Desserts

While we try to stick with healthier food choices here, sometimes you just need a special little treat to get you through.  These 21 Delicious Mason Jar Desserts are perfect for giving you amazing dessert without huge portions.  Mason jars are such a wonderful versatile item to have in your kitchen.  Whether you choose the large, medium or small jars for these desserts, you are sure to enjoy the great flavors.  Plus these make wonderful dessert options for dinner parties or events since they are single serve sizes!

21 Delicious Mason Jar Desserts

Nutella Crunch Cheesecakes
Apple Crumble Recipe
Delicious Apple Pear Crisp In A Jar
Gluten Free Zucchini Brownie Parfait
Cherry Pineapple Dump Cake In A Jar
Key Lime Pie In A Jar
Sweet Potato Pie Parfait
Peach Dump Cake Recipe n A Jar
Strawberry Cobbler In A Jar
Key Lime Pie Parfait In A Jar
Mason Jar Pear Crisp
Lemon Curd Trifle In A Jar
Brownie In A Jar Dessert
Peach Cream Cake In A Jar
Organic Apple Pie In A Jar
Rainbow Cupcakes In A Mason Jar
No Bake Oreo Cheesecake In A Jar with Cherries
Pomegranate Cherry Yogurt Parfait In A Jar
Patriotic Cake In A Jar
Cherry Vanilla Chip Parfait In A Jar
Peach Cobbler In A Jar

Mason jar desserts are one of the best things to happen in the last few years of food.  We love how easy they are to customize, but they display beautifully.  If you or someone in your family or on your guest list has an allergy, then creating these individual desserts is a great way to keep them safe and satisfied.  You can even go so far as to customize each jar by adding a label with your guests monogram or name on it!

If you love these dessert ideas, check out some of our other favorite desserts listed below!

Andes Mint Chocolate Cookies

Weight Watchers Mini Apple Pies

Bananas Foster Cheesecake Trifles

29 Fruit Pies & Cobblers For Summer

26 Delectable Cookie Recipes

One of my favorite bloggers helpers and virtual assistants, Jill, shared this easy and delicious recipe for Andes Mint Chocolate Cookies with us this week.  When she mentioned it, I knew I wanted it on our site, and was excited she was willing to share with me!  We love the combination of chocolate and mint, and with all of those Girl Scout cookies floating around these days, I knew this was a great make at home substitute.  We hope you enjoy them as much as we did!

ANDES MINT CHOCOLATE COOKIES

We love Andes mints, but even more than that, we love cookies.  Those always popular Girl Scout cookies that combine chocolate and mint are a favorite in our house, so these definitely are.  One thing I personally love about this combination is that they are satisfying, but also rich enough that I can only eat 1 or 2 at a time.  That means I am less likely to over indulge and eat the whole batch!

Mix up these delicious cookies in no time.  In less than half an hour, you can have these fresh from the oven and the perfect accompaniment to a tall glass of milk.

Andes Mint Chocolate Cookies

 

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Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

10 mins

Total time

20 mins

 

Serves: 24

Ingredients

• 1 Cup Butter, softened to room temperature
• 2 Eggs
• 1 ½ Cup Sugar
• 2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
• ⅔ Cup Cocoa Powder
• ½ Teaspoon Salt
• 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
• 2 Cups Flour
• 1 Package of Andes Mint Chocolate Baking Bits (located in the baking aisle near the chocolate chips)
• 1 Package of Andes Mint Chocolate Candies

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line your baking sheets with parchment paper or foil (easy clean up, trust me).
2. Combine the softened butter, eggs, vanilla, cocoa powder and sugar, mixing well.
3. Slowly fold in the dry ingredients; the flour, baking soda and salt.
4. Add in the Andes baking bits and mix into the dough.
5. Drop the dough by rounded tablespoon onto the baking sheets about 2-3” apart.
6. Bake 8-10 minutes. Do not over bake. These cookies are best on the chewy side!
7. While you are waiting for the cookies, unwrap the Andes Mint and discard the wrappers. Place one Andes Mint on top of each cookie right after you remove them from the oven. The heat of the cookies will melt them a bit and make them stick. So yummy!

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Kids love working with you on these cookies!  Get them involved by having them unwrap the candies to put on the center of the cookies when the are ready.  For those who don’t like a quite so minty flavor you can skip the last step ad enjoy the cookies without the full candy piece on top.

Make these Andes mint chocolate cookies as a special bedtime treat.  Nice hotels often leave an Andes Mint on your pillow with turn down service.  You can serve your kids a special cookie with a glass of milk instead!

Check out some of our favorite dessert recipes!

