Special Diet Recipes

Oh bless your heart darling!

Where’s the nut-free love? 😉

PS – Peanut Butter Fudge Babies taste really good when made with soynut butter or peabutter. Yummy!

What a lovely thing to do 🙂

you are so sweet and thoughtful! thank you!

This is awesome! My best friend eats gluten-free, so I’ll have to make some of these yummy recipes for her 🙂

I’m on the most crazy elimination diet at the moment because of some illnesses and your website is a lifesaver! Being gluten, dairy, egg and sugar free is hard but not when you can have your amazing desserts! I often trick my family and friends that your desserts are “real” and they think they are better than the sugar laden foods.

I would love it if you could do a category with your single serving things, for us single ladies!

I found your blog today and wanted to say THANK YOU!!! It seriously made me cry! I am so excited to try out your recipes! I am allergic to so so so many things and am excited to try some of your recipes to get some sweetness back in my life! I occasionally cook with Almond flourm but now even that is starting to affect me so this is wonderful! THANK YOU!!!

A low carb category would be helpful too 🙂

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I LOVE your site. Now I don’t have to go on my detox diet without CHOCOLATE!!! =D I will definately be using this site more often. 😉
Your most grateful and admiring chocolate loving reader,
aMandalin

I am so happy right now – I can’t even explain it. My son is allergic to milk, eggs, wheat, and tree nuts. It is so hard to feed him and I have found SO many recipes and ideas off of your site. I am SO extremely grateful. I have been stuck on what to give him and feeling so bad on him missing out on so many foods. These recipes are a blessing to me! Thank you!

Well, Chocolate Covered Katie, YOU ROCK MY SOCKS! I am so thankful that I found your sight. I’m on a diet called Paleo, which is gluten free/sugar free/dairy free, and it is SO hard to find desert items that are fulfilling as well as delicious. I have a whole list of items from your blog here that I just can’t wait to try. Thanks again, and keep all these amazing recipes coming 🙂

I LOVE YOU WEBSITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can’t wait to make some of these!! Thank you!

This is the most exciting website I’ve ever seen. Wow. I’m a primal baking-lover! Thank you!!!

Do you have any low sodium/no sodium recipes you could share? I am on a low sodium diet because I have heart failure.
Thanks!
Kelly

I love your site – cant wait to try your recipes. I was wondering if the sun-maid dates have added sugar? THanks!!

YOU ARE MY HERO!!! <3

Could you add a dairy-free link? Just found your site and the recipes look great. Thank you!

Here’s a super challenge for you… Low-fat (under 7ish grams per serving) AND low-sugar (even agave, etc), due to severe medical restrictions. (Dairy-free and gluten-free are ideal, but seem to be impossible!) I am pretty decent in the kitchen, but this has pushed me to my limits. Would love any suggestions

For Eli: I read on some fancy-scmancy cooking site that you could cut back on the sugar in a recipe by increasing the vanilla (assuming it calls for vanilla) because the vanilla fools your tastebuds. They claimed as much as half of the sugar could be cut but you’d have to test it yourself. Also, I have been told that in a traditional recipe using sugar, it is actually counted as a liquid so if you try to cut too much of it, you will need to take that into consideration. And you need to understand the effects of alternate sweeteners too, just switching out refined sugar doesn’t make it a total freebie.

One of my flavor-enhancing tricks for cooking with chocolate is to add a tiny amount of almond extract, and I mean a tiny amount – unless you want it to have that ‘cherry’ flavor – for a 9 inch cheesecake, I add less than 1/4 of a teaspoon.

Thanks Katie and Renae! I have actually been using things like butter flavor (also in minute amounts), almond, cinnamon, etc – as well as things like mesquite flour, powdered espresso, etc. Great trick on the vanilla. I have been using some fancy vanilla paste as well so that the flavor profile is deeper. I am also experimenting with using stevia and agave – both in very small amounts to try to get a flavor that is not dominated by the taste of the stevia. I totally love the cookie dough recipe. Mesquite flour worked really well to add depth. I think that next time I might try including some ground cacao nibs and a bit of powder too.

