High Fiber Desserts to Feed Your Gut

Eating a high-fiber diet doesn't have to be a drag, and with these high-fiber dessert recipes, taking care of your gut has never been tastier! These recipes also happen to feature lots of fruit, veggies, and produce to provide antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals.

Let's get into the roundup!

Berry Recipes

Berries are an amazing source of fiber and antioxidants, and not to mention, they taste fantastic! They're the perfect way to add nutrients, sweetness, and zest to any dessert!

Strawberry Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting

These strawberry cinnamon rolls feature strawberry bread dough, strawberry cinnamon filling, and strawberry cheesecake frosting. They're antioxidant-packed and so delicious!

High-Fiber Blueberry Cheesecake Overnight Oats

These blueberry cheesecake overnight oats have lots of fiber, protein, micronutrients, and antioxidants, and they are so quick to whip up! They feel like having dessert for breakfast, and they are so pretty. They even use everyone's favorite healthy ingredient - cottage cheese!

Strawberry Shortcake Muffins

These fluffy, moist strawberry shortcake muffins are topped with a crispy streusel and decadent, fresh strawberry syrup. The best part is there is no red coloring or strawberry flavoring, it's all real strawberries. They take half an hour to make and stay moist for days on end!

Cranberry Walnut Muffins

These warm and spicy cranberry walnut muffins are the perfect way to kick off fall, and take less than 30 minutes! The bright and zesty cranberries, sweet cinnamon, and crunchy walnuts are the autumnal combo of your dreams, and we top it all off with a simple glaze.

Strawberry Yogurt Bites

These chocolate-covered strawberry yogurt bites are an easy, healthy, and delicious snack with protein, fiber, and antioxidants.

Date Recipes

Dates are an incredible source of fiber and sweetness, so it makes sense to base high-fiber desserts around this natural powerhouse!

Snickers Date Bark

This peanut butter chocolate date bark tastes like a Snickers bar but with way more protein, fiber, and micronutrients. If you want a dessert that helps you feel full and satisfied, this date bark is the way to go!

Snickers Dates

Another Snickers recipe, these sweet, salty, peanut buttery, chocolate-covered dates taste like a Snickers bar, but with 4 grams of protein and 2.4 grams of fiber in each date! They're the bite-sized version of the date bark and will surely be one of your new favorite snacks.

Gluten-free Vegan Snickers Overnight Oats

Our last Snickers-themed recipe, I promise! This Snickers overnight oats recipe uses dates, chocolate, and peanuts to make the perfect vegan, gluten-free dessert, snack, or breakfast with a delicious chocolate shell.

Sticky Date Baked Oats

These healthy sticky date baked oats are packed with fiber and warm, caramel flavor from the Medjool dates. If you love the classic Aussie dessert, sticky date pudding, or the English version (sticky toffee pudding), then this is the dessert-y breakfast for you!

Veggie Recipes

Not only can you hide vegetables in desserts, but they can be the star of the show, adding sweetness, texture, flavor and, of course,

Carrot Cake Baked Oats

These decadent, delicious, and easy-to-make baked oats are here to help you meal-prep your mornings!

Carrot Bran Muffins

These carrot bran muffins are the perfect easy, healthy snack! They're high-fiber, delicious, and the batter stores for weeks.

Vegan Zucchini Muffins with Cinnamon Streusel

These vegan zucchini muffins are warm, soft, and comforting. The zucchini keeps them moist and adds a nutrient boost, and the streusel topping and cinnamon give them that extra something special.

Cinnamon Recipes

Cinnamon is a secret weapon spice - it adds sweetness and warmth to any recipe, and it's especially perfect for that middle-ground between breakfast and dessert. Pair it with oats and you have a sweet, high-fiber recipe for success.

Healthy Cinnamon Rolls with Oats

These healthy cinnamon rolls pack lots of fiber and protein and combine the best dessert with everyone's favorite breakfast food! So what makes these cinnamon rolls healthy? Oats blended into the filling, rolling the cinnamon rolls in more oats, and a high protein cream cheese frosting!

Cinnamon Roll Overnight Oats

These healthy cinnamon roll overnight oats are the perfect way to sneak dessert in for breakfast. Blending the mixture makes these overnight oats smooth and creamy, before finishing them off with a cream cheese frosting swirl. They've got a pretty decent protein content at 13 grams per serving, but you could always bump it up with some added Greek yogurt.

About the Author

Hi! I'm Alexandra Massengale, and I've been cooking and baking for over 12 years. My passion is making cheap, convenient, nutrient-dense food that still tastes amazing, and helping to perpetuate healthy eating habits without perpetuating diet culture. I want you to find recipes that make your body and heart happy, without putting any food off limits or making you feel guilty for loving delicious things.

By Alexandra Massengale