Desserts

Chocolate Raspberry Tart

This delectable tart combines chocolate ganache filling, sweet shortbread cookie crust, and fresh raspberries for a truly spectacular dessert! It is perfect anytime you need a fancy presentation that can be made ahead, and it also freezes very well so any leftovers can be pulled out a slice at a time when you want a …

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Vegan (& Gluten Free) Shortbread Crust

This delicious shortbread crust is vegan, gluten free, and really easy to make! It is perfect for any sweet filling that requires a pre-baked cookie crust. (My favorite way to use it is with my chocolate raspberry tart recipe.) Here are the crust ingredients:

Vegan & Gluten Free Brownies!

This is the ultimate vegan brownie recipe! Neither eggs nor gluten are needed to make perfect brownies when you use the right ingredients and recipe. (See the recipe notes at the end of the post for wheat flour directions.) You can make them chewy, fudgy, cakey, extra rich (or a combination of those), just by …

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Vegan Berry Trifle

This berry trifle is really easy to make, but it looks spectacular as the centerpiece on your holiday dessert table! You need to plan ahead, though, as you will need a pound or bundt cake, chilled vanilla pudding, chilled whipped topping, and mostly defrosted berries to make it, and then the trifle needs to chill for a …

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Vegan Rice Crispy Treat Letters (or Squares)

I am half Dutch, and we celebrate St. Nicholas Day on December 6th. It is traditional to give chocolate or pastry that is shaped like letters (the first initial of each person). However, it is really hard to find any that are vegan and gluten free, so I have to make my own. You can …

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Vegan Banana Cream Pie

This scrumptious vegan banana cream pie is perfectly creamy with just the right amount of sweetness from the pudding and bananas! It slices beautifully too! You will need to prepare in advance to make it as you need a blind-baked pie crust that is completely cooled down, a batch of chilled whipped topping, a batch …

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Vegan Vanilla Pudding

This yummy vanilla pudding is smooth, thick and creamy goodness! It is great all by itself, and also perfect in recipes calling for vanilla pudding, pastry cream, or custard! It is very easy to make, and only takes 15 minutes from start to finish. Here are the ingredients you will need: The kala namak (Himalayan …

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Apple Cranberry Pie

This wonderful pie is a favorite of mine with its combination of sweet apples and tart cranberries! It looks fancy but is really very easy to make. Here are the ingredients you will need: You will need to make a batch of pie crust and have the bottom crust ready and chilled in a pie …

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Cinnamon Candy Apples

Candy apples are so pretty and fun to make for a holiday treat! There is just something about that shiny red candy that makes you want to take a big bite! I like the candy coating to be cinnamon flavored and used to add Red Hots candy to flavor the sugar syrup before I was …

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