Low Calorie Desserts

Sweet low calorie desserts, all 220 calories or less - protein brownies, banana ice cream, chia pudding and berry bark to satisfy your sweet tooth. 19 recipes available.

Dessert is where most low calorie plans fall apart, usually because the dessert gets cut entirely and the restraint lasts about a fortnight. The recipes on this page are built so the dessert stays. Every one of them is a full serving with the calories listed on the card, and the collection runs from 70 calories (the Light Sugar Cookies) up to 220 (Mango Coconut Chia Pudding) — sorted lowest first, so the lightest options are the first ones you see. If you are cooking for someone with a sweet tooth and no interest in your calorie budget, the chia puddings and the baked fruit tend to convert people; they taste like dessert rather than like a substitute. If you want to keep protein high without a second meal, the Low Calorie Protein Brownies (165 calories, 12g protein) and the Low-Cal Rasmalai (180 calories, 12g protein) are the ones to look at, and the Greek Yogurt Berry Bark gives you 10g for 120. Six of the 19 need no heat at all: the one-ingredient banana ice cream at 150 calories, both chia puddings, the Frozen Yogurt Berry Bark and Greek Yogurt Berry Bark, and the no-bake date and nut energy balls. None of them is instant, though — the hands-on part is short (frozen bananas blitzed smooth, a whisk and a stir, or a few pulses in a food processor) but every one then needs time rather than heat: the chia puddings thicken overnight in the fridge, the banana ice cream and both barks take about four hours in the freezer, and the energy balls half an hour in the fridge to firm up. The baked ones — the brownies, the cookies, the pie — are worth the wait when you have time, and they keep for a few days in the fridge. Two practical notes. First, portions matter more here than anywhere else on the site: a dessert that is 150 calories per serving becomes 450 if you eat it out of the container, so measure at least the first time. Second, the protein in these recipes comes mostly from Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, or protein powder; if you avoid all three, expect the protein to be lower than the cards elsewhere on the site. Everything here is a standard dessert portion, not a diet portion — the goal is a dessert you would eat again tomorrow, not one you endure once.