Supersweet Dessert Recipes Made With Dates Instead of the White Stuff
Screw you, processed sugar. You're like a bad boyfriend. My body craves you so much, and you taste so frickin' good. But then you turn on me and make me feel so damn bad. Oh, but then I want you even more. Ahh! Break this sugar addiction cycle by passing on traditional cookies and cakes, and devour these sugar-free dessert recipes naturally sweetned with magical, incredibly sweet, fiber-rich dates.
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Protein Balls
Craving a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup? Then make these chocolate chip peanut butter protein balls.
Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Pie Protein Balls
This recipe offers a healthy dose of protein and fiber, but since these cookie-dough-like balls are rolled in chopped chocolate chips and pumpkin seeds, this 77-calorie snack feels more like a treat.
Chocolate Raspberry Protein Balls
Disguised as chocolate raspberry truffles, these are actually protein balls perfect for after a workout.
Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Freezer Fudge
If you grew up scooping out spoonfuls of raw cookie dough while baking chocolate chip cookies with Grandma, you're going to fall hard for this cookie dough freezer fudge — shhh, it's made with lentils!
Dark Chocolate Salted Caramels
These delicious chocolate morsels are made with sunflower seeds, dates, dairy-free chocolate, and sea salt. Yum!
No-Bake Vegan Brownies
Craving a chewy, chocolaty brownie, are you? These no-bake treats not only spare you having to turn on the oven during a hot and humid day, but this sugar-, gluten-, and dairy-free recipe is also just 59 calories per fudgy bite.
Carrot Cake Protein Balls
These no-bake protein balls are sweet, nutty, and soft, and they're cake-like without a drop of flour.
DIY Fruit and Nut Bars
These homemade fruit and nut bars are made with almonds, dates, and raisins.
Almond Cherry Chunks of Energy
Vegan and gluten-free, these protein-packed nutty nuggets are the perfect post-workout snack.
Chocolate Hummus
While slices of crunchy apple and fresh strawberries are sweet enough on their own, isn't everything better with chocolate? Spruce up your basic snack by pairing it with this smooth and mousse-like protein-packed chocolate dip.
Date-Sweetened Cookies
These cookies are not only free of white sugar, brown sugar, maple syrup, honey, or any other processed sweeteners, but they're also flour-free, gluten-free, and vegan.
Mini Vegan Caramel Apples
You only need four ingredients: dates, soy milk, apples, and the topping of your choice to make these adorable mini caramel apples.
Vegan Caramel Dip
Serve this caramel dip with fruit slices, smear it on crackers for a salty-sweet snack, or enjoy it by the spoonful with a handful of chocolate chips.
Healthy Almond Joy
All you need are five common ingredients and a food processor and boom — you're instantly a (healthy) candy-making genius.
Vegan Snickers
Whip up this healthy, vegan version of Snickers that's made with a handful of ingredients.
Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bakes
These three-layer bars are the perfect treat to make when you're craving something sweet and chocolaty or to be the hero at your next potluck.
Chocolate Sunbutter Cups
These chocolate cups are filled with a sunflower seed and date mixture that — let me tell you — tastes even more decadent than Reese's.
Sunflower Seed Butter
For a light snack or dessert, smear this homemade date and sunflower seed butter on crackers or sliced fruit.
Gooey Apple Pecan Bars
While these sticky, nutty, and decadent bars are certainly an indulgence, their natural sugar comes from raw honey and dates rather than refined sources of the sweet stuff.