Discover our best plant-based desserts that will satisfy any sweet tooth, kids and adults alike. This list includes cakes, cake fillings, biscuits, and sweets for any occasion, from easy breakfast cakes to desserts for special occasions.
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Plant-Based Cakes
Apple Cake
This apple cake is soft, moist, and packed with apple pieces. It's an easy, 1-bowl recipe, made with 7 simple ingredients. You can serve the cake with our vegan custard for an even more indulgent experience!
Orange cake
This vegan orange cake is light, soft, and very easy to make. You can eat it as is or you can fill it with our delicious orange curd filling.
Vegan Lemon Cake
This vegan lemon cake is soft, light, moist, and incredibly easy to make, with a few simple ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry.
Blueberry Pound Cake
This lemon blueberry pound cake is the perfect balance of moist and gooey. It's made with simple basic ingredients, packed with lemon and blueberry flavor, and it's whipped up in just 5 minutes.
Carrot & Orange Cake
This carrot and orange cake is an easy Italian recipe made with carrots, orange juice, and almond flour. Although this is probably one of the easiest cakes you’ll ever make, its flavor is absolutely outstanding.
Vegan Vanilla cake
Our vegan vanilla cake is easy to make, with simple ingredients, and it's soft, moist, and light. It's egg-free, milk-free, and without butter, yet no one will be able to tell.
Chocolate Strawberry Cake
This chocolate strawberry cake is soft, sweet, and packed with plenty of strawberries and chocolate flavor. This cake is also very easy to make, in a sheet pan, and with simple ingredients.
Vegan Carrot Cake
It's packed with flavor, with just the right amount of moistness. Unlike most carrot cake recipes, this cake does not contain a ton of sugar or oil. Try it, and you'll never bake any other carrot cake again!
Easy Brownie Cake
This chocolate brownie cake is an easy recipe made with 5 simple ingredients. Packed with chocolate flavor, it can be served warm, with ice cream, or at room temperature.
Chocolate Pound Cake
This vegan chocolate pound cake is moist, soft, and packed with chocolate flavour. If you love chocolate, you are going to love this 100% plant-based chocolate pound cake.
Vegan Coffee Cake
This vegan coffee cake is soft, spongy, moist, and packed with coffee flavor. And if you like, you can even fill it with a layer of coffee custard or with homemade hazelnut cream.
Banana Bread
One-bowl, one-fork, 7-ingredient vegan banana bread. With this recipe, you can make the best, easiest vegan banana bread any time you feel like it, with no need for complicated ingredients.
Lemon Pound Cake
This vegan pound cake with lemon is easy to make, soft, moist, spongy, and the perfect treat for a quick breakfast or a light dessert. It cuts perfectly and it's delicious served with a layer of your favorite jam.
Cold Vegan Desserts
Vegan Panna Cotta
Our vegan panna cotta is similar to the original Italian panna cotta in both texture and flavor. When we first tried it we were surprised by how simple and delicious it is. You can make it in 10 minutes, without gelatine, dairy-free, and nut-free.
Vegan Tiramisù
This tiramisu with homemade ladyfingers is developed and tested to recreate the flavor of real Italian tiramisù. It's light, airy, and incredibly delicious!
No-bake Vegan Cheesecake
Made with no nuts, no blending, no cooking, and goes straight into the refrigerator to set. This cheesecake is easy to make, smooth, fluffy, rich, and creamy and it cuts perfectly.
Pastry Creams & Cake Fillings
Vegan custard
Our vegan custard is a smooth, creamy, and delicious recipe that you can make in 10 minutes with 5 simple ingredients. Everyone loves this one!
Lemon Curd
Vegan lemon curd is so tasty, light, and easy to make. It's a flavor bomb made with 5 simple ingredients, no eggs, and in just 5 minutes.
Hazelnut spread
Impossible to resist! This vegan Nutella has a consistency and is perfect for spreading on toast, or as a filling for crepes, cakes, and brioche.
Plant-Based Dessert Pastry and Brioche
Cinnamon rolls
Our vegan cinnamon rolls are easy to make, lightly toasted on the outside, soft and moist on the inside, and with a tad of caramelized sugar underneath.
Vegan Donuts
Vegan donuts are so easy to make with simple ingredients and they are as delicious as regular donuts. Our vegan donuts are real yeast donuts and can be deep-fried or baked.
Sweet dough balls
These Italian Sweet Dough Balls are an easy and delicious sweet treat that you can either bake in the oven or deep fry. They are made without yeast, and they are very easy to prepare.
Bomboloni - Italian Donuts
Bomboloni are Italian doughnuts made with soft leavened dough. They are filled with chocolate, jam, or custard, and covered in sugar.
Brioche Bread
Our vegan brioche bread is an easy and fluffy breakfast recipe made with a few simple ingredients that you probably already have at home. You will be amazed at how light, airy, and aromatic this recipe is.
