EASY Weight Loss Desserts / Vegan & Low Calorie Density (a lot of chocolate!!)

Good morning guys, welcome back to another video. I have been super super excited to film this video. I had inspiration for weight loss desserts. It hit me this week and I've been brainstorming so many of them and I just had to share it with you. If you are wanting to eat more whole food, plant-based and you're also looking for weight loss or you just want to eat yummy desserts that happen to be great for weight loss, then this is the video for you. I'm going to share some really funky ones, out of the box ones. I'm not quite sure exactly what my mind did, but we've created some interesting stuff, me and my mind, and I want to share them with you guys. So let's go and get cracking. If you're new here, this is the channel where I share all things healthy, whole food, plant-based, vegan or weight loss. If you don't know, I lost 60 pounds as a volume eater and as a foodie who specialises, who desires sweet things every single day for breakfast and sometimes for lunch and sometimes for dinner. There's no limit and you can still lose weight eating sweet stuff all the time. Okay, so I haven't got long because Romy's asleep, so let's just get started and let's make however many recipes we can make together and then Romy and Abe might have to join us for the rest later, but that's all right. I know you guys don't mind the squeaking babies, so we will just zoom right past that. Okay, so it looks like I'm about to make you a fruit salad. I promise I'm not. This is going to be something completely different and delicious, but I am going to keep these recipes relatively simple because people have simple basic ingredients at home. I don't want you to run out and have to buy weird fancy stuff. So we're going to be starting by making, I'm calling it chocolate strawberry bark, but basically if you've ever had a bark before, you know that it's delicious and if you freeze stuff, it makes it special. So we're going to do that now. Okay, we're going to start off by washing and scrubbing these little strawberries before we even get started. There we go. And I'm just going to pat them dry a little bit as well. By the way, I just had to mention, if you like sweet treats and you want to lose weight healthy vegan style, then I actually have an entire mini sweet treats ebook, which I will link down below for you, which has a ton of lovely, exciting things in there. So go and check that out if you feel so inclined. Okay, so we're not going to make a massive one because this is meant to be like something you could eat in an entire sitting. And we're making loads of them, so I don't need like a ton of sweet treats in my house, but you get the principle. You can obviously make this as big or as small as you fancy. So we're going to grab our strawberry, take the little fluffy green bit off. You can put that in a smoothie later if you fancy. And we're just going to slice it into nice thin little slivers like so. And then, if you are artistically inclined, you can arrange it super beautifully. I'm just going to whack it on and wish for the best. Maybe we should go in that way. I don't really know. I don't know. I don't know. I might just eat these little end bits. Delicious. Fruit is incredible for weight loss and you should be eating it in abundance, but berries even more so are just like super low calorie density. So anywhere that you can squeeze more berries into your life is going to be a bonus. So the popular healthy way of making this is that you then melt chocolate and you pour it all over the top. Now, you and I both know that is not low calorie density, although it is absolutely delicious. We're not going to do that. Instead, you know, I like to make chocolate sauce out of overripe bananas. They have so much sweetness. It's a two ingredient recipe and it's darn delicious. Actually, I might put three ingredients in. OK, we're going to grab our little blender, give it a sniff test and shake it out. Pop your narnies in. I'm actually going to make this a double batch because we're going to be using this for one of the other recipes as well. OK, so we've got four ripe bananas going in. I'm going to add some cocoa powder in a second, but I don't want the powder to get stuck to the bottom, so I'm just going to quickly blend this first. Then I'm just going to do a couple of tablespoons of cocoa powder. Actually, I've got cacao powder. Actually, I'm going to do three tablespoons. And you can either add a little pinch of salt, but I am addicted to adding miso into everything. So I'm just going to add a little splash of miso in here. I feel like it just brings out the flavour and it just makes it like so good. Obviously, you can mix it up. You don't have to do strawberries. You can do any fruit that you fancy. You can do bananas. You can do blueberries, whatever you want. I have a great