Weight Watchers Mini Apple Pies

Weight Watchers Pumpkin Pie Tarts

Weight Watchers Baked Pumpkin Pie Egg Roll

Weight Watchers Strawberry Banana Ice Cream

We love bananas.  Seriously – we eat anywhere from 10-15 bananas a week in our house. Each of us has at least one a day.  So when Chiquita came out with this amazing program and contest I knew I wanted to participate.  The Chiquita Cooking Lab has created this AMAZING contest!  From September 29th to November 24th, you can enter your own special banana recipe for a chance to win up to $4000 CASH!  Well, since we eat bananas all the time, I knew we could come up with something yummy to enter into this contest.

We came up with a combination of some of our favorite things.  Bananas Foster Cheesecake Trifle. This no bake and tasty combination was a perfect recipe to share with our family, and so easy to submit at http:/www.Chiquiatabananas.com/cookinglab for a chance to win one of the weekly prizes, or the great $4000 grand prize.

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Bananas Foster Cheesecake Trifle With Chiquita Bananas

 

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Prep time

25 mins

Cook time

10 mins

Total time

35 mins

 

Serves: 12

Ingredients

• 6 Large Ripe Bananas
• 1 Cup Brown Sugar
• ½ Cup Unsalted Butter
• 1 Large Pound Cake
• 2 Packages Softened Cream Cheese
• 1 Cup Powdered Sugar
• ½ Cup Milk
• 1 Teaspoon Vanilla
• Whipped Cream, Optional

Instructions

1. Slice bananas
2. In a large skillet melt butter.
3. Add bananas and brown sugar. Cook for 10-12 minutes or until softened and sugar/butter mixture begins to caramelize.
4. Remove from heat and set aside.
5. In large bowl - beat together cream cheese, powdered sugar, milk and vanilla until smooth.
6. Cut pound cake into ½" cubes.
7. In large trifle bowl, or individual trifle cups as shown, layer cake, cream cheese mixture and banana mixture. Top with banana mixture and optional whipped cream as desired.
8. Chill for at least 1 hour before serving.

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Thanks to Moms Meet and Chiquita Bananas for the chance to share this contest and recipe!

One of the main attractions to the Weight Watchers diet is that dairy isn’t considered to be ‘devilish’ and eating your favorite things in moderation is completely acceptable. The diet should be looked at as a way of life, changing the way you look at food creates a healthy relationship towards what you eat and how you act when you eat something a little ‘naughty’.

Yogurts are perfect for breakfast or mixed with herbs as a refreshing dip. How can we keep eating yogurt without getting bored of eating the same old thing time after time? Just because we are used to one yogurt recipe and know it is good on our diet, doesn’t mean there aren’t others out there that we could try that will satisfy us and keep the pounds dropping.

The following is a collection of Weight Watchers-friendly recipes that You Brew My Tea have rustled together for you along with the Weight Watchers points each portion equates to. No more calculating how many points is your favorite yogurt. You can thank us later.

Related Reading: Healthy Biscuit Recipe using Greek Yogurt

Yogurt With Fruit and Granola

This is really easy to put together breakfast or lunch to take to work. It will cost you just 3 points on the Blue and Purple plan and 6 points on the Green plan. The preparation time is 2-3 minutes. Winner!

Ingredients

• 1 cup plain fat free Greek yogurt
• ½ cup fruit (berries such as strawberries or blueberries go great with granola)
• 3 tablespoons granola (no added sugar granola is preferred)

Instructions

Pour the yogurt into a bowl and toss the granola and fruit on top. It is as easy as that.

Grilled Apricot Topped With Yogurt

Sometimes all you want is a little bit of something sweet at the end of your meal. Desserts don’t need to be slathered in chocolate or icing sugar to be classified as desserts. Here is a refreshing dessert recipe we think you’ll enjoy, the best part of it is that it’s only 1 SmartPoint per serving no matter what plan you are on.

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon lime zest
• 1 teaspoon honey
• 1 apricot (halved)
• 1 teaspoon mint leaves
• 1 tablespoon fat free plain yogurt

Instructions

1. Cut your apricot in half
2. Place on the grill (cut side facing down)
3. Once the apricots are warm all the way through, place them on a plate (should only take a couple of minutes to grill the apricots)
4. Divide the honey and yogurt equally between the two halves
5. Finish off with a sprinkle of lemon zest and mint

Jello Yogurt

Weight Watchers enthusiasts across the globe will already be familiar with the combination of jelly and yogurt. This is no regular jelly, oh no, nor is it yogurt. It is fluff. Fluff is a mousse-like concoction made by whisking jelly and yogurt together.

This jello yogurt dessert is completely free of SmartPoints on the Blue and Purple plan. If you are following the Green plan then you will just need to take off 1 point from your daily allowance per serving.

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Ingredients

• 2 cups fat free plain greek yogurt
• 8 strawberries
• 1 pack sugar free jelly
• ¼ pint cold water
• ¼ pint boiling water

Instructions

1. Place sugar-free jelly in a bowl and pour boiling water on the jelly to dissolve.
2. Pour cold water in the jelly mix and leave it to cool.
3. Pour the yogurt in with the jelly (once the jelly mix is cool and not set) and mix vigorously with a whisk for 3 minutes, or until you notice lots of bubbles forming in the mixture.
4. Pour into individual ramekins and leave in the fridge to set.
5. The fluff will take at least 2 ½ hours to set in the fridge.

