This vegan red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting is fluffy, delicious, and super easy to make! It has a tender crumb that almost melts in your mouth.
Vegan Dessert Recipes
I believe that if you're going to make dessert, make it worth your while! All of the dessert recipes on Seitan Beats Your Meat are truly decadent and made with vegan butter, oil, real sugar, and chocolate. No "healthy" desserts here.
Whether you're looking for cookies, cupcakes, pies, or ice cream, you'll be sure to find something delectable!
Some of the most popular dessert recipes here are the Tiramisu, Lemon Meringue Pie, and Bourbon Caramel Chocolate Cookie Cake.
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15 Delicious Vegan Christmas Cookies to Try This Year
These vegan Christmas cookie recipes are full of nostalgia, holiday cheer, and lots of sugar! Whether you're looking for traditional cookies or a twist on classic recipes, you're sure to find something to adorn your dessert table.
Vegan English Toffee Recipe
These buttery old fashioned vegan English toffee pieces are coated in chocolate and topped with crunchy walnuts. They make a wonderful gift around the holidays, or an addition to your Christmas cookie table.
Vegan German Chocolate Cake
This vegan German chocolate cake is absolute crowd pleaser with its thick coconut pecan caramel, chocolate buttercream, and rich chocolate cake. It's well worth the time it takes to make!
Vegan Butter Pecan Ice Cream
Creamy, delicious, and full of chewy pecans, this homemade vegan butter pecan ice cream is absolutely divine!
Vegan Ice Cream Recipes for Summer
It's summer and these vegan ice cream recipes are here to the rescue! From decadent coconut and cashew-based ice creams to banana nice cream, there’s a dairy-free frozen treat for everyone.
Easy Vegan Lemon Loaf Cake
This easy vegan lemon loaf cake is lightly sweet and topped with a lemon drizzle glaze. It makes the perfect accompaniment to your breakfast or dessert after dinner with coffee.
Vegan Peanut Butter Eggs
These homemade vegan peanut butter chocolate eggs are made with a peanut butter cream cheese filling and coated in chocolate. They're super simple to make as Easter candy!
10 Delicious Vegan Pie Recipes
These 10 vegan pie recipes are sure to be a hit for holiday gatherings, Pi Day, and any day in between! There is a mix of sweet and savory pies, as well as a pie crust recipe to get you started.
Red Velvet Cupcakes with Blood Orange Cream Cheese Frosting
These vegan red velvet cupcakes are sweet, vibrant, and topped with a rose blood orange cream cheese frosting. They make the perfect Valentine's Day dessert, birthday cupcake, or treat any time of the year.
Vegan Marzipan Recipe with Aquafaba
This vegan marzipan recipe is quick and easy and tastes sweet and nutty. It can be used just like traditional marzipan—in cookies, candy, baking, for marzipan fruits, or even as a replacement for fondant. Marzipan typically calls for egg whites, but this version uses aquafaba, the liquid from a can of chickpeas. Jump to:🥘 Ingredients🔪 […]
Chocolate Peppermint Cream Bars
These chocolate peppermint cream bars have three layers: a bottom layer of dense, fudgy chocolate peppermint brownie filled with a middle layer of peppermint frosting, then a layer of chocolate. Rather, four layers if you count the optional crushed candy cane garnish. Jump to:🍫 Ingredients🔪 Instructions🍭 How to crush candy canes💭 Tips🎄 More Vegan Christmas […]
Homemade Vanilla Extract
This homemade vanilla extract is so easy to make and makes a great gift. It will cost far less than store bought vanilla extract in the long run. Jump to:🍨 Ingredients🔪 Instructions💭 Tips🍰 Ways to use💬Comments Homemade vanilla extract is incredibly easy to make, much cheaper than tiny store-bought bottles, and it makes a great […]
Pi Day: Vegan Lemon Meringue Pie
It's Pi Day, and vegan meringue broke the internet. Therefore, I bring you vegan lemon meringue pie! <<<[wprm-recipe-jump]>>> Vegan Meringue I heard about the infamous chickpea-based meringue over the past few weeks on Facebook and blogs (like révolution végétale) and filed away the idea for future experiments. Pi Day seemed like the perfect time to […]
Mini S'mores Pie
On this episode of Vegan Meringue Adventures: Mini S'mores Pies! After making Lemon Meringue Pie and Vegan Lucky Charms, S'mores Pie was next on my list. These mini pies have a soft graham cracker crust, a chocolate filling somewhere between pudding and ganache, and toasted marshmallow fluff. The recipe is really a group effort and […]
