25 Most Popular Vegan Desserts to Make Before You Die

Vegan ice cream, anyone?

Stay cool with these creamy summer treats. 

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1Tahini Coffee Shake With Dark Chocolate

This dreamy, creamy shake is thick and velvety and features a delicious mix of strong espresso, chocolate, and tahini. It’s rich, decadent, and tastes great with a generous help of sprinkles.
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Emily Kan

2Cherry Amaretto Chunk Ice Cream

This ultra-indulgent ice cream recipe requires just seven ingredients: cherries, amaretto liquor, coconut milk, dark chocolate, sugar, agave nectar, and a pinch of salt. It’s easy and quick to make and tastes great in a cone with some extra cacao nibs.
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Hannah Kaminsky

3Mexican Hot Chocolate Ice Cream

When you think of ice cream, you might not think of cayenne pepper. But let this recipe convince you that this spice compliments sweet ingredients like banana, vanilla, and chocolate perfectly.
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Sarah Bond

4Marshmallow Coconut Cream Popsicles

Popsicles aren’t just for summer. These marshmallow-coconut cream frozen treats, which are made with aquafaba, taste delicious whatever the weather is like outside.
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Blissful Basil

5Red Velvet Beet Shake

Beet juice is the key ingredient in this thick, addictive shake. It’s the perfect date night treat for two, but definitely enjoy it on your own whenever the mood strikes. As well as beets, it features dates, coconut cream, cacao powder, and vanilla extract.
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The best vegan cookie recipes

Pair your favorite ice cream with one of these cookie recipes for ice cream cookie sammies!

6 VegNews Magic Cookie Bars

Sweetened condensed vegan milk, graham crackers, walnuts, shredded coconut, and chocolate chips are the stars of these seriously addictive magic cookie bars. Top tip: while you can make the condensed milk from scratch, it’s also easy to buy online, too!
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Dustin Harder

7 Soft-Batch Sugar Cookies with Buttercream Frosting

If you’re craving some nostalgia, these soft, light, cakey, vegan sugar cookies are well worth a try. They’re just like the original, but arguably even better, because they’re totally animal-free.
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8 Salted Caramel Cookies

These chewy salted caramel cookies are the ultimate treat. Sweet meets salty in these crispy bites so you’re guaranteed to get the best of both worlds.
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Michelle Siriani

9 Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

Sometimes the simple treats are the best. Serve these classic vegan chocolate chip cookies—which are just the right amount of crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside—with a tall glass of oat milk whenever the mood strikes.
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Holly V. Gray

10 Soft Peanut Butter Cookies

Peanut butter makes everything better, but when it comes to cookies, it just makes them even more delicious and addictive than they already are. Plus, they smell great when they’re baking, too.
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Chocoholics, these are for you: the best vegan chocolate desserts

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Vegan Heritage Press

11Chocolate Chip Brownies

These brownies are a true triple chocolate threat. They’re loaded with not just dark and semisweet chocolate chips, but also plenty of cocoa powder, too, of course.
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Jackie Sobon

12Chocolate and Peanut Butter Rice Bars

These rice bars contain chocolate and peanut butter, which is, arguably, a match made in heaven. But if you need more sweetness, feel free to add in some dried cranberries or dates, depending on your preference.
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Anson Smart

13Detox Almond Butter Cups

Yep, these almond butter cups are not just deliciously indulgent and addictive, but they’re also pretty healthy, too, thanks to the additions of cacao and raw almond butter.
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Fairwinds Press 

14Customizable Vegan Chocolate Bark

Combine vegan chocolate chips with your choice of a mix-in to make this super tasty chocolate bark snack. Mix-in options include crushed salty pretzels, vanilla extract, and popcorn for the ultimate movie night snack.
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Gibbs Smith Publishing

15Chocolate Almond Butter Pudding Pie

If Oreos, chocolate, coconut cream, and almond butter combined sounds like your dream dessert, then you’re really going to love this pudding pie. And so are all your loved ones (if you decide to share).
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Light, sweet vegan snacks

Dessert can be delicious and nutritious. 

Luke Albert

16Pecan, Cinnamon, and Banana Oat Bars

These tasty bars—which are made with bananas, maple syrup, rolled oats, cinnamon, and chopped pecans—are a great vegan dessert option, but they also work well as a breakfast choice, or you can have them as an afternoon pick-me-up, too.
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Jackie Sobon

17Lemon Quinoa Bites

Just because it’s a tasty dessert, doesn’t mean it can’t be nutritious. This recipe for protein-packed lemon quinoa bites is proof. 
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18Healthy Chocolate Hazelnut Chia Pudding

This pudding is a good source of protein and omega 3s, which means it’s a great healthy dessert choice. But if you prefer, you can eat it for breakfast, too. It’s definitely worth getting out of bed for.
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Amy Lyons

19Raw Almond Joy Fudge

Fudge is arguably one of the best desserts, and it’s easy to make vegan, too, just like this recipe demonstrates. You’ll need a few things before you start, including a blender, plenty of finely shredded coconut, and a sweet tooth.
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ToraFlora

20Chocolate-Dipped Raspberry Rose Oat Bars

If you’re not sure about eating edible flowers, let these oat bars change your mind. They’re a delicious, nutritious snack, and guaranteed to become one of your new go-to sweet treats.
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These recipes take the vegan cake

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BOSH!

21Lemon Drizzle Pound Cake

Nothing beats a generous slice of homemade cake, especially when it’s a lemon drizzle flavor. It’s addictive, indulgent, zesty, and, of course, perfectly moist. Basically, it ticks all of the vegan dessert boxes.
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Kirsten Kaminski

22Vegan Tiramisu

Bookmark this vegan dessert for those times when you’re feeling like enjoying something really rich and chocolatey—because this silky, velvety tiramisu will certainly not disappoint.
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23Almond Orange Cardamom Cake

Orange juice, cardamom, almond meal, and vegan yogurt combine to make this zesty orange cake. It’s packed with flavor, easy to make, and it’s set to become your new favorite sweet treat.
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Clare Winfield

24Vegan Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Top this fruity, addictive pineapple upside-down cake with plenty of fluffy dairy-free whipped cream. It’s a classic, but it’s easy to veganize and just as tasty without the animal products.
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Chris Shoebridge

25Classic Chocolate Cake With Raspberries

Chocolate fans will love this classic chocolate fudge cake, which is topped with juicy raspberries for a little bit of extra sweetness. It’s delicious on its own, but you can’t go wrong by serving a generous dollop of ice cream on the side.
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