Say hello to 41 healthy vegan desserts filled with hidden veggies, energizing nutrition and decadent flavors to help you feel energized, happy and healthy. Delicious for anyone who wants to eat healthier desserts.
41 Healthy Vegan Desserts Everyone Will Love
Healthy vegan desserts are sometimes met as a happy surprise when people turns vegan. The premise going in is that just as vegans only eat "salad", they only eat "fruits" for dessert.
Well it's wrong about salad and it's wrong about fruit.
My vegan desserts are especially fun for everyone, not just vegans and that's because of two reasons.
1. Many of my desserts are made with 2-3 ingredients. Not all but many.
2. My vegan dessert recipes are almost free of processed ingredients and heavily hide veggies in place of all those dairy and oil needs to boost nutritional levels of these desserts sky high, much healthier than traditional versions.
For those reason, I think everyone will love my healthy vegan desserts. I hope you love my recipes!
Brownies & Bars
Cauliflower Fudge Brownie Recipe
A fudge brownie recipe with cauliflower, an unexpected yet powerfully nutritious ingredient. A one bowl brownie recipe full of antioxidants, vitamins, fiber and even detox essentials thanks to the hidden veggies.
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Edible Brownie Batter
This healthy edible brownie batter is a rich chocolate delight to eat, full of protein and fiber, and is perfectly safe to eat as a nutritious dessert!
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Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars
Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars are soft, festive and free of eggs, butter, and refined flour. Vegan, gluten-free and easier than sugar cookies.
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Vegan Marzipan Recipe + Chocolate Cups (5-ingredient almond paste)
This homemade marzipan recipe is only 5 ingredients. Also called almond paste, it is dairy-free, gluten-free and has a lot less sugar than the traditional recipe. Homemade marzipan is so easy to make, and here I stuffed it into dark chocolate cups. The recipe is perfect to give as a dessert or holiday gift. And so high in protein and fiber that it serves as a respectful workout snack.
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Sweet Potato Brownies
Chocolate sweet potato brownies, high in protein and fiber, and free of dairy and gluten. Very fudgy, refined-sugar-free and full of a nutritious hidden veggie! No bake or bake, your choice! And a no nuts option!
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Chocolate Coconut Caramel Bars
The BEST EVER easy chocolate coconut caramel bars, no-bake with three interesting, melt-in-your-mouth layers and all wholesome unprocessed ingredients. Need to make them fast? Pre-game dessert? Dinner party tonight? I hear you! Just boil the cashews, dates and buckwheat for 10 minutes instead of soaking overnight, or replace buckwheat with walnuts if you don't see it in your bulk food section.
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Cakes & Cupcakes
Dairy Free Chocolate Cake
This delicious dairy free chocolate cake is made with sweet potato or pumpkin puree instead of eggs and oil. It is easy to make, super moist, and perfect for a 2 or 3-layer cake for a holiday or birthday cake. Vegan, gluten-free, oil-free, egg-free and delicious.
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Chocolate Mousse Cake
This chocolate mousse cake is vegan, dairy-free, easy to make and healthier than the traditional mousse cake. This easy recipe creates an elegant dessert, full of anti-oxidants, iron, magnesium, calcium. The perfect dessert for all holidays, and dinner desserts.
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2-Ingredient Chocolate Frosting With Sweet Potatoes
This 2-ingredient chocolate frosting with sweet potatoes is a delicious hidden-veggie recipe, super easy, high in fiber, vitamin A. Vegan, gluten-free, refined-sugar-free and delicious. No one will ever taste the sweet potatoes. Here the frosting is on my dairy free chocolate cupcakes.
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Healthy Cranberry Orange Muffins
Fluffy bakery-style cranberry orange muffins are healthier, dairy-free, vegan, and high in protein and fiber. They also have a sugar crumb crust that take this muffin into dessert sphere.
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Baked Apple Cider Donuts
These healthy baked apple cider donuts have only 6 main ingredients, including sweet potato. No eggs, no oil, no dairy. Light, fluffy and loaded with apple cider flavor! The zippy flavor makes them more like fried. They are healthier, baked and rolled in cinnamon sugar, making for the perfect cozy fall dessert!
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Chocolate Frosted Donuts (+ video)
Healthy chocolate frosted donuts are easy to make and use 6 healthy main ingredients, including a hidden veggie, and no eggs, no oil, vegan, gluten-free and dairy-free. Plus a luscious 2-ingredient chocolate frosting, made from just chocolate chips and dairy-free milk. Makes 6 fat donuts or 12 skinny donuts or 9 muffins.
