Low-Fat Dessert Recipes

Fill these cute meringue cookies with buttercream for a delightful treat!

Light sponge fingers — perfect for using in layered desserts like tiramisu.

Coffee jelly is a favorite Japanese dessert that couldn't be easier to make.

This frozen yogurt is so much easier than homemade ice cream! Just so you know, this freezes a lot quicker than ice cream. Also, if you want tart frozen yogurt, feel free to decrease the sugar!

Flavored Syrup to drizzle over shaved or crushed ice. Yummy on a hot summer day.

Macaron is the French word for macaroon, but are never the coconut-based cookie. Macarons are one of the most amazing pastries, with hundreds of flavors and fillings. Macarons are made from almond flour and meringue, with even the pros claiming to failure on a regular basis. After going through dozens of recipes and trials, this is the most reliable macaron recipe I could come up with. You could get lighter using the Italian meringue method, but it's less dependable.

A microwavable form of the Japanese dessert made with sweet rice flour. More varied and interesting flavors are available as well.

If you love watermelon and love sorbet, you're bound to love this simple recipe!

Flour-free and sugar-free cookies naturally sweetened with bananas. You can have great cookies for breakfast or any time of the day without any guilt! A little bonus for me was that my 11-year-old brother loved these, even after they had been in the refrigerator!

This easy rhubarb upside-down cake recipe uses cake mix to make a delicious dessert with rhubarb and marshmallows.

Freezer apple pie filling. With this recipe, you can treat your family with pies year-round.

Very moist and fruity cake, no oil added, quick and easy. Especially delicious when served with whipped cream.

Pure, creamy, melt-in-your-mouth maple candy using only pure maple syrup! It's a treat almost like fudge. Add anything you want like chopped nuts. Use small maple leaf molds or other pretty shapes.

Make a healthy, no-added-sugar sorbet in mere minutes with this ingenious recipe! Use banana, strawberry, or a mixture of both! Get creative and use other frozen fruits, too.

These soft, almost cake-like cookies with a hint of lemon flavor are perfect for dunking in your cup of coffee or tea. My husband loves these as they are not overly sweet.

A great shortcut to get ahead of the pie-making game during apple season.

Simple and wholesome popsicles. My mom used to help us make these when we were kids and I still enjoy them years later. Use honey as an alternate sweetener, and blend the fruit to be either chunky or smooth.

This simple blackberry compote has the consistency of a chunky fruit syrup and is perfect on a variety of foods, such as ice cream, crepes, yogurt, oatmeal, and ricotta toast. It's a great way to use up fresh berries. Feel free to mash the berries with a fork or potato masher for a smoother consistency. The longer you simmer the compote, the more concentrated the flavors become.

Quick and easy banana ice cream only requires 2 simple ingredients that will soon become a family-favorite in your household.

Make turtles at home with pretzels, caramel chocolate candies, and pecans.

Authentic French Meringues from a patisserie in France.

These baked apples taste simply great on a cold winter evening or any other evening. Plus the house smells just divine while cooking them.

Easy way to make a simple rice pudding. Chill and serve with extra cinnamon if desired.

These crunchy dainties are great with coffee or with cream for dessert. And they're low fat! Substitute 2 teaspoons instant coffee granules or 1 1/2 tablespoons cocoa for the vanilla if you like. Coffee kisses are great sandwiched together with melted white or dark chocolate. Spooned vanilla ones are good with cream and chocolate ones are good as finger biscuits with coffee.