healthy snack – Healthy Choices by Sabine: Sugar-free and Healthy Dessert Recipes

Chocolate-Covered Hazelnut Dates

Chocolate Covered Dates are a healthy alternative to regular sweets. These homemade healthy candies are vegan, gluten-free and refined sugar-free. It’s a simple recipe with only 4 ingredients, and very easy-to-make. Juicy and sweet from the inside, chocolatey and crispy from the outside.

Dates are well-known sugar replacements and have many nutritional benefits. This could be the perfect sweet treat that you are craving – healthy and so easy to make.

These homemade healthy date candies could be a beautiful and delicious gift for friends and family.

Chocolate-Covered Hazelnut Dates are:

White refined sugar-free
Perfect as gift for a special occasion
Vegan
Healthy
Easy to make
Sweet and chocolatey

TIME: 10 min preparation, 30 minutes to set in the fridge | SERVINGS: 20

Ingredients:

20 juicy pitted dates
50g dark sugar-free & vegan chocolate
1 handful of toasted chopped hazelnuts
2 tbsp coconut oil

Instructions:

Melt the chocolate with coconut oil at a very low temperature.
Dip the dates into the chocolate and cover them fully.
Sprinkle each date with chopped roasted hazelnuts.
Put it in the fridge to set for 30 minutes or more. Store in the fridge.

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Juicy Apple Cake (Sugar-Free)

This is the perfect apple cake – juicy, fruity, and full of sweet apples. If you like apples, cinnamon, and cakes, then this recipe is for you. Sweet, moist and in the same time so soft cake, which will be the perfect dessert for autumn evenings with a warm cup of tea or any time you have a lot of apples at home and don’t know how to use them.

The cake is white refined sugar-free, lactose-free, light, juicy, and sweetened with natural sweetener – honey. Easy and super delicious cake for everyone and any occasion.

This Super Delicious Apple Cake is:

Lactose-free
Juicy & moist
Refined sugar-free
Naturally sweetened
Easy and healthy cake
Perfect fall cake

Tips and notes:

Try to choose the sweetest and juiciest apples to get the most distinct taste for Apple Cake.
Use the lemon juice for the apples don’t turn brown and retain their light color.
You can prepare oat flour yourself by blending oats until you get the consistency of flour.
You can replace oat flour with other healthier flour.
You can add chopped nuts to the cake batter, sprinkle the cake with almond flakes, and with more apple slices.

TIME: 15 – 20 minutes preparing, 45 – 50 minutes baking| SERVINGS: 10 pieces

Ingredients:

900g apples
190g oat flour
3 eggs
60g coconut oil
180g greek style yogurt (vegan/lactose-free)
130g honey
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp lemon juice

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Peel the apple, cut it into slices, and add lemon juice and cinnamon. Stir it.
Prepare the cake tin, grease it, or line it with baking paper and set them aside.
Take a mixing bowl, and add all dry ingredients – oat flour, baking powder, and cinnamon. Combine all well.
In another bowl, add all wet ingredients and use a hand mixer until you get a smooth mixture.
Combine both mixtures (you can still use the hand mixer) and add apple slices.
Pour the apple batter into the cake tin.
Bake the cake for 45-50 minutes at 180°C or until the toothpick comes out clean.

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Quick Strawberry Dessert

This Strawberry Dessert have a super smooth and creamy texture, it’s full of fresh strawberries and crunchy cookies. This dessert require only a few simple ingredients and only one tool – hand mixer. You can prepare it the day before to get the most creamiest and softest version of it.

Strawberry Dessert is:

Airy
Light
Juicy
Quick & easy
Refined sugar-free

A light and airy dessert, quick and easy to make if you have fresh strawberries at home.

Ingredients for this dessert:

Sugar-free cookies – You can use the store-bought sugar-free cookies or other healthy cookies of your choice. Try to use the best quality cookies.
Strawberries – Try to use fresh (not frozen) strawberries or other berries.
Coconut sugar – You can use any other your favorite healthy sweetener. I had coconut sugar at home, but I would like to try with agave syrup or stevia, for example.
Oat whipping cream – You can use other vegan whipping cream, but pay attention to whether it is additionally sweetened and with what kind of sweetener, is it healthy?

TIME: 10 minutes | SERVINGS: 14

Ingredients:

170g sugar-free cookies
200ml oat or other vegan whipping cream
50g coconut sugar
300g strawberries

Instructions:

Whip the oat whipping cream with a hand mixer, and add coconut sugar while whipping.
Take a square or rectangular glass bowl.
Arrange the cookies in an even layer into the bowl.
Cut the strawberries into slieces or pieces.
Arrange the strawberries in an even layer over the cookies.
Spread over the strawberries whipping cream.
Repeat all if needed until the glass bowl is full or the ingredients are over.
Enjoy right away or chill in the fridge for a few hours or overnight.

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Chocolate Cookies with Hazelnuts

Chocolate Cookies with crispy pieces of hazelnuts and taste of chocolate will be a great snack for any occasion. These Chocolate Cookies with Hazelnuts are much healthier, because they are lactose-free, white refined sugar-free, and wheat flour-free. Enjoy them still warm from the oven with your afternoon tea or coffee.

Cookies are such a popular and easy sweet snack, consisting of the ingredients you almost always have at home. 5 ingredients and 30 minutes of your time and you will have healthy, delicious, and soft Chocolate Cookies with crispy hazelnut pieces.

