Perfect Vegan Vanilla Cupcake Recipe – dairy-free, gluten-free, allergy-free I think I might have half a dozen cupcake recipes on the blog, and yet not one — until now – is a vanilla cupcake recipe. There was a reason. Chocolate cake recipes — which most of my cupcake recipes are — pass recipe testing easier… Read More
Healthy Plant-based Dessert Recipes
Thank you for popping by to view my wholefood plant-based vegan dessert recipes, many are chocolate, all are healthy. And I try to reduce ingredients where possible. Leave me a comment on a recipe you love!
Chocolate Vegan Marzipan (almond paste) Cups
Chocolate Vegan Marzipan (almond paste) Cups Such an adventure, making vegan marzipan. Marzipan is really almond paste with varying degrees of sweetening. It is, of course, a sweet creamy concoction long found in pastries. Commercial versions are available of course, but full of processed ingredients and also quite expensive. It used to be hard to… Read More
Sparkling Sugar Chocolate-Coated Cookies & the Boston Marathon
Sparkling Sugar Chocolate-Coated Cookies & the Boston Marathon (vegan, dairy-free) I grew up in Boston. I went to college in Boston. I don’t live there now, but Boston will always be my hometown. So I am in a good position to know that Boston is also home to the sugar cookie. Bakeries abound there dedicated… Read More
Easy Cinnamon Apple Cider Baked Donuts (vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free)
Easy Cinnamon Apple Cider Baked Donuts (vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free) Cider donuts! Is it fall yet? No, not really. In fact it’s 90 degrees here today, but I can dream, can’t I? Cinnamon and apple cider and donuts are just the best combination, don’t you think? And add in the fact that this particular donut recipe… Read More
Chocolate Marshmallow S’mores No-bake Squares (vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free)
Chocolate Marshmallow S’mores No-bake Squares (vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free) If there is any dessert that transcends all barriers, generational, geographical, politics and food tastes, it’s S’mores! A beautiful graham crackery chocolatey carmelly marshmallowy square that sinks warmly in your fingers and melts sweetly in your mouth says so much more than plain old dessert, doesn’t it?… Read More
Chocolate Devil’s Food Cake with Pumpkin (vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free)
Chocolate Devil’s Food Cake with Pumpkin (vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free) Pumpkin is a wondrous ingredient to put into chocolate cake. Like beets, it adds incredible nutrients and texture. In fact, pumpkin is loaded with the antioxidant beta-carotene, which is one of the plant carotenoids converted to Vitamin A in the body. Vitamin A is essential for… Read More
Cinnamon Streusel Vegan Coffee Cake
Cinnamon Streusel Vegan Coffee Cake (dairy-free, gluten-free) Cinnamon Streusel Vegan Coffee cake for breakfast! Light, cinnamony and crumbly. And such a moist cake! No more adjectives needed, haha. Just a plate, fork and cup of something hot. Weekends are the perfect time to make a light moist plant-based coffee cake, don’t you agree? Sunday mornings… Read More
Piña Colada Dragonfruit Vegan Popsicles
Piña Colada Dragonfruit Vegan Popsicles There is nothing like coconut and pineapple to make it feel like a tropical vacation. Except, perhaps, coconut, pineapple and dragonfruit?😍🌴 And rum, don’t forget the rum. Or leave out the rum to make it a kid’s treat. And I think popsicles that look fun and festive are best, don’t… Read More
Black Pepper Chocolate Truffles + Microwave Tempering (vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free)
Black Pepper Chocolate Truffles + Microwave Tempering (vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free) I love shortcuts. Haha, if you have been following any of my other recipes, you know this by now. Perhaps you like short-cuts too and that’s why you follow me? Here I decided I wanted shiny snappy chocolate to coat my treats like truffles and… Read More
Fruit-Colored Vegan Buttercream Frosting (dairy-free, 4-ingredients)
Fruit-colored Vegan Buttercream Frosting I love to use fruit and other plants to color frosting. This frosting is vegan and comes out to be the perfect texture to pipe with. And here I made it pink with dragonfruit, or pitaya, a superfood fruit indigenous to Central America, that is grown now in many Asian countries… Read More
