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Vegan Desserts

You will find in this section many recipes which are easy to make and delicious.
Feel free to send us your favourite recipe so we can publish it.

On the right column, find links to vegan recipes blogs.

The section is regularly updated, so each time we add new recipes, they will be labelled as "New".

Spelt Bread

Ingredients:
  • 300 gr wholegrain spelt flour
  • 100 rye flour
  • 100 gr porridge oats (Flahavans)
  • 1 sachet yeast
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ½ litre lukewarm water (approx)

Sieve the spelt and rye flour, mix with the oat flakes, yeast, salt, seeds and water, transfer into a greased baking tin.

Cut lengthways approx 1 cm deep and sprinkle with oat flakes, bake at approx 200 degrees for ca. 55 mins, depending on oven type. Leave to cool before slicing.

Optional:
  • Pumpkin seeds and/or pine nuts / chopped olives / sundried tomatoes etc.
  • I usually also add a pinch of curry powder.
Difficulty level: Easy

Make Creamy Ice Cream with Just Bananas

Creamy, soft-serve style ice cream with just one ingredient. No ice cream maker needed, no additional plant-based milk, sweeteners, or whatsoever needed.

If you freeze a banana until solid, then whiz it up in a blender or food processor, it gets creamy and a little gooey, just like good custard ice cream. Some bananas, depending on their ripeness, have a bit of that green aftertaste. Feel free to add in another ingredient or two, like a tablespoon of peanut butter..

Mona's Easy Apple Crumble

My dear neighbour Mona, who will be 90 this November, is an inspired vegan cook. This is one of her simplest recipes, but having eaten it twice, I can vouch that it is delicious.

Ingredients:
  • 3 good-sized cooking apples
  • 3 Tbsp fine oat meal
  • 2 Tbsp ground almonds
  • 2 Tbsp sugar
  • Optional: pine nuts, cloves
Serves 3-4
Peel and cut the apples into chunks. In a saucepan, stew them in a little water over medium heat for about 10 min.
Turn the stewed apples into a medium-sized dish and let cool for 30 min.
Pre-heat the oven to 180ºC.
Mix the oat meal, ground almonds and sugar together and sprinkle over the stewed apples.
Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes until the crust is brown.

Optional: Sprinkle pine nuts on top. Put cloves among the apple chunks before stewing.

Chocolate pie

Filling:
  • Cocoa Powder
  • Fine cornmeal (cornflour)
  • Soy milk
  • 1 orange, grated
Pastry:
  • See Vegan
    shortcrust pastry recipe.

Put the cocoa powder (add the quantity you want, depending on how much you like chocolate) and cornmeal (around 3 tbspoons) into a saucepan and mix thoroughly.

Add the soya milk and mix to a smooth creamy consistency.

Grate the orange and add it to the mixture.

Bring to the boil and stir constantly, until the mixture thickens.

Pour the cream into the pastry shell.

Set aside for 30min to cool.

Chill for at least 2 hours before serving.

Vegan Shortcut pastry

Ingredients:
  • 200g Flour,
  • 125g Margarine,
  • Water or soy milk.

Put the flour and margarine into a large salad bowl. Use your fingers to rub them in till the mixture looks like breadcrumbs.

Add water or soy milk, little by little, until you manage to form a dough.

Knead the dough for a minute or two.

Place the dough on a floured surface and roll it to the size and thickness you need.

You can repair any small breaks and cracks with the bits of dough left.

Note:for a gluten free pastry, use instead rice or buckweat flour (both available at any health food store).

Banana pie

Filling:
  • 3 bananas,
  • 5 tbs cornflour,
  • 500ml Soy milk,
  • Maple syrup /iced sugar.
Pastry:
  • See Vegan
    shortcrust pastry recipe.

Slice one of the bananas and decorate the base of the pastry shell.

Put the cornmeal and soy milk into a saucepan and stir in until you get a creamy consistency.

Place over a low heat and continue stirring till the cream thickens.

Remove from the heat.

Mash the 2 remaining bananas and add them to the cream.

Transfer to the pastry shell and chill for at least an hour before serving.

Fruit Juice Jelly

Ingredients:
  • 3 tbs Agar Flakes.
  • 500ml Fruit juice of
    your choice.

For 2 people.

Put the agar flakes into a small saucepan and add about a quarter of the fruit juice.

Reduice the heat after boiling, and simmer for around 5 min, stirring continuously. Remove from heat.

Add the rest of the fruit juice and stir well.

Pour into small ramekins, or a big mould.

Refrigerate till set.

Notes:
  • You can decorate each ramekin with slices of fruit.
  • You can add to the mixture bits of fruit.
  • This goes well with cashew nut cream or coconut cream
Difficulty level: Easy

Orange Shortbread Fingers

Ingredients:
  • 175g flour,
  • 115g vegan margarine,
  • 4 tbsp sugar,
  • 2 oranges.

Mix the margarine and sugar in a bowl until creamy. Grate the orange and add the orange rind to the bowl.

Gradually add the flour. Pull the dough together to form a soft ball.

Roll the dough on a floured surface until about 1cm thick.

Cut it into fingers and bake for about 20min, or until the fingers are a light golden colour.

Notes:
  • You can use pastry cutters to create different shapes of biscuits.
  • Oranges rinds can be substitued for lemon rinds.
  • Mash a banana and add to the mixture to get banana shortbread fingers.
Difficulty level: Easy

Summer Fruit Pie

Filling:
  • 300ml Thick soya yogurt.
  • 1 lemon.
  • 1 orange.
  • Summer berries
  • Maple syrup or iced sugar.
Pastry:
  • See Vegan shortcrust
    pastry recipe.

