61 Best Vegan Desserts with Fruit (list of recipes)

If you have a sweet tooth for fruit desserts, you’ve come to the right place. This comprehensive list of the best vegan dessert recipes has a little bit of everything. If you like to bake desserts, you’ll wanna check out the cakes, pies, and cookie recipes. If you prefer no-bake desserts, there’s a few recipes for you too. I’ve categorized them all so it’s easy to jump to the recipe you’re looking for. Or you can just peruse the list for some drool-worthy content.

Table of Contents

I wasn’t sure if you’d rather see the recipes categorized by type of dessert or by type of fruit, so I’m doing both! Click the links below to skip to each category.

• Vegan Cakes
• Vegan Cupcakes
• Vegan Donuts and Muffins
• Vegan Pies and Tarts
• Vegan Ice Cream and Pops
• Vegan Cookies and Bars
• Vegan Parfaits and Smoothies
• Berry Recipes
• Citrus Recipes
• Apple Recipes
• Banana Recipes
• Pineapple Recipes

I’m going to share a very unpopular opinion now. I used to hate desserts with fruit. I knowwwww what a weirdo right? I always just preferred chocolate, caramel, mint, coconut, and peanut butter, in my desserts. But, over the past 5 years or so, I’ve been opening my mind to new flavors.

If you’re anything like me, you might find a couple desserts in this list to change your mind. The one that converted me was my chocolate orange cake. I hope you find an equally mind and tastebud-blowing recipe here that changes your life.

Vegan Cake and Cupcake Recipes

Vegan Blackberry and Chocolate Cake

This vegan blackberry chocolate cake uses fresh berries in the frosting and blackberry jam in the cake. This cake is best for special occasions, such as birthdays or Halloween.

Vegan Hummingbird Cake

Vegan hummingbird cake is a moist cake filled with delicious fruits from the tropics. The vegan cream cheese frosting uses vegan butter and vegan shortening, so you don’t need to buy vegan