Dessert Recipes

Most of what this category asks of you is patience rather than work. A pie here might list six hours and forty minutes, and almost all of that is the filling setting in the fridge while you do something else, so read the time as a lead time and not as effort.

When there is no lead time, Vegan Chocolate Milkshake takes about five minutes and Vegan Oatmeal Cookies under an hour. Vegan Banana Bread and Sweet Potato Cobbler sit in the middle. At the far end, Vegan Apple Pie and Vegan Pumpkin Pie want most of a day, and Mango Sticky Rice needs its rice soaked long before any cooking starts.

Setting is the thread worth following, because almost every dessert here is a question of what makes it firm. Vegan Key Lime Pie sets on chilled cashews and coconut milk with no oven involved at all. Vegan Blueberry Pie cooks its filling on the stove first, which is what stops a slice from collapsing into syrup on the plate. Gulab Jamun hangs on syrup cooked to one-string consistency, the difference between jamuns that glaze and jamuns that go soggy. Vegan Carrot Cake beats its frosting cold so it holds an edge instead of sliding.

Badges on each card mark vegan, gluten-free and dairy-free. A few of these keep real butter, eggs or dairy and do not carry the vegan badge, so check before baking for a vegan table rather than going by the title.