21 Healthy Fall Dessert Recipes to Wrap up Your Meal in Cozy Style (2024)

FAQs

What is a healthy dessert after dinner? ›

Coconut-milk yogurt is sweetened with maple syrup, spread into a thin layer and studded with fresh pineapple and coconut flakes. After freezing, break it into pieces to enjoy as a healthy vegan snack or dessert!

You can make many traditional desserts into healthy alternatives. For example, try some chocolate covered strawberries, blueberry lemon oatmeal, a yogurt peanut butter parfait, fruit pizza, or black bean brownies.

Finish your evening in style with a decadent chocolate tart, fruity trifle, cheesecake or ice cream dessert.

But some desserts, such as angel food cake, are naturally less deadly on the calorie and fat scales, so a full-size portion on occasion won't wreak havoc on an otherwise healthy diet. Angel food cake gets its lift from beaten egg whites. No egg yolks and no butter mean the cake contains no fat.

Fruit Bars

Blending fresh fruit and freezing into popsicles is the perfect substitute for ice cream—vitamins from fresh fruit without heavy cream or added sugar is a sweet treat sans the extra calories.

Is there a healthy dessert? ›

In the summer months, many of the experts TODAY.com spoke to opt for grilled fruit as a post-dinner sweet. Try grilling pears, peaches or apples with cinnamon and serve them with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream or Greek yogurt. Or eat them on their own with just a drizzle of honey.

We favor desserts made in individual portions, such as cookies and cupcakes, or ones that can be easily portioned out—think bar cookies, sheet cakes, and Bundts—so there is less to fuss over at the last minute. We have included a few easy treats, like fruit crisps, that you could scoop and serve at the party.

Dessert pronounced [ dih-zurt ] is “the sweet, usually last course of a meal.” We're talking cake, pie, ice cream, pudding, fudge, fruit—you know what dessert is. Dessert is most commonly eaten after dinner, but it's sometimes eaten after lunch, too.

Nutrition Facts

A modest slice of apple pie has more than 400 calories and about 20 grams of fat (five of those come from the less-healthy saturated fats). Add some ice cream or whipped cream, and you're looking at well over 500 calories, which knocks out 25% of the average 2,000-calorie diet.