Children love sweets, and it’s no surprise if they feel
ill after eating too much of something sweet. Usually sweets lead to cold, and
you don’t want your child taking medicine for coughs and colds every few weeks.
If you’re health
conscious about your own body or with your children, here are some healthy sugar-free desserts that you and your children will surely enjoy.
Fruit
Ice Cream
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Ice cream is chock full
of sugar, and who doesn’t love ice cream? But here’s an easy and healthier
alternative, and all you’ll need are two ingredients! Cut up a few bananas into
chunks and freeze them solid. Throw them into a food processor when they’re
frozen, and thrown in a few berries of your choice. It will become more like
sorbet if you add more berries, so if you want that creamy texture, use less
berries. Blend it until it becomes creamy, and voila! Ice cream!
Homemade
Peanut Butter Cups
(See full recipe here)
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Reese’s Peanut Butter
Cups are one of the best sweets out there, but here’s a healthier version for
you. All you’ll need is four tablespoons of EXTRA VIRGIN coconut oil, half a
cup of peanut butter (just throw in some nuts in a blender and blend away until
you get that smooth, creamy peanut butter), a fourth cup of peanut butter, some
sweetener if you like, and one a half teaspoon of vanilla extract. Mix all of
that together, and pour into a silicon cupcake liner that has six tins, and
freeze for about fifteen to twenty minutes, and enjoy!
Berry
Sherbet (See full
recipe here)
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Fruit and cream is one
of the best desserts around. Frozen fruit and cream is even better. For this
berry sherbet, you’ll need four cups of whatever kind of berry you want, two
cups of half and half, 3/4 cup honey, and one and a half teaspoons of freshly
squeezed lemon juice. Blend all of that together until smooth, then freeze it
in an ice cream maker. If you don’t have an ice cream maker, put the mixture
into a cold pan then mix until the mixture freezes because of the cool pan. Put
it in the freezer to cool the pan again. Take it out after twenty minutes and
stir again to break the freezing part of the mixture. Do this again about five
more times, and you’re done!
Vanilla
or Coffee Ice Cream
(See fill recipe here)
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Ice
cream is everything. If you don’t like the idea of blending frozen bananas and
want that legitimate milky ice cream, then this is perfect for you. All you’ll
need is as much heavy cream (or whipping cream as you want), as much honey as
you want to taste, and a vanilla bean pod, or vanilla extract if you want.
Scrape out all those vanilla beans and set it aside. In a big bowl, put in the
heavy cream, honey, and the vanilla beans or the vanilla extract. Beat it with
an electric hand mixer until it forms soft peaks. Gently fold the mixture into
a freezer safe container, and cover the surface with some kitchen wrap to
prevent water crystals from forming. Freeze for a minimum of six hours. When
it’s set, pop it out, and enjoy! Or if you’re feeling a bit adventurous, put in
some diluted coffee in mixture to enjoy some coffee ice cream!
Simple, delicious, and
healthy!
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