31 Of The Best Vegan Desserts Out There

Pillowy soft with melt-in-your-mouth icing, what more could you want from breakfast? 

Recipe: The Best Ever Vegan Cinnamon Rolls | Shop This Recipe

Baking trends may come and go, but chocolate chip cookies are forever. These are warm and gooey when fresh out of the oven and will crisp up to a nice crunchy finish once they've cooled on a rack. 

Recipe: Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies | Shop This Recipe

A good brownie recipe is a must when dealing with life's ups and downs. Plus, your homemade brownies will always taste better than anything you could get from a grocery store shelf. 

Recipe: The Best Ever Vegan Brownies | Shop This Recipe

This foolproof vegan treat is the perfect year-round celebration dessert. Just dress it up with seasonal berries, a few candles, or even some edible flowers to make it fit for the occasion. 

Recipe: Vegan Chocolate Cake | Shop This Recipe

If you don't have a totally stocked spice cabinet (nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, and ground cloves) — no worries! Tasty user Kim C. says, "I didn't have all the separate spices, but I did have pumpkin pie spice and allspice. I just used 2 tsp. of the pumpkin pie spice and 1 tsp. allspice, and it was amazing." 

Recipe: Pumpkin Bread Ring with Maple Cream Cheese Filling | Shop This Recipe

I love a sugar doughnut because it's perfectly simple and perfectly delicious: just a fried ring of dough covered in granules of sugar. That's absolutely all you need for a tasty vegan treat. 

Recipe: Sugar Doughnuts | Shop This Recipe

Some of the best ingredients in the world are vegan, namely dark chocolate and peanut butter. This recipe uses both, along with coconut butter, maple syrup, and some vanilla extract, to create these unexpectedly fancy fudge cubes. If you don't have coconut butter, coconut oil will work just as well. Wrap them up in a crinkly plastic bag for the perfect "thinking of you" gift. 

Recipe: Vegan Chocolate & Peanut Butter Fudge | Shop This Recipe

Got a book club meeting or school event you need to prepare lots of bite-size desserts for? Consider this recipe, which yields 10 fluffy, easy-to-frost, just-sweet-enough cupcakes. 

Recipe: Vegan Vanilla Cupcakes with Rainbow Sprinkle Frosting | Shop This Recipe

This one's for all the cashew and coconut lovers out there. For the smoothest cashew "cheesecake" mix, use a high-powered blender to mix up the cashews, coconut cream, and cookie cream filling into a very smooth finish.  

Recipe: Vegan Cookies and Cream Cheesecake | Shop This Recipe

To get even discs of ice cream that fit snugly between two cookies, use a serrated knife to cut through a pint of ice cream (paper and all). Then, simply peel off the paper and coat the ice cream with chocolate chips. 

Recipe: Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches | Shop This Recipe

Sometimes, store-bought vegan ice cream can feel grainy or uneven in texture from sitting in the freezer too long. You deserve better! Treat yourself to this smooth, rich vanilla ice cream, which pairs well with just about any topping you could think of. 

Recipe: The Best Vegan Vanilla Ice Cream | Shop This Recipe

There are a ton of foods you can make with aquafaba, that murky liquid at the bottom of cans of chickpeas that you usually throw out. But these peanut butter macarons might just be the best one.

Recipe: Vegan Peanut Butter Macarons | Shop This Recipe

It's impossible to precisely describe the irresistible, vaguely chocolatey, and slightly tart flavor of red velvet cupcakes — but they're definitely not impossible to make with this recipe!

Recipe: Vegan Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting | Shop This Recipe

It's said that tiramisu has aphrodisiac effects and was actually invented in a house of pleasure. This tiramisu might not be a love potion, but it'll definitely make you fall in love with the recipe itself! 

Recipe: Vegan Tiramisu | Shop This Recipe

Imagine: With just five ingredients and a hand mixer, you can pretend you're a Parisian snacking on an elegant glass cup of rich chocolate mousse. Top it off with some vegan whipped cream, and you're in business.

Recipe: Vegan Chocolate Mousse | Shop This Recipe

This pie uses a combination of medjool dates and coconut sugar for a rich sweetness that's both layered and decadent. And don't worry if you're not a fan of dates — the other ingredients will mask any "date" flavor, leaving you with a moist, fudgy pie best downed with a glass of oat milk. 

