These no carb desserts are perfect for when you're in the mood for a sweet treat, without the carbohydrates! Every recipe on this list has 0 to 1g net carbs per serving, from creamy ice cream and gummy candy to marshmallow fluff and caramel sauce.
Looking for no carb, no sugar desserts? You're in the right place. Desserts with no sugar and next to no carbs are built from ingredients like sugar free gelatin, egg whites, butter, cream cheese and unsweetened cocoa, then sweetened with a zero carb sweetener such as monk fruit, stevia or allulose. That's how every recipe below stays sugar free and still tastes like a real treat.
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What Counts as a No Carb Dessert?
Search for "no carb desserts" online and you'll find plenty of recipes that say "just mix heavy cream, cocoa powder and sweetener!" Heavy cream and unsweetened cocoa powder are not zero carb ingredients, but they are very low carb ones. So it really depends on how strict you want to be.
When I wrote my guide to 43 Zero Carb Foods, I counted anything under 1g net carbs per serving as near enough to zero (food labels use a similar rule). I've used that same rule here: every dessert on this list has between 0 and 1g net carbs per serving, and several of them really are 0g.
A few things to watch for when you're hunting for zero carb sweets:
- Check the serving size. A "zero carb" caramel might be one tablespoon per serving, which is great as a topping but isn't a dessert on its own.
- Check the math. A so-called no carb cheesecake made with five bricks of cream cheese has around 64g carbs before you add anything else. Making it crustless doesn't make it carb free!
- Fruit isn't zero carb. As my guide to low carb fruit explains, even berries have some carbs, so fruit-based desserts need small portions.
Zero Carb Sweeteners
If you want something sweet, you need a sweetener. Sweeteners are a hot topic in the low carb and keto world: one person notices a cooling aftertaste that another doesn't taste at all, and some sweeteners (I'm looking at you, maltitol!) upset almost everyone's stomach.
When I started eating low carb in 2008, Splenda was pretty much the only option. Now there are lots of great choices. Monk fruit, stevia and allulose don't raise blood sugar, so on this site we don't count them toward net carbs. Erythritol (often blended with monk fruit) is treated the same way. Xylitol works well too, but it's toxic to dogs, so it has fallen out of favor in many homes. These are my favorites:
- Homemade Low Carb Simple Syrup - easy to make and great for drinks and frozen pops.
- Pyure Liquid Stevia - great for sauces, drinks and cocktails, but not for baking.
- Lakanto Classic Monk Fruit Sweetener - my go-to granular sweetener. It swaps 1:1 for sugar.
- Lakanto Powdered Monk Fruit Sweetener - for frostings, glazes, whipped cream and anything that needs to be smooth.
- Lakanto Golden Monk Fruit Sweetener - a brown sugar swap with a lovely caramel flavor.
- Lakanto Monk Fruit Sweetener with Allulose - allulose melts and caramelizes like sugar, so it's perfect for sauces like caramel.
From ice cream and gummies to brownies, frozen pops and dessert sauces, here are 24 sugar free desserts with 0 to 1g net carbs per serving. Tap any recipe to get the full recipe card.
No Carb Desserts
A creamy vanilla ice cream made with almond milk, coconut oil and monk fruit sweetener. It comes in at 0g net carbs for a generous one-cup scoop, so you can have a proper bowl of ice cream.
Just three ingredients: sugar free Jell-O, unflavored gelatin and water. Pick your favorite flavor and any silicone mold, and you have chewy, fruity gummies with 0g net carbs.
Light, glossy marshmallow fluff whipped up from gelatin, monk fruit sweetener and sugar free honey. Spoon it over ice cream or hot chocolate, or use it as a s'mores dip, all at 0g net carbs.
A rich, buttery caramel sauce made with butter, heavy cream and a monk fruit and allulose sweetener. It takes about 10 minutes and has 0g net carbs per serving, perfect over the no carb ice cream above.
Trust us on this one! Pork rinds tossed in butter, cocoa and cinnamon taste a lot like giant cocoa puff cereal pieces, and they're a sweet and salty treat with 0g net carbs.
These little almond cookies are made with egg whites, almond flour and almond extract. They're a lovely sweet finish to an Italian meal at 0g net carbs per cookie.
Light, crunchy sugar free meringues with a swirl of chocolate running through them. A serving of four small meringues has just 0.2g net carbs.
Whip mascarpone with lemon juice, zest and sweetener for a creamy, zesty dessert that's ready in about 3 minutes. It's rich, so a little goes a long way, and it has less than 1g net carbs.
Refreshing frozen pops made with ricotta, fresh strawberries and a sugar free strawberry spread. Each pop has just 0.5g net carbs, so they're a great summer treat for the whole family.
A fun retro dessert made with colorful cubes of sugar free jel set in a creamy layer. It's free from aspartame and artificial colors, and each square has 1g net carbs.
Layers of sugar free Jello and lightly whipped cream with a little citrus zest on top. It looks impressive in a glass and has just 1g net carbs per serving.
Sugar free Jello set in Easter-themed molds makes a colorful treat for Easter (or any time of year). Kids love them, and each one has 1g net carbs or less.
Fresh lime juice, mint leaves and homemade low carb simple syrup make these mini pops seriously refreshing on a hot day. Each one has 1g net carbs or less.
Little frozen pops made with slivered almonds, heavy cream and almond milk, studded with sugar free chocolate chips. A cool, creamy treat at 1g net carbs per pop.
Fudgy almond flour brownies swirled with a creamy cheesecake layer. They taste as good as they look, with 1g net carbs per brownie.
Bite-size brownies topped with cream cheese frosting and a strawberry "hat." They're a festive Christmas treat with 1g net carbs each.
Just four ingredients: almond butter, cream cheese, almond flour and a few drops of liquid stevia. These no-bake bites are creamy and nutty, with 1g net carbs each.
Pecan halves coated in a buttery, sugar free caramel. They take three ingredients and have 1g net carbs per bite.
Crunchy low carb cookie clusters dipped in sugar free dark chocolate. It's a two-ingredient treat that's ready in about 12 minutes, with 1g net carbs per cluster.
Cream cheese, butter, pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spice, frozen in cute pumpkin molds. A no-bake fall treat with about 1g net carbs each.
Sweet cream cheese balls rolled in orange and green coconut, with one googly-eyed monster hiding in the bunch. A fun no-bake Halloween treat with about 1g net carbs per bite.
A dairy free chocolate sauce made with coconut oil and cocoa in about 5 minutes. Pour it over low carb ice cream for a 1g net carb chocolate fix.
All the flavor of a caramel apple in a sugar free sauce made with butter and a few drops of apple extract. It's ready in 10 minutes and has 1g net carbs per serving.
A sugar free icing made with powdered monk fruit sweetener, almond milk and vanilla. Change the quantities slightly and it becomes a pourable glaze, all with just 0.3g net carbs.
Store-Bought No Carb Desserts
Don't feel like making dessert? Ready-made sugar free gelatin cups are about as close to zero carb as it gets. If you'd rather avoid aspartame, try Simply Delish Jel Desserts: they're sugar free, gelatin free and made without artificial flavors or colors (I use them in my Broken Glass Jel Dessert). For a cake fix, SmartCakes are sugar free, gluten free, low carb little cakes.
And if you can spare a few more carbs, my Keto Low Carb Gummy Bears, Low Carb Sour Gummy Bears and Keto Gummies are all still very low carb.
More Zero Carb Ideas
If you love these no carb desserts, be sure to check out these other zero carb ideas:
Merilyn says
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