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17 Delicious and Healthy Vegan Dessert Recipes

From peach cobbler to decadent brownies these healthy vegan dessert recipes are almost too good to be true. They have all the good stuff without any dairy, eggs, or honey.

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Armando, my husband, discovered he had a milk allergy when we were in our late 20’s and I’ve been messing around with dairy-free baking since then. By now, I have quite an arsenal of dairy-free dessert recipes and quite a few vegan ones as well.

I don’t like to use weird ingredients to make my healthy vegan desserts, just simple ingredients that can be swapped for butter, milk, and eggs like coconut oil, coconut cream, and sometimes flax eggs or liquid egg replacer, but even that I don’t use too often.

Keep reading for truly delicious ways to satisfy your sweet tooth while maintaining the way you love to eat.

The Best Healthy Vegan Dessert Recipes

1. Blueberry-Lemon Verbena Popsicles

When summer rolls around and blueberries are in season, I always make at least one batch of these super yummy popsicles with fresh berries (although you can totally make them with frozen blueberries any time of year). It’s one of the best easy vegan desserts around.

Several popsicles on a baking sheet on top of ice with lemon verbena leaves all around on a blue checkered tablecloth.

2. Mangonada from ¡Hola! Jalapeño

Here’s what I’m eating the second the temperature rises above 80°F. If you’ve never had this divine Mexican dessert it consists of an ice cold mango smoothie layered with chamoy sauce, Tajín, and juicy, ripe mango. It is a truly one of the best vegan dessert recipes ever.

Two glasses of mangonada that are layered with mango puree, chamoy and fresh mango with a straw sticking out of one side.

3. Vegan Chocolate Almond Butter Ice Box Cake from This Mess Is Ours

A no-bake dessert (who doesn’t love those?) that is made from wholesome ingredients like luscious dark chocolate, bananas, and homemade almond butter cake with a texture that lies between rich ice cream and silky cheesecake. In other words, insanely delicious. The topping is dark chocolate chips and sliced almonds with some more melted chocolate drizzled over everything.

4. Vegan Peach Cobbler with Cinnamon Streusel from Britney Breaks Bread

What’s the one thing that puts this at the top of my must-make list? The topping is biscuits and cinnamon streusel!! For this texture-loving girl that combination is so genius. So let’s put it all together, syrupy, sweet peaches, flakey biscuits, and crunchy streusel made for special occasions. BOOM!

A round dish of peach cobbler topped with flaky biscuits and ice cream and peaches dotting here and there .
Image from Britney Breaks Bread

5. Sopapillas from ¡Hola! Jalapeño

If you’re looking for a fun recipe with a little Southwestern flare, give these puffy, crispy Sopapillas a try. The dough gets rolled out and cut into squares then crisps up nicely in hot oil. Sprinkle with cinnamon and powdered sugar and skip the honey for a healthy vegan dessert recipe.

A boy tapping powdered sugar over a pan of sopapillas with a jar of honey in the dish.

6. Vegan Eggless Zucchini Bread

If you’re swimming in an abundance of zucchini this season and have already made zucchini pasta and ratatouille, this eggless zucchini bread recipe is the answer. It’s everything you want in a quick bread: moist, flavorful, and incredibly simple to whip up even on a busy weeknight. It’s not only one of the best vegan desserts, it’s nut free and gluten free too!

zucchini bread cut into slices with butter
Image from G-Free Foodie

7. Noni’s Shortbread Italian Walnut Cookies from Salt & Wind

These cookies are full of flavor and texture with lots of crunchy walnuts and a thumbprint of frosting in the middle. They are reminiscent of a Christmas cookie but you can absolutely make them anytime you want a delicious vegan dessert.

Several walnut cookies laying on a counter with a thumbprint taken out of the middle.
Image from Salt & Wind

8. Vegan & Gluten-Free Mexican Wedding Cookies from ¡Hola! Jalapeño

I just adore these powdered sugar-covered cookies. The sugar melts in your mouth on the first bite and then comes the toasted crunch of pecans followed by hits of orange, warm spice, and vanilla. You will need a food processor to grind the pecans into tiny pieces.

