8 Must-Try Easy Vegan Desserts
Desserts are probably everyone’s favorite part of any meal. Being vegan shouldn’t stop you from eating desserts. Here are 8 easy vegan desserts you must try:
Fruit salad
Fruits are easily the easiest dessert vegans could have. It’s fully vegan and does not require a lot of complicated ingredients. Fruits could also just be peeled, chopped and tossed in a bowl and they’re good to go.
There are many ways to spice up this dessert. For example, we can use coconut yogurt. Just mix them together and voila, you’ve made your delicious vegan dessert in less than 10 minutes. This is usually best served chilled.
You can basically choose anything you’d like to have as a combination of your fruit salad or fruit-based desserts. You may also check this website for some fruit combinations you should try.
Fruit smoothie
Similar to fruit salads, fruit smoothies are absolutely another easy yet delicious vegan dessert. You can probably finish preparing a smoothie in 5 minutes. You just need your fruits, sweetener, and dairy-free milk and you’re good to go.
Similar to fruit salads, you can choose and add any fruits in your smoothie to make a special combination of your choice.
This dessert is also best served a bit chilled so before you blend your fruits, let them sit in the fridge for a while.
Nice cream
Nice cream is a vegan term for dairy-free ice cream made from bananas.
To begin, you can blend bananas with your choice of vegan milk to make it creamy. Lastly, don’t forget to freeze it. It sounds complicated but it really isn’t. Just add fruits and other ingredients of your choice and you’re good to go.
Silken tofu pudding
Silken tofu is a type of unpressed and undrained soft tofu. Tofu is also a great source of protein and this makes this dessert a healthy and easy one. Some people just add sweeteners to their silken tofu. You can also make it with vanilla or chocolate with fruits.
Dark chocolate
Cacao butter, cacao powder, and maple syrup are all you need for this. Just mix it together and let it sit in the freezer and you’ll have an easy to eat dessert after every meal. You can make these in batches and just eat it whenever you like.
Chia-based desserts
Desserts made with chia seeds are really healthy. Chia seeds contain many nutrients our bodies need in such a small size. Soak your chia seeds in soya milk with chocolate or cocoa powder overnight in the fridge and you got yourself a chocolate chia pudding for dessert the next day. The only thing taking time here is for the chia seeds to soak up on your soya milk. Finally, you can just add any toppings of your choice to spice it up a bit.
Peanut butter-based dessert
Most people love eating peanut butter on its own as a dessert. However, we can make things better by incorporating peanut butter in other desserts.
With peanut butter, we can also make vegan peanut butter cookies or cakes. Just like this and this.
Finally, you don’t have to settle with just eating peanut butter alone.
No-bake vegan brownie bites
This is probably the most complicated of all these easy vegan desserts but it’s definitely worth it. Who doesn’t love brownies? This no-bake brownie recipe from The Minimalist Baker is easy to follow.
All you need are:
- pitted dates
- peanut butter
- coconut oil
- cocoa powder
You can also check this for the full instructions.
It might take up to 30 minutes to prepare this no-bake vegan brownie but it’s surely worth it.
There are many more easy-to-make vegan desserts. Desserts shouldn’t be less tasty just because they’re vegan. Here’s to more mouth-watering vegan desserts!