Yay! Your blog is amazing and delicious 😀

I’m on a very restricted diet. No cane sugar, no honey, no agave, no maple sugar, plus a lot of other no’s. I’m using Stevia in the raw, since erythritol is on my list of no’s as well. All dairy products are out of the question for me as well. Coconut is also on my list of no items. I really, really, really, really want to try the Sugar-Free Chocolate Fudge recipe, but it calls for coconut butter. What else can I use in place of coconut butter? All dairy products are out of the question for me as well. I hope you will help me with this! Thanks so much!

Sarah – Can you use Earth Balance? (And I empathize with your restrictions – my best friend has many of the same restrictions and I know how hard it is).

Sarah, I did a quick search for sunflower shortening and found this: http://coasun.com/2009/10/29/coasunsa-made-with-nusun-mid-oleic-sunflower-oil/ Not sure where you can get it, but maybe contact the company and ask?

Hi, can you do a low-calorie category?

go back and re-categorize hundreds please.
lol jk.
okay, ty

Your site is going to save my life! Thank you so much! Like many others who have left comments, I am on a special diet for my health. I am so grateful to find something fun and yummy to make the no. no. no. diet not such a dreadful thing.

This is a wonderful site….my daughter has to have a dairy free diet, which is tough for a 6 year old. This site is great…thanks!!!! Cant wait to try out these recipes for her!!!

I was so excited to tell my mom about this :). I went sugar-free and am trying to avoid refined foods, which is what led me here–but my mom and stepdad have been avoiding gluten and dairy for a few years now, and not enjoying it all that much! I quietly made a few recipes, taste-testing the site, if you will. The deep dish cookie pie was the one that absolutely tipped the scales. I texted my mom immediately. Dairy, soy, egg AND gluten free, BUT IT TASTES JUST LIKE THE REAL THING. HOLY COOKIE HEAVEN, IT’S A MIRACLE!!!! And today, I gave a piece to my mother in law….she literally begged for the recipe!!!

Hey Katie – I thought you might be interested in this: http://bellplantation.com/ I used the powdered peanut butter in your cookie dough mix today, and it took the flavor to a whole different level.

You are amazing, Katie! My daughter is diabetic, so having those sugar-free recipes all in one spot comes in handy! In fact, I was just sitting here making out my grocery list for the week and realized I had 7 CCK tabs open at once! It all looks so good I want to try them ALL!

Bless you and the amazing things you do!

you had a sugar free cookie dough dip recipe i pinned off pinterest but alas the pin (https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2011/09/27/new-recipe-sugar-free-cookie-dough-dip/) is not there. would you be so kind as to share this recipe again. i am a diabetic and i do well having no sugar except when it comes to chocolate chip cookies. i miss them! thank you. and i cant wait to try out some of your other sugar free recipes!!!

We love the deep dish chocolate chip pie !!

We are not vegan, but to narrow food allergy possibilities for my 5yo we have to cut dairy out of my son’s diet, (this has been a difficult transition) HOWEVER, looking at your blog and some other vegan bloggers, I know it is within reach! I am learning what I can substitute where and have had great inspiration! Thank you!!!

I would like the breakfast cobbler recipe appreciate your blog. Keep up the good work.

Any low-carb recipes, or hcg friendly recipes?

You must know, you are killing me. I am stuck at work and will not have time to play in my kitchen until Sunday. I just found your website and I am now STARVING!!!! I have repinned so much stuff I think I’m going to overload pinterest. 🙂 Thanks so much for all this awesomeness!! I’M SO EXCITED!!!!

Just wanted to ask, is there is actually a dairy-free variety of chocolate chips out there? We eat anything, and have had a great time trying out some of your recipes! But I’m preparing to cook for some relatives this weekend with some very particular diet needs, and as I read labels in the grocery store tonight I couldn’t find any chocolate chips that were actually vegan. 🙁

Katie,

What an amazing collection you have here! I can’t wait to try several of the recipies I’ve come across today and to continue exploring deeper and deeper into your blog.

