Enjoying sweet treats that are free of gluten and dairy is easier than ever. This roundup features vegan gluten-free dairy-free desserts — easy recipes for cakes, cookies, bars, truffles, puddings, fruity desserts, and more!
A word about oats: While oats (which are used in a few of these recipes) are naturally gluten-free, they may be processed in facilities in which cross-contamination can occur. Those for whom this is a concern should make sure to purchase oat products that are certified gluten-free.
Learn more about oats in the context of gluten-free living.
Gluten-free dairy-free cookies, bars, and cakes
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies: These luscious cookies by Leslie Cerier use hearty teff flour. Tasting mildly like chocolate, teff flour has plenty of natural sweetness and blends well with nuts and chocolate.
Classic Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies (with a GF option): Who doesn’t love a good peanut butter cookie? These classic cookies are as easy to make as they are to eat! To make these gluten free, simply swap in a GF flour blend or sorghum flour in for the wheat flour.
Mini Unbaked Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies: When you crave a sweet homemade treat but don’t feel like turning on the oven, these little unbaked cookies might just be the thing.
No-Bake Date-Nut Cookies: No flour. No sugar. With just a few choice ingredients, Kathy Freston’s no-bake date nut cookies will satisfy your sweet tooth, guilt-free and oven-free.
Coconut Macaroons: Though they’re especially appreciated as a Passover treat, you can enjoy these easy vegan coconut macaroons any time of year, courtesy of Hannah Kaminsky.
Easy Vegan Oatmeal Raisin Cookies: This jazzylicious vegan oatmeal raisin cookie recipe by Laura Theodore feature a crisp outside and super moist center. This cookie is a real classic!
No-Bake Chocolate and Peanut Butter Bars: A healthier take on a good-for you “Snickers” bars, this one is from Holly Jade, who says, “If you love peanut butter, you’ll be nuts about these no-bake vegan chocolate and peanut butter bars!”
No-Bake Crispy Rice Bars: Filled with seeds and dried fruit, these are quick to prepare and are a good-for-you treat that tastes decadent.
5-Ingredient Vegan Apricot Bars: This treat by Laura Theodore is easy to make, while also being easy on the wallet. The sweetness comes from the apricot preserves, and rolled oats provide the crunch.
Triple Seed Chocolate Energy Bars: You can make your own homemade chocolate energy bars in minutes using seeds, pureed dates, and dark chocolate — no baking required!
Unbaked Fudgy Vegan Chocolate Brownies: You won’t believe how easy it is to make these no-bake GF chocolate brownies, rich with nuts and sweetened with dates.
Vegan Apple Coffee Cake: Laura Theodore presents a moist and delicious vegan apple coffee cake made with oat flour to serve for a mid-morning coffee or tea break, breakfast treat, snazzy snack, or quick dessert!
Gluten-free and dairy-free fruity desserts
Stovetop Apple and Blueberry Crumble: Summer meets fall in this fresh, fruity apple and blueberry crumble, a vegan dessert made in a skillet, right on the stovetop. Here’s a way to enjoy a sweet, delectable crumble, minus the 30 minute baking time usually required.
Blueberry Baked Oatmeal: Made with fresh or frozen berries (preferably fresh when in season), this fruity vegan baked oatmeal is a cross between a dessert and a meal.
Wine-Poached Pears with Glazed Pecans: Wine-poached pears make an easy and elegant dessert, but what makes this recipe extra pleasing is the addition of glazed pecans. It’s a lovely treat for late fall and winter.
Unbaked Strawberry and Blueberry Crisp: Two favorite spring-to-summer fruits come together in this dessert that’s as pretty as it is easy to make.
Vegan Unbaked Peach Crisp with Summer Berries: When you want a lovely and easy summer fruit dessert that’s ready in no time, this fruity crisp will do the trick.
No-Bake Vegan Strawberry Shortcakes: These sweet little no-bake vegan strawberry shortcakes are made with rounds of prepared polenta in place of baked biscuits.
Gingery Winter Fruit Salad: This simple and pretty fruit salad is a refreshing finish to cool-weather meals. Made with pears, apples, oranges, pineapple, and dried cranberries, this fruit medley is dressed up with crystallized ginger and vegan yogurt.
Maple Glazed Pineapple: Maple syrup makes pineapple even more irresistible, especially when it’s caramelized into its surface. It’s a nearly-instant skillet dessert or side dish to brighten any cool-weather meal.
Frozen desserts
Orange Dreamsicle Ice Cream Bars: Creamsicle ice cream bars are transformed into cashew-based dairy-free Dreamsicle bars, and they’re brighter, bolder, and more brilliantly citrusy thanks to a hefty measure of zest added into the mix.
Easy Strawberry Ice Pops: Needing only two ingredients (and an optional one), these ice pops consist only of fresh fruit and all-fruit preserves (aka jam). The optional splash of creamy color is provided by plant-based creamer — oat, almond, or coconut.
Fudgy Dairy-Free Chocolate Ice Pops: Easy to make and fun to eat, these fudgy ice pops satisfy your sweet tooth on hot summer days with just 4 ingredients.
Vegan Banana Ice Cream with Peanut Butter and a Hint of Chocolate: Have you discovered vegan banana ice cream? It’s hard to believe that the base of this creamy, dairy-free treat is simply ripe frozen banana.
Vegan Cherry Amaretto Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream: It’s no secret—cherries and dark chocolate have long been best friends. The rich and slightly bitter dark chocolate marries so well with the sweet and bold red cherry in this recipe by Deena Jalal.
Truffles and puddings
Caramel Chewies: Aka nut butter-stuffed dates with chocolate drizzle taste like mini candy bars, yet they take minutes to make, need only 5 ingredients, and are actually good for you! This super-easy, guilt-free treat for the sweet tooth is by Andrea Hannemann.
Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles: These crowd-pleasing truffles are a compassionate indulgence, and deceptively simple to make.”
Easy Peanut Butter Chocolate Truffles: Naturally vegan and easy to make, these truffles, with just 4 essential ingredients, are an energy snack that adults and kids alike will love.
No-Bake Chocolate-Dipped Figs: There are few desserts that are more sensuous than chocolate-dipped figs. And this recipe contributed by Ilene Godofsky Moreno takes almost no time to make, needs no baking, and is 100% vegan and GF.
Vegan Deep Dark Truffle Chocolate Pudding: Wow your guests with Laura Theodore’s vegan chocolate pudding that tastes as decadent as a rich chocolate truffle. Silky smooth, thick, rich and super chocolaty.
Vanilla Cream Chocolate Pudding Parfaits: Beautiful to look at and lovely to eat, these simple but elegant vegan chocolate pudding parfaits by Laura Theodore will please vanilla and chocolate lovers alike.
Vegan Silken Tofu Chocolate Pudding: This easy vegan avocado chocolate pudding, made with silken tofu, is a mash-up of two contemporary classics. Whether you call this recipe a tofu chocolate mousse, avocado chocolate pudding, or tofu pudding, this smooth dessert is luscious!
Coconut Bites: Bet you can’t eat just one of these super-easy-to-make vegan coconut bites by Chef Ramses Bravo, filled with the fruity goodness of fresh mango and banana!
Instant Pot® Thai Mango Sticky Rice: The Instant Pot® was just made for recipes like this one. Nisha Vora shows you how.
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