Here, you'll find a collection of naturally sweetened cakes, cheesecakes, cupcakes, and frosting recipes. These cakes, cheesecakes, cupcakes, and frosting recipes are all sweetened with natural sweeteners such as honey, coconut sugar, maple syrup, dates, bananas, and applesauce. I hope this post is a resource for you to return to again and again to find the perfect refined sugar-free bake for every occasion!
I prefer to bake with natural sweeteners like coconut sugar or maple syrup for several reasons. Firstly, natural sweeteners contain minerals and nutrients unlike white refined sugar, which is completely devoid of nutrients.
Secondly, the flavor that natural sweeteners such as honey add to baked goods can't be beat! I especially love desserts sweetened naturally with fruits like bananas, dates, or applesauce. These fruits contain fiber, which slows down the digestion of natural sugars, helping to maintain stable blood sugar levels.
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Layered Cakes
A deliciously moist and fluffy refined sugar free vanilla cake recipe that’s easy to make for birthday parties or afternoon tea. (Sweetened with coconut sugar and agave) Recipe: Naturally Sweet Kitchen
Refined Sugar Free Vanilla Cake
A moist triple chocolate cake recipe made without refined sugar. Featuring rich cake layers, dark chocolate ganache, and chocolate frosting. (Sweetened with coconut sugar and agave) Recipe: Naturally Sweet Kitchen
Triple Chocolate Cake
Looking for a health birthday cake option? This sugar-free banana cake is naturally fruit-sweetened and delicious. Try all 5 flavours! (sweetened with bananas and dates) Recipe: Fermenting for Foodies
Sugar-Free Banana Cake
Layers of moist vegan pumpkin spice cake sandwich a generous helping of date caramel sauce, topped off with a fluffy, tangy cashew cream cheese frosting. (sweetened with coconut sugar, maple syrup and dates) Recipe: Naturally Sweet Kitchen
Vegan Pumpkin Spice Cake with Cashew Cream Cheese Frosting
The BEST gluten-free chocolate cake recipe made dairy-free and refined sugar-free. Moist, rich, decadent, delicious death by chocolate cake! (sweetened with coconut sugar and maple syrup) Recipe: The Roasted Root
Gluten-Free Chocolate Cake
This Chocolate Almond Flour Cake is gluten-free and naturally sweet! It’s the perfect grain-free & Paleo cake for a birthday party. (sweetened with maple syrup) Recipe: Detoxinista
Chocolate Almond Flour Cake
A fruit-sweetened spiced banana cake with cream cheese frosting. This cake is gluten-free and sweetened with bananas and dates. Recipe: Nourished by Caroline
Spiced Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Dairy, refined sugar, and gluten free gingerbread cake garnished with maple sweetened cranberry compote and maple whipped cream. Festive and colorful enough to impress everyone for all your holiday celebrations.Recipe: Fool Proof Living
Gluten Free Gingerbread Cake
Frostings
Learn how to make naturally sweetened cream cheese frosting with dates, not powdered sugar! It’s creamy and delicious, with a subtle caramel-like flavor.Recipe: Cookie and Kate
Date Sweetened Cream Cheese Frosting
Light and fluffy Healthy Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting made with yogurt and maple syrup. A low sugar option great on brownies and banana bread.Recipe: Hummusapien
Healthy Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting (sweetened with maple syrup)
This simple, protein-packed peanut butter Greek yogurt frosting is made with nut butter and naturally sweetened with maple syrup. It’s a great healthier frosting option to use on top of all your favorite treats.Recipe: Eating Bird Food
Peanut Butter Greek Yogurt Frosting (sweetened with maple syrup)
Smash Cakes for First Birthdays
This homemade healthy smash cake is the perfect treat for baby’s 1st birthday! It’s a delicious way to celebrate this milestone! Gluten-free. (sweetened with bananas and applesauce) Recipe: Haute and Healthy Living
Baby Smash Cake
Four 1st birthdays later and we still love this healthy smash cake recipe! This no sugar smash cake recipe is sweetened with bananas.Recipe: Fit Mama Real Food
Baby Smash Banana Cake
