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Refined Sugar-Free

These are recipes that are made without cane sugar, or white sugar. These snack recipes have been sweetened with fruit, dates, coconut sugar, honey, and maple syrup. These sweeteners are not highly processed, therefore they still contain some natural vitamins, minerals, fibre and antioxidants.

Reader's favorite recipes include these fudgy sweet potato brownies, delicious banana bread that is sweetened with coconut sugar, and one of my first recipes - blender orange muffins.

I have left recipes with chocolate chips in this category. I know chocolate chips can contain a lot of sugar, but I think these recipes fit here because to sugar you can use dark chocolate chips or chocolate chips made with stevia!

Included are the recipes that I like to feed my toddler, these are all very kid friendly.

  • A pink and yellow fruit roll up twisted with other fruit roll ups on parchment paper beside it.
    How to Make Fruit Roll Ups
  • Brown muffin with pink rhubarb and brown sugar on top, sitting in a muffin tray.
    Rhubarb Banana Muffins
  • Oatmeal chocolate chip and raisin cookies cooling on a cookie rack with melted chocoalate.
    Easy Oatmeal Cookies (No Eggs)
  • A child's hand reaching for a granola bar with pumpkin seeds on top.
    Pumpkin Seed Bars
  • Pink fruit roll ups with rhubarb sitting around it.
    Rhubarb Fruit Leather
  • Lemon zest on coconut cream on lemon chia pudding in a jar.
    Lemon Chia Seed Pudding (10 grams protein)
  • A scoop of cookie dough light brown with flecks of chocolate chips in it, in a light blue pottery bowl.
    Healthy Edible Cookie Dough
  • Raspberry muffin on a plate with a knife and raspberries beside it.
    Raspberry Muffins with Yogurt
  • Beige popsicle with apple pieces in it and cinnamon flecks sitting on top of apples.
    Apple Popsicles
  • Shredded coconut covered in melted chocolate.
    Homemade Bounty Bars
  • Homemade dark red sweet cherry popsicle yogurt dipped sitting on ice.
    Cherry Popsicles with Yogurt
  • Pink frozen popsicle with bite out of it sitting in a bowl of pink and yellow frozen fruit.
    Purple Dragon Fruit Popsicles
  • 12 oatmeal bars bars on a cutting board cut into 12 bars with cinnamon stick behind.
    Oatmeal Cinnamon Granola Bars
  • Orange muffins with orange zest on top.
    Healthy Orange Muffins (made in blender!)
  • Puffed quinoa chocolate squares stacked with green chopped pistachios on top.
    Puffed Quinoa Bars
  • Kale muffins on the cooling rack with fresh kale beside it.
    Kale Muffins
  • Mini pink cheesecakes on a wooden platter with pink flowers around it.
    Incredible Strawberry Mini Cheesecakes (Dairy Free)
  • A chunk of granola with oats and hemp hearts.
    Hemp Granola
  • Crackers similar to wheat thins on a baking pan with sea salt.
    Whole-Wheat Cracker Recipe
  • Brown energy balls with rolled oats and chocolate chips sprinkled on top.
    Oatmeal Bliss Balls
  • Chocolate flax energy balls on wood platte
    Easy Energy Balls without Dates
  • A brown energy balls sitting in a small bowl filled with hemp hearts.
    Protein Balls without Protein Powder
  • A big round cookie on a pottery plate.
    Jumbo Breakfast Cookies
  • A bite out of a chocolate energy balls with specs of ground oatmeal and a flecks of dried rose.
    Banana Chocolate Balls
  • Close side angle of a brown zucchini bran muffin on a wooden platter.
    Bran Zucchini Muffins
  • A gluten free brownie made with dates and cocoa powder with chocolate chips on top.
    Date Brownie (No Flour + Date-Sweetened)
  • Whole wheat banana muffin with cinnamon and banana slice on top.
    Banana Muffins with Applesauce
  • Pale brown muffins in a bowl with red blackberries.
    Healthy Blackberry Muffins (with Homemade Oat Flour)
  • Sliced oat granola bars in a square metal pan on a tile table.
    Chewy Granola Bars with Dates
  • Bite taken from healthy sweet potato brownie that's in a baking pan.
    Healthy Sweet Potato Brownies (Sugar-Free)
  • Golden brown muffin with a muffin cup liner with walnuts on top with muffins around it.
    Date Muffins with Orange Zest
  • Balls of white coconut on a serving platter with chunks of coconut all around.
    Healthy No Bake Coconut Macaroons
  • Yellow muffins with toasted coconut on top, and a a fresh pineapple beside them.
    Easy Pineapple Oatmeal Muffins
  • Light brown energy bars with mini chocolate chips on top and yellow banana chips beside it.
    RX Bar Recipe (Protein Banana bars)
  • Bright green energy balls on a wood cutting board with matcha and oatmeal beside it.
    Matcha Protein Balls
  • Dark chocolate covering thick raspberry chia jam.
    Raspberry Bites
  • Rough pieces of chocolate covered dates and nuts on white parchment paper.
    Super Easy Dark Chocolate Date Bark Recipe 
  • Stacked cookie dough bars with chocolate on top and sea salt.
    Cookie Dough Bars (Healthy & No Bake)
  • Light brown energy bites with flecks of oats and dark chocolate chips with pumpkin seed on top and cinnamon sticks beside it.
    The Best Pumpkin Spice Oatmeal Balls
  • Little pumpkin colored cheesecakes with a dark brown gingersnap crust with a white pumpkin and pecans.
    Healthy Pumpkin Cheesecake Bites (Dairy Free)

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Hey hey! I'm Danika.

I'm certified in holistic nutrition and I create snack recipes! Because unprocessed, wholesome, nutrient-dense snacks are hard to find but I want everyone to know they are easy to make!

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