idea for freezing grapes and then put this on the top as well. I think that would be super nice because frozen grapes, as you know, are amazing in general. So maybe try that out. One more blend. OK, and the chocolate sauce is that simple. It's delicious. Put it on pancakes. Eat it with a spoon. I promise you'll love it. And obviously, super low calorie density, no maple syrup, no dates. It's all good. Then we're going to grab our choccy sauce and just we're going to spread it on the top as beautifully as we can possibly manage. Once you have smothered the strawberries, we're going to stick it in the freezer for a few hours, probably, and then that's it. So I'll let you know when this one's done. If you can't be bothered to freeze it, obviously grab a strawberry and just like. And just like dunk it in. Because that's just great on its own. We may as well get into the recipe that requires the rest of this chocolatey mix. So this is one I've never tried before, and I was really curious to give it a go. It is a super simple three ingredient microwave cookie or brownie or squidgy cookie situation. So we had to give it a try, obviously. I'm going to pop the remaining choccy sauce in here, which I think is about half anyway. So most of the time people add peanut butter into this mix. We are not. Obviously, we're going to be adding some PB2. It's lower in fat. And I thought that like the powderiness of it would like help thicken up this little cookie. OK, so I know I didn't measure that. I'm sorry. I think it was like a quarter cup or something like that. So just eyeball it. Mix it all around. Oh, this is like a nice thick, like, oh, it's like a batter. Oh, interesting. Never tried making this before. Let's have a little taste. I mean, you know, that's yummy. Yeah, that's yummy. That is super. Oh, yeah. Oh, oh, that's You want it to be a quite like a thick, gloopy consistency. I cannot stop eating that. Then onto a plate, we're going to put some parchment paper so that it doesn't stick, because I have made this mistake before with many, many things. And then we're going to plop this bad boy on the top. And you can obviously choose how thick or thin you want it to go. And like I said, I've never made this before. So let's just let's just do a medium, medium thickness, shall we? OK, now that we've got this, we're just going to simply put it in the microwave for I'm going to start with two minutes and see how it goes. I'm very excited about this one, guys. Very excited. I'm actually going to save this for something else and I'm going to try not to eat it all. I think you can tell there's a chocolatey theme in these recipes, and I'm sorry if you're not a chocolate lover. I'll do one sans chocolate later, I promise. It was in for nearly four minutes. It smells delicious and it looks and feels like a cookie, like like a squidgy cookie, not like a firm, breakable cookie. I don't even know what cookie means anymore. American English, it confuses me. Anyway, I'm going to let this cool down so I don't burn my mouth. OK, I can't wait a minute longer. Oh, oh, this peels off. Oh my gosh. Look at the texture. It holds its shape. I don't know why this is blowing my mind. That is so, so cool. Obviously, I think instead of the PB2, you could use other flours like oat flour or any other flour that you fancy. Oh my gosh. I'm going to break it apart. Yep, yep. Quality, quality. That has an amazing little fluffy kind of consistency. It's soft, but it's chewy. That has a little bit of everything, to be honest. I won't eat any more. I'm going to save the rest for my babies. I've just realised that every single one of these recipes is actually chocolatey. I'm sorry about that if you're not a chocolate lover, but if you are a chocolate lover, stay tuned. OK, so my next idea was these don't look great. I made some quinoa red lentil wraps yesterday for like a mini pizza thing, and I thought it would be super fun to make dessert mini pizzas. These are super low calorie density. Sorry, the light's just gone off. These are like, what are they, like 50 calories each or something like that. Super low calorie density and obviously whole plant foods, and when these were fresh, they looked amazing. You could roll them up like a wrap, but I like to crisp them up in the oven, so I don't really mind if they look like this. So I'm going to crisp these up in the oven really quick, and whilst we're doing that, we're going to get our toppings ready, and then we're going to have little mini dessert pizzas. Doesn't that sound like amazing? Down here with me, I wanted to show you how I like to crisp them up, and then you're just going to chuck them on the rack like that, so we'll get a nice crispy bottoms as well as the tops. Or you can just like put them in one way and then turn them upside down, that's also cool. So I made another batch of our chocolate sauce, which is going to go on