A healthy cupcake recipe for celebrating a child’s first birthday, this recipe is grain-free, dairy-free, oil-free, and nut-free! (sweetened with maple syrup and applesauce) Recipe: Detoxinista
First Birthday Applesauce Cupcakes
This healthy birthday cake is so fluffy, and you’d never know it’s made without white flour or sugar! Naturally sweetened with fruit, it’s gluten-free and grain-free. (sweetened with dates)Recipe: Detoxinista
Healthy Birthday Cake
Cheesecakes
Delicious honey cheesecake with rich, extra creamy and dense texture, gingernut biscuit crust and a topping of soured cream and salted honey. (sweetened with honey) Recipe: Anna Banana
Honey Cheesecake
No-Bake Strawberry Cheesecake! Made with fresh berries, cashew butter, dates, and an easy almond crust. Creamy, dreamy, and actually pretty healthy...for cake. (sweetened with dates) Recipe: Feasting on Fruit
No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake
Single Layer Cakes, Cupcakes and Loaf Pan Cakes
This Vegan Frosting is dairy-free and naturally-sweetened with dates. I love how it’s made without oil or powdered sugar, for a healthy frosting recipe! Recipe: Detoxinista
Vegan Frosting (sweetened with dates)
Chocolate frosting with a secret healthier ingredient: avocado! Vegan, oil-free, nut-free, naturally sweetened, and made without powdered sugar!Recipe: Minimalist Baker
Chocolate Avocado Frosting (sweetened with maple syrup)
You only need a few ingredients to make this easy, delicious honey cake -- so break out your cast iron skillet and get your oven preheated! (sweetened with honey) Recipe: Tasting Table
Simple Honey Cake
This Almond Flour Paleo Carrot Cake is gluten-free and refined-sugar free. Topped off with vegan cream cheese frosting, it is perfect for all your spring celebrations. (sweetened with coconut sugar) Recipe: Fool Proof Living
Almond Flour Paleo Carrot Cake
This flourless vegan chocolate cake is perfectly fudgy, fluffy and indulgent. It’s easy, gluten free, oil free and can be refined sugar free! (sweetened with applesauce and coconut sugar) Recipe: Rainbow Nourishments
Flourless Vegan Chocolate Cake
Fluffy light vegan vanilla chai cake that’s packed with flavour and warming chai spices. Best served with vanilla bean cream cheese frosting. (sweetened with maple syrup and applesauce) Recipe: Addicted to Dates
Vegan Chai Cake
This kladdkaka, also known as Swedish chocolate sticky cake, is amazingly gooey and delicious. This recipe includes a traditional (and whole wheat) option as well as a gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan version. (sweetened with coconut sugar) Recipe: Texan Erin Baking
Kladdkaka (Swedish Chocolate Sticky Cake)
This Almond Flour Lemon Cake is a light and fluffy flourless lemon cake recipe that can be served by itself or with whipped cream and berries on top. Gluten-free, grain-free and paleo & keto friendly (with minor ingredient swaps). (sweetened with maple syrup) Recipe: Fool Proof Living
Almond Flour Lemon Cake
These Almond Cupcakes are gluten-free & paleo-friendly. They’re soft & fluffy, flavored with almond extract, & topped with Yogurt Frosting. (sweetened with maple syrup) Recipe: Balance with Jess
Healthy Almond Cupcakes
This Healthy Banana Cake with Yogurt Frosting is perfectly fluffy! It’s healthier with almond flour & naturally sweetened with coconut sugar.Recipe: Balance with Jess
Healthy Banana Cake
This fruit-sweetened carrot cake loaf is incredibly moist and naturally sweetened with dates and applesauce. Have it for breakfast, snack or dessert! (sweetened with dates and applesauce) Recipe: Nourished by Caroline
Fruit-Sweetened Carrot Cake Loaf
Fluffy Coconut Sugar Cupcakes made with no refined sugar - these sweet, caramel-flavored cakes are topped with a Swiss meringue buttercream. Recipe: Sugared & Stirred
Coconut Sugar Cupcakes
This AIP Chocolate Cake is themed a skeleton cake for Halloween but good any time! Especially birthdays. This recipe fits the paleo & AIP Diets with Vegan and Whole30 options. (sweetened with bananas, applesauce and carob) Recipe: The Honest Spoonful
AIP Chocolate Cake
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Abby S says
I used this recipe to make a double layer 6” cake and it was delicious!! Love the flavor the coconut sugar gives! It was also so simple to make. I’ll definitely be making it again!