Ideas for healthier sweet snacks

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DD has ASD and has had a fairly limited diet. She's now 11 and is starting to try new things, but a lifetime of processed food is sort of ingrained in her. I think Ive got savoury food covered, but she has a sweet tooth so I'd love some ideas of healthy alternatives that taste just as good as processed rubbish.

Examples I already do are apple crumble, flapjacks, and yoghurt with strawberry coulis (all with maple syrup instead of sugar), but she still loves chocolate and sweets. I'm not sure if there is such a thing as a homemade haribo recipe?!

I snack on apple slices coated in peanut butter if that appeals?

Dates and peanut butter or a brazil nut with a chocolate button?

Banana ice cream. Slice bananas and put in freezer 30+ minutes. Remove and blitz in a blender. Makes a 'creamy' whip and lush in hot weather.

Dried fruits are a bit like sweets, pears, strawberries. The store ones have chemicals but you could try make them yourself in at low temp eg 50C or buy a food drier. The dried pears have that nice chewy texture sweets have

After getting rid of processed foods, everything tastes better anyway. Strawberry ice cream (frozen strawberries, cream, sugar in mixer) tastes amazing

A really good satsuma tastes like Haribo imo (the M&S ones are good or the Co-op deluxe range).

There are loads of recipes for banana bread and bars involving oats/peanut butter/chocolate on Insta.

Dried fruit is very sweet like particularly strawberries (these are like Haribo) and mango. Also the YoYo bears/fruit sweets aimed at toddlers are very like sweets but made from fruit. They're not super healthy but better than sweets.

Chocolate and avocado mousse https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/chocolate-and-avocado-mousse.html This is dangerously addictive and you’d never know it has avocado in.

Coconut and blueberry ice lollies https://moorlandseater.com/coconut-blueberry-lime-lollies/ Only 4 ingredients and so quick.

Thanks all, some great suggestions.

Is she old enough to help in the kitchen? Being involved making the food can be a good step, plus you can build in timetabling and a level of restriction, if you bake twice a week and then that is all there is for the week.
Also look at switching out maple syrup for allulose, it is a plant based sweetener that has a low impact on blood sugar.

What about fruit? There is endless variety so if one thing is a no go, you try something totally different. Our main sweet snack is fruit. I go through mountains of it in a week and it’s very portable for taking with you.

Making a smoothie with different frozen fruits with a bit of apple juice is really, really sweet! And feels like a treat!