The 32 Best Healthy Desserts for Your New Year’s Resolutions

 

 
Over the three-week holiday break during my sophomore year of college, I finished nearly every meal with a sweet treat. I nibbled on one of the hundreds of individually wrapped dark chocolate peppermint bark pieces after breakfast (yes, even on the days we served coffee cake!), a sugar cookie or two after lunch, and a cupcake or slice of cake after dinner. Grandma’s buckeyes and jam-filled Ghirardelli squares became regular snacks, too—we were a family of chocoholics, after all!  

When I woke up on New Year’s Day after eating way too many cookies and chocolate squares while counting down to midnight the evening before, I decided to stop eating dessert. Originally, my goal was to hold out until my birthday in late June, but when that day arrived and I realized I was basically halfway through the year, I continued to skip dessert until the following January.

(For the record, small pieces of plain dark chocolate don’t count as dessert! They’re a basic human necessity, just like water. Or oxygen. Or coffee.)
 

 
Although I still find it hard to believe that I made it through the entire year without a single dessert, I would never do it again—and I think it’s a really unhealthy thing to do! Being healthy is not about deprivation. It’s about listening to our bodies, recognizing our cravings for both sweet and savory foods, and satisfying those cravings with moderation.

Whenever I swear something off, like donuts or French fries, that’s all I think about… And while I’m able to avoid them for a while, I’m much more likely to cave eventually, eat too much, and feel a little guilty about it!

So instead of entirely giving up desserts to achieve your New Year’s Resolution of being healthier, losing weight, or becoming fitter, try occasionally indulging in one of these 32 Healthy Desserts instead! They’re all completely clean eating friendly and contain NO butter, refined flour or sugar!

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THE RECIPES

1. Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
2. Skinny Single-Serving Chocolate Mug Cake
3. Carrot Cake Oatmeal Cookies
4. Lemon Poppy Seed Protein Cookies
5. Clean & Fudgy Dark Chocolate Frosted Brownies
6. Simple Cinnamon Apple Cake
7. Classic Carrot Cake Cupcakes
8. Apple Pie Oatmeal Cookies

 

 

9. Ultimate Healthy Soft & Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
10. Raspberry Oatmeal Cookies
11. Ultimate Healthy Soft & Chewy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
12. Lemon Chia Seed Protein Cookies
13. Strawberry Oatmeal Cookies
14. Almond Joy Oatmeal Cookies

 

 

15. Clean Blueberry Almond Crumble
16. Ultimate Healthy Soft & Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies
17. Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Oatmeal Cookies
18. Skinny Single-Serving Microwave Fudge Brownie
19. Classic Carrot Cake
20. Blueberry Oatmeal Cookies

 

 

21. Peanut Butter Banana Bread Brownies
22. Soft-Baked Ginger Cookies
23. Pumpkin Pie Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
24. Clean Eating Chocolate Chip Cookies
25. Low-Carb Coconut Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies
26. Peach Pie Oatmeal Cookies

 

 

27. Chocolate Protein Milkshake
28. Maple Cupcakes with Pumpkin Pie Frosting
29. Carrot Cake Oatmeal Cookie Cake
30. Pineapple Coconut Oatmeal Cookies
31. Clean Peach Crumble
32. Chocolate Chip Protein Cookies

 
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Although not entirely clean eating friendly, the following desserts are still much lower in calories than their traditional counterparts. Therefore, they deserve their moment in the spotlight—and can still help you achieve your healthy New Year’s Resolutions, too!
 

 

1. Eggnog Snickerdoodles
2. Skinny Chocolate Caramel Seven Layer Bars
3. Skinny Cookies ’n Cream Brownies
4. Healthy Classic Monster Cookies
5. Skinny Lemon Snickerdoodles
6. Skinny Raspberry Cheesecake Bars

 

 

7. Dark Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes
8. Skinny Heart Shaped Sugar Cookies
9. Lemon Poppy Seed Loaf Cake
10. Lemon Cupcakes with Raspberry Vanilla Yogurt Frosting
11. Skinny Double Dark Chocolate Cupcakes
12. Skinny Slow Cooker Chocolate Fudge Cake

 

 

13. Skinny Peanut Butter Banana Seven Layer Bars
14. Skinny Peanut Butter Cheesecake
15. Skinny Eggnog Fudge
16. The Ultimate Healthy Fudgy Cocoa Brownies
17. Double Lemon Pudding Cookies
18. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites

 
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