difference. ALL my taste-testers give them rave reviews. The secret to their irresistible taste and chewy texture of these grain-free flourless brownies is avocado, sweet potato, apple, and chia seeds, which help to bind the bars together. ...

Chocolate Brazil Nut Crust

Heavenly and sublime, Brazil nuts make a super-easy crust for any raw dessert. This crust is perfect for Coconut Mango Goji Berry Cheesecake, Matcha Maca Green Tea Superfood Bars, Black Forest Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake, Chocolate Cashew Swirl Fudge, Avocado Key Lime Bars, ...

Matcha Maca Green Tea Superfood Bars

Matcha green tea powder is a potent superfood with 137 times more antioxidants than brewed green tea. Matcha's antioxidants are called catechins, which are powerful disease-busters that exist in no other food. Avocado makes these bars rich and creamy. Coconut butter makes them totally irresistible! ...

Paleo Dark Chocolate Avocado Mango Brownies

Delicious and easy, super-chocolaty, chewy brownies, are filled with mango chunks and nuts. Yep, they're a tantalizing flavor combo with chocolate, mango, and avocado in every bite! These babies are Paleo, free of gluten, grains, dairy, flour, GMO's, and sugar. They won't even spike your blood sugar or cause weight gain if you use the suggested non-glycemic sweetener. Hooray! ...

Mexican Chocolate Birthday Cake

Three layers of incredible flavor, I think I just died and went to heaven. Rich cacao with Paleo Orange Buttercream Frosting and Raspberry Sauce is deeply satisfying, titillating, and refreshing all at the same time. Avocado and apple make the cake incredibly moist so it melts in your mouth. Cinnamon, coffee, and cayenne give it an ¡Ay caramba! Latino flavor. Everybody loves this cake and never guess it is Paleo, ...

Paleo Orange Buttercream Frosting

This is the easiest and creamiest frosting you’ll ever make. No cooking, no thickeners, just five ingredients whipped in the food processor, and it is delicious beyond words. A favorite frosting for my Mexican Chocolate Birthday Cake, it also tastes yummy on Paleo Carrot Muffins. The secret to its creamy texture is pure coconut...

Paleo Orange-Spice Russian Tea Cakes

Today I was craving a healthy melt-in-my-mouth treat! These bite-size Paleo cookies are absolutely irresistible, with chocolate chips, spices, and a hint of orange zest. Great for the holidays or anytime of year, they're nutrient-dense, free of gluten, grains, GMO's, and dairy. They won’t cause a blood sugar spike or weight gain ...

Paleo Cranberry Orange Scones

These scones make a high-protein, nutrient-dense breakfast, dessert, or snack. Finally after 6 trials, I discovered how to make them irresistibly soft and moist. I found that frozen butter gives them a flaky texture and authentic old-world flavor. ...

Black Forest Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake

Creamy and irresistible with orgasmic chocolate cherry swirls, this looks like a cheesecake, tastes like a cheesecake, but has no cheese in it. Instead of cream cheese, it is made of coconut milk, coconut butter, and lemon. Raw, Paleo, Vegan, ...

OMG Paleo Chocolate Cashew Swirl Fudge!

Cashew-chocolate swirls on a chocolate Brazil nut crust, 1 square is the recommended dose to gently elevate your mood for the whole day! Chocolate stimulates endorphins in the brain for pleasant feelings of well being, excitement, and alertness. Yeah, I need that! There are 3 steps to make the fudge. ...

Jane’s Recipe in Pastry & Baking Magazine

This season my Paleo Chocolate Cake was featured in Pastry & Baking North America Magazine! The amazing ingredients are pure cacao powder, blueberries, apple, shredded coconut, chicory root, and egg! Moist and luscious, this is the yummiest chocolate cake I've ever tasted! Find the recipe in my book Paleo Desserts. ...

High-Protein Pumpkin Trail Mix Bars

A grab-and-go nutritious snack can save your whole day! These tasty fruit-nut bars are bursting with crunchy freshness, huge flavor, and high-protein superfoods that commercial energy bars can't touch. Pack them for a hike! I made a big 9 x 13 pan so I could freeze leftovers. ...

Paleo Caramel Apple Bread Pudding

Am I dizzy? Am I dreaming? Or does my whole house smell deliciously like hot caramel apples? This luscious treat seems complicated but isn't. Just 4 easy layers: coffee cake batter, sliced apples, coconut milk-egg custard, streusel topping, and bake. Oh yum! Bread Pudding originated in ancient times ...

Pumpkin Hot Chocolate, Dairy-free

What could be more wonderful than hot chocolate, pumpkin, and foamed coconut milk? A nourishing snack or even breakfast, this treat is high in protein and Vitamin A. Most hot chocolate gives me a sugar spike and dairy allergy that destabilizes my metabolism for days - Ouch! However this recipe suggests non-glycemic sweeteners ...

Chocolate Nut Butters

I'm flipped over homemade nut butters! They save money, I can make lots of flavors, and I can choose my own healthy sweeteners. High in protein and other nutrients, flavored nut butters make a great snack! Start with my simple Homemade Nut Butter recipe and then come back to this page for chocolate and flavorings. ...

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