Easy Vegan Desserts: Cookies, Cakes, Pies and More

Vegan pies can be incredibly easy to whip up in a blender using silken tofu as a base. If you haven't tried this technique, I heartily recommend you try one of the super easy pie recipes listed below. By using a vegan pie crust, you can make most fruit-based pies vegan as well for a classic all-American dessert. Here are a few recipes to try:

• Chocolate Pumpkin Pie (pictured)
• Homemade Latticed Blueberry Pie
• 5-Star, 5-Ingredient Easy Vegan Apple Pie
• Vegan Sweet Potato Pie Recipe
• 5-Star Vegan Key...MORE Lime Pie Recipe

A friend of mine used to bake cakes to bring to business meetings. She'd hop on the subway with her briefcase and cake platter, show up to the boardroom, hotel bar or whatnot and offer everyone a slice. You can bet she left a great impression! Vegan cakes are usually lower in fat since they're egg-free and dairy-free. Here's a few vegan cake recipes if you're looking for the perfect vegan dessert idea:

• Vegan Banana Cake
• Cake-Mix Soda Cake
• Chocolate Applesauce Cake 
• Sugar-Free Carrot...MORE Cake
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I absolutely LOVE vegan cheesecake! I think I love just about all vegan desserts, but I certainly have a bit of a special relationship with vegan cheesecake. A good recipe will come surprisingly close to a real cheesecake. Drizzle the top with a bit of chocolate or fruit sauce for extra flavor, and you'll impress your friends for certain. If you're sharing, that is! Here are a few perfect vegan cheesecakes for the perfect vegan dessert:

• Pumpkin Tofu Cheesecake (pictured)
• Vegan Key Lime...MORE Cheesecake

There's at least as many kinds of cookies as there are cultures on this planet, and nearly every single one of them can be the perfect homemade vegan dessert if you use and egg substitute and a non-dairy milk. Here are a few of my personal favorite easy vegan cookie recipes:

• Vegan Gingerbread Cookies
• Low-Fat Pumpkin Cookies
• Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Easy Cake Mix Cookies
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Delicious vegan sorbets can be made at home without an ice cream maker quite easily. Most recipes call for fruit, sugar, a thickener such as corn starch or simple syrup, and little else. Here are a few ice cream, sorbet, and frozen popsicle recipes to try:

• Raw Vegan Lime Favored Ice Cream
• Chocolate Sorbet (pictured)
• Five-Star Strawberry Sorbet
• Watermelon Lime Popsicles
• Strawberry Pineapple Popsicles

Just thinking about fudge makes me smile. It also makes my teeth hurt just a little bit. There's just about nothing I can think of that's so decadent, so indulgent and yet still so simple to make as a dessert at home. Here are a few dairy-free vegan fudge recipes to try:

• California Avocado Fudge
• Easy Vegan Peanut Butter Fudge Recipe
• Super-Easy Homemade Vegan Fudge

They may not be the most trendy of the various vegan desserts on offer these days, but from an old-fashioned homemade coconut pudding to a Thanksgiving pumpkin pudding, there are so many ways to enjoy one of these creamy vegan desserts. An added bonus? Many vegan pudding and mousse recipes are made with tofu as a base, so they're low in fat and provide a healthy dose of soy protein. Here's a few to choose from:

• Five-Star Vegan Vanilla Pudding Recipe
• Easy Vegan Pumpkin Pudding (pictured)