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Fluffy Vanilla Vegan Cake
A fluffy vanilla vegan cake that is light and delicious, and easy to make using aquafaba as eggs, and with a strong sweet vanilla flavor. Only 7 ingredients and one bowl. Dairy-free, and gluten-free option. Need a frosting? I used my healthier fluffy white frosting recipe.
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Funfetti Baked Birthday Donuts
Funfetti baked birthday donuts, healthier vegan donuts with a light tasty icing that showcases funfetti sprinkles beautifully. A fast, easy recipe, gluten-free, dairy-free and with a keto option.
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Healthy Pumpkin Cake Recipe + Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting
This healthy pumpkin cake recipe is full of nutrition and flavor, with an over-abundance of fresh pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spices. The treat is also vegan, dairy-free and gluten-free using a flaxseed egg and a gluten-free baking flour. The frosting is vegan and dairy-free, yet has a distinct "cream cheese" flavor thanks to a secret ingredient.
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Chocolate Desserts & Snacks
Vanilla Cream Chocolate Truffle
Chocolate truffles without heavy cream, dairy-free, vegan and gluten-free. A snappy chocolate shell filled with a light chilled vanilla cream center. An easy, healthy dessert, dairy-free and vegan. Try these cups as an afternoon energy jumpstart. Makes 6 cupcake-sized truffles or 12 mini cupcake cake sized.
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Blueberry Chocolate Cashew Clusters
A dark chocolate treat with anti-oxidant blueberries and high-protein cashews in a mood-boosting chocolate coat. Easy healthy chocolate treat ready in 30 minutes!
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Chocolate Homemade Crunch Bars (3-ingredients, dairy-free, vegan)
The chocolate is soft and the crunch is delicious contrast. PLUS the ingredients will boost your mood and energy. This recipe fills 6-inch square container, and makes 18 (2-inch) squares.
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Healthy Homemade Magic Shell
A healthy magic shell recipe that uses any oil for a snappy chocolate shell for ice cream, popsicles or even cupcakes. Only 2 ingredients!
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Chocolate Hazelnut Cake
My chocolate hazelnut cake has rich nutella flavor and chocolate tones from beets! This cakey but moist cake recipe is easy and flexible, perfect for a simple single layer cake, or cupcakes, or a fancy cacao dusted dessert cake. Made in one bowl, this recipe is dairy-free, vegan and gluten-free.
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Pink Vegan Cheesecake Recipe
Pink vegan cheese cake recipe made creamy with cashews, and pink by fresh beet juice. Add in lemon for extra zing. Dairy free, easy to make, gluten free and delicious anytime, but especially for holidays such as Valentine's Day and Mother's Day. And easy to slice really, just heat the knife!
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Healthy Filled Chocolates Recipe
The easiest healthy filled chocolates recipe uses only four ingredients to create a delicious chocolate candy with a healthy fudgy filling. Perfect for Easter, Mother's Day, Christmas, Valentine's Day and even as a delicious candy birthday gift.
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Healthy 2-ingredient Butternut Squash Fudge
This healthy 2-ingredient butternut squash fudge is delicious and nutritious thanks to the butternut squash and mood-boosting quality chocolate. The treat is full of vitamin A and C, fiber and magnesium among other nutrients. Use a canned butternut squash puree or roast and blend up fresh butternut squash. Also the squash can be swapped for pumpkin or sweet potato - although you'll have to change the name.
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Homemade Protein Bars on a Stick
Homemade Protein Bars on a Stick are easy to make, just 3 ingredients, and chocolate! High in protein, mood-boosting magnesium and other nutrients. A candy bar that is good for you! Vegan and gluten-free!
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Date Free Protein Balls
Two ultimate protein balls that don't have dates. Instead they use oats and chickpeas which provide tons of protein and fiber. I love dates but sometimes we can't find them, and they are hard on the blender, so alternative ingredients are sometimes useful!
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Chocolate Bar Recipe with Sprinkles
This chocolate bar recipe uses only four main ingredients and is full of high immunity antioxidants, as well as mood-boosting and anxiety-lowering powers. Plus it is so easy to add in your favorite add-ins. The resulting bar is gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan and the recipe even has a keto option.
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Cookies, Pies & Tarts
Healthy Easy Chocolate Cream Pie
A healthy easy chocolate cream pie, unusually high in protein and full of a creamy nutritious chocolate filling that includes nut or seed butter. No tofu! An easy healthy chocolate pie that will make you and your loved ones feel great. Vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free.
