10 Healthy Keto-friendly Treats to Satisfy your Sweet Tooth

March 18. 2021

Every once in a while, no matter how devoted someone is to a healthy diet or lifestyle, you crave a sweet indulgence that absolutely must be satisfied. While great for your waistline, the ketogenic diet can be difficult for those tempted by the lovely things in life. Traditional desserts are stuffed with refined sugars and heavy carbohydrate-laden flours, both ingredients banned, or at least limited, on the ketogenic diet. But don’t go breaking your diet for a yummy dessert just yet! A myriad of keto-friendly treats will satisfy that sweet tooth without causing you to burn out or cheat on your keto diet. 

Sweet and Creamy Keto Cheesecake

Our first recipe satisfies your sweet tooth without breaking your Ketogenic diet. The crust is made from a combination of almond and coconut flour, shredded coconut, and butter. The key to a tremendous keto-friendly crust is doubling the fat and being liberal with the shredded coconut, so the result is similar to a traditional graham cracker crust. The filling is tangy, creamy, and satisfying, combining cream cheese, sour cream, eggs, vanilla, and sweetened with low-carb stevia. This keto-friendly cheesecake is protein-rich and destined to become a new favorite indulgence. 

Basic Ketogenic Shortbread Cookies

Every baker worth their salt has their favorite sugar cookie recipe memorized, and all the ingredients stalked in their pantry. This keto-friendly treat is a perfect substantiation for traditional, carbohydrate-dense shortbread cookies. Made from only almond flour, butter, erythritol, and vanilla, this simple recipe can be used as a stand-alone ketogenic dessert or dress these cookies up by using them as the bottom of layered bar treats. You can also use this shortbread for a keto-friendly pie crust.  

Keto Chocolate Chip Cookies

Who doesn’t love gooey and warm chocolate chip cookies? Just because you’re craving a cookie doesn’t mean you need to break your ketogenic diet! This recipe from delish.com is indulgent without all the carbs and processed sugars. Made from almond flour, granulated sugar alternative, and low-carb dark chocolate chips, these crowd-pleasers are a healthy spin on a household classic. These keto-friendly treats are so good, non-keto members of your household won’t even notice how they differ from traditional recipes. 

Ketogenic Chocolate Mug Cake

Do you ever crave a slice of chocolate cake but don’t want to tempt yourself by having a whole cake hanging around your kitchen for days on end? This is the perfect ketogenic alternative to a guilty indulgence. This low carb, keto-friendly dessert is made of proteins dense almond flour, with keto-friendly dark chocolate chips and homemade whipped cream topping. The best part of this dish? It’s super quick to make; pop it in the microwave for five minutes, and you’re ready to snack! This keto-friendly treat is perfect for those late-night cravings and can be easily doubled to share with your family.

Easy Ketogenic Flourless Pralines

This flourless keto dessert is sure to wow your friends and family at your next holiday party! Relatively quick and easy, this simple keto recipe combines browned butter, heavy cream, pecans, and sea salt. This praline recipe utilizes xantham gum and a granular sweetener: two delicious ketogenic baking ingredients that every keto diet devotee should have in their cabinet. Indulgent, buttery, and sweet, this keto-friendly treat will become a beloved party tradition.  

Quick and Easy 10-minute Keto Chocolate Mousse

Here’s another fast, healthy keto dessert to whip up when those sweet tooth cravings hit. Made from heavy cream, unsweetened cocoa powder, powdered sweetener, and salt. This super speedy ketogenic dessert (and weight loss clinic Chicago favourite 🙂 ) only has a handful of ingredients that most people following the keto diet have on hand. The end product is rich, decadent, and indulgent without breaking your ketogenic commitment. 

Keto-Friendly Chocolate Cake with Icing

Just because you’ve decided to live the Keto life doesn’t mean you can’t have your cake and eat it too! This satisfying keto dessert is perfect for sharing with friends and family at your next gathering. Made with coconut flour and copious amounts of cream and butter, this cake doesn’t skimp on decadent, ketogenic ingredients. Icing isn’t something on most keto dieters’ radar because traditional icing is almost wholly made of refined sugar- a big no-no for people eating Keto. Made from granulated sweetener, heaven whipping cream, vanilla, and cocoa powder, this dessert’s icing is not only Keto compliant, it tastes incredible too! 

Keto/Paleo Blueberry Muffins

Nothing beats a muffin with your morning keto fat coffee! While traditional muffin recipes are definitely out of bounds while on the keto diet, these almond flour confections are a staple. Made from almond flour, coconut oil and sweetened with erythritol. Erythritol is a low carb sugar alcohol that is a good alternative for artificial sweeteners. This keto-friendly treat creates ten muffins in just 30 minutes and is perfect for sharing with even your pickiest, non-keto relation. While the recipe calls for fresh blueberries, you could always sub in frozen berries or dark chocolate chips. 

Ketogenic Cinnamon Muffins with Cream Cheese Filling

There’s nothing better than a warm muffin with a sweet, creamy filling to indulge in while having tea with a friend. This keto-friendly muffin recipe uses almond flour and monk fruit extract as a sugar alternative in both the batter and cream cheese filling. This is a perfect base recipe to modify into tons of different cream cheese-filled keto muffins. Add berries or chocolate chips to kick these keto muffins to the next level!

Get Your Sweet On!

The next time you get that sweet craving that threatens to ruin your ketogenic diet,  grab one of these keto-friendly treats to keep you satisfied and on track. Diet burn-out is real and difficult to overcome at times, but with these yummy sweets in your arsenal, you will be well on your way to meeting your health and weight loss goals by staying true to your ketogenic diet. 

Author

Nurse Walton

Born and raised in Chicago, IL, Chanay received her Practical Nurse licensure and went to work in clinical specialties such as Home Health, Assisted Living, Long-Term Care and Dialysis Centers. Through this work, she realized the importance of diet, nutrition and weight loss among her patients. This led her to open A Better Weigh, Inc. Medical Weight Loss Center in 2009.