Low-sugar desserts can be made with ingredient substitutions like fruit juice and purees. Options include bars, muffins, cakes, pudding, and jelly, with flavors like lemon, blueberry, and peanut butter. Some desserts feature vegetables and nuts.
To reduce the sugar content, many low-sugar dessert recipes replace sugar-packed ingredients with low-sugar or sugar-free ingredients. Low-sugar desserts are plentiful and come in a variety of forms, including cookies, candies, and cakes. Jelly, pudding, and cake can also be made in low-sugar versions. Other types of low-sugar desserts include candy bars and muffins.
A variety of bars come in low-sugar options and many are made with vegetables, including Carrot Nut Bars, Pumpkin Almond Bars, and Split Pea Bars. Some low-sugar desserts are flavored with citrus, including low-sugar lemon bars, citrus-hazelnut bars, and almond-lemon bars. Oats and nuts are common in some low-sugar dessert bars, including no-sugar granola bars, which are made with oatmeal, walnuts and almonds. Other options include date and oatmeal snack bars, oat bran bars, and oatmeal fruit bars.
Ingredient substitutions, such as fruit juice, imitation sweetener, and fruit purees, allow you to make many muffin types in low-sugar versions, including tropical muffins, coconut muffins, and Caribbean muffins. Many types of fruit are naturally sweet and are featured in low-sugar desserts, including applesauce muffins, carrot bran pineapple muffins, and lemon poppy seed muffins. Blueberries, cranberries, and peaches are also featured in some low-sugar muffins.
From heavenly angel food to black forest, there are many low-sugar desserts available in cake form. The berries, raisins, and fruit are used to flavor assorted low-sugar desserts, such as lemon pie, blueberry pie, and raisin pie. Some low-sugar cakes feature flavor combinations, such as pumpkin apple pie, pineapple carrot cake, and oatmeal chocolate cake. Greens also feature prominently in many low-sugar cakes, such as frosted carrot cake and pumpkin pie.
By adding a few ingredients to sugar-free pudding mixes, a variety of low-sugar desserts can be made. Apple pudding contains a mix of instant sugar-free pudding and apple pie. Peanut Butter Pudding is made with skim milk, peanut butter, and fat-free, sugar-free butterscotch pudding mix. Some puddings contain real fruit, such as sliced bananas in banana pineapple toffee pudding, coconut, and tangerines in tangerine pudding.
The low-sugar jelly comes in a variety of flavors, such as pineapple, strawberry, and lime, and can be paired with fruit and cottage cheese. The Apple Cherry Jelly Salad has it crunchy from celery and walnuts and the Strawberry Jelly Pie has a mashed pretzel crust. The two-story fruit salad features a layer of low-fat cream cheese mixed with orange juice and a layer of fruit, including chopped pineapple and canned peaches.
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