our little pizzas, and as you can see, there's a chocolate peanut butter theme going on. So we are going to be making a little peanut butter drizzle for the top of the pizzas. I'm going to do like a couple of little mini tablespoon, teaspoon things, and I'm going to add some water until it's nice and drizzly. That's perfect because we're wanting to have that like fun drizzly effect on the top. Okay, they are nice and crispy now. If you're wanting to know how to make these, by the way, I do have a recipe somewhere here on my YouTube, but I also have it on my- in my Indian cookbook, which you can find a link down below. There's a wrap recipe, which is incredible, and it's like my standard basic one that I use for everything. Okay, okay, okay, let's get into making this a dessert pizza. Okay, so we're going to start by generously spreading our choccy sauce all over the top until it's like totally smothered. By the way, you can just have this in wrap form and like roll it up, obviously, but I just love that crunch in everything. I'm addicted to these wraps because it gives you such a good crunch when you put them in the oven, and that texture is just like amazing. So I'm just going to have one big one and one little baby pizza. The baby one can be my taste tester. Okay. To me, that's already looking pretty exciting. I'm going to give you a couple of different variations. Obviously, you can put like any fruit that you want on here. On the baby one, I'm just going to start off by doing a few little cute strawberries, and I've also just bought some little blueberries, so we may as well just pop that on the top there and have it like a fresh little summery feel. And there we go, that is number one. And then for number two, we actually make this like homemade jam, which is basically just frozen raspberries defrosted in the microwave until it turns into jam. We don't even put chia seeds in there, although you obviously can. So this one, I'm going to have more as like a PB&J chocolate style with the raspberry jam. You can do any other jam you want. I thought cherries would also be amazing, but I cannot be bothered to defrost them right now. And then with this one, we're also going to drizzle over our PB2 sprinkles. I'm just going to put them on a little plate to make them look beautiful. And there you go, you've got your dessert pizza. I'm excited about this one, guys. I've never had a dessert pizza. I thought it sounded amazing. If you've had dessert pizza, oh my God, apple pie dessert pizza. Hold on. I've got, yes, apple pie dessert pizza. Oh, I need to make that. Oh my gosh. Right, okay. I've got ideas flowing. I need to calm down and focus on what I've currently got in front of me. Let me just go and take a photo real quick. Faffing around for five minutes, taking a photo. I hope their little bottoms haven't gone soggy, but we will find out. Okay, I think we're going to get into this little baby first. I'm very excited about this one. Oh, oh yes. Oh yes. Do you see what I mean about the crunch being important here? That crunch. Right, hold on. I'm going to be naughty. We've got to go into the second one, haven't we? I'm just, well, let's just call this one, shall we? Oh, I'm excited. Oh. Oh, that, oh. Oh, guys. I'm going to like this one. That is so special. That is so special. Honestly, if you're wanting a little sweet treat, like after dinner or something, or if you're wanting to have a sweet breakfast, make this. Make this, guys. Make it. It is officially the next day. I didn't have a chance to film yesterday because of my crazy babies, but let's go and get that final chocolate bar out of the freezer. I am dying to try it. Well, it's definitely frozen now. I mean, doesn't that just look beautiful? We do eat with our eyes and when things look beautiful like this, I mean, that looks beautiful to me, it makes me super excited, like much more excited than dunking strawberries in chocolate. But anyway, that is good. Okay. Okay. Anyway, my point is, let's, let's try this baby. I always love with a bark when you kind of go like this. Just love that. Oh, yum. That is super yum. Wow. That was such a good little night time sweet treat. You could have like a little chunk of this every now and again. It's funny, my kids found this in the freezer and they were dying to have a bite, but I haven't taken a photo yet. So I promised them they can eat the rest of it when they come back from school. Okay. There you go. I hope you guys have enjoyed this very chocolatey, desserty video. Let me know if you try any of these recipes out. I have thoroughly enjoyed myself over the last couple of days making and eating all of these things. And let me, let me know also if you would like another video like this, which is non-chocolatey or just a general desserts video. If you guys are loving the desserts like I am. Anyway, have a lovely day and I'll see you later. Bye.