What if life was just desserts? Well, it can be with these desserts from September 2023! Featuring delights like these, you’ll find yourself adding these to your dessert rotation. Plus, they’re all vegan!

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1. Carrot Cake Sticky Toffee Pudding

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I awoke with a jolt one morning. The reason? In my mind, sticky toffee pudding and carrot cake should become one. It makes so much friggin’ sense. They have a lot of the same ingredients, but when I tell you adding carrots to a sticky toffee pudding was a good idea, I am vastly understated what is happening here. The marriage of dates and carrots with the toffee sauce will forever be burned into my brain as one of the best desserts I have ever had and this Carrot Cake Sticky Toffee Pudding by Lauren Boehme is worth making.  Credit: Reprinted with permission from Delicious AF Vegan by Lauren Boehme. Page Street Publishing Co. 2023. Photo credit: Lauren Boehme and Julie Grace.

2. Cinnamon Currant Scones

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Rich, flakey, melt-in-your-mouth cinnamon currant scones are biscuit meets cake only better. This Cinnamon Currant Scones by Carol Clayton has just the right texture from fluffy date sugar and buttery coconut cream. Gently spiced with cinnamon, these vegan scones are a must-try for your weekend baking plans!

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3. Vegan Oat Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream

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These Vegan Oat Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream by Shanika Graham-White are entirely plant-based, and the best part is that you don’t need anything fancy to whip them up!

4. Pecan Cheesecake

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This Pecan Cheesecake by Robin Browne is the perfect dessert. This dairy-free cheesecake is sweet and creamy, with a soft crumbly crust.

5. Flourless Chickpea Brownies

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These Flourless Chickpea Brownies by Maggie Wescott are fudgy and packed full of delicious chocolate flavor.  These protein-packed brownies make a healthy dessert or snack any time of the day! Chickpeas are a fairly neutral-flavored bean and once combined with all the other ingredients there isn’t a hint of bean anywhere.  These brownies are dense and fudgy, with the perfect amount of sweetness from the maple syrup and dark chocolate.

6. Boston Cream Doughnut

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These Boston Cream Doughnuts by Ivy are fluffy donuts, filled with sweet vegan vanilla custard, and coated with chocolate – how does that sound?

7. Pecan, Walnut, and Ginger Cookies

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If you’re someone who tries to resist fall every time it comes around, let these Pecan, Walnut, and Ginger Cookies by Kathryn Geyer guide you into the new season. Nobody’s trying to hit you over the head with pumpkin spice or butternut squash, but autumn flavors like ginger and cinnamon and hearty, buttery nuts come together to make one seriously seasonal (and delicious!) dessert.

8. Chocolate Beet Cupcakes

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These Chocolate Beet Cupcakes by Jessica Bose are simply the best to enjoy when you want a sweet treat with hidden veggies!

9. Apple Pumpkin Pie Tart

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This Apple Pumpkin Pie Tart by Clémence Moulaert looks more like a cross between a pumpkin pie and an apple tart, but just didn’t sound as attractive, so a pie I shall call it, even though it absolutely, unequivocally is. not. a pie.

10. Coffee Lovers Caramel Drip Cake

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As you can guess from the title, this cake is dedicated to all the coffee lovers out there, including me! This Coffee Lovers Caramel Drip Cake by Charlotte Roberts has two layers of moist coffee-infused sponge cake that are gloriously sandwiched together and coated with a vanilla coffee buttercream frosting and a generous drizzle of homemade coffee caramel sauce.   Credit: Reprinted with permission from Decadent Vegan Cakes by Charlotte Roberts. Page Street Publishing Co. 2023. Photo credit: Charlotte Roberts.

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