Frozen Yogurt and Nut Slices

Frozen yogurt fruit and nut slices are brilliant little snacks to have on hand in the house for when you are peckish and want a sweet snack. This recipe will provide you with 1 SmartPoint for both the Blue and Purple plan and 2 SmartPoints for the Green plan.

Ingredients

• ¾ cups sugar-free granola
• Pinch of salt
• Hand full of sliced strawberries, raspberries and blueberries
• ¼ teaspoon lemon juice
• ½ teaspoon almond extract
• ¼ cups sugar free maple
• 2 cups fat free greek yogurt
• Handful of nuts

Instructions

1. Prepare a baking tray by lining it with baking paper.
2. Mix the yogurt, salt, maple, lemon juice, almond extract and Greek yogurt in a bowl.
3. Pour the yogurt mixture in the baking tray.
4. Crush the nuts and cut your chosen fruit.
5. Sprinkle the yogurt with the chopped fruit and nuts and place in the freezer.
6. Freeze for 5 hours.
7. Break the slices in half, each half slice will provide you with the points mentioned above.

Overnight Oats and Yogurt

You can make overnight oats in a batch for the whole week. Better yet, once you make it and put the oat mix in individual ramekins ready to grab and go in the mornings. 2 points on the Purple plan, 4 points on the Blue and 5 Green points are in each serving.

See Related Topic: Weight Watchers Pumpkin Mousse

Ingredients

• ¼ cup rolled oats
• ¼ cup unsweetened milk substitute (soy milk, almond milk, and rice milk work fine)
• ¼ cup fat free greek yogurt
• 1 tablespoon toasted almonds
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 1 pinch cinnamon
• ½ cup fruit of your choice (berries and banana are nice options)

Instructions

1. Mix the oats in a bowl with the fat free Greek yogurt and milk substitute.
2. Add the honey and cinnamon and mix well.
3. You can either mix the fruit and nuts in with the oats now to soften together, or save it to use as a topping.
4. Leave overnight in the fridge or until it reaches a pudding like consistency.

Tangy Yogurt Dip

Sometimes all you want is something crunchy to nibble on, like carrot sticks or capsicum slices and they go so well with a fresh yogurt dip. The following recipe is points free for the Blue and Purple plan. Anyone on the Green plan will only need to part with 1 point.

Ingredients

• ½ cup fat free plain Greek yogurt
• 1 tablespoon ranch sauce
• 1 teaspoon chopped chives
• Pinch black pepper
• Pinch salt
• Capsicum or carrot slices
• Lemon zest
• Squeeze of lemon juice

Instructions

1. Mix the yogurt, ranch sauce, chives, salt and pepper in a bowl.
2. Grate a pinch of lemon zest in the mix and stir.
3. Squeeze half a lemon on the capsicum and carrot slices.
4. Dip and enjoy!

Chocolaty Frozen Yogurt

Just like ice cream, minus the calories. This will cost you 1 Purple or Bluepoint. If you are on the Green plan then a serving will cost you 4 points. Here is a tip for you, if you are making this ice cream like frozen yogurt, make enough for one or two servings at a time, that way you won’t be tempted to use all your points upon this recipe. After all, we have plenty of things to make with yogurt.

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons sugar-free, unsweetened cacao powder
• 1 cup fat free Greek yogurt
• 2 teaspoons splenda
• 1 tablespoon milk

Ingredients

Frozen yogurt is so easy to make, you’ll be wondering why you didn’t try making it earlier.

1. Mix all of the ingredients together in a bowl (using a food processor is preferred to get the smoothest result).
2. Pour the mixture into a pan once smooth and freeze for at least 3 hours.

Greek Yogurt Pancakes

Pancakes can be low in points too. What’s their secret? They are made with fat free Greek yogurt, of course. Better yet, each pancake is only 1 freestyle point.

Ingredients

• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 2 cups plain fat free Greek yogurt
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 4 eggs
• ½ cup skimmed milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, if you prefer almond extract then you may use that.

Instructions

1. 1. Mix dry ingredients in with the yogurt (you will find it easier to use an electric whisk)
   2. Add all of the eggs, milk and vanilla extract to the yogurt mix.
   3. Cook on a low heat in a non stick pan until golden.

You can top the pancake with an extra spoonful of greek yogurt and scatter some more fruit on top for added indulgence. The best thing is that you won’t even notice the pancake is made mainly of yogurt and will feel like a hearty treat.

Now you have eight different ways to enjoy yogurt, and if you didn’t think you can make pancakes or a fluffy mousse with yogurt then this is your time to give it a go. Have fun with your food. What you eat doesn’t need to be boring while you diet.