15 Sweet and Healthy Plant-Based Treats!

Craving something sweet, but trying to stay healthy? Eating desserts and sweets doesn’t necessarily mean eating unhealthy. Check out these 15 dessert recipes that are nutritious and will also satisfy your sweet tooth!

We also highly recommend downloading the Food Monster App  — with over 20,000 delicious recipes it is the largest plant-based recipe resource to help you get healthy! And, don’t forget to check out our Dessert Archives!

1. Healthy Dessert Baked Sweet Potato

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Turn nutrient-rich sweet potatoes into a satisfyingly sweet dessert! Just bake and stuff with your favorite toppings. This Healthy Dessert Baked Sweet Potato by Brittany Mullins is loaded with toasted coconut, coconut butter, cinnamon, almond butter, pecans and dark chocolate. Vegan, gluten-free and paleo-friendly.

2. Healthy Peanut Butter Pie

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Peanut butter lovers rejoice – this Healthy Peanut Butter Pie by Annie Markowitz is the perfect dessert! It’s also packed with fiber and protein, making it healthy enough to eat for breakfast if you’re feeling like a rebel!

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3. 6-Ingredient Banana Chocolate Mud Cake With Peanut Butter Frosting

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This simple 6-Ingredient Banana Chocolate Mud Cake With Peanut Butter Frosting by Talida Voinea is awesome for when you have a bunch of ripe bananas, but want to go beyond the usual banana bread. Made from oat flour, almond butter, and mashed bananas, this chocolatey fruit-sweetened dessert has a texture similar to a mud cake. It’s topped with a sweet maple-peanut butter frosting that seeps into the cake and makes it even more indulgent. It pairs beautifully with strawberries, but any fresh berry works, too.

4. Avocado Tofu Chocolate Mousse

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What’s not to love about this Avocado Tofu Chocolate Mousse by Diane Smith? It’s great for a snack or it’s elegant for dinner guests and so easy to put together. You’ll be out of the kitchen in a flash.

5. Raw Raspberry Pomegranate Cake Slices With Cookie Crust

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These Raw Raspberry Pomegranate Cake Slices With Cookie Crust by Ella Suihko are the perfect crowd-pleasing dessert. Raspberry brings notes of sweetness that are balanced out by the pomegranate, all wrapped in a creamy coconut cream-based layer. This deliciousness sits between a chewy, chocolatey cookie crust base and a layer of rice chocolate date frosting. Top with additional raspberries, pomegranate seeds, and shaved chocolate.

6. Raw Lemon and Ginger Cheesecake

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This Raw Lemon and Ginger Cheesecake from Tiana Haines is to live for, a delicious dessert with health benefits – yes please! This dessert has a zingy kick and the citrus and ginger work really well together. This raw dessert is truly an immunity booster.

7. Healthy Cranberry Oatmeal Squares

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These Healthy Cranberry Oatmeal Squares by Allie Penner are free from oil and refined sugar, making them the perfect snack or dessert. Made with sunflower seed butter, coconut sugar, and maple syrup!

8. Healthy Chunky Monkey Pudding Parfait

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Enjoy this super creamy and rich Healthy Chunky Monkey Pudding Parfait by Kat Condon for breakfast or dessert! Homemade chocolate banana pudding is layered with protein-rich vegan yogurt and topped with granola and more banana slices for the perfect parfait. Creamy, rich and full of chocolate flavor that won’t leave you in an early morning sugar coma but will still curb that chocolate craving – does it get any better than that?

9. Raw Apple Bars

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These Raw Apple Bars by Sara Oliveira are super delicious and healthy. They’re also made with really basic ingredients. Making your lunch or snack bars or putting them in your kids’ lunchbox is so easy and so fast that it takes longer to get out and go to the supermarket to buy some. These do not even have to go to the oven–– just put in the mincer and they’re ready! Sweetened only with dates and the wonderful taste of dehydrated apples, these raw apple bars are a delicious, unrefined, vegan, and gluten-free snack.

10. No-Bake Berry and Spinach Cashew Cream Bars

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These No-Bake Berry and Spinach Cashew Cream Bars by Taylor Kiser taste as good as they look. Each layer is luxurious, creamy, and packed full of blueberries, strawberries, and spinach. But, don’t panic, you don’t taste the leafy green; it’s just for color. No-bake dessert bars are the perfect healthy treat for a busy lifestyle because when a sweet tooth hits, you can just grab one and go on to your next errand. They’re also great for parties because not only are they delicious, but they’re also aesthetically pleasing! Everyone will be asking about and complimenting your no-bake dessert recipe! Make sure to grab one before they’re all gone!

11. Fruit-Sweetened Triple Coconut Cake

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This Fruit-Sweetened Triple Coconut Cake by Sara Grandominico is loaded with coconut flavor! Whoever said cake can’t be good for you clearly hasn’t met this one. This recipe is healthy, gluten-free, and naturally sweetened. A single layer cake that’s super easy, but a total crowd pleaser. This vegan coconut cake is perfect for the warm weather seasons. Coconut just screams tropical, warm, fun, and summertime.

12. Yogi Date Balls

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These Yogi Date Balls by Jesse Lane Lee are one of my favorite snacks because they are easy to make ahead of time, store in the freezer, and then grab as I’m running out the door. Yogi Date Balls are naturally sweetened with dates and full of delicious and nutritious seeds and nuts. They are packed with protein and fiber to give you fuel throughout your practice. The best part is that you can make them in less than ten minutes with ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry! Yogi Date Balls are raw so there is no baking required and the nutrients in the ingredients will stay intact.

13. Cocoa Peanut Butter Energy Balls

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These Cocoa Peanut Butter Energy Balls by Amarilis Moldes are easy, delicious, high in protein, healthy … it has everything. The simple 5 ingredients in these cocoa peanut butter energy balls come together to form the ultimate power up snack!

14. Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Soft, chewy, melt-in-your mouth Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies by Taavi Moore. Bonus? They are healthier than your average cookie. Sweetened with coconut sugar and completely gluten-free and vegan.

15. Healthy Chocolate Avocado Fudge

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This Healthy Chocolate Avocado Fudge by Kibby Miller has some true beauty foods in it: avocado, coconut, and dark chocolate. Yes, a healthy moderation of dark chocolate is good for you. Dark chocolate is less processed than lower percentage chocolates and the cocoa solids contain healthy compounds called flavonols. These have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

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• High Protein Plant-Based Recipes
• Plant-Based Meal Prep

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