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Top 10 Delicious Paleo Desserts
This might just be the sweetest news you receive all day: Desserts don't need to go extinct if you're following a paleo diet. Sure, the caveman-inspired meal plan eschews sugar, but these 10 inventive bloggers found creative (and delicious!) ways to make your cravings go the way of the dinosaurs. Preheat your ovens now and prepare to enjoy some tasty paleo desserts.
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Double Chocolate Paleo Brownies
Coconut and almond flours make this single-serving brownie from Lee at Fit Foodie Finds grain- (and guilt-) free. While chocolate chips are rarely paleo, cocoa powder almost always is!
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Paleo Caramel Apple Donuts
With a homemade caramel sauce drizzled over Brittany Angell's baked chestnut flour doughnuts, you won't even realize they aren't fried.
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Grain-Free Hostess Cupcake Copycats
Leave the packaged pastries on the shelf. You'll be able to pronounce every single ingredient in these coconut cream-filled cupcakes from Shanti of Life Made Full. Don't forget to save some of that filling for the cute curlicue on top!
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Mini Paleo Maple Cupcake
For an unrefined sugar replacement, try maple syrup. These two-bite treats from Fed & Fit mastermind Cassy Joy incorporate it into the cake batter and the frosting.
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Grain-Free Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Far from basic, this pumpkin dessert from Gomo of cHow Divine will be a hit at your next cookie swap. Flax seeds boost the fiber and omega-3 fat content, so it's basically a health food. Right?
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Healthy Homemade Nutella
Go nuts for Nutella— without all of the refined sugars and palm oil the original version includes. Kelly from Foodie Fiasco has your 25-minute, five-ingredient fix that can be customized with your sweetener of choice.
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Salted Caramel Ice Cream Sandwiches
Salted caramel anything gets an A in our book. But when Juli of PaleOMG adds it to healthy ice cream, then sandwiches it between double chocolate cookies? A+.
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Paleo Pumpkin Muffins
Sugar and shortening? You don't need 'em. Rebecca's muffins from My Natural Family call for neither, yet still pack tons of flavor, thanks to canned pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spice.
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Paleo Kiwi Lemon Cheesecake
A crust made from dates and nuts acts as the base of this refreshing cheesecake created by Sjanett of Paleoland. Soaked cashews lend even more nuttiness and heart-healthy fats to the citrus filling.
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Paleo Egg Nog Ice Cream
It doesn't need to be December for us to enjoy egg nog ice cream, à la Sharon of Paleo Fondue. Since you can freeze up a batch without an ice cream churner, it's a cinch to make year-round. Feeling extra spirited? Add a shot of bourbon.
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