Why is this desirable?
Higher fat content in dessert means that sugar enters your bloodstream more slowly. This is a good thing! It means a less intense blood sugar spike. Blood sugar spikes lead to energy crashes, increased hunger, and poor focus, not to mention the risk of increased insulin resistance (leading to diabetes) and children buzzing into another atmosphere (of darkness, destruction, chaos, and a lot of feelings). When you have a treat with sugar, you want it to come along with some healthy fat, so that your body processes the sugar more slowly. Treats with more fat also leave you feeling satiated. So you’re less likely to overeat them!
That said, they are still dessert, so don’t go nuts!
Inspired by the Honey Mama’s chocolate cake truffle bar: made with cocoa, honey, coconut oil, coconut, pecans, vanilla, salt. Plus, it’s free from refined sugars, gluten, dairy, and soy. I’ve recently become obsessed.
The best whipped cream, period. Honey whipped cream is incredibly flavorful because it is sweetened with honey – making it taste like fluffy creamed honey. It’s especially good with fruit, or even better, strawberry or peach shortcake.
Silky mint gelato with ribbons of dark chocolate that doesn’t freeze up hard!
Crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth brown butter pecan shortbread cookies that smell heavenly, topped with flaky salt . . .
This healthy dark chocolate pudding is incredibly rich and decadent, despite containing lots of nutrients and no added refined sugars.
This honeynut squash pie is the light custardy cousin of pumpkin pie . . . plus, it is made with fresh cream and no refined sugars! You may end up abandoning your sweet old pumpkin pie for her hot new honeynut cousin.