I’m wondering if you have a suggestion for replacing the banana in your recipies that have it listed. Like so many here they are out due to a food sentitivity and while I’ve used apple sauce when bananas are to be used as a wet ingredient – muffins, cookies, etc. – but I have never tried freezing the apple sauce or using it in things like your milk shakes or ice creams which are the recipies that have my mouth watering right now. I know it might change the flavor somewhat, but do you think it would work or does anyone have a better suggestion?

Katie,
I am not a vegan, but I just LOVE LOVE LOVE your recipes!!! I do have food allergies, though…I was wondering what you think of subbing almond butter for peanut butter? Is there any reason that wouldn’t work?
Thanks so much for sharing your creativeness 🙂

Jeanne

PS…I am fixin’ to go make your raw choc cake…can’t wait to try it!

I am a very old vegan who is enjoying your site. I use avacados instead of eggs and no dairy products. This lifestyle has enhanced my life in a big way. Have tried some of your recipes and am very impressed by your expertise.
Keep up the good work.
Russ

Katie,
Thank you so much for doing your blog. I’ve been trying to get my family healthier and you just made that a lot easier. My son is in the process of being diagnosed with ADHD-I and he loves your snacks and power balls. I cut out all sugar last year, and most processed foods, but my husband felt bad that I wouldn’t let our son have any treats b/c of the sugar. Within 10 minutes of eating sugar he is a wild-child! But, now when he gets home from school he’ll ask for one of your healthy snacks. I am a 2x survivor of breast cancer, so it is also vital for me to eat healthy too! You have made my life, and so many of your fans lives easier. thank you!
~Eileen

Why is all of your recipes egg and dairy free ? My personal opinion is that eggs are so healthy and protein packed and non fattening, so I think eggs is a wonderful ingredient and dairy can give that smooth creamy taste and adds calcium ? Where is the egg and dairy containing but still low carb recipes ? Please 🙂

If you are not a vegan feel free to have eggs and dairy. Dairy does not give you a thing as cows milk is for cows. Eggs are also an animal product .

Thank you, Katie! My family is on a restricted diet too (gluten-free/dairy free), and your site has lots of fun options I want to try! I am sure my family will enjoy taste testing the endless possibilites your blog has to offer! I have been wanting to try my hand at healthier dessert options. I love the thought of enjoying a nutritious, sweet treat! Thanks for doing all the hard work!

Katie your website is amazing!! My younger son has a dairy allergy, and so my family has gone dairy-free. I was very excited to see your Deep Dish Cookie Pie recipe, but…I’m allergic to apples! Do you have a suggestion for a substitute for the applesauce?

Have you thought about adding a “high-calorie” or “low-calorie” tag? I know there are many variants of your recipes, but some are definitely made for one or the other; it would be nice to see them sorted! 🙂

Hi Katie!

I LOVE your recipes. Thanks for the mint- chocolate popsicles; I agree with you about the spinach. Mint is kind of a thing for me. I’m wondering if you have a recipe for healthy-ish vegan mint nanaimo bars. I’m sorry if I’ve just missed it on your site.

Thanks for getting back to me Katie! I’ll keep my eyes open in case you attempt a chocolate mint coconut treat in the future. I crave the same “real chocolate” taste you do and like the hint of sweetness you achieve – you always get it right!

Hi Katie!

I found your site in a search for chocolate made with Stevia. I’ve recently been diagnosed with a yeast allergy and can not have sugar. Would love to have some sweets without the sugar and looks like I’ve found the right place. Thank you for the work you’re doing to help the world eat healthier…we could all use a little help! I can’t wait to try your recipes. Everything looks really yummy.

hi there! I stumbled across your website and I must admit, I am in LOVE! I recently decided to better my life and body by eating healthy and natural. however, I have the largest sweet tooth EVER, and refuse to give up sweets! I was searching for ages for low cal healthy desserts and you have fit all my criteria! perfection!!! I was wondering though, if you have any tips for no/low sodium baking? my mom is also a sweet nut like me, but she was diagnosed with stage 3 kidney failure, and now has to limit her sodium intake! thank you thank you thank you!

-a.

