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    Home » Collections » Best Plant-Based Desserts | 43 recipes for any occasion

    Best Plant-Based Desserts | 43 recipes for any occasion

    Published: Apr 7, 2022 · by Nico

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    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.

    To navigate, see the list of topics and click on the section you want to see. Or, just scroll through this compilation of vegan desserts to get inspiration for your next sweet treat!

    43 plant-based desserts including vegan cakes and vegan custard
    On this page:
    • Plant-Based Cakes
    • Cold Vegan Desserts
    • Pastry Creams & Cake Fillings
    • Plant-Based Dessert Pastry and Brioche
    • Plant-Based Dessert Biscuits
    • Tarts & Pies
    • Easy Plant-Based Desserts
    • Recipe

    Plant-Based Cakes

    vegan apple cake

    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!

    a slice of vegan orange curd cake

    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

    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.

    lemon blueberry pound cake

    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 and orange cake

    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.

    whole slice of vegan vanilla cake

    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.

    slice of vegan chocolate strawberry cake

    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

    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!

    brownie cake with ice cream

    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.

    vegan chocolate poundcake

    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

    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.

    vegan banana bread

    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.

    sliced pound cake

    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 with strawberry sauce

    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 tiramisu in a dish

    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 cheese cake

    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

    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!

    vegan lemon curd

    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

    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

    vegan cinnamon roll drizzled with icing

    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
    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

    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.

    Vegan Bomboloni filled with sour cherry jam

    Bomboloni - Italian Donuts
    Bomboloni are Italian doughnuts made with soft leavened dough. They are filled with chocolate, jam, or custard, and covered in sugar.

    whole Italian pan brioche

    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.

    vegan chocolate chip brioches

    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.

    vegan brioche roll with custard

    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 with chocolate

    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

    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.

    Vegan amaretti Italian almond cookies

    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.

    deep-fried chiacchiere

    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 meringue

    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

    slice of vegan lemon tart

    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.

    vegan lemon bars

    Lemon bars
    These vegan lemon bars are easy to make, delicious, and full of lemon flavor thanks to a finger-licking vegan lemon curd.

    brushing a layer of aprico jam on top of the tart

    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.

    slice of vegan strawberry tart

    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 with fresh fruit

    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.

    vegan Italian crostata

    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.

    vegan ricotta pie

    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

    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.

    hasselback baked apples with cinnamon

    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.

    warm baked pear with cinnamon

    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.

    homemade chocolate and chestnuts truffles

    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:

    • 15 easy tofu recipes
    • 11 best pasta recipes
    • 29 easy dinners
    • 60 vegan Italian recipes

    For much more vegan dessert inspiration make sure to check out our Dessert Recipes Page!

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    43 plant-based desserts including vegan custard and apple cake

    Best Plant-Based Desserts | 43 recipes for any occasion

    Author: Nico
    Wondering how to make a plant-based dessert? We've got you covered with these 43 sweet recipes including cakes, biscuits, custards, pies, tarts, pastries and more.
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    Prep Time 10 mins
    Cook Time 40 mins
    Total Time 14 mins
    Course Dessert
    Servings 4 people
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    • Pick your favorite dessert from the list
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    • Make the recipe by following the instructions

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    • 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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