A pile of powdered sugar-covered cookies.

9. Chai-Spiced Coconut Ice Cream from A Girl Defloured

You’ll need an ice cream maker for this one, but if you have that, you are halfway to vegan ice cream heaven. This silky coconut milk ice cream is full of rich, warm spice of Chai tea in every bite. Caution: the recipe calls for honey but you can substitute agave syrup, coconut nectar, or date syrup instead.

Two scoops of ice cream in a white bowl with a star anise pod on top of the ice cream.
Image from A Girl Defloured

10. No-Bowl Vegan Chocolate Cake

This moist and fluffy easy chocolate cake recipe for kids or beginner bakers requires no mixer, no melted chocolate, heck, not even a mixing bowl. All the ingredients get mixed right in the baking dish! It comes out rich and chocolatey. Top with creamy chocolate frosting or a dusting of powdered sugar. It is one of the most simple vegan dessert recipes.

A chocolate cake topped with chocolate frosting.
Image from G-Free Foodie

11. Breakfast Cookies from Bakes By Brown Sugar

With oats, dried fruit, vanilla, maple syrup, and almond butter (or sub peanut butter), these cookies are like your favorite bowl of oatmeal in portable form. They are dense, chewy cookies that satisfy the sweet tooth in all of us but are one of those healthy recipes you can eat first thing in the morning.

12. The Best From-Scratch Apple Pie

In my opinion, Crisco makes the best pie crust. It has the ability to create an extra-crispy and flaky texture that is really hard to achieve with butter and in turn also makes this a vegan apple pie! It does call for an egg to brush on top as an egg wash, but you can substitute plant-based milk instead.

An apple pie in a pie dish with three pieces taken out of the pie and the inside exposed so you can see the apples.

13. Fruit Salad with Lemon Dressing from ¡Hola! Jalapeño

Is fruit salad considered dessert in your world? If not, move on to the next option, but if so, you will love this strawberry-clementine version. It is not too sweet (it even includes thin slices of fennel—gasp!) with a delicate dressing of fresh lemon juice, honey (swap in agave or date syrup), and crunchy roasted pistachios on top.

A white bowl of fruit salad with a woman with red fingernails picking pieces of lavender over the bowl.

14. Vegan Mexican Chocolate Popsicles from This Mess Is Ours

Ice cold and chocolatey-smooth these popsicles taste indulgent, but they’re really not. An easy mix of coconut milk, cocoa powder, cinnamon, and a touch of cayenne with some puréed cashews to add body. Just blend and freeze! They taste like a more flavorful version of the chocolate pudding pops we all loved as kids and will answer all your sweet cravings.

Several chocolate popsicles laying on ice with cinnamon sticks used as popsicle sticks.
Image from This Mess Is Ours

15. Vegan Peppermint Brownies from Displaced Housewife

Rebecca from Displaced Housewife baked up these vegan brownies with a mixture of pureed prunes, flaxseeds, and olive oil to create some chewy brownie magic with zero eggs or dairy that is true baking alchemy.

16. Crispy Peanut Butter Banana Fritters

These golden brown fritters combine sweet ripe bananas in a soft dough made with peanut butter and cinnamon. To make the coffee caramel sauce that goes with them vegan, substitute vegan butter and vegan heavy cream.

A plate of peanut butter banana fritters with coffee caramel sauce
Image from Not Without Salt

17. Vegan Banana Bread from Ale Cooks

We can’t talk about healthy vegan dessert recipes without mentioning banana bread, the ultimate comfort food. This vegan version from my friend Ale has flour, sea salt, ripe bananas, vanilla, and uses applesauce instead of eggs for added moisture.

A loaf of banana bread sitting on a glass plate with a bronze knife next to it.
Image from Ale Cooks

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