With these animal-based dessert recipes, you will be able to eat a variety of whole, nutrient-dense foods without sacrificing taste or pleasure.
Maybe you just transitioned to an animal-based diet and lifestyle, but find yourself missing your favorite sweets – things like cookies, doughnuts, muffins, truffles, waffles, and pancakes. If this sounds like you, you’re in the right place!
In this post, you will find 11 animal-based dessert recipes for things like – you guessed it – cookies, doughnuts, muffins, truffles, waffles, and pancakes. All of these meat-based recipes use animal-based ingredients, like beef, pork, chicken, uncured meats, organ meats, animal fats, plus some low toxicity fruits and vegetables.
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Animal-Based Dessert Recipes: Cookies
Who doesn’t love a good chocolate chip cookie?
Animal-Based Chocolate Chip Cookies
These chocolate chip cookies are a simple spin on the classic, using only fruit, unsweetened chocolate, and animal foods like pork and ghee.
Ingredients:
- Pork rinds
- Eggs (ASHLEY20 for 20% off)
- Unsweetened chocolate
- Pitted dates
- Grass-fed ghee (or butter)
- Sea salt (ASHLEYR for 15% off)
- Vanilla extract (optional)
- Cinnamon (optional)
Get the recipe here.
Animal-Based Dessert Recipes: Waffles & Pancakes
This section will help you incorporate more liver and organ meats into your diet, but in an unconventional way – with waffles and pancakes!
Banana Chicken Waffles with Honey Drizzle
Ingredients:
- Ground chicken
- Eggs (ASHLEY20 for 20% off)
- Bananas
- Grass-fed ghee (or butter)
- Manuka honey (ASHLEYR for 10% off)
- Sea salt (ASHLEYR for 15% off)
Get the recipe here.
Jumbo Banana Beef Liver Pancakes with Fried Bananas, Bacon, and Whipped Cream Drizzle
The most nutrient-dense pancakes you will ever eat, with a drizzle of fresh whipped cream, fried bananas, and crispy pieces of bacon.
Ingredients:
- Raw beef liver
- Bacon
- Heavy cream (ASHLEY20 for 20% off)
- Eggs (ASHLEY20 for 20% off)
- Bananas
- Manuka honey (ASHLEYR for 10% off)
- Grass-fed ghee (or butter)
- Sea salt (ASHLEYR for 15% off)
Get the recipe here.
Beef Liver Pancakes with Strawberry Glaze
The most nutrient-dense pancakes you will ever eat – with a lightly sweet, mostly tart, somewhat tangy kick!
Ingredients:
For the Beef Liver Pancakes:
- Raw beef liver
- Eggs (ASHLEY20 for 20% off)
- Grass-fed ghee (or butter)
- Sea salt (ASHLEYR for 15% off)
- Manuka honey (optional)
For the Strawberry Glaze:
- Fresh strawberries
- Fresh lemon juice
Get the recipe here.
Blueberry Beef Liver Waffles with Honey Butter
The most nutrient-dense waffles you will ever eat! With a hint of sweetness from the blueberries and the Honey Butter, this is a decadent treat or snack.
Ingredients:
- Raw beef liver
- Eggs (ASHLEY20 for 20% off)
- Blueberries
- Grass-fed ghee (or butter)
- Sea salt (ASHLEYR for 15% off)
Get the recipe here.
Animal-Based Dessert Recipes: Muffins, Doughnuts & Pastries
If you have a sweet tooth and are craving a pastry, these sweet treats house lots of fat and protein to help you stay satiated longer.
Maple Bacon Doughnuts
These doughnuts have a light and airy texture with a hint of sweetness from the date glaze and a salty kick from the bacon.
Ingredients:
- Eggs (ASHLEY20 for 20% off)
- Grass-fed ghee (or butter)
- Sea salt (ASHLEYR for 15% off)
- Pitted dates
- Grass-fed ghee (or butter)
- Bacon
Get the recipe here.
Flourless Lemon Blueberry Muffins
Bakery-style but without the flour, these muffins are sweet, moist, and melt in your mouth, with a lemon-blueberry combo that is tangy and sweet.
Ingredients:
- Unsweetened applesauce
- Eggs (ASHLEY20 for 20% off)
- Grass-fed ghee (or butter)
- Pitted dates
- Lemon (juice and zest)
- Blueberries
- Sea salt (ASHLEYR for 15% off)
Get the recipe here.
Spongey Cake Bars
Ingredients:
- Eggs (ASHLEY20 for 20% off)
- Pitted dates
- Pork rinds
- Grass-fed ghee (or butter)
- Sea salt (ASHLEYR for 15% off)
- Water
Get the recipe here.
Animal-Based Dessert Recipes: Chocolate
Chocolate is not technically animal-based, but if you tolerate chocolate and do fine with it, this section is for you!
Crunch Bars [with Beef]
A healthier, animal-based version of the classic CRUNCH candy bar.
Ingredients:
- Unsweetened chocolate
- Ground beef
- Grass-fed ghee (or butter)
- Manuka honey (ASHLEYR for 10% off)
- Sea salt (ASHLEYR for 15% off)
Get the recipe here.
Jumbo Chocolate Cups with Salted Chunky Date Filling
Made with just five ingredients, these chocolate cups are lightly sweetened with Manuka honey and are filled with a salted, chunky ghee-date paste.
Ingredients:
- Unsweetened chocolate
- Pitted dates
- Grass-fed ghee (or butter)
- Manuka honey (ASHLEYR for 10% off)
- Sea salt (ASHLEYR for 15% off)
- Coarse Celtic sea salt (optional)
Get the recipe here.
Strawberry Truffles
A simple spin on the classic strawberry truffle using only fruit, unsweetened chocolate, and animal fat.
Ingredients:
- Unsweetened chocolate
- Strawberry powder
- Pitted dates
- Grass-fed ghee (or butter)
- Sea salt (ASHLEYR for 15% off)
- Coarse Celtic sea salt (optional)
- Manuka honey (ASHLEYR for 10% off) (optional)
Get the recipe here.
Ashley Rothstein develops tasty, whole food, animal-based recipes that include a moderate amount of “minimally toxic” plant foods. To fix her own health issues, she bounced around between the carnivore, keto, and paleo diets for a few years. After experiencing and studying each diet philosophy, she learned she feels her best by merging the three and following an animal-based diet. As a glut at heart, she likes to channel her creativity and create meals that are healthy but also satisfy her inner gluttonous spirits.
I’ve been animal based for a short while and the simplicity of this diet was worth how amazing I’m feeling but looking at your recipes has got me extremely excited, I never thought I’d get this excited about food again unless I had a “cheat” meal thank you so much
Author
Woohoo! Sure thing. 🙂
My first time doing animal based diet and I was so nervous because I do have a sweet tooth. Seeing these recipes has me inspired! Is vanilla extract ok on AB diet?
Author
I have not found a clear answer to this, however I have heard that Paul uses vanilla in his Carnivore Code Cookbook, so I assume so. I do occasionally use non-animal-based-approved foods in my recipes (i.e. chocolate). Those foods make up a very small percentage of the foods I use (maybe less than 5%?) however, and my readers just leave out whatever they don’t tolerate well.