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Desserts are important after a heavy meal, they add a little perfection to the whole course, and if you’ve eaten something like a double cheeseburger in dinner and in dessert, you have something light like some brownies, it makes the whole meal better. Desserts are not only sweet, but they cheer you up whenever you have something sweet.
Chocolates, cakes, or anything sweet are serotonin boosters, and your mood suddenly gets better whenever you eat them. Sweet food items are not generally healthy, but that doesn’t necessarily mean all desserts would be sweet with no healthiness. There are certain types of desserts with veggies hidden in their ingredients, making them not only beneficial for you emotionally but also beneficial for your health. These desserts are mentioned below.
Easy Recipes for Including Veggies in Desserts
1. Flourless Chocolate Chip Zucchini Oat Brownies
These low-carb and gluten-free chocolate zucchini oat brownies are fudgy, yummy, and flour-free. They’re made with zucchini, applesauce, honey, peanut butter, and obviously chocolate. With this many ingredients, you’re probably thinking that the taste would be incredibly chaotic, but actually, the only flavor your taste buds will taste is chocolate with a little chewy sensation from the oats. These can be vegan if you use maple syrup instead of honey. You won’t have any regrets as not only is this dessert sweet, but it’s twice as healthy and nutritious. One brownie has only about 86 calories with 6 grams of sugar and vast amounts of health.
2. Oatmeal Zucchini Cookies
Made from a combo of shredded zucchini and oats, these oatmeal zucchini cookies are very light and fluffy. These are a quick, tasty lil snack that’s healthy and light, something you can munch on in a hurry and whenever you’re craving something that doesn’t require much effort to make or eat.
You can make a bunch of these cookies and store them to eat some later. The possibilities are vast. These cookies are made from applesauce, coconut oil, and butter. It has oats, whole grain wheat flour, and vegetables. Some sugar in it is overpowered by the vast amounts of healthiness with healthy fiber and fats these cookies have.
3. Chocolate Eggplant Torte
The eggplant in the heading is no joke. This chocolate eggplant torte actually exists. The eggplant exists in the torte. You can’t really taste it at all in the torte because of all the chocolate. The eggplant has a purpose, though, as it gives the torte a texture of stickiness and adds depth to the flavor.
It only requires an hour and 10 minutes to prepare. As bizarre as the eggplant in the ingredients sounds, this healthy but also sweet and tasty dessert is one of a kind in both taste and health. The chocolate eggplant torte will need around two hours to cool before you serve it.
4. Healthy Chickpea Blondies
These chickpea blondies are rich in protein, sweet with a little bit of maple syrup, and gluten-free. The top ingredient, which is hard to imagine, is canned chickpeas. It’s hard to imagine because whenever someone thinks of blondies, chickpeas won’t be the first ingredient that would come to mind.
Other ingredients will be nut butter, maple syrup, vanilla extract, rolled oats, baking soda, sea salt, an egg, and chocolate chunks. These chickpea blondies can easily be made in a food processor, and if in case you don’t have one, a quality blender that can run at high speed can work too. Chickpeas are incredibly healthy and nutritious as they have vast amounts of fiber and protein.
5. Summer Squash Chocolate Cake
A tender and moist cake covered with chocolaty goodness yet has a filling of a peculiar item you would least expect to be in a cake, and that is squash. However, the squash only provides structure and support to the cake. Its flavor is overshadowed by the chocolate covering of the cake.
Any pumpkin or squash can be used as they both will give moisture structure and enhance the flavor of the cake. The squash in the cake not only makes up for the building block of the cake, but because of the squash, you can keep the cake for 5 days, and it will still taste as it was recently made. It’s easy to make and requires only some ingredients.
6. Raspberry Lemon Blondie Wedges
These blondies are very sweet and tasty, and the raspberry lemon combo may sound odd, but it’s pretty amazing and makes a super tasty fruity and sweet dessert. You may feel like you’re breaking your healthy diet score upon eating these blondies, but in reality, these are super healthy as they’re made from pure whole grains, lemon zest, and tasty, healthy raspberries. These blondies not only taste great and are healthy, but they look very cute too. They’re a nice healthy little dessert that you can serve your guests after dinner.
7. Sweet Corn Ice Cream
Another weird to the ears but sweet to the mouth and healthy to the diet recipe is the sweet corn ice cream recipe. Everyone loves ice cream, but some people who are maintaining a healthy diet try to avoid it, but the good news is with sweet corn ice cream, they can get the sweetness and the cold, tasty ice cream texture and flavor with an added enhancement of healthiness of sweet corn. As sweet corn is naturally really sweet has quite a bit of sugar, you won’t have to add much. It’s a great healthy, yet tasty ice cream alternative.
8. Cauliflower White Chocolate Fruit Dip
Cauliflower would be one of those veggies you would least expect to be in some sort of dessert, but just as the idea of cauliflower mixed with fruit and white chocolate seems odd, it’s twice as exciting and tasty. Its sweetness and creaminess combine amazingly with fruit and berries. It’s very healthy, especially for your liver, and is a quick little tasty dip.
9. Chocolate Avocado Mousse
Avocados are fruits, but that doesn’t mean only veggies are healthy. Fruits can do a good job at being healthy too. The combination of chocolate mousse with avocados is not only unique but also quite tasty and healthy. Avocados have a lot of fat, but this fat is greater than normal dairy fat and way healthier than dairy fat, so you don’t have to be worried about the fat intake at all.
10. Carrot Cake Oatmeal Cookies
Imagine the combined power and healthiness of oatmeal cookies and carrot cake, and you’re in luck as something like this exists and is completely doable and easy to make. These soft, chewy cookies are gluten-free, and they’re so tasty that even if you make a bunch of them, all of them would be finished in no time.
11. Chocolate Beet Cake
The addition of beets in this cake may not be visible, or you would taste it, but it makes the cake super tasty and adds moisture to it. It’s super nutritious, tasty, sweet, and easy to make. It’s a very unique yet nutritiously beneficial cake.
12. Sweet Potato Crumb Cakes
Everyone likes sweet potatoes and cakes, and when we combine these two fan-favorite foods into one, we get the tasty and healthy sweet potato crumb cake. The cake makes up for an epic dessert to show after dinner to guests and a portion of quick and healthy comfort food.
13. Dark Chocolate Chickpea Brownies
These chickpea brownies are dairy-free, gluten-free, grain-free, and refined sugar-free. The recipe is simple, and you’ll need a blender and a few ingredients. These chickpea brownies are coated with heavenly dark chocolate, and with the added healthiness and nourishment of chickpeas, the finest legume this dessert is not only healthy but immensely tasty.
14. Sweet Potato Cheesecake
Another sweet potato-related healthy dessert item for sweet potato lovers. This dessert, however not the most healthy in this article but still way healthier than normal cheesecake.
15. Mint Chocolate Chip Fudge
Green is usually not the most appealing color when it comes to food, but with this mint chocolate chip fudge cake, both its look and taste are heavenly. With the unique addition of spinach, this minty chocolate fudge cake is healthier than normal fudge and does not need to be baked to be made. Just use a blender, and it’s pretty much done.
A combination of sweetness with the added goodness of nutrition and vitamins, these amazing desserts are the best of both worlds, which is eating healthy and tasty.