Hiiii! I know you get a lot of these posts, but seriously, I love you and your website sooooo much!!! I’m vegan + I love baking and cooking, but I’m someone who tends to eat way too much of everything way too easily. All of your recipes are so easy to make as well as being ridiculously healthy!!!!! THANK YOU!!! So far, I’ve only tried the Cake Batter Ice Cream (which blew my mind how creamy it could be and so low calorie! I used almond milk :P) and 5-minute Carrot Cake (which I topped with an easy recipe for peanut butter frosting I found recently- 1 T Peanut Butter per 1/2 T Maple syrup and 1/2 T flour- it went with it soooooooooooooooooooo well!!!!!). The low calorie just blows my mind. Thank you, so much. You need to be famous!! I’ll be trying the rest of your recipes soon, I hope!! (This means you, chocolate pancakes!!)

Do you have a good recipe for coconut milk ice cream? I know a little boy who has milk, peanut, egg and soy allergies. His mom is looking for some tasty snacks.

A nut free folder too?

I know I can’t shoot myself, so maybe you’re the savior! My husband of 52 years is diagnosed wheat, corn, dairy, eggs ,banana, soy, gluten–allergy. No wonder he feels badly! Help-how do you get me to cook this way? I know no recipes or anything.

Thank you thank you thank you!!! I truly cannot say it enough! You have saved my life. I have a child with several food allergies and have been working on going grain and sugar free for various other reasons. And I have a crazy sweet tooth. This is the first time in years I’ve seen many recipes I could make for us all! THANK YOU!!!

katie do you have any recipes for mango?

i love your blog but id love to see a healthy low cal version of one of these: lemon cake, cake pops (i know you dont like following trends but i really like came pops and think it would be awesome if you made a healthy version

Love your website! So happy to have found this! I am a sweet tooth junkie, who tries to stay healthy. Can’t wait to try these. I wish you had more protien powder desserts 😀 I’m trying to find desserts with added protien 🙂

Some of your recipes list the calories and some don’t. Do you have a list of the ones that list calories or that are low-cal? I’m on a diet and DYING for some sweets!

Thanks <3

Do you take requests? I’d love to make some gingersnaps for my dad, low-sugar or sugar-free if possible. Ideas? 🙂

You are such a doll Katie,I copied one of your recipes by hand ,I see no way to print these goodies.Do I do it by e-mail all the time to your address? Dumb question but I can’t see -print recipe -anywhere. Help please. You look real good with that perm!

The only suggestion I have- I love the new layout and organization- is one that would probably take a lot of work. When I click to go to special diet recipes and then I click “gluten-free” all the results that come up aren’t in any order. If there would be any way to categorize them so that I could click on “Gluten-Free” and not have to sift through a huge long list of items to see what 2-3 cookie (or pie, or whatever) recipes I wanted to choose from, that would be SO AMAZING. Other than that, I have no suggestions- it looks great. I appreciate your dedication to the site as well and the recipes are SO DELICIOUS and made with practical ingredients that I would still visit it even if there were no organization AT ALL. It would just take a ridiculous amount of time, lol. Thanks for all your hard work! Looking forward to your cookbook!

Hi Katie, I lovee your recipes and I look forward to seeing all new ones!
I remember in one post you mentioned any suggestions for cultural diverse foods? May I suggest some healthier versions of Asian mochi? They are really yummy! or mochi ice cream haha!

thank you SO much for all of these recipes. I am seriously obsessed with you! We have such similar tastes (I ONLY like sweet things if there is chocolate in them, and that too I usually prefer chocolate that is 70 to 100% – more of a texture gal myself). On top of that, I’ve been allergic/intolerant to all nuts, seeds, grains, dairy, egg, and refined sugars including brown sugar since birth. This blog makes my day every time I see it, and I’ve been making a recipe every day since my doctor told me to gain weight 🙂 not a problem with your chocolate filled recipes! Anyway, thanks a bunch and keep the choco-filled goodies coming!

Hi, Katie! I was wondering if you could create a tag for low-calorie recipes.
Thanks, I love your recipes and so does my non-veggie bf!

