Healthy Winter Fruit Dessert Recipes

These spiced cookies are a wonderful treat in the fall or winter. Each bite offers delicious pumpkin flavor with chewy raisins and crunchy walnuts. Make and freeze an extra batch to keep on hand for up to a month.

Using a combo of green- and red-skin apples gives the filling in this apple-sweet potato tart a pleasing touch of color. Look for Granny Smith, Newtown Pippin and Golden Delicious, as well as McIntosh, Empire and Braeburn varieties.

Apple pie has never been so quick to put together. After tossing unpeeled apples and spices in a baking dish, you'll assemble a quick lattice from pastry strips. This lattice topping is not woven like a traditional one--it takes less time to assemble this way but is just as eye catching!

Cranberry juice and fresh cranberries add a double dose of zing to this sweet poached pear dessert. Served with a low-fat blend of yogurt and honey, it's a dessert you can make a day ahead of serving.

This pumpkin dessert recipe is perfect for fall entertaining. Your guests will love the creamy pumpkin custard and be pleasantly surprised by the sweet orange-flavored raisins in each bite.

Cold wind whipping outside? Grab a blanket and snuggle up with a serving of this warm fruit compote. The mixed fruit is slow-cooked with fresh ginger and served with toasted, flaked coconut making it the perfect after-dinner treat on cold night.

A great dessert option for your next holiday party, these sweet cheesecake bars have an oat crust and a cranberry-orange sauce that's swirled on top and baked right in.

Crunchy pecans and warm vanilla add the perfect touch to these breakfast bars.

The whole wheat biscuit-like topper helps soak up all the spicy, sweet juices from the baked apples and cranberries in this favorite fall recipe.

This galette, or rustic tart, adds a touch of thyme flavor to apples and pomegranate seeds.

These cranberry-coconut snowball treats are a yummy, holiday-inspired dessert that call for sparkling wine as an ingredient, which adds a fruity flavor to baked goods.

Impress your guests with this fruity version of crème brûlée, made with low-fat Greek yogurt instead of heavy cream, and baked over apples flavored with cinnamon and cardamom.

Frozen strawberries and raspberries team up in this 1-carb-choice sweet dessert for kids and diabetics.

This decadent pound cake is drizzled with white chocolate and topped with a delicious compote of cranberries, oranges and kiwifruit.

The natural sweetness of the apples, cherries, and grapes is brought out by roasting. Top the roasted fruit with no-sugar-added ice cream for a refreshing treat.

Looking for a unique and delicious dessert? These spicy-sweet pears are poached in red wine, served with a pomegranate syrup and sprinkled with walnuts and cinammon.

Caramel apples can contain up to 60 grams of carbs, but these apple dippers are a lower-carb option. These apple slices--dipped in melted butterscotch, drizzled with sweet maple syrup, and sprinkled with savory pecans--will remind you of your grandmother's pecan pie.

Instead of reaching for a caramel apple that can contain up to 60 grams of carbs, make these apple dippers. They are a lower-carb option, and the combination of bold dark chocolate and crunchy gingersnaps on a crisp apple make them a perfect sweet treat.

Linzer torte, made with a nut crust and filled with raspberry jam, is a favorite treat in Austria. This is a low-calorie, lower-fat version of that classic dessert.

A sweet lemon glaze is all that's needed on top of this delicious lemon-poppy seed cake.