Weekly Spotlight: Desserts with Hidden Ingredients such as Chickpeas, Sweet Potatoes, and Zucchini!

What if there was a way to eat whole foods and eat dessert at the same time? This is your guide to enjoying desserts with hidden foods. This might make you a bit skeptical, but know that you won’t even taste it! Foods that are perfect to try this with are chickpeas (or black beans or white beans), sweet potato, and zucchini.

If you’d like more recipes like these, check out this Weekly Meal Plan: Recipes in Hidden Ingredients! This roundup of 15 Decadent, Chocolatey Vegan Desserts With Hidden Veggies is a great way to enjoy chocolate desserts and these 15 Plant-Based Recipes with Hidden Veggies for Picky Eaters are wonderful to try out new recipes.

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

This week, we’re bringing delicious, fully vegan, and plant-based ways to enjoy these hidden ingredients in desserts!

Zucchini

Source: Cinnamon Zucchini Cakes

Zucchini is a wonderful hidden ingredient if you’re new to these recipes. Zucchini doesn’t have a strong flavor and makes baked good deliciously fluffy. These recipes all include zucchini, and you won’t even know it’s there.

• Chocolate Zucchini Brownies With Sweet Potato Frosting by Kirsten Kaminski
• Cinnamon Zucchini Cakes by Fabio Gallo
• Chocolate Zucchini Cake by  Kirsten Kaminski

Chickpea

Source: Reeses Cookie Dough

These desserts all have chickpeas and the best part is you won’t even taste them. Chickpeas add a bit of moisture to the final dessert, and add a serving of protein, as well! If you’re unsure about trying chickpeas out in sweet recipes, this cookie dough is a great recipe to start with it!

• 7-Ingredient Peanut Butter Chickpea Blondies by James Wythe
• Cinnamon Chickpea Blondies by Jenn Sebestyen
• Reeses Cookie Dough by Llyod Rose

Sweet Potato

Source: Sweet Potato Chocolate Cheesecake

Sweet potato is another excellent food to hide in desserts. Sweet potatoes are a bit on the sweet side, so they work well when paired with chocolate and in brownies. These desserts are wonderfully sweet and you can’t even taste the sweet potatoes!

• Sweet Potato Brownies by Bila
• Triple Chocolate Sweet Potato Walnut Skillet Brownie by Gabrielle St. Claire
• Sweet Potato Chocolate Cheesecake by Mitra Shirmohammadi

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