Desserts are generally sweet foods that are served at the end of a meal in almost all cuisines. Desserts, as we know can be served at room temperature, warm, hot, chilled or frozen. If you are someone who loves desserts, this collection is tailored just for you!
Featuring luscious, creamy and delicious pies, tarts, puddings and more, this selection will make your sweet tooth smile. The best part about them is that they are vegetarian. Need I say more?
Oatmeal Cookies
The delicious and healthy oatmeal cookies are made with flax, oats, quinoa enriched by honey. These are not only crunchy and delectable but also a great source of dietary fiber. This is one of the guilt-free desserts that anyone with a sweet tooth will love.
The oats, flax and quinoa are ground coarse and mixed with milk, butter and honey or sugar. This cookie dough is then baked and served with raisins sprinkled over it. If you follow the recipe we suggest, you are bound to end up with some buttery and nutty oatmeal cookies.
If you are in the mood to experiment a bit, you have a variety of ingredients to play with. You could add chocolate chips instead of raisins to make a chocolatey variant of these cookies. You can also use butterscotch chips as an alternative, giving the chip a rich buttery flavor. To make the cookies nuttier, pecans or walnuts are a great option.
Cashew Bars
Snack bars are little treats you can make at home with minimum ingredients. They have multiple variants, based on the ingredients used. They are gaining popularity as they are relatively easier to make than pies or cakes while taking almost no time to prepare. Of all the nut-based snack bars, cashew bars taste the best of the lot!
This dessert is as healthy as it is tasty. Packed with the power of dates, cashews, tahini, vanilla and chocolate, this bar is every dessert lovers’ dream.
Every ingredient except the chocolate is ground smooth in a mixer. This mixture is then spread on a wide plate and cut into neat squares. Melted chocolate is poured to coat the bar and sprinkled with almond and date bits. Alternatively, honey can be used as a sweetener.
It also acts as a binder, holding all the dry fruits and other ingredients together. It’s a nutrient-rich dessert with an exceptionally good taste.
Coconut Tart
Coconut tart is an extravagant dessert made with coconut cream, honey, lemon, vanilla extract and delicious white chocolate. The crust is a mix of salty cashews, sweet coconut, dates, and a touch of warming cinnamon. The creamy coconut filling, when combined with the crunchy, salty crust, creates a mouthwatering delicious tart.
Top with an assortment of berries and fresh figs for the perfect late summer tart! This amazing dessert is extremely easy to make, delicious, pretty, and just so happens to be vegan and gluten-free as well. The traditional coconut tart has fewer ingredients and consumes very less preparation time.
Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin pie is a traditional classic dessert, which no list can skip. The vegan variant of the pie is made of pumpkin, monk fruit, coconut milk, and some spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves. It is a baked dessert that is popular world over.
It has a rich pumpkin flavor and has a delicious taste. Spiced with pumpkin spice, they are the perfect holiday recipe. Unfortunately, the traditional pumpkin pie uses egg yolk for the baking process. But you have hundreds on recipes online to make it eggless or vegan friendly.
This pie can have a thin crust made with gingersnaps and ground walnuts, or you could just purchase the crust in the store during the holiday season. You could top the pumpkin filling with a raspberry topping or add walnuts to the filling to make it nuttier.
You have multiple types of pumpkin pies you can try! Although the filling has a uniform set of ingredients in most recipes, you can try baking different types of crusts, like chocolate crusts and also explore different glazing for the top of the type, or even load it with berries.
Pot Caramel Apple Pie
This apple dessert has the ultimate crust and filling. The filling and cream are flavored by apples, dates, cinnamon and apple butter. These ingredients come together beautifully when baked.
It is nutritious and one of the best ways to incorporate fruits in a dessert. Caramel pies are extremely easy to make! They taste as good as caramel cake while taking far less time and effort to make one.
Tart Cherry & Mint Sorbet
A big fan of sorbet? We are sure you’ll love the Tart Cherry and Mint Sorbet. This hot summer treat is easy to make and can be eaten right about blending the ingredients, like softie serves, or freeze it for a couple of hours to enjoy it with a stiffer consistency.