Italian croissant 'cornetti'
These vegan cornetti or Italian croissants with custard are the ultimate Italian treat! The dough is light, soft, and aromatic, and you can fill them with our delicious vegan custard or with your favorite jam.
Chocolate Chip Brioche Bread
These vegan chocolate chip brioches are soft, fluffy, aromatic, chocolatey, and a little sweet. We made them simpler, lighter without dairy, and without eggs.
Brioche Roll with custard
These brioche rolls are soft, sweet, creamy, and surprisingly easy to make. They are a popular breakfast food in Italy and we often dip them in cappuccino or eat them on the go as a sweet treat.
Plant-Based Dessert Biscuits
Biscotti
Our biscotti recipe is easy and made with simple ingredients. You'll get beautiful, crunchy, and nutty biscotti, perfect to dip in sweet wine or to eat on their own.
Red wine Cookies
These cookies are traditionally made with grape must, red wine, or white wine. The result is a light, crunchy, and sweet wine cookie that can be enjoyed as it is, or dipped in your favorite red wine.
Italian Almond Cookies
Crunchy on the outside, soft and moist on the inside, and bursting with almond flavor. They are perfect as a snack during cold winter days when you need a small treat to keep you going.
Italian Chiacchiere
Chiacchiere is a crunchy Italian sweet popular throughout the carnival season. This is a simple and delicious recipe, made with a few simple ingredients.
Vegan Meringues
Vegan Meringues are light, fragrant, crunchy, and sweet just like regular meringues,
but they are made without eggs. You can eat your meringues plain, or top them with chocolate, nuts, and fruits. Our recipe will teach you how to get this easy but tricky treat right on your first try.
Tarts & Pies
Lemon Tart
This vegan lemon tart is a popular recipe that everyone will love. Sweet, refreshing, and made with really simple ingredients that you already have in your pantry.
Lemon bars
These vegan lemon bars are easy to make, delicious, and full of lemon flavor thanks to a finger-licking vegan lemon curd.
Fruit Tart
This beautiful and delicious fruit tart is a classic Italian pastry recipe that everyone loves. We make a light, crunchy, and easy pie crust that we then fill with our homemade custard.
Strawberry Tart
Our tart is made with a crunchy pie crust, filled with smooth and creamy vanilla custard, and topped with sweet fresh strawberries.
Fruit Pizza
Fruit pizza is an easy, fun, and crunchy recipe made with a quick, homemade sugar cookie pie crust base, topped with dairy-free cream cheese and a mix of fresh seasonal fruit.
Italian Crostata
A crunchy Italian tart with 3 different fillings: a classic strawberry jam crostata, a wholegrain crostata with apricot jam, and an oatmeal crostata with blueberries.
Ricotta Pie
Vegan ricotta pie is an easy recipe made with a few simple ingredients. We make a sweet shortcrust pastry, and fill it with creamy ricotta cream, mixed with dark chocolate chips and orange zest.
Easy Plant-Based Desserts
Coffee Mousse
This simple, 4-ingredients dessert almost tastes like a tiramisù, without the biscuit, but is a lot easier to make. It's creamy, soft, light, and sweet, but with an irresistible coffee aroma.
Baked Apples
Hasselback apples look pretty and taste delicious. In this version, we top them with a quick cinnamon streusel that makes them extra crunchy and irresistible.
Baked Pears
Baked pears are sweet, soft, warm, and extremely easy to make. All you need is 4 ingredients and 30 minutes in the oven.
Chocolate Truffles
Homemade chocolate and chestnut truffles are easy-to-make, bite-sized treats, perfect for fall and winter celebrations. This recipe is gluten-free, raw, and vegan, and is truly delicious.
HOW TO STORE VEGAN DESSERTS
Most of these desserts keep for 2-3 days out of the fridge, covered in a cake container or you can even store it in a plastic bag to keep them soft and moist.
How to reheat: If you want to re-heat the cakes or sweets, you can do so in a preheated oven for 5-7 minutes in order to make them softer.
NOTE: It is important to limit airflow to the cakes and sweets in order to preserve their softness.
WHAT TO EAT BEFORE DESSERT?
If you're looking for a main dish to eat before your delicious vegan dessert, take your pick here for some inspiration:
For much more vegan dessert inspiration make sure to check out our Dessert Recipes Page!
Recipe
Best Plant-Based Desserts | 43 recipes for any occasion
Ingredients
- Pick your favorite dessert from the list
- Read the recipe for ingredients required
- Make the recipe by following the instructions
Instructions
- How to store: Most of these desserts keep for 2-3 days out of the fridge, covered in a cake container or you can even store it in a plastic bag to keep it soft and moist.
- How to reheat: If you want to re-heat the cakes or sweets, you can do so in a preheated oven for 5-7 minutes in order to make it softer.
- NOTE: It is important to limit airflow to the cakes and sweets in order to preserve their softness.
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