No other cake seems as festive and fattening as a slice of red velvet cake. Dense and moist red cake topped with sweet and tangy white icing, Red Velvet Cake embodies what a ‘guilty pleasure’ is. If you want to enjoy this dessert without worrying your fitness goals, try this low-sugar, high-protein recipe instead.

This Red Velvet Cake recipe makes use of coconut and buckwheat flour for the cake base. Naturally sweetened with beets and liquid stevia, a cake recipe couldn’t get any healthier than this. The icing is also modified by using Greek yogurt and ricotta instead of the traditional cream cheese and white chocolate.