If you look forward to eating dessert after your meal, you’re not alone. Whether you have an uncontrollable sweet tooth or you’re craving a specific sweet, there are plenty of options for dessert out there.
However, before you dive into a slice of cake or a donut, consider the amount of calories and sugar in some of the most unhealthy desserts.
Most people don’t eat dessert to try and stay healthy, but you might not know just how unhealthy some of the most popular desserts really are.
Here are some of the most unhealthy desserts as well as some healthy alternatives you can try at home. (Click here to read about 19 milkshakes that have more calories than entire meals.)
1. Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Calories per cookie: ~100
- Ingredients include sugar, flour, butter and chocolate chips
- Hard to eat just one!
2. Tiramisu
- Popular Italian treat
- Made with whipped cream, mascarpone, and espresso-soaked ladyfingers
- Calories per serving: 400
- Fat: 17 g
- Sugar: 14 g
3. Pecan Pie
- 400-600 calories per slice
- 29-50 g of sugar
- One of the most unhealthy types of pies
- Typical ingredients include pecans, sugar and corn syrup
4. Brownie Sundae
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- Chocolate brownie topped with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream and chocolate syrup
- Averages 900 calories
- 54 g of fat
- 84 g of sugar
5. Banana Split
- Most common recipe includes strawberry, chocolate and vanilla ice cream
- Topped with chocolate and strawberry syrup, maraschino cherries, nuts and whipped cream
- Averages nearly 1,000 calories
- 16 g of fat
- 71 g of sugar
6. Chocolate Lava Cake
Delicious molten chocolate lava cake with vanilla ice cream on table with coffee and second dessert in background
- Moist cake on the outside, warm fudge on the inside
- Molten cake at Chili’s has 1,180 calories
- 62 g of fat
- 100 g of sugar
7. Cheesecake
- Main ingredient is cream cheese
- Additional ingredients include sugar and other various fillings depending on flavor (strawberry, etc.)
- Nutritional values depend on flavor
- Cheesecake Factory’s Chocolate Caramelicious Cheesecake Made with Snickers has 1,370 calories and 96 g of sugar
8. Carrot Cake
- While it has carrots included, it also has tons of sugar and typically a cream cheese frosting
- More unhealthy than cheesecake
- Average slice of carrot cake has nearly 2,000 calories
9. Milkshake
- Milkshakes typically include ice cream, milk and chocolate syrup
- Sonic’s Peanut Butter Fudge Shake has 1,940 calories
- Nearly a day’s worth of calories for the average female