Happy National Dessert Day! Try These 10 Raw Recipes – You Won’t Believe They’re Not Cooked!

Today is National Dessert Day, so naturally, we all must indulge in some sweetness today! Freshly-baked cakes, cookies and pies are certainly delicious, but raw desserts can be pretty awesome, too. It’s cool how sweet some nuts and fruit can taste in a raw dessert, proving that we don’t need artificial sweeteners and added sugar to make treats that satisfy our sweet tooth. Check out these awesome desserts that you won’t believe are not cooked.

1. Minty Green Chocolate Cream Bars

Calling all mint chocolate lovers, this is the desert for you. The base is a mixture of oats and dates, while the middle layer contains chocolate and maca. The green topping is made from an avocado, mint, and greens powder mix.

2. Pumpkin Cashew Cream Cake With Chocolate Sauce (Raw Vegan)

This pumpkin cashew cream cake is perfect for fall. The crust is only made from walnuts and dates, while the cheesecake includes several ingredients like cashews, sugar pumpkin, and coconut oil.

3. Raw Carrot Cake With Cashew Cream Cheese Frosting

Serve this at a party and see if guests can guess this cake is not cooked. The cashew cream cheese frosting is delectable!

4. Vegan Ginger Chocolate Cups With Sesame-Cashew Butter and Caramel

This recipe is the vegan take on the classic peanut butter cup, except instead of peanut butter, it has tahini cashew butter. Delicious!

5. Mindblowing Banana Chocolate Caramel Vegan Ice Cream Cake

This cake is indeed pretty mindblowing. Look at that caramel layer, the chocolate portion, and the goji berry coulis! Yum.

6. Triple Berry Cheesecake

The crust for this cheesecake doesn’t need oven time. All you need are walnuts and dates!

7. Heart Healthy Raw Pecan Spice Delight Cookies

Not only does this recipe skip the baking part, but it’s also easy to whip this up in a short amount of time.

8. Raw Vegan Three Kings Cake

A Kings Cake is a sweet dough cake that is filled with whipped cream and chocolate, then garnished with fruit for Carnival or Mardi Gras. There is a small ceramic king and a fava bean hidden inside. When the cake is cut, the person who gets the piece with the king wins while the person that gets the fava bean has to pay for the cake. It’s fun! Try this raw version.

9. Raw Chocolate Molten Lava Cakes

If you’re a fan of chocolate, we know you will absolutely love this dessert. The cake portion is only made of two ingredients: raw oats and cacao powder.

10. Sweet Star Cookies

These look a lot like the traditional sugar cookies that you buy at the store in a roll, cut at home and pop into the oven. Except, this version is raw and made from cashews.

Lead image source: Raw Chocolate Molten Lava Cakes