10 Uber-Healthy Fall Dessert Recipes To Quench Your Raging Sweet Tooth

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Between baked apples, warm cinnamon, and pumpkin spice everything, fall is bursting with a cornucopia of mouthgasmic flavors. But despite their radiant orange color and heavenly aromatics, most commercially available desserts are overindulgent, decorated monstrosities.

Just because something flaunts its “pumpkin” or “apple” innards, doesn’t mean it’s healthy. More often than not, you’re actually eating a stealthy minefield of fat.

Drop the PSLs, there’s no place.

In an effort to keep autumn svelte, we’ve compiled a roundup of 10 uber-healthy dessert recipes to provide your full-blown fall fix, sans the obnoxious calorie, sugar, or fat counts of most seasonal desserts.

From pancakes and cookies, to smoothies and shakes, it’s an autumnal arsenal that’ll keep your stomach lean and taste buds salivating. Get seasonal and indulge at will — the recipes only require a few simple ingredients and whip up in under 30 minutes.

1. Liquid Pumpkin Pie Protein Smoothie

Full Recipe: Lean It UP

Ingredients: 

• 1.5 cups coconut almond milk
• 1 scoop vanilla protein powder
• 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
• 1 banana
• 3/4 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
• 1/2 container apple cinnamon OR pumpkin flavored Greek yogurt
• 3 ice cubes

Nutrition (per smoothie): 315 calories, 29g protein, 5.5g fat, 40g carbs, 18g sugar, 3.5g fiber

2. Stuffed Baked Apples

Full Recipe: The Kitchn

Ingredients: 

• 4 apples, like Jonagold, Fuji, or Honeycrisp
• 1/4 cup brown sugar (dark or light)
• 1/4 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
• Pinch cloves
• 1 tablespoon butter, divided in four
• 1 cup hot water

Nutrition (per apple): 97 calories, .7g protein, 3.2g fat, 17.2g carbs, 13.4g sugar, 5g fiber

3. Healthy Homemade Pumpkin Spice Latte

Full Recipe: Fitsugar

Ingredients: 

• 1/2 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk
• 3 tbsp. pumpkin puree
• 1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 2-3 drops of liquid stevia (or sweetener of choice)
• 8 ounces brewed coffee (or 1-2 shots of espresso)
• sprinkle of cinnamon

Nutrition (per latte): 40 calories, 1g protein, 1.5g fat, 5g carbs, 2g sugar, 2g fiber

4. Buttermilk Pumpkin Spice Pancakes

Full Recipe: Lean It UP

Ingredients: 

• 1/2 cup Bob’s Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Whole Grain Mix (or any whole wheat flour)
• 1 container (5.3 oz.) siggi’s Pumpkin & Spice yogurt (or use Chobani pumpkin)
• 3 tbsp. egg whites
• 1/2 banana
• 1/4 cup pumpkin puree
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice

Nutrition (per batch): 255 calories, 16g protein, 1.7g fat, 11.5g sugar, 6g fiber

5. Apple Pie A La Mode Protein Smoothie

Full Recipe: Lexi’s Clean Kitchen

Ingredients: 

• 1 cup unsweetened almond milk
• 3 tbsp. organic unsweetened applesauce
• 1 scoop vanilla whey protein powder
• 1 apple
• 1 tsp. apple pie spice
• 1/2 tsp. organic vanilla
• 5 ice cubes, more as desired
• 1 tsp. raw honey

Nutrition (per smoothie): 270 calories, 26g protein, 3.5g fat, 6g carbs, 24g sugar, 5g fiber

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Bryan DiSanto is the Owner & Editor-in-Chief of Lean It UP, a culinary student at Le Cordon Bleu – Paris, an ACE-CPT & CSN, NYU graduate, ex-fat kid, and all-around fitness/nutrition nutjob.

He also contributes to Men's Health Magazine.

When he’s not working on his (or somebody else’s) abs, whipping up Eggocados, or running a Tough Mudder, he’s probably off yelling at a Carolina Panthers game somewhere.

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