10 healthy Christmas dessert recipes even Santa would approve of

Few things are as comforting as enjoying delicious snacks with your friends and family on vacation. But that doesn’t mean you should throw your health goals out of the window during the holidays. Satisfy your sweet tooth, without derailing your healthy eating efforts, with these best-for-you dessert recipes that don’t sacrifice taste:

• Paleo Fudgy Brownies: These delicious melt-in-your-mouth brownies are made without flour or sugar. Also, the recipe requires only seven available ingredients and is very easy to prepare. Pair it with homemade paleo ice cream and you have a classic dessert to treat yourself to. Get the recipe here.
• Keto cinnamon butter cookies: Made with almond flour, these unsweetened shortbread cookies use less butter than traditional cookies. Since the dough freezes well, you can make it ahead of time and bake as needed. Here is the complete recipe. Add orange zest or dark chocolate for extra flavor. You may also want to check out this Gluten Free Maple Nut Butter Cookie Recipe.
• Vegan Berry Chocolate Cake: This decadent vegan dessert features a delicious berry curd filling along with a rich white chocolate ganache set in a melt-in-your-mouth pistachio butter crust. Garnish with a wreath of colorful antioxidant-rich berries and you’re done. Get the recipe here. This dark chocolate and pistachio cake recipe is also highly recommended.
• Beet Zucchini Chocolate Bundt Cake: Add more veggies to your diet with this delicious chocolate cake that’s made with good-for-you ingredients like dark chocolate, extra virgin olive oil, Greek yogurt, raw red beets, and zucchini. Also, the recipe swaps out the whole wheat flour for some all-purpose flour to make it even healthier. Here is the complete recipe. These recipes for low-fat gingerbread cake and tropical fruit cake are also highly recommended.
• 4 Ingredient Mint Chocolate Crispy Bars: These Mint Flavored Crunchy Chocolate Bars are the perfect last minute treat to make over the holidays. Made with four simple ingredients, they require minimal cooking skills to put together. Also, they are vegan, gluten free. and dairy free, how can I not like it? Check out the recipe here.
• Flourless Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies: Made with seven simple ingredients, these high-fiber chewy cookies are a healthy twist on traditional peanut butter cookies. Although the recipe uses brown sugar, you can use pure maple syrup or stevia to make the recipe even healthier. Get the recipe here.
• Dark Chocolate Coconut + Cranberry Bark: This delicious Christmas dessert is packed with the goodness of antioxidant-rich superfoods like blueberries, macadamia nuts, and dark chocolate. Plus, you can assemble everything in just ten minutes! You can swap macadamia nuts in the recipe with almonds, walnuts, or pecans if you like. Check out the easy recipe here.
• Vegan Mint Strawberry Cheesecake: Packed with healthy ingredients like magnesium-rich cashews, pure maple syrup, coconut milk, and fresh strawberries, this no-bake cake is as delicious as it is healthy. Here is the gluten-free and dairy-free cheesecake recipe.
• Keto Christmas Snowball Cookies: These buttery shortbread cookies are made with better-for-you ingredients, like almond flour and erythritol, a low-calorie sugar substitute. Plus, they can be put together in an instant. You can decorate the cookies with dried cranberries to make them look like cute Christmas decorations. Nuff said. Get the recipe here. You may also want to check out these recipes for Gluten Free Blueberry Coconut Macaroni and Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cookies.
• Cherry, chocolate and walnut truffles: Satisfy your sugar cravings without gaining weight with these delicious vegan truffles that are made without added flour, oil, or sugar. I like to use soy milk in the recipe to add protein to it. Get the recipe here. You may also like these No Cook Almond Chocolate Truffle and Date Truffle Recipes.

What is your healthy dessert for the holidays? LMK in the comments below!