Get inspired to create a healthy, plant-based (vegan) dessert packed with a rainbow of fruits, thanks to this collection of 40 BEST Fruit-Forward Dessert Recipes, which includes recipes in every category, including puddings, cheesecakes, frozen desserts, cakes, muffins, bars, pies, and cobblers.
Life’s best desserts are those that are naturally sweetened with plenty of real, whole, seasonal fruits. I mean just filled to the brim with colorful, aromatic, crunchy, sweet fruit. After all, these naturally sweet plant foods were human’s original desserts, before the advent of refined sugars. Our ancient ancestors never knew anything sweeter than ripe berries and stone fruit, unless they fought the bees for honey now and again. Now we know that a high added sugar diet is linked with health risks, but a diet filled with fruits has the opposite effect; it can help reduce your risks of chronic diseases. Fruits go beyond health to offer so much vibrant life to a dessert recipe. Whether it’s a creamy sorbet made with mango, a rustic peach cobbler, or a raspberry-filled bar, a rainbow of fruits is the true life of the party in the finest desserts! That’s why I asked some of my favorite bloggers to share their best plant-based, vegan fruit-forward dessert recipes for fruit-forward desserts in this fabulous collection of recipes. Bring on the fruit, thanks to these fruit-forward dessert recipes in a variety of categories, including puddings, cheesecakes, frozen desserts, cakes, muffins, bars, pies, and cobblers.
Eat and Live Goodness,
Sharon
40 BEST Fruit-Forward, Plant-Based Dessert Recipes
Cakes and Cheesecakes
Apple Butter Bundt Cake, Rebecca Pytell, Strength & Sunshine
Blueberry Cheesecake, Shahzadi Uzma Devje, Shahzadi Devje (shown above)
Chocolate & Pear Loaf Cake, Sonia Bozzo, Sweet Sensitive Free
Lemon Tart, Lori Rasmussen, My Quiet Kitchen (shown above)
Strawberry Shortcake, Caitlin Conner, Be Plant Well (shown above)
Puddings
Acai Berry Bowl, Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian (shown above)
Banana Chia Pudding, Marly McMillen Beelman, Namely Marly (shown above)
Berry Soy Chia Pudding, Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian (shown above)
Peach Chia Pudding, Amber Hall, Low Carb Quick (shown above)
Crisps and Crumbles
Apple Crisp, Leanne Ray, Healthy(ish) Appetite
Pear Crisp, Sherri Hall, Watch Learn Eat (shown above)
Plum Crisp, Elena Szeliga, Happy Kitchen (shown above)
Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble, Elysia Cartlidge, Haute & Healthy Living
Popsicles
Cherry Pineapple Popsicles, Megan Ann, Short Girl Tall Order (shown above)
Fruit and Veggie Popsicles, Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian (shown above)
Lemon Blueberry Popsicles, Alexandra Daum, Occasionally Eggs (shown above)
Mango Popsicles, Monica Nedeff, Monica Nedeff (shown above)
Strawberry Coconut Milk Popsicles, Julia Mueller, The Roasted Root (shown above)
Cobblers
Apple Cobbler, Sophia Tsoukas DeSantis, Veggies Don’t Bite
Fruit Skillet Cobbler, Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian (shown above)
Peach Cobbler in a Jar, Addie LaBonte, Organically Addison (shown above)
Ice Cream
Berry Ice Cream, Shawna Clapper, Stress Less Be Healthy
Blueberry Nice Cream with Edible Flowers, Amy Gorin Spector, Amy Gorin Nutrition (shown above)
Kiwi Pineapple Sorbet, Melissa Traub, Melissa Traub Plant-Based Nutrition
Pineapple Ice Cream, Chrissy Carroll, Dairy Free for Baby (shown above)
Raspberry Sorbet, Emily Rose Spain, Pretty Pies
Cookies
Banana Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies, Emese Maczko, My Pure Plants
Blueberry Oatmeal Cookies, Gunjan Dudani, Kiipfit (shown above)
Pies
Blueberry Pie, Dianne Wenz, Dianne’s Vegan Kitchen
Mixed Berry & Whipped Coconut Cream Pie, Sarah Nevins, A Saucy Kitchen (shown above)
Raspberry Cream Dessert, Jasmin Hackmann, VE Eat Cook Bake (shown above)
Bars and Bites
Apricot Bites, Jessica Watson Prohn, Kidney Grub
Mango Nice Cream Bars, Kristen Wood, Moon and Spoon and Yum
Peach Crumble Bars, Ritisha Gupta, Tisha’s Veggie Eats
Starbars, Tess Challis, Tess Challis (shown above)
Muffins and Breads
Blackberry Muffins, Julianne Curtin Lynch, No Sweat Vegan (shown above)
Strawberry Bread, Megan Stevens, Eat Beautiful
Fruits
Apple Nachos, Karolina Miseviciute, All Nutritious (shown above)
Dark Chocolate Figs, Emily Wilson, This Healthy Table (shown above)
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