It is a sweet, creamy delicious dessert with a very fruity flavor, which can be sweetened further using maple syrup. Adding a scoop of vanilla ice cream to it, perfectly complements the sorbet, making even your hot day a paradise.
Creamy Butter Nut Squash Pudding
This pudding has a rich creamy taste and is velvety! Despite having very fewer ingredients, the pudding is sweet and thick in consistency thanks to the butternut squash and the coconut cream. Cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and maple syrup add to the authenticity of the taste.
The pudding on its own doesn’t have a strong flavor but perfectly enhances other flavors if added to it. You could add cocoa powder to make it chocolaty, or even add almonds or walnuts to give it a crunchier and nuttier taste.
Greek Yogurt Fruit Tart
Greek yoghurt has the flexibility of being used to make a plethora of vegetarian desserts. But our pick for the day among our options is the Greek Yogurt Fruit Cake, thanks to its simple procedure to prepare, and very low time taken for its preparation. The tart’s crust is made from a healthy dose of nuts and some dates.
These two ingredients are so nutrient-rich, that they feature in almost every recipe involving an energy drink or an energy snack bar. For the crust, if you can’t find dates in any nearby store, raisins or even dried cranberries are a wonderful alternative for the base.
Cashews are the pick of the nuts for making a nice moist crust, but you could also use almonds or walnuts instead. However, the problem with these nuts is they are much harder to grind when compared to almonds. Still, taste-wise all three are a great option.
The filling is predominantly Greek yogurt. Now if you are vegan, do know that yogurt is a dairy-based food. So, it is vegetarian friendly, but not vegan friendly. Hence, while using the yogurt, try to purchase a vegan-friendly yogurt instead from the store.
You can either use plain yogurt or you could get flavored yogurts and then give the tart a fresh fruit topping. For example, you can use ready made strawberry flavored yogurt, and then garnish it with some slices of strawberries on the top.
Another great alternative is using a lemon-flavored yogurt, which is going to remind me a lot of a lemon tart.
Pumpkin Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
Pumpkin Cake with cream cheese frosting is another perfect holiday recipe. It takes a little effort, but the taste of it is to die for. Made using pumpkin puree, cinnamon, cardamom, coconut oil and almond flour, this cake is incredibly moist and is delicious.
You can just make a plain pumpkin cake or you could add a creamy topping to it. We have the right suggestions for the topping- a rich, creamy and a tangy “cream cheese frosting”.
Pumpkin cakes are great, but the frosting takes it to a higher level of taste.
Banana Bread
This spiced banana bread is incredibly moist in texture and is vegan friendly as well! Add a bit of walnut, to make it crunchier, or even bits of chocolate chips to enhance its taste. There is no fixed recipe for making banana bread!
Each region in the world has its unique version of the bread! Incredibly easy to make, this simple yet tasty bread is a perfect way to make use of your overripe bananas.
Lemon Muffins
Lemon based desserts have their fan base of people who love it for its juicy, zesty flavor! Lemon muffins are delicious muffins integrated with lemon slices in between. Adding a touch of cinnamon and sugar adds to the distinguished taste of the muffin.
These incredibly moist, fluffy muffins are a treat to relish, making it a wonderful breakfast dessert. Add some vegan cream frosting on the top, and you have got yourself an all-time favorite citrus delicacy.
While choosing lemons, it is advisable to pick Meyer lemons. These are incredibly juicy and bring out the taste in those muffins.
Chocolate Banana Muffins
Chocolate banana muffins are another wonderful way to work around overripe bananas. These muffins are truly underrated!! They are often overlooked because of its simplicity, but people forget how easy it is to bake and requires very little time.
You can prepare the batter for the muffin in less than 15 minutes. They are delicious, moist and rich in micronutrients. Adding chocolate chip or some nuts is going to make it taste crunchier. You could alternatively use pecans as well!! They are nutty, as well as rich in protein!
Raspberry Cheesecake
Raspberry cheesecake can either be made using a soft crust or a hard pie crust. The hard crust raspberry cheesecake has three layers, namely, A tart raspberry layer on the top, a creamy “cheesecake” layer in the middle, and a crunchy walnut crust in the bottom.
The difference between the soft crust variant is the walnut layer is not baked into a crust. It is in soft powdered form and all three layers are served in a glass jar instead.
