Desserts are yummilicious things none of us can do without! Having a bad day? Just dig into a huge brownie with some ice cream and forget your worries as you spoon in each mouthful… the warm brownie perfectly complimenting the cool feel of the ice cream. Bliss, right? A scene straight out of food heaven!
Of course, even an 8-year-old is calorie conscious nowadays. So indulging in a dessert leaves you very guilty when you spot even teenagers hogging at their healthy salads. But, wait! We give you a list of yummy desserts within 50 calories or less so that you may indulge your sweet tooth, yet feel healthy about it.
Healthy Vanilla Cupcakes
Cupcakes are the fad right now. You see them anywhere, right from baby showers to kitty parties! And besides being lighter than pastries, they are spongy-delicious too.
Bake your vanilla cupcakes the regular way! But with wheat flour instead of all-purpose flour, or almond meal and coconut flour; add no butter and use almond milk instead. What you get is yummy cupcakes with a calories count of only 50. You will surely thank us for this.
37 Calorie Brownie
Who wouldn’t like to indulge in a delicious brownie! And can you believe that you can actually make a 37-calorie one? Yes, it’s true!
The ingredients are ¾ cup nonfat Greek yogurt, ¼ cup skim milk, ½ cup Cocoa powder, ½ cup Old fashioned rolled oats (like Quaker), ½ cup any Natural sweetener, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 pinch salt.
Just blend all together and pour into a baking dish and bake. You have yummy brownies ready in minutes! For indulgence, if you add a few chocolate chips, it might come to 60 calories. Still not bad, right? You can have this brownie even on a diet for sure.
Oatmeal Cookie Energy Bites
The blog ‘Getting Just my Desserts’ lists this yummy recipe and has just 50 calories per ball. Use raisins, walnuts, some rolled oats, unsweetened coconuts and cinnamon.
Pulse together soaked raisins and the rest of the ingredients adding them one at a time till they look like dough. Now roll out balls the size of lemons and refrigerate for a few minutes. Your firm, cool yummy energy bites are ready! Restaurants like Organic Bites in Hyderabad exclusively serve healthy food. You can order for healthy desserts from them through Foodpanda using discount coupons.
Frozen fruit popsicles
Cool popsicles to beat the summer heat! Popsicles are loved by both adults and children and are much low calorie than ice creams.
And what’s more! They are very simple to make. Combine diced fruit like kiwi, watermelon and strawberries. Put into Popsicle moulds and add fresh orange juice into them and freeze. You are definitely going to drool over these!
Choco-chip Nutella Cookies
Each cookie is 34 calories, much below our target. This is as simple as it can get! Use cooking oil instead of butter and wheat flour for the dough. Also, use brown sugar instead of regular sugar and prepare the cookie dough. Cover a small amount of Nutella with cookie dough and press gently and bake.
Guaranteed to make your mouth water!
Blueberry Banana Protein Muffins
These muffins can have up to 50 calories max and so you can indulge, guilt-free. If you have over ripe bananas you could use them for muffins instead of wasting them. Check for the recipe at PeanutButterandFitness site and make yummy muffins with the healthiest ingredients. It’s not just the taste, they look cute, too.
Just make a healthy mouth watering drizzle of peanut butter, maple syrup to take these muffins to a whole new level.
Too lazy to whip up desserts? Most cities have restaurants offering healthy desserts, you can order for them with just a click with sites like Zomato and Swiggy. Keep a watch on your health and have tasty desserts too.