recipes for healthy desserts?

Here are 5 simple ideas - maybe at least one will appeal to you? :)

Apple Crisp - decrease the butter and it's still so yummy. Add walnuts and raisins to the topping and it's awesome.

Smoothie - mash and freeze a banana. Put frozen banana (and any other fruit you like), yogurt, and ice in a blender.

Brownies made with beans - weird, but it works. The texture is different. Open a can of black beans. Blend in blender until smooth. Combine a brownie mix and the beans. That's it. Bake as directed on box.

Strawberries drizzled (not smothered) in melted dark chocolate.

Fruit Fluff - (you can sub sugar free jello, fat free cool whip)

1 large box Jello, any flavor (strawberry works well)

2 cups boiling water

2 single serving size yogurt containers, same flavor as the Jello

1 (8 0z) container Cool Whip

Dissolve the Jello in the boiling water. Add the yogurt and mix well.

Fold in Cool Whip. Pour into a 13 x 9 - inch pan. Chill 4 hours.

I made this delicious banana nut bread for my husband's birthday about a week ago. I doubled the recipe and made 2 loaves and they were gone within 3days. It is very healthy, no oil or butter, it uses whole wheat flour, and it turned out really yummy! 1/3 Heaping cup of unsweetened applesauce 1/4 Cup Honey 1/4 Cup brown sugar 1 1/2 Cup mashed bananas (about 4 large bananas) 1/2 Cup walnuts 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp vanilla 2 eggs 1 3/4 Cup whole wheat flour 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp baking soda 1/4 Cup HOT water 1. Preheat oven to 325 2. In a large bowl, mix honey, sugar, and applesauce. Add eggs and mix well. Stir in bananas and vanilla. 3. In a separate bowl, mix flour, salt, and cinnamon. 4. Add flour mixture to wet mixture (bananas, honey, etc.) in 3 parts. 5. In a separate bowl, add baking soda to Hot water and mix until dissolved. Add to batter. 6. Blend in chopped nuts. 7. Spread batter into a greased 9X5 loaf pan. 8. Bake for 55-60 minutes. 9. Take out of loaf pan and cool on wire rack for 1/2 hour before serving. My husband and I like to slice it and toast it and add a little butter to it. It is really good like that. Or, you can refrigerate it and it tastes great cold.

Try baking with Stevia and get a Stevia cookbook. It's a sweetener made from the leaves of a Stevia plant and it has no effect on blood sugar and no calories but if you use too much it is bitter, too little and it's not sweet enough so get the book and follow it exactly.

with cakes you can use applesauce in place of the oil. I also use egg beaters in my cake and brownie recipes... I also take a fruit mixture (mandarin oranes,strawberrys,red grapes, peaches,etc) and add peach yogurt strawberry yogurt with cool whip and instant vanilla pudding mix all together GREAT

Jello. Throw it in boiling water. Put it in the freezer. Wait 4 hours.

mini pizza!!

-english muffin halves

-tomato sauce (mix with black pepper)

-mozzarella cheese

-ham

-pineapple

-jalapenos

-anything

bake and have fun