Oreo Cheesecake with Speculoos Cookie Crust
Today's Vegan MoFo theme is "focus on a nutrient" so I, uh, made Oreo cheesecake with speculoos cookie crust and aquafaba marshmallow topping. I'm sure there's AT LEAST one nutrient in here. We'll go with "sugar." Not only is this cheesecake filled with Oreos and real vanilla bean paste, in addition, the crust is made […]
Mini Florida Key Lime Pies
Although it's two days after Pi Day, I think it takes more than a day to fully appreciate pi(e). I was in the kitchen making these mini key lime pie on Monday, and continued yesterday with a strawberry cheesecake using the leftover ingredients. Key lime pie using actual key limes is a ton of work […]
Tiramisu with Homemade Ladyfingers and Cashew Mascarpone
The magic of aquafaba is at it again! This vegan tiramisu recipe is made with homemade ladyfingers made with aquafaba instead of egg whites, cultured cashew mascarpone, and coconut cream. Save for the non-dairy yogurt used to culture the mascarpone, every ingredient in this dessert is made from scratch (you'll need 2 days for prep, so […]
Italian Rainbow Cookies
The end of October—and Vegan MoFo—is nigh. To be honest, I'm looking forward to making some simple, vegetable-forward food for a while after cooking so many decadent dinners and desserts for the past few weeks. And eating out and restaurants and events. But it's still October, so bring on the dinners, desserts, and Halloween candy! […]
Vegan Stollen with Marzipan Filling
Stollen: a booze-soaked fruit-filled German yeast bread with a powdered sugar coating and a sweet marzipan center, weighing approximately 100 pounds and eaten during Christmastime. Not to be confused with the less-coveted fruitcake, this dense, sugary treat is toothsome and bursting with flavor. Each loaf of this bread with a rich history is meant to […]
Royal Icing
If you've ever admired those glossy, intricately-patterned cookies that look like a tiny piece of art, or watched a video in Instagram of meticulous decorating, you're familiar with royal icing. It's beyond simple to make, and once you have the icing, you can adjust the consistency and dye it all kinds of colors to create […]
Easy Vegan Sugar Cookie Recipe
These vegan sugar cookies are egg-free and dairy-free and so easy to whip up for decorating! They make perfect cutout cookies for Christmas. <<< [wprm-recipe-jump] >>> Making sugar cookies is an essential activity around Christmas or just throughout the winter. You can make the designs anywhere from simple to intricate, and they are delicious either […]
Succulent Cupcakes
These meringue succulent cupcakes are made with chocolate cupcake "dirt", topped with vegan aquafaba meringue succulents, and served in little terracotta pots. They make a great dessert for spring or summer parties, and your guests can take home the pots to reuse for real plants. Here's a new aquafaba meringue project to try out just […]
Maple Bacon PBR Cupcakes
Here we have maple bacon cupcakes with PBR. If that doesn't sound like food to you, you may revel in the grossness or exit your browser in pursuit of greener pastures or cat videos (come back next week for regularly-scheduled programming!). The omnis have been making bacon desserts for years, so I decided to abandon […]
Cherry Canary Melon Vegan Sherbet
This cherry canary melon vegan sherbet is sure to satisfy your sweet tooth! It's the perfect frozen treat for a hot summer day. <<< [wprm-recipe-jump] >>> In search of a summer treat, ice cream certainly come to mind. So far, Chicago's summer has been a mix of thunderstorms, and sunny, beautiful weather, sometimes over the […]
Make Homemade Vegan Milk Duds
These vegan milk duds are just like the real thing! They have a chewy caramel filling coated with chocolate. *Note: This post is spoiler-free. "Everybody likes to go to the movies when they're sad." While the first week of MoFo focused on classic Mad Men food and episodes, this week will center in on Mad […]
Cake Pops
Cake pops! I had so much cake leftover from the last cakes I made that I decided to catch up with the times (in 2010) and make some vegan cake pops. The recipe is pretty simple and not really an exact science. You basically combine crumbled up cake with just enough frosting to hold it […]
Chocolate Cake and Dog Cake
Last week I was faced with the task of deciding what to do with an extra chocolate sheet cake. I know, such a difficult position to be in. I wasn't interested in making another basic frosted cake, so I grabbed some cookie cutters and started cutting out shapes. The cake was too thick for the […]
"Sally, go watch TV."
