17 Vegan Dessert Recipes For Every Type of Sweet Tooth

Myth: Vegan dessert recipes are overly complicated. Myth: Vegan dessert recipes require dozens of hard-to-find ingredients. Myth: Vegan dessert recipes never taste as good as their dairy- and egg-leaden counterparts. Truth: As is the case with buttery, cream-filled treats, some vegan desserts require a bit more time and patience than the average cake, while others come together quickly and simply. A few of these sweets don’t even need to be baked!

Whether you’re craving pie or cookies, tarts or ice cream, these 17 vegan dessert recipes will please everyone—and we mean everyone—at the table.

1. Vegan Chocolate Pie

Classic chocolate pie is veganized thanks to silken tofu, non dairy milk, and melted chocolate. The infamous graham cracker crust is made with coconut oil instead of butter.

2. Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Tart

If you shovel peanut butter cups into your mouth like every day is Halloween, stop everything and make this pie. The creamy, nutty filling alone will make you tear up.

3. Vegan Apple Pie

Just because it’s an old standard doesn’t mean it can’t be vegan! This apple pie’s crust comes together thanks to coconut oil and oat milk.

4. Vegan Sugar Cookies

With vegan butter and an egg replacer, these sugar cookies are totally vegan. Now, bring on the sprinkles!

5. Vegan Skillet Cookie Sundae

What’s better than an ice cream sundae? A sundae with a skillet cookie base! Don’t sleep on the vegan coconut whipped cream either: it’s a game-changer.

6. Vegan Dark Chocolate Gingerbread Thumbprint Cookies

These spicy-sweet gingerbread cookies have little blots of creamy chocolate ganache in the center. What, I ask, could be better?

7. Ovenly’s Secretly Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

Make these secretly dairy- and egg-free cookies (which call for oil, not butter!) when you’re entertaining vegan-sceptics. Ah, sweet vindication!

8. Anita Shepherd’s Vegan Chocolate Birthday Cake

This cake is genius for so many reasons: avocado in the batter makes it as moist and rich as if it were packed with egg yolks and butter, and the frosting is expertly stabilized with brown rice syrup.

9. Vegan Lemon Vanilla Cupcakes

A vanilla cupcake recipe so simple it’ll please the pickiest of eaters, yet they’re totally vegan—and easily adapted to be gluten-free. The frosting can be made with vegan butter or shortening, and you really won’t believe it’s not butter(cream).

10. Fudgy Vegan Banana Brownie Cake

Is it chocolate banana bread or brownie cake? Does it even matter?! This fudgy cake will be just as tasty for breakfast tomorrow as it is for dessert tonight.

11. Vegan Carrot Cake with Coconut Cream Frosting

Carrot cake is the best, I will be taking no questions. Here, flaxseed and water replace eggs to bind the cake, and chilled coconut milk becomes the base for the whipped frosting (though if you can’t abandon classic cream cheese frosting, make this recipe with vegan cream cheese).

12. Peach Crumble Coffee Cake

With a big scoop of vegan vanilla ice cream, this sweet and crumbly coffee cake is a simple summery dessert you'll snack on all day long.

13. Raw Chocolate Avocado Tart

Blended avocado, cocoa powder, and maple syrup become silky chocolate custard in this no-bake tart.

14. Vegan Chocolate Milkshake

The “ice cream” in this “milkshake” is really frozen banana and non-dairy milk, which blend up into a brilliantly creamy drink you’ll want to sip all summer long.

15. Vegan Vanilla Bean Coconut Milk Ice Cream

This coconut milk-based ice cream is a bit of a project, but all will be worthwhile when you dive into the first scoop.

16. 2-Ingredient Toasted Marzipan Ice Cream

For a simpler vegan ice cream, try this two-ingredient version: It’s just marzipan (if you can’t find an eggless version at the store, use the DIY method in this recipe’s headnote!) and coconut milk.

17. Farmacy Kitchen’s Raw Chocolate Tart

Blend soaked cashews, cacao powder, and date paste: What have you got? Vegan, naturally-sweetened chocolate mousse! Smear it into a hazelnut-coconut crust for a tart, or just grab a spoon.

What's your favorite vegan dessert? Let us know in the comments.