Sugar cravings are extremely common and are often very difficult to keep under check. In fact, up to 97% of women and 68% of men report experiencing some sort of food craving, including cravings for sugar. Those experiencing sugar cravings feel a strong urge to eat something sweet and can find it difficult to control themselves around sweet food. This can lead to binge eating or over-consuming calories, sometimes on a regular basis which leaves you in terrible shape. Luckily you don’t have to swear off sweets completely, choosing to use natural sugar ingredients would do the job.

Here are two healthy snacks that are sweet and take the edge off.

Coconut Laddu

Coconut Laddu is an easy Indian sweet to make at home. It consists of coconut cooked with khoya and condensed milk. Shaped into round balls and stuffed with almonds and cashews. It’s absolutely delicious and is one of the healthier laddus out there.

Ingredients

1 1/2 Cup Desiccated coconut (toasted)

1 Tbsp Ghee

1 Cup Condensed milk

2 Tbsp Khoya

10-15 Cashews and almonds

Desiccated coconut (to roll the Ladoos)

Recipe:

In a pan, add grated coconut and toast them slightly and keep stirring it.

While keeping it on the heated pan, add condensed milk to the roasted coconut and mix them well. Then add khoya into it and mix them well. Keep it on the heat and mix it till the mixture starts leaving the sides of the pan.

Once it starts leaving the sides, this is the sign of it being ready. Take it off the pan.

Fry some cashew nuts and almonds in ghee.

Roll the mixture into small rounds place some dry fruits into these rounds and then roll them into the shape of small balls.

Rolls these balls over some desiccated coconut and the Coconut Ladoos are ready to be served

Choco-banana fudge

Unlike traditional fudge, which is loaded with butter and sugar, this healthy version is sweetened with fruit and a small amount of maple syrup.

Its creaminess comes from the peanut butter and the banana itself.

Ingredients

1 medium banana mashed

2 tablespoons peanut butter

1 tablespoon of pure maple syrup

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 tablespoons choc chips

1/4 cup coconut flour

Recipe:

In a bowl, place the banana, peanut butter, maple syrup, vanilla, and chocolate chips.

Fold through the coconut flour.

Press into a small lined pan and pop in the freezer to set.

Cut into 8 pieces and enjoy straight from the freezer.

Store in an airtight container in the freezer. These two delicious sweets made from natural sugars will surely help curb your sugar cravings.