Your avocado obsession is about to get a lot more serious. In addition to bitchin’ guacamole, avocado fries, and the trendy-AF avocado toast you can now add desserts to your avocado recipe repertoire. Yes, I’m serious. No, you’re not dreaming. So next time you’re craving dessert but remembered your New Years Resolution was to eat healthy, look no further, we’ve got you covered.
Spoiler alert: there are a lot of chocolate recipes with a few surprises along the way, enjoy.
1. Healthy Dark Chocolate Avocado Truffles
Photo by Emily Hu
All the fun of a truffle without the immense guilt after you eat 12 of them. The ultimate win-win dessert situation.
2. Inside Out Vegan Peanut Butter Cups with Avocado Fudge
Photo by Katherine Baker
Let’s revist the name one more time to really appreciate what’s going on here. First, an inside out peanut butter cup: the dream for all peanut butter fanatics. Second, the inside is fudge made from avocados which means we can eat at least 20 of these before feeling disappointed in our actions? I’m in.
3. Avocado Chocolate Chip Cookies
Photo by Gloria Suarez
Bonus: these are also vegan cookies. Great for when you want more than a truffle and less than a cupcake.
4. Vegan Double Chocolate Avocado Fudge Cookies
Photo by Katherine Baker
Chocolate chip cookies lacking the right amount of chocolate? Try this double chocolate version for double the chocolate and double the satisfaction.
5. Avocado Frosted Cupcakes
Photo courtesy of bigbaketheory.com
The best part about avocado icing is the fact that you can put it on any type of cupcake. Make four different kinds, ice them all, see which is best. Have friends over; place bets.
6. Chocolate Cupcakes with Avocado Buttercream Icing
Photo by Jedd Marrero
Minor alteration to the previous avocado icing. This one’s going to be creamier because you’re switching lemon juice with butter. I’m not going to pick one icing over the other so you have to be your own judge on this one.
7. Creamy Avocado Smoothie
Photo by Jessica Farber
The sweet combination of the blueberries, honey and milk will make it this healthy shake feel like a dessert.
8. Avocado Mango Smoothie
Photo by Haley Durham
Maybe you don’t like blueberries so the last smoothie wasn’t for you. Try this one with mango instead.
9. Creamy Vietnamese Avocado Shake
Photo by Alan Yeh
If smoothies aren’t your thing, why not shake things up with an avocado shake? (I’m sorry about the word play)
10. 5 Ingredient Healthy Chocolate Mousse
Photo by Danielle Cahoon
Avocado, almond milk, vanilla extract, banana and cacao powder. This is almost – almost – too healthy to call a dessert.
11. Two-Ingredient Chocolate Mousse
Photo by Jeanne Kessira
For when 5 ingredients sounds like 3 ingredients too many.
12. Green Ice Cream
Photo by Emily Haynie
Next try banana ice cream, mango ice cream, and hemp ice cream. Have an entire fake-ice cream party where all you talk about is how healthy your desserts are.
13. Avocado Popsicles
Photo curtsey of The Little Epicurean
Dip them in chocolate, drizzle the chocolate, put chocolate in the blender with your mixture. You could forgo the chocolate completely and be “healthier” but what’s the fun in that?
14. Cherry Avocado Pudding
Photo courtesy of Mother Nature Network
Your base is cherries and avocado so you might as well go crazy with the toppings. Throw on whatever your heart desires; you deserve it.
15. “Healthy” Dark Chocolate Avocado Brownies
Photo by Olivia D’Aiutolo
Not only do these contain our BFF avocados, but they’re also flour-less which gives them the perfect dark chocolate fudge texture and taste.
Now you have 15 new reasons to buy more avocados – like you really needed an excuse to buy more avocados.
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