Dessert Recipes

This easy-but-impressive mousse is adapted from a mid-20th-century cookbook. It's quick and easy, made entirely in the blender, and will please all the chocolate fans in the crowd! Just what you need for a busy holiday season.

It's just not Thanksgiving without pie! This Traditional Low-Carb Gluten-Free Pumpkin Pie Recipe is even better than the carb-laden pumpkin pie you grew up on. In fact, you could even say it's downright healthy. With organic pumpkin, coconut cream, and pecans you get healthy fats and tons of antioxidants. Now for the best kept secret of all...my family doesn't know it's low-carb!

My Nutty Pecan Pie Crust is the perfect combination of simplicity and taste–perfect for either a sweet or savory pie. Because it's so easy to make, it's the perfect go-to Low-Carb Gluten-Free recipe when you need to make multiple pies at holiday time.

A favorite here in the CarbSmart kitchen is Lemon Curd. So how about a Low-Carb Lemon Curd recipe for topping Low-Carb lemon cupcakes, Low-Carb lemon donuts, or even our Lemon Berry Custard with Gingersnap Crusts. It’s also an ideal base for tart fillings, cake layers and Low-Carb ice cream!

Raspberry Lemon Cakes recipe is morphed from a version I fell in love with online, but it was high carb and what to do? So I low carbed it. Fantastic and so easy! Remember it’s just a basic type of Revolutionary Roll technique!

Not only are they fun to eat, taste great, and give you a little nibble of something sweet, but they’re full of antioxidants from the hibiscus, while cinnamon lowers blood sugar and ginger settles a queasy tummy and is traditionally used for colds.

Low Carb Thanksgiving Dinner can be a blessing or a curse. I still think that if you are going to have an Indulgence, you should indeed do so very infrequently, and that it is imperative to plan for it. It's the question of whether it's actually a good idea to accept this and build it into one's dietary life that I now question. Dana Carpender shares more Low Carb Thanksgiving tips and recipes for getting through the Thanksgiving holiday.

This Low-Carb, Gluten-Free, High-Fat, Fat Fast Gelatin Whip recipe makes 5 200 calorie servings, which is all you need for one day of the Atkins Fat Fast. Of course, you don’t have to eat all 5 servings in one day but this is delicious and filling enough way if you wanted to. You could also alternate them with other Fat Fast food choices.

Cantaloupe and Honeydew are not the lowest carb fruits by any means BUT they can fit nicely into a Low-Carb lifestyle that is at or near your goal weight. Add blueberries for a great occasional fruit dessert.