*Warning: season three spoilers! When I was watching Mad Men for the first time. The second time around, I was supposed to pay attention to food, design, and table setting for this project, but alas, I got sucked in and forgot for the greater portion of six seasons. However, there are some scenes that I […]
Salted Key Lime Pie
Today is National Pie Day (not to be confused with Pi Day). I don't need an excuse to eat pie, so it seemed like a great day to celebrate. This key lime pie recipe is adapted from the Agua de Jamaica Key Lime Pie recipe in Cheers to Vegan Sweets. The addition of coconut cream […]
"I watched the sunrise today. Couldn't sleep."
"How was it?" "Average." I decided to turn a room into a camera obscura for this photo (no Photoshop!). A camera obscura is created by letting a small amount of light into a pitch dark vessel through a pinhole. Such vessels include a camera, cardboard box, or in this case, a room with the window […]
Mocha Ice Cream
If you've been following Seitan Beats Your Meat, or reading Cheers to Vegan Sweets, you might know that I'm a big fan of coconut-based ice cream. While coconut milk tends to impart its flavor when used in ice cream, it makes for one of the creamiest vegan ice cream bases, and it's so simple to […]
Vegan Pumpkin Spice Fudge
This year, I made an assortment of homemade vegan Halloween candy. I have a bowl of mini Halloween treat bags in the kitchen filled with fudge, vegan Tootsie Rolls, meringues, and chocolate cranberry bark with no express purpose other than to have on hand. We probably won't get trick-or-treaters in a third-floor walk-up (and homemade […]
Maple Chocolate Fig Cupcakes
Now that the weather has switched from 50°F and magical to icy and gray 'round these parts, hanging out inside and making delicious treats that warm up the house sounds like the best plan. Whether you're making resolutions (I suggest the Taco Cleanse!) or forgoing the idea entirely, because a little indulgence now and then […]
Homemade Nonpareils
Whether you call them nonpareils or the brand name Sno-Caps, these chocolate candies covered in nonpareil sprinkles come in a variety of colors, flavors, and type of chocolate. Even though they are made with just three ingredients and nonpareil sprinkles are usually free of confectioner's glaze, the commercially-produced versions of these candies are rarely vegan. […]
Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwiches with Oreo Buttercream
This chocolate chip cookie sandwich is filled with Oreo frosting and rolled in sprinkles. They're great anytime you need sugar on sugar on chocolate! The chocolate chip cookies are soft baked and slightly chewy. Set some cookies aside to enjoy on their own. These chocolate chip cookie sandwiches are great for kids parties (or any […]
Triple Layer Bourbon Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
My wife recently turned 30, and I wanted to make sure she got a birthday cake that was completely over the top, but also a little bit grown up. Thus, one of the layers of this triple layer birthday cake is a giant cookie, and pretty much every part of the cake is soaked in […]
Pumpkin Spice Milkshake with Bourbon
Move over, PSL. This pumpkin spice milkshake is filled with real pumpkin puree, fresh spices, and 2 shots of bourbon. It's also garnished with maple cotton candy and served in a scooped out pie pumpkin! Vegan MoFo: Let's get boozy! Today's Vegan MoFo theme is "Let's get boozy!" I have a bit of a history […]
Pumpkin Spice Latte Ice Cream
Fall is only a week away, and I'm already stocking up on canned pumpkin, pulling out all of the apple, pumpkin, and cinnamon-scented candles, and planning pumpkin patch trips. While I love summer, I've had my fill of sweaty 80°F+ days and am looking forward to fall air, apple cider, hanging out under blankets, and […]
Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Every year, my grandma makes a pumpkin cake just like this one on Thanksgiving. Her cake is a staple on the dessert table along with pumpkin pie and pumpkin pie accessories like whipped cream and ice cream in seasonal flavors. While the pumpkin in autumnal recipes is usually shrouded with a spice blend, the actual […]