If you’re someone that has a sweet tooth, but you’re trying to cut down on your sugar intake, you’re going to love our roundup of 20 refined sugar-free vegan recipes.
From cookies to cakes, and pies to puddings, this collection of recipes from some of the best vegan food bloggers on the internet are naturally sweetened and oh so good!
So now, you really can have your cake and eat it too!
1. Banana Bread Cookies – Meg Josephson
These banana bread cookies have the fluffiness of banana bread, but the chewiness of cookies. It’s the best of both worlds: the marriage of bread and cookies. And you are cordially invited to celebrate the happy couple. Click here for the recipe.
2. Vegan Gluten-Free Pumpkin Pie – My Quiet Kitchen
Perfectly spiced, creamy pumpkin pie that’s FREE of dairy, eggs, oil, wheat, soy, coconut and refined sugar. This feel-good Vegan Gluten-Free Pumpkin Pie comes with all of the delicious nostalgia of fall and winter feasts but none of the saturated fat, cholesterol, and sugar crash! Click here for the recipe.
3. Oil-Free Almond Flour Thumbprint Cookies – My Quiet Kitchen
A perfect little sweet treat that’s vegan, gluten-free, refined sugar-free, and so much fun to make! These Oil-Free Almond Flour Thumbprint Cookies make a great after school snack, everyday dessert, or festive cookie for the holiday season! Just 6 ingredients. Click here for the recipe.
4. Gluten-Free Coffee Cake With Cinnamon Streusel – Strength and Sunshine
The best Gluten-Free Coffee Cake loaded with cinnamon streusel! This classic cake is vegan, allergy-free, and sugar-free! Baked rich and moist with a dairy-free sour cream and balanced with a decadent and buttery brown sugar cinnamon top and middle layer! A breakfast treat or dessert recipe you will adore! Click here for the recipe.
5. Pear Spice Upside-Down Cake – Fat-Free Vegan
You will not believe that this richly spiced cake has no oil or nuts and is sweetened only with maple syrup. Since good maple syrup is expensive, feel free to replace part of it with agave nectar or your favorite liquid sweetener. Click here for the recipe.
6. Healthy Banana Muffins – Know Your Produce
These Healthy Banana Muffins are a great grab and go treat. They taste like dessert, but it’s like enjoying a bowl of oatmeal in a muffin wrapper! These healthy muffins are vegan, gluten-free, plant-based, and oil-free. Click here for the recipe.
7. Vegan Gluten-Free Chocolate Cake – A Sweet Alternative
This vegan gluten-free chocolate cake recipe turned out fudgy, moist and so chocolaty. It’s rich, delicious and perfect for special occasions. Click here for the recipe.
8. Homemade Copycat Gluten-Free Vegan Hostess Twinkies – Strength and Sunshine
A healthier and allergy-free recipe for the iconic cream-filled golden snack cake. Homemade Copycat Gluten-Free Vegan Hostess Twinkies! These sweet little sponge cakes are easy to make, kid-friendly, sugar-free, and won’t last forever! They’re a great dessert or nostalgic lunchbox treat! Click here for the recipe.
9. Pineapple Pie – Vegan Lovlie
A vegan Pineapple Pie recipe with no added sugar and vegan flakey pie crust. The texture is somewhat similar to a creamy custard pie but woven with bits of juicy pineapple and chewy dried apricots that add to the deliciousness, bringing in some floral flavors. Click here for the recipe.
10. Breakfast Peanut Butter Cookies – Any Reason Vegans
These Breakfast Peanut Butter Cookies are so easy to make. Plant-Based cookies with minimum ingredients are great for a healthy diet. This gluten-free cookie recipe only requires 3 ingredients. All you need is 1 cup almond flour, 3/4 cup peanut butter, and 1/4 cup cacao nibs. The cacao nibs can be replaced with chocolate chips if that’s easier. Click here for the recipe.
11. Banana Chia Pudding – Know Your Produce
This Banana Chia Pudding is creamy and delicious! It’s naturally sweetened with ripe bananas and vanilla. Enjoy this for an easy vegan breakfast or dessert! Click here for the recipe.
12. Cherry Sugar-Free Muffins – Vegan Lovlie
Moist, wholesome sugar-free muffins that are not your usual butter/sugar-filled muffin. These muffins are naturally sweetened with pureed dates and loaded with cherries for some nutritious, healthy sweetness. Click here for the recipe.
13. Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies – Meg Josephson
These cookies are vegan, gluten-free, oil-free, grain-free and naturally sweetened with dates! Click here for the recipe.
14. Vegan Peach Cake with Custard Sauce – Vegan Lovlie
An ultra moist, homey cake where the gorgeous tangy-sweet slices of peach take the centre stage. This peach cake is the kind of dessert you would want to bring to a potluck or keep all to yourself for a slice of summer sunshine. Click here for the recipe.
15. Vegan Pumpkin Brownies – A Sweet Alternative
These pumpkin brownies are perfect if you’re craving fall flavours. They’d also make a great addition to a vegan Halloween party sweet table. They’re equal parts chocolaty and pumpkin spicy and they also happen to be grain-free, gluten-free, and dairy-free. Click here for the recipe.
16. Chocolate Covered Bananas – Know Your Produce
Chocolate Covered Bananas are the perfect frozen dessert! Overripe bananas paired with homemade chocolate using coconut oil and cacao powder topped with our favorite superfood toppings. Click here for the recipe.
17. Almond, Oat and Apple Cookies – Very Vegan Val
Soft and sweet with a little crunch, these cookies epitomize the wholesome Fall cookie, without making any sacrifices in flavor. These vegan apple cookies are sweetened with maple syrup, held together with almond butter, and punctuated with hearty oats and sweet, seasonal apples. Click here for the recipe.
18. Simple Shortbread Cookies – Veggie Lexi
Something about the simplicity of shortbread cookies is absolutely divine. They’re not too sweet, they’re perfect for dipping, and they’re just all-around buttery goodness. This super simple vegan and gluten-free version is so easy and absolutely fills that craving. Click here for the recipe.
19. Peanut-Butter Chickpea Blondies – Healthy Liv
These peanut butter chickpea blondies are gooey, delicious, and made with no refined sugar. They’re nutritious enough to enjoy as a mid-afternoon snack and rich enough for an after-dinner dessert! Click here for the recipe.
20. Pumpkin Spice Air Fryer Baked Apples – Glue and Glitter
Sweet-and-spiced Pumpkin Spice Air Fryer Baked Apples are a healthy treat that come together in a fraction of the time it takes in the oven. Click here for the recipe.
Thank you for this blog! I really appreciate what you do here. I’ve become vegan not very long ago and I’m always in search of new and interesting recipes. Chocolate covered bananas I cooked in age of 12 but they were not healthy, I’m happy to taste them now in a new way)))
Some of these lovely recipes are going right into my Thanksgiving arsenal for my lovely Gkids who do not need extra added junk…I love the healthy aspect of each recipe and the options of choosing your own sweetners (I grow my own Stevia, dry and grind it!) . Please keep up the good work- YUM!