3 Light Sweets That You Cannot Miss

Are you on a diet to lose weight and have trouble avoiding sugar? We understand you! Therefore, we bring you 3 recipes for light sweets that will satisfy your need for sweets without adding excess calories.

People with a sweet tooth know that sugar is our worst long-term enemy. However, it is a great companion in any immediate circumstance.

Whether we are sad, tired or angry, sugar provides the relief we need.

This conflict leads us to seek solutions that satisfy our desire for glucose, that sweet taste, but that harm us as little as possible.

In fact, we wonder if light sweets really exist or if they are an advertising invention.

The truth is that yes. To make it easier for you to find them, we wanted to bring you some examples of the tastiest and healthiest.

Would you like to continue with us? Don’t panic, the recipes are easy to make and require little time.

Meet these 3 light sweets

1. Flourless sponge cake

Flour is the main source of carbohydrates. As you know, these are very dangerous if we are trying to lose weight or stay in a certain size.

But is it possible to make a cake without flour? If you follow our instructions, you will see that it is.

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 5 tablespoons of brewer’s yeast (75 g)
• ½ tablespoon of sunflower oil (7 g)
• 2 tablespoons of liquid sweetener (30 ml)
• Lemon zest (to taste)
• 1 skimmed yogurt of your favorite flavor
• 1 glass of wheat bran (150 g)

Preparation

1. Put the oven to heat to 180 ºC.
2. Beat the eggs.
3. Add the brewer’s yeast and oil.
4. Add the sweetener, lemon zest, and yogurt.
5. Mix everything well.
6. Put a little oil on the bottom and on the edges of the baking sheet.
7. Put the mixture in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 ºC.

2. Cheesecake with strawberries

Strawberries are ideal for making light sweets . For one thing, they  are very low calorie. On the other hand, they are very useful to fight against cholesterol, thanks to the presence of ascorbic acid, lecithin and pectin in them.

This makes them the ideal complement to any healthy diet.

Consequently, if you have nothing prepared and you want something sweet, you can use them whenever you want without any problem. With a little sweetener they are delicious.

Ingredients

• ½ cup cheese spread 0% fat (100 g)
• 1 cup of yogurt (200 g)
• ½ cup of skim milk (125 ml)
• 2 tablespoons of cornstarch (20 g)

• 3 tablespoons of liquid sweetener (30 ml)
• Strawberries (to taste)

Preparation

1. Preheat the oven to 200ºC.
2. Combine the cheese, yogurt, and milk in an oven-safe container.
3. Add the starch and the sweetener.
4. Put the cake in the oven for 30 minutes.
5. Chop the strawberries.
6. Take out the cake, unmold it and cover the cake with the fruit.
7. Put it to chill in the fridge until it’s time to serve it.

3. Blueberry muffins

As in the previous case, blueberries and all red fruits are elements that we must take into account whenever we want to sweeten our lives, without getting fat.

In addition, we add the fluffiness so characteristic of muffins.

Although this is an option that is not convenient to abuse, it  is ideal those moments when we feel that we deserve a tribute.

Ingredients

• ½ cup of sunflower oil (100 g)
• 1 tablespoon of sweetener (15 ml)
• 3 eggs
• 1 tablespoon of honey (25 g)
• Lemon zest (to taste)
• Blueberries (to taste)
• ½ cup of pastry flour (100 g)
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder (5 g)

Preparation

1. Preheat the oven to 200ºC.
2. Chop the blueberries into very small pieces.
3. In a large bowl, mix the sweetener and oil.
4. Add the eggs one by one and continue beating.
5. When you have a homogeneous mixture, add the honey, lemon zest and blueberries.
6. Sift the flour and baking powder to add them to the mixture.
7. Work the mixture until you get a good dough.
8. Put a little oil in the molds.
9. Put the dough in them.
10. Keep the light sweets in the oven for 30 minutes.

It is desirable that we introduce these solutions in our diet at least once every two weeks.

Otherwise, we will have the feeling that we are giving up pleasure. When we have this impression, we choose to eat something more harmful or to abandon discipline.

Try these light sweets and enjoy!