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Salted Chocolate Tart Recipe
A chocolate tart recipe with a shortbread crust that melts in your mouth, and a fudgy filling that takes two main ingredients and two minutes! Dairy-free, gluten-free and vegan.
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Flourless Brownie Cookies (egg-free, oil-free)
Brownie cookies, flourless, yet chewy and fudgy, like a brownie! Yet NO eggs and NO flour and NO oil, and only one bowl needed, and small batch recipe! And easy to mix in one quick bowl! Also called Flourless Chocolate Cookies, Crinkle Cookies, or Mudslide Cookies. Say hello to your new favorite easy vegan brownie cookie. Small batch, makes 3 huge cookies.
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2-Ingredient Healthy Sugar Cookies
Delicious 2-ingredient healthy sugar cookies that are high in protein. Incredible? It's true! And the recipe is fail-proof. All you need is almond flour and maple syrup! And your imagination for toppings. Vegan, gluten-free and even a nut-free option.
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Healthy Cookie Dough Fudge
A healthy protein-rich cookie dough fudge recipe with white beans! SO easy to make, dairy-free and a delicious a slow burning energizing snack. Dairy-free, gluten-free and mixed up quickly with just 5 main ingredients.
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Cups
Simple peanut butter cups, made in minutes, high in protein, vegan, dairy-free and gluten-free, and full of healthy ingredients.
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Vegan Lemon Bars
Fresh vegan lemon bars both tangy and creamy, and made protein-rich, an easy way to a fresh citrus dessert. A vegan, dairy-free and gluten-free cheesecake.
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Cinnamon Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
A delicious cinnamon vegan chocolate chip cookie recipe made in one bowl with familiar ingredients, and a gluten-free option. The secret ingredient sets this recipe apart! Whether vegan or not, this easy recipe will become a favorite!
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Hermit Cookie Recipe
Hermit Cookie Recipe. A soft spicy hand-cake cookie that is the perfect holiday gift as well as a treat for your dessert table. This soft chewy gingerbread cookie is dairy-free, and bursting with spicy flavors of cinnamon, ginger and molasses !
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Edible Vegan Cookie Dough
An edible vegan cookie dough made with white beans. This recipe is eggless, flourless, easy to make, store and eat! Vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free and so high in protein it can supplement a meal. The protein comes from an unlikely ingredient, white beans! White beans are much easier to use than chickpeas in edible cookie dough recipes, and provide a creamier texture, and you can't taste the beans. And watch video review of this recipe being made!
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Frozen Desserts
Leafy Green Mint Ice Cream
A mint ice cream made nutritious with hidden veggies and fruits, light and airy, and easy to make with only 5 ingredients and no ice cream maker needed! Did you know mint ice cream reduces stress, and calms tight muscles and reduces cramps? Dairy-free and gluten-free!
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4-ingredient Cauliflower Ice Cream Smoothie
Make this healthy cauliflower ice cream two ways, as an ice cream shake, and as scoopable ice cream. You cannot taste the cauliflower! And this recipe is an incredible way to get one of the most nutritious vegetables on the planet into your diet.
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Homemade Fudgsicles
These homemade fudgsicles are a frosty popsicle treat using few ingredients, dairy-free, gluten-free and mood-boosting. You'll want to eat the mixture with a spoon but try to save some to pour in the fudgsicle popsicle mold. Not yet popsicle weather? Serve the mixture as a decadent chilled pudding, yum!
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Homemade Blueberry Ice Cream
Healthy dairy-free blueberry ice cream made with avocados and blueberries. An incredibly creamy homemade ice cream, vegan and treat high in antioxidants with options to make it keto.
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Chocolate Beet Smoothie
This chocolate beet smoothie may be a stunning pink but it tastes like a frothy rich chocolate milk shake - such an interesting experience to be sipping on bright pink while your mouth registers deep chocolate. Plus the nutritional power in this smoothie soars, with antioxidants from both beets and chocolate, and tons of fiber so you feel full. This beet smoothie recipe is dairy-free, vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, and plant-based.
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Dee Dine is founder of Green Smoothie Gourmet, a plant based recipe blog, and author of the recent cookbook, Crazy Healthy with 4 Ingredients and another immunity-boosting smoothie shot book, 4-Ingredient Smoothies + Juices , due out in January 2021. On this blog you'll find incredibly easy recipes with hidden veggies for anyone wanting to eat healthier, regardless of diet. Dee has graduate degrees in sciences and journalism, editor at The Feedfeed and a nutritional expert at WikiHow. More about Dee Dine here.
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