Recipe: The Fudgiest Dairy-Free Brownie Pie | Shop This Recipe

I love the idea of chocolate-covered strawberries, but always feel like there's too much strawberry and not enough chocolate. This recipe resolves that issue by actually stuffing every strawberry with delicious dark or white vegan chocolate. Why didn't I think of that?

Recipe: Vegan Chocolate-Stuffed Strawberries | Shop This Recipe

For this holiday-inspired vegan treat, pretzels serve double duty as tiny antlers. Whip up a batch of these simple cookies for a potluck, party, or just a festive night at home! 

Recipe: Chocolate Sandwich Cookie Reindeer | Shop This Recipe

I've traveled all over the world, and I've never found a more genius culinary combination than orange and cream. Make a batch of these and rest easy knowing you're living in the golden age of dessert brilliance. 

Recipe: Vegan Orange Creamsicle Pops | Shop This Recipe

For the creamiest bars, try soaking the cashews overnight so they're easier to blend. And speaking of blending: Use a (or borrow a friend's) food processor and pulse the cashews until they're completely grain-free. If you try using an immersion blender, you might be adding an hour to your total prep time!

Recipe: Vegan Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars | Shop This Recipe

Crispy on the outside, fluffy on the inside, and just a little bit tart, these apple fritters taste exactly like a mini apple pie. If you're short on time or ingredients, swap the glaze for powdered sugar. 

Recipe: Vegan Apple Fritters | Shop This Recipe

If making ice cream seems a little intimidating, why not start off with these strawberry shortcake pops? You'll need just four ingredients and ice pop molds. Make these before an especially hot summer weekend — you'll thank yourself later. 

Recipe: Vegan Strawberry Shortcake Pops | Shop This Recipe

I've got your next movie night covered. Because popcorn's good and all, but popcorn with chocolate chips, peanuts, pretzel bits, and honey, packaged in a perfect, easy-to-eat square? Right this way. 

Recipe: Chocolate Peanut Pretzel Popcorn Bars | Shop This Recipe

This recipe is ideal for anyone with a dairy allergy who's sick of drooling helplessly whenever someone brings a box of doughnuts to the office or classroom. They're easy to make and even easier to finish off.

Recipe: Dairy-Free Chocolate-Glazed Donuts | Shop This Recipe

It's got crunch, it's got a touch of salt, and it's sweet. This might be the easiest recipe on this list, but it's one of my personal favorites.

Recipe: Baked Cinnamon Apple Chips | Shop This Recipe

This ice cream proves there's not a single fluffy, luxurious dessert that you can't make with aquafaba. It might be dairy-free, but it's still rich and creamy, with just a hint of coconut.

Recipe: Vegan Aquafaba Chocolate Ice Cream | Shop This Recipe

For the best results, only freeze your bananas for the recommend two hours (no leaving them in overnight!). Then, use a food processor, not a blender, to very thoroughly blend the banana mixture into an even consistency. 

Recipe: Vegan Banana Ice Cream | Shop This Recipe

Sometimes, baking feels more like playing in a laboratory with edible ingredients. Case in point: this "honeycomb" toffee, which is made with zero actual honey and one clever chemical reaction. 

Recipe: Vegan Honeycomb Toffee | Shop This Recipe

If you're one of those people who doesn't consider a snack a snack unless it's got a satisfying crunch (just me?), then this recipe is for you. It's packed with walnuts, almonds, and chocolate, plus dates and dried blueberries to mix things up. Your jaw will get some exercise, and your afternoon slump will evaporate.

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This elegant pie is actually much more straightforward than it looks! It consists of three parts: a simple pastry crust, a curd you make in a sauce pan, and a meringue you can make with a stand mixer. Put the three together and voila! You've got yourself a very grown-up dessert. 

Recipe: Vegan Lemon Meringue Pie | Shop This Recipe

I love any dessert made with peaches because it's the rare fruit that's dependably sweet and bears low risk of overt tartness. Here, the fragrant filling pairs wonderfully with a crisp and indulgent crust made with coconut oil and coconut sugars.  

Recipe: Dairy-Free Peach Tart | Shop This Recipe