That is actually a link on the main recipe page. Just look for the mac-and-cheese thumbnail :).https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/recipes/

Hi Katie! Any chance you will do a paleo category in the future? (Grain free)

I ate one of your recipe at someones house. First I was surprised I could even eat it then i was shocked that it tasted good! I was hoping you could add to your Special Diet Recipes list nut free.
thanks

Thanks for this breakout!! Made it easier for me to see the soy-free things!! Trying to make yummies for my 6 year old who is soy intolerant. He won’t eat meat and won’t eat beans on their own, or peanut butter, or anything that has protein! (eek!) so your recipes (like white bean blondies) are perfect!!

can you make a lactose free recipe tab for those of us who are sensitive to lactose.

Could you make a low-fat/fat-free category too? Thank you!

HELP! I can have NO dairy! NO soy (of any kind)! And I must curb by carbohydrates and sugars (pre-diabetic). I have a sweet tooth and am currently craving a home-made peanut butter cup bar. You know the ones made with a crushed pretzel crust and topped with melted chocolate. But that’s just today. Do you have recipes that will cover all my “needs” NO dairy, soy, carbs or sugars?!?!?!

Here is Katie’s soy free link:
https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/tag/soy-free/

And her sugar free link:
https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/tag/sugar-free/

Hello,
I would appreciate any help regarding searching for recipes. [I use the search bar all the time, so I know how to use that.]
I am trying to search for recipes using “coconut flour”. I have typed the following into the search bar:
coconut flour
coconut + flour
coconut +flour
etc. etc…. I end up with 21 pages of recipes that have the words “coconut” and/or “flour” in them–which, of course, is not helpful… =) Any advice as to what I am doing incorrectly would be appreciated! Thank you in advance!

That’s a really great idea! The only suggestion I have would be the addition of “fructose-free/low fructose” and possibly the same for histamine, provided you are familiar with those. Sugar-free recipes can be a good start, but often contain either honey, agave/maple syrup or the like, (sugared!) chocolate or fruit, which is largely unsuitable. I myself am a fructose-malabsorber and often find it surprising that although fructose-malabsorption (FM) is much more common than gluten-sensitivity or lactose-intolerance there is close to no market catering to it. I see lots of lactose- and gluten-free stuff on the shelves and tons of corresponding recipes, but (practically) nothing for FM (and then if I happen to find a rare chocolate with glucose it’s 4x or more the price of ordinary chocolate…)

Is there any possibility that you could add a “grain-free” recipe filter?
I’ve been using your website to cling on to the last few shreds of “normal” baked goods that I have available, since I started having health issues about a year ago…. (I’m only 26!!! I still require chocolate to function on a regular basis!!!)
Thank you BTW, you’ve made eating gluten free and vegan a viable option for me! Upon doing a further review of my health issues tho, I’m having the suspicion that I may have to go GRAIN free…. (Aramath, quinoa, and buckwheat are apparently not grains.. So there is still hope!)
Thanks again for paving the way for the rest of us who at one time thought vegan meant no chocolate! I’m very VERY pleased to be wrong about that!!!

Hey Katie!

I was wondering what recipes are good for nickel allergies? If you could help out that would be great!

Thanks!

Ashley

Why can’t I search for a recipe (Healthy Graham Cracker Crust) ??? I don’t see how to find it without googling it.

I’m so glad that the paleo diet is starting to become more mainstream and indeed accepted.

Personally, I think the Paleo diet is great. I am seeing and feeling the benefits of the diet for a long time now. Not only have I lost weight, but I feel much more energized, and much better in myself. I think the reason is that whilst the paleo diet may be a diet, I do actually eat much much varied food than I did previously. All I’ve done is taken out the stodge that my body finds hard to digest, and added more types of fruit, veg, and indeed meat.

I’ve now actually taken an interest in cooking paleo meals, which I can guarantee is 100% better than throwing some ready meals in the oven like I used to.

Could you put a link for the special diet recipes on the main recipe page where you have lunch & dinner recipes and healthy dessert recipes? It is a pain to get to now and some people may not know that you have them sorted this way. Thank you for your great recipes.

*very nice post, i certainly love this website, keep on it

My sister is allergic to basically everything…which is why finding your site is awesome! However, she’s also allergic to yeast and shouldn’t have baking powder/soda either….Can I just eliminate that from any recipe? It’ll roughly taste the same, but won’t rise??