50 Light and Lovely Vegan Desserts

Get inspired to enjoy sweet treats the healthy way with these 50 Light and Lovely Vegan Desserts recipes, which are light in added sugars and fats, but loaded with flavor and appeal.

Ahh, a sweet little cookie with your coffee break. A bitter-sweet bite of a dark chocolate pick-me-up in the mid-afternoon. A fruity, satisfying dessert after a fabulous meal. A special, creamy something to impress everyone at a dinner party. All of these sweet treats offer a delicious kiss to soothe your taste buds, and your soul. And who says they can’t fit into your healthy, plant-based eating style? You can learn a few tips and tricks from some of my favorite food bloggers on how to create treats without all of the sugar, fat, and decadence in this amazing collection of 50 Light and Lovely Vegan Desserts recipes. These easy vegan desserts recipes are lighter in sugar and calories, yet heavy on flavor and appeal. There’s everything here in this recipe collection, including cookies, bars, bites, muffins, puddings, crumbles, and puddings.

Remember to truly enjoy your healthy eating style in every way possible, including a sweet bite here and there.

Eat and Live Goodness,

Sharon

50 Light and Lovely Vegan Desserts

Cookies

Banana Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies, Emese Maczko, My Pure Plants (shown above)
Carrot Cake Cookies, Jenna McGreevy, Oh Meats
Flourless Chocolate Chili Cookies, Deirdre Gilna, The Fiery Vegetarian

Flourless Chocolate Tahini Thumbprint Cookies, Alexandra Daum, Occasionally Eggs (shown above)
Healthy Peanut Butter Chickpea Cookies, Rosa Tamm, This Healthy Kitchen
Dark Chocolate Pistachio Biscotti, Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian

Bars

Berry and Banana Crumble Bars, Anthea Cheng, Rainbow Nourishments (shown above)
Chocolate Chip Chickpea Blondie Bars, Jennifer Hunt, RD, Healthy-Inspiration

Balls/Bites

Cacao Coconut Cashew Balls, Kelly Page, Tasting Page

Chocolate Peanut Butter Coconut Balls, Sarah Schlichter, MS, RD, Bucket List Tummy (shown above)
Cookie Dough Energy Bites, Elaine Gordon, Eating by Elaine
Frozen Chocolate-and-Hemp-Smothered Banana Bites, Liz Weiss, MS, RD, Liz’s Healthy Table

Cobblers, Crisps, Crumbles, Pies

Gluten Free Avocado Chocolate Crumble, Charla Harris, That Girl Cooks Healthy
Healthy Peach Cobbler, Sophia Tsoukas DeSantis, Veggies Don’t Bite

Nectarine Blueberry Crisp, Megan Ann, Short Girl Tall Order (shown above)

Peach Crisp with Rosemary and Olive Oil, Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian (shown above)
Raw Blueberry Pie, Dianne Wenz, Dianne’s Vegan Kitchen

Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler, Alexandra Daum, Occasionally Eggs (shown above)

Muffins/Rolls

Easy Cinnamon Rolls, Alena Schowalter, Nutriciously (shown above)
Gluten-Free Cherry Cobbler Muffins, Kristen Wood, Moon and Spoon and Yum
Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins, Shannon Hakala, Instant Veg
Mini Quinoa Sweet Potato Muffins, Rosa Tamm, This Healthy Kitchen

Sweet Potato Bran Muffins, Gina Matsoukas, Running To The Kitchen (shown above)

Truffles

3-Ingredient Dark Chocolate Avocado Truffles, Kara Hochreiter, MS, RD, Byte Sized Nutrition
Avocado Truffles, Angela Coleby, Divalicious Recipes

Healthy Chocolate-Mint Truffles, Edwina Clark, MS, RD (shown above)
Homemade Ferrero Rocher Truffles, Katia Provenzano, The Clever Meal

Pumpkin Pie Truffles, Megan Ann, Short Girl Tall Order (shown above)

Puddings/Mousses

3 Ingredients Strawberry Mousse, Molly Kumar, Easy Cooking with Molly
10 Minute Key Lime Pudding, Charla Harris, That Girl Cooks Healthy
Chocolate Almond Butter Mousse, Allison Christine, Upbeet Kitchen

Chocolate Coconut Cream Pudding, Sarah Schlichter, MS, RD, Bucket List Tummy (shown above)
Instant Pot Tapioca Pudding, Sonia Saluja, The Belly Rules the Mind

Kiwi and Coconut Milk Chia Pudding, Michele Peterson, A Taste for Travel (shown above)
Mango Pudding, Libby Hakim, Cooking with Nana Ling
Southern Banana Pudding, Rebecca Pytell, Strength and Sunshine

Sweet Potato Pudding, Gwen Leron, Delightful Adventures (shown above)

Frozen Treats

Chocolate Banana Ice Cream, Katia Provenzano, The Clever Meal (shown above)
Marshmallow Coconut Popsicles, Sarah Bond, Live Eat Learn

Papaya Lime Popsicles, Megan Ann, Short Girl Tall Order (shown above)
Rich and Creamy Fudgesicles, Tricia Bozeman, Rhubarbarians

No-Bake Treats

Apple Cookies, Kirbie’s Cravings
Cranberry Oat No Bake Bars, Kristina Sloggett, Spabettie

No-Bake Cookie Dough Moons, Nicole Berth, When Sweet Becomes Healthy (shown above)
No-Bake Chocolate & Pumpkin Cookies, Edwina Clark, MS, RD

Bars, Brownies

Banana Brownies, Lori Rasmussen, My Quiet Kitchen (shown above)
Baked Gluten-Free Lemon Poppy Seed Doughnuts, Rebecca Pytell, Strength and Sunshine
Flourless Chocolate Cake, Cindy Newland, Intentionally Eat

Healthy Peanut Butter Blondies, Laura Sandford, Joy Food Sunshine (shown above)
Peanut Butter Lava Cakes, Amy Lyons, Fragrant Vanilla

For some of my favorite plant-based sweet treat recipes, check out the following:

Six Layer Vegan Magic Bars
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chickpea Bars
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Cinnamon Apple Crumble
Tollhouse Pan Cookies
Vegan Beet Red Velvet Cake