This dessert is relished by anyone who loves cheesecakes. Being very easy to make, the only drawback of this dessert is the amount of time taken to combine the layers.
You have to make the layers individually and then put them together, which is going to be difficult as you have to freeze the cheesecake layer and bake the crust layer.
But if you have already made the raspberry tart and the creamy cheesecake the previous night, plating this dessert is going to take you hardly any time.
Apple Crisp
Crisps or as the British say, Crumbs, is a lot like pie in taste and texture but are messier in structure. Use whatever summer fruit you have and the resultant crisp is going to turn out great. They lack a proper crust like a pie, making it simpler to make.
Crisps are soft and crumbly, with a rich topping of freshly cut fruits, and in this case, apples Requiring only a bowl, some apple slices, and some streusel, they are the perfect vegetarian fast food desserts!
Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble
Strawberry rhubarb crumbs are a lot like strawberry rhubarb pie in taste while being softer and having a mixed consistency. Put together the buttery brown crumbling sugar crust and creamy strawberry rhubarb tart filling, you are going to end up with a delicious crumble with both elements perfectly complimenting each other like Ying and yang.
Top them off with some freshly cut strawberries, and experience divinity through food. Rhubarb is an amazing ingredient which is sweet and long, jam-like and red, and goes well with the strawberry flavor.
If you don’t have these fruits lying around in your neighborhood stores or if you want to explore something different, try peach and blackberries, or blueberries and nectarines, or even raspberry and roasted plum instead.
Lemon Strawberry Crumb Bars
Lemon Strawberry Crumb bars are a lot like a strawberry crumble but are made into a solid snack bar, and then glazed with lemon topping. They have a very crumbly yet moist sugar crust, making them a crunchy snack you can enjoy during any time of the day.
The insides are filled with strawberry tart and can be baked fairly quickly. These divine tasting crumb bars can easily be sliced into any shape and are rigid enough once frozen.
Peach Crisp
Another simple crisp you can make in no time is the peach crisp. Take a bowl, mix the fruit and streusel, bake it for a short duration, and the crisp is ready to be relished. This crisp is filled with nuts, and the oats usually have a more dominant taste over the peaches.
You can even add in some berries into the fix or any other stone fruit, and they are only going to enhance the deliciousness of the dish. Peach crisp is a dish best served hot.
So, you don’t even have to cool them off after baking it. Right after you bake them, serve them with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side, and they form a heavenly combination.
Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread
Zucchini bread is an extremely healthy alternative to use for your desserts. Each loaf of this bread is brimming with zucchini, and if it uses almond flour for baking, the bread is going to be nutrient-rich and incredibly fluffy.
You can avoid the use of egg as suggested by some recipes by using flax seeds instead. It also uses butter and milk for the batter. So, for a vegan alternative, you could use olive oil and almond milk instead.
Add some chocolate chips, which blends perfectly well with zucchini bread. Add some nuts to make the texture crunchier. You can use almonds or walnuts for this.
Cinnamon Rolls
No list of desserts is complete if doesn’t include a cinnamon roll. They’re very soft, fluffy, and are flavored by a rich dose of cinnamon. These rolls are incredibly popular due to their ease of preparation.
For someone new to baking, making the yeast rise can be a challenging task but in cinnamon, the batter rises at once, resulting in a soft, tasty swirling cinnamon roll. The classic roll is usually fluffy with a vanilla glazing on top.
Superfood Chocolate Bark
The superfood chocolate bark is loaded with hazelnuts, goji berries, pumpkin seeds, hemp seeds, chia seeds, almond slivers, walnuts, raisins, puffed quinoa, pistachios and ground cardamom sprinkled over a dark chocolate base.
With the exhaustive list of ingredients in it, and made of 70% of dark chocolate, it is rightly dubbed the superfood. Dark chocolates contain antioxidants that are good for health and the superfood are an immense powerhouse of micro and macronutrients. This rich-flavored treat, is visually appealing, has a great taste, and is extremely simple to create.
Vegetarian desserts can be delicious without compromising on the taste, texture or flavor. If you are looking to get your hands on some vegetarian desserts, this list is a must try.