Grate the rind of the orange and lemon.

Whisk together the soya yogurt, lemon rind and sugar/maple syrup and spread the mixture evenly into the pastry case.

Top with the berries and sprinkle with the orange rind.
Serve the tart with ice cream.

Difficulty level: Easy

Basic Cake

Ingredients:
  • 250g flour,
  • 1 tbsp baking powder,
  • 100g margarine,
  • 100g sugar,
  • 1 banana
  • 100ml plant-based milk.

Lightly grease the base of a loaf tin.

Put the flour and baking powder into a large bowl.

Melt the margarine in a saucepan, add the sugar and stir until dissolved.

Make a well in the flour mixture and add the melted margarine and sugar.

Mix in the banana. Mix and add the milk. If the mixture is too liquid, add more flour, if not liquid enough, add more milk.

Transfer in the tin and level the top with the back of a spoon.

Bake for 45 min, or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.

allow to cool before removing from the tin.

Notes:
Difficulty level: Easy

Date and orange cookies

Ingredients:
  • 150g flour,
  • 150g margarine,
  • 150g sugar,
  • 1 orange.
  • 1 tsp baking powder.
  • 75g oatmeal.
  • 75g dried & chopped dates.

Mix the margarine and sugar in a bowl until creamy. Grate the orange and add the orange rind to the mixture.

Gradually add the flour, baking powder and oatmeal. Add the dates and mix until combined.

Line 2 baking sheets with greaseproof paper, or grease a baking tray.

Place heaped tablespoonfuls of the mixture onto the baking sheets. Space them well apart to allow the mixture to spread.

Bake in the oven for 15 to 20min until golden brown.

Notes:
  • Replace the dates with other dried fruits or chopped nuts.
  • Oranges rinds can be substitued for lemon rinds.
  • Mash a banana and add to the mixture to get banana shortbread fingers.
Difficulty level: Easy

Ginger Biscuits

Ingredients:
  • 125g flour,
  • 125g semolina,
  • 125g margarine,
  • 125g sugar,
  • Grated ginger.
  • 3 tbsp soy milk.

Mix the flour, semolina and ginger in a bowl. Add the margarine and use your fingers to rub the margarine well into the dry ingredients.

Add 2 tbsp of soy milk (or other plant based milk) to bind all ingredients together (add more soy milk if the mixture doesn't bind properly).

Roll the dough out on a floured surface to about 0.5 cm thick and cut into squares, circles, or fingers.

Bake on a greased baking sheet for 20 to 30min, or until golden brown.

Lemon biscuits:
  • 2 lemons can be substitued for ginger. Add the lemon juice a tablespoon at a time (up to 3 tbsp) until the mixture holds together. Omit the soy milk and ginger.
Difficulty level: Easy

Plain Oatcakes

Ingredients:
  • 125g rolled oats,
  • 90g oatmeal,
  • 90g flour,
  • 125g sugar,
  • 1/4 tsp salt.
  • 75ml oil.
  • 125ml water.

Mix the flour, oatmeal and oats in a bowl. Add the oil and mix.

Slowly add the water until the mixture forms a sticky dough.

Roll the dough out on a floured surface to about 0.5 cm thick and cut into squares, circles, or fingers.

Bake on a greased baking sheet for 20 to 30min, or until golden brown.

Coconut oatcakes:
  • Add 125g desiccated coconut and reduce the rolled oats to 90g. Add the coconut at the same time as the flour and oatmeal.
Difficulty level: Easy

Plain Pancakes

Ingredients:
  • 150g flour,
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder,
  • 375ml plant-based milk,
  • Salt or sugar.

Mix the flour and baking powder in a bowl and pour in the milk. Whisk until the batter is very thin.

In a non-stick frying pan, pour in some batter, tilting the pan so that the batter covers the bottom with a thin coat. (You can use a cup)

Cook until it is browned from underneath and starts to pull away from the edge of the pan. Carefully flip it over and brown on the other side.

You can either make thin pancakes or thick ones, depending on your tastes.
Difficulty level: Easy

Apple Pancakes

Ingredients:
  • Basic pancake ingredients,
  • 2 apples.

Put the apples in a food processor. You can either chop them fine, leave bits or blend them to a puree.

Add the chopped apples to the batter and stir the mixture.

Replace the apples with other fruit of your choice.
Difficulty level: Easy

Chocolate Pancakes

Ingredients:
  • Basic pancake ingredients,
  • Cocoa powder,
  • A Chocolate bar (optional)
  • 1 tbsp grated orange rind (optional)

Add some cocoa powder and the orange rind to the batter and stir the mixture.

Make the pancakes the same way you would do the plain pancakes, thick or thin, depending on your preferences.

Grate some chocolate over the pancakes.

Replace the chocolate with carob powder or any nut of your choice.
Difficulty level: Easy

Plain Scones

Ingredients:
  • 300g flour,
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder,
  • 90g margarine,
  • 125ml soy/rice milk.

Put the flour and baking powder in a bowl and mix thoroughly.

Add the margarine and use your fingers to rub it well into the dry ingredients.

Add soy/rice milk a little at a time and mix until a firm dough is formed.

Roll the dough out on a floured surface to about 1cm thick and cut into rounds.

Bake on an oiled baking sheet until golden brown.

For chocolate scones, add cocoa powder and chocolate pieces or chips to the flour.
Difficulty level: Easy

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