These delicious cookies are:

Lactose-free
Chocolatey
Dairy-free
Chocolatey
Nutty
Crispy
Refined white sugar-free

Tips for making these cookies:

To combine the dough use your hands – knead, press, and combine it well.
However, if the dough seems too sticky or dry, add a little more flour or plant-based milk or melted coconut oil.
Sprinkle your hands with flour to avoid the dough sticking to your palms while making round cookie balls.
You can decorate cookies with hazelnut pieces, seeds, berries, or chocolate chips.

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TIME: 15 minutes preparing, 15 minutes baking | SERVINGS: 15

Ingredients:

2 eggs
50g cocoa
190g mixed oat and rice flour (you can use only oat flour as well)
1 tsp baking powder
40g melted coconut oil
100g coconut sugar
60g chopped hazelnuts

Ingredients:

Preheat the oven to 180°C degrees and line a baking paper over the pan.
Combine all dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl – flour, cocoa, baking powder.
In a separate bowl add eggs, melted coconut oil, and sugar. I used a hand mixer to combine well, you can also use a spoon as well.
Add the wet ingredients and stir slowly. You can use your hands to better combine, mix until you get a thick dough. If the dough seems too sticky or dry, add a little more flour or coconut oil, plant based milk or water.
Mix chopped hazelnuts into the dough.
Sprinkle your hands with flour to avoid the dough sticking to your palms and make round balls.
Place the cookie balls on the prepared baking pan lined with baking paper.
Take a fork and a glass of water, fold the fork into the water and gently press the balls. You can also do it with the palm of your hand.
Bake the cookies for 12 – 15 minutes at 180C.

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Healthy Blueberry Muffins

These vegan, soft, and juicy blueberry muffins are very quick to cook and ready in 30 minutes. Great as a healthy snack, dessert with a cup of coffee or tea or breakfast on the go.

These Healthy Blueberry Muffins are full of juicy blueberries and soft bananas, very delicious, soft, and fluffy. These muffins are healthy because they contain only natural sweetener – honey, they are refined sugar-free, and white wheat flour-free.
You can top them with other berries or fruits, nuts, or pieces of chocolate.

These Healthy Blueberry Muffins are:

Vegan
Juicy
Refined sugar-free
Naturally sweetened
Super soft and fluffy
Easy and healthy snack
Perfect snack or for breakfast on the go
Ready in 30 minutes

What are the ingredients?

Oat and rice flour: I wanted to mix 2 flours together this time, I think rice flour gives more lightness and airiness, but you can only use oat flour. You can make the oat flour by yourself just blend the oats in a food processor or blender.

Ripe bananas: The perfect ingredient for baking muffins. Ripe bananas giving both the sweet taste and the texture of a muffin you need.

Greek-style or vegan plain yogurt: Try to use yogurt without flavor and sugar to avoid sweetening muffins with unnecessary unhealthy sweeteners.
You can choose any of your favorite yogurts – vegan, lactose-free, greek style, and plain.

Honey: This is one of my favorite healthy and natural sweetener, but you can also replace it with agave or maple syrup.

Baking powder and baking soda: These ingredients will help muffins to rise, stay puffier, and more visually beautiful.

Coconut oil: Helps muffins stay moister and softer.

Blueberries: You can use large blueberries or wild blueberries, as well as any other berries.

TIME: 10 min preparation, 20 min baking | SERVINGS: 7

Ingredients:

80g oat flour (if you don’t have rice flour, you can use only oat flour – 150g)
70g rice flour
2 ripe bananas
90 ml greek style lactose-free or vegan yogurt
3 tbsp honey
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 tbsp coconut oil (melted)
150g blueberries

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Prepare the muffin tins, grease them, and set them aside.
Take a mixing bowl, and add all dry ingredients – oat and rice flour, baking powder, and soda. Combine all well.
Mash the bananas with the fork, and add yogurt, coconut oil, and honey. Stir all together until you get a smooth mixture.
Combine both mixtures, but do not overmix.
Add ¾ of the blueberries, and slowly stir them in.
Pour the batter into the muffin tins, and top it with more blueberries.
Bake the muffins for 20-25 minutes at 180°C or until the toothpick comes out clean.

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Healthy and Easy Strawberry Banana Cake

This quick and easy Strawberry Banana Cake is a juicy, soft, and sweet treat that you can bake whenever you have at home bananas and strawberries. Easy summer cake loaded with sweet bananas and juicy strawberries. The cake is vegan, refined sugar-free, and lactose-free.

Strawberry Banana Cake is totally sugar-free. I have used only natural sweetener – honey, which makes the cake healthier, but still sweet.

Healthy and Quick Banana Strawberry Cake

What are the main ingredients?

Bananas – Try to use very ripe bananas for maximum sweetness.
Strawberries – I recommend using fresh strawberries because they contain less water. However you can also use frozen strawberries, just make sure to thaw them before using them and get rid of the excess water.
Honey – You can also use agave, date, or maple syrup. Adjust the quantity of sweetener to your taste.
Oat flour – You can mix the flour with rice or buckwheat flour.

This Strawberry Banana Cake is:

Quick to make
Refined sugar-free
Easy to cook
Soft and juicy
Healthy dessert

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TIME: 10 min preparation, 30 min baking | SERVINGS: 16

Ingredients:

100g oat flour
3 ripped banana
150g strawberries
2 eggs
3 tbsp honey
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 tbsp coconut oil
Vegan chocolate chips (optional)

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Mash bananas with a fork, add eggs, coconut oil, and honey, and mix well.
Mix the flour separately with baking powder and soda.
Combine both mixtures together. You can add a bit more flour if you think the mixture too liquid.
Chop strawberries and mix them into the mixture.
Take a rectangular cake pan and spread it with baking paper.
Pour in the cake mixture.
Decorate with strawberry slices, chopped nuts, or chocolate chips.
Bake for 30 minutes.

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