100 Calorie Snacks and Treats

This is a great make-ahead dessert for a cocktail buffet, weekend brunch, or spring luncheon. Use different flavors of curd and arrange these cute tarts on a platter for a colorful and fun treat.

Very Berry Tarts Recipe

Create party-worthy canapes with salmon and savory horseradish cream. They're great as appetizers and even as a snack.

Salmon Canapes With Horseradish Cream Recipe

Fresh goat cheese, deeply flavorful Blenheim apricots (tangier and sweeter than Turkish apricots) and stubby, rich Marcona almonds are worth using here, because in a recipe this simple, the flavors are really noticeable.
Apricots with Basil-Goat Cheese and Almonds Recipe

These cookies feature the flavors of brown sugar, oats, walnuts, and bittersweet chocolate. Can you believe there's less than 100 calories in one cookie? We can't either.

Chocolate Chunk and Walnut Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

Why bake your own crackers? One reason might be to blow the socks off your guests. Another would be to know what a fresh-baked cracker tastes like: flavorful and floury, with bright sparks of salt and flecks of fresh black pepper throughout.
Salt-and-Pepper Crackers Recipe

Chocolate and peanut butter—possibly the world's best flavor marriage—unite and delight in this sweet truffle recipe.
Peanut Butter Truffles Recipe

Apples and cream cheese are rolled up with cinnamon and nutmeg in flakey phyllo dough to make one cute treat. Swap out the fruit for your favorite and enjoy these hand-held strudels.

Apple and Cream Cheese Roll-Ups Recipe

These delicately textured shortbreads have a subtle orange flavor. They're wonderful served with a cup of tea or packed in a lunch.
Blueberry Shortbread Bites Recipe

This recipe makes 3 crêpes to be shared by 6 people. The recipe calls for low fat chocolate ice cream, but feel free to switch it up with your favorites.

Ice-cream Crêpes Recipe

These tasty appetizers are made on whole wheat baguette and are topped with a mixture of crab, soy sauce, green onions, sriracha, and sesame seeds.

Crab Toast with Carrot and Scallion Recipe

Myth-Buster Recipe. Given that both chocolate and coconut are not as bad as once thought, and given that they taste mighty good together, we baked up a batch of these toasty, chocolaty cookies to celebrate. Like all sweets with few other nutrients, though, they are treats—perfectly healthy every once in a while.
Coconut Chocolate Cookies Recipe

Brushetta with Minted Pea Puree starts with crispy slices of French baguette and are topped with a pea puree that includes mint, cream cheese, and Parmesan cheese.

Bruschetta with Minted Pea Puree Recipe

These confections, called rollos de anís in Spanish, are often washed down with small glasses of Alicante Muscat or another sweet white wine.
Anise-Flavored "Doughnuts" Recipe

These little treats are flavored with anisette liqueur and have just under 100 calorie per "doughnut." They don't require a doughnut pan, so you can bake them right on a baking sheet.

Caramelized Onion Dip Recipe

These little cakes only have 33 calories each! They may be "wedding cakes," but they make a great snack in the afternoons with a cup of coffee.

Florentine Wedding Cakes Recipe

These Vegetable Fritatta Squares are packed with broccoli, zucchini, squash, spinach, peas, and corn. To create a non-vegetarian version of these little snacks, add in some ham, bacon, or your favorite meats.

Vegetable Frittata Squares Recipe

Grilled red onion sets the flavor for Charred Red Onion Dip, which pairs well with crispy, baked sweet potato chips. This dip is made with a combination of yogurt and sour cream and is spiced with a little bit of red pepper.

Charred Red Onion Dip Recipe

These eggless cookies are full of small bits of homemade caramel. Because there are only 50 calories in one cookie, these cookies make the perfect treat or midnight snack.

Caramelized-Sugar Cookies Recipe

These Antipasto Skewers are the perfect party appetizer and the flavors really come together in this Italian-inspired finger food.
Antipasto Skewers Recipe

These Scandinavian treats can be purchased where Scandinavian bakeware is sold, but why not take a stab at this homemade version? These cookies are made with ground almonds and can be filled with your favorite flavor of jam.

Sandbakelser (Sand Tarts) Recipe

We can't decide which we like better, the sweet cookies or the salty glaze. Thankfully, we don't have to choose, and neither do you.

Molasses Cookies with Peanut-Butter Glaze Recipe

These chickpeas are great as a snack. They're a little spicy and have a whole lot of crunch. You won't be able to stop munching on them!

Cumin-Spiced Chickpeas Recipe

Skewer your favorite fruits, such as grapes, pineapple, melons, and strawberries. Then dip them in honey Greek yogurt sauce for a refreshing treat.

Fruit Kebabs with Honey-Yogurt Dipping Sauce Recipe

Donna Knopf, owner of Vegetas in Tempe, Arizona, blends soybeans with mint for a delicious and healthy topper for toasts. Ejoy this Soybean-Mint Crostini as a snack or appetizer.

Soybean-Mint Crostini Recipe

With a buttery shortbread-like texture, these almond-flavored cookies are guaranteed to be family favorites. Let kids help by "painting" glaze on the dough and putting almond "eyes" in the cookie's center.
Chinese Almond Cookies Recipe

If you love gummy candies, try this version you can make at home! To ensure that the colors are bright, we've used store-bought, pasteurized juice instead of fresh-squeezed.

Fruit Jellies Recipe

Offer a healthy side dish option at your next cookout by serving thin slices of summer squash instead of chips. Serve these fresh veggie "chips" with your favorite dip.

 

 
Fresh Squash Chips Recipe

At only 88 calories, have one of these guiltless morsels, or two. Store up to one week in an airtight container--if they last that long. We suggest keeping a dozen in the freezer for emergencies.

Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

These Creamy Avocado Cups feature avocado, lime jiuce, yogurt and cilantro all atop endive leaves.

Creamy Avocado Cups Recipe

How often do you go to a child's party where they offer up sugary juice box after juice box? This agua fresca is still yummy and sweet, but has a lot less sugar. Plus, you can control the amount of juice kids are having by pouring servings in 4-ounce cups. The strawberries are so delicious in this drink, but watermelon and pineapple are also good stand-ins. For a real happy hour, stir in some rum for an adult cocktail.
Strawberry-Lime Agua Fresca Recipe