Dessert Recipes

Having a sweet tooth doesn’t mean having to go hungry when you’re eating heart-healthfully, thanks to these light desserts.

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Heart-Healthy Baking Recipes
Warm up the kitchen and the dinner table with a freshly baked dessert. These better-for-you cookies, pastries, and cakes have loads of taste and don't take hours of your time.
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• Heart-Healthy Desserts
• Our Best Christmas Cookies
• Apple-Cranberry Crisp
• Apples and Granola Breakfast Crisp
• Apricot-Cherry Tart
• Baked Grapefruit Halves
• Baked Pumpkin Pudding
• Banana-Oat Breakfast Cookie
• Banana-Crunch Pops
• Berry Cheesecake Dessert
• Black Cherry Sorbet
• Blueberry Smoothies
• Brown Sugar Almond Stars
• Buttermilk Sugar Cookies
• Caramelized Apple Tostadas
• Cardamom Tea Cookies
• Cherry Holiday Bars
• Cherry-Berry "Ice Cream"
• Chocolate Accordion Bread
• Chocolate Cake
• Chocolate Chunk Cookies
• Chocolate-Chip Pumpkin Bars
• Chocolate-Filled Lemon Meringues
• Chocolate-Filled Orange Meringues
• Chocolate-Ricotta Mousse
• Chocolate Sherbet
• Cinnamon Orange Slices
• Cinnamon-Chocolate Bread Pudding Soufflés
• Cinnamon-Glazed Poached Pears
• Cinnamon-Pumpkin Custard
• Citrus Angel Cake
• Cocoa-Nutmeg Snickerdoodles
• Country Pear Tart
• Cranberry Citrus Compote
• Cream Cheese Frosting
• Date-Ginger Cake
• Dark Chocolate Dipped Apples
• Double Thumbprint Cookies
• Easy Blueberry Tarts
• Easy Honey-Apricot Frozen Yogurt
• Easy-Freezy Sorbet
• Favorite Gingerbread Cookies
• Fresh Fruit Pizza
• Frozen Berry-Orange Bombe
• Frozen Chocolate-Banana Bites
• Frozen Hot Chocolate
• Fruit Kabobs
• Gingered Peach and Pear Crisp
• Ginger-Pear Crisp
• Grilled Mango Blossom
• Holiday Biscotti
• Hot Spiced Apple Cider and Pomegranate Juice
• Mango Freeze
• Meyer Lemon Sorbet
• Mini Cherry Pies
• Mocha Meringue Kisses
• Mocha Pudding Cake
• Mocha Soufflés
• Orange-Blueberry Angel Food Cake
• Orange-Pumpkin Cheesecake
• Peach Crumble Tart
• Pineapple-Pear Crisp
• Poached Summer Peaches with Cherries
• Raisin-Pumpkin Tart
• Raspberry Meringues
• Red, White, and Blue Parfaits
• Seared Nectarines with Angel Food Cake
• Sorbet Melon Parfaits
• Sour Cream Apple Pie with Gingerbread Crust
• Spiced Cranberry Tarts
• Strawberry-Rhubarb Crisp
• Sweet Potato Cinnamon Bundt Cake with Orange Glaze
• Tea-and-Lemongrass Sorbet
• Tiramisu Shots
• Tropical Fruit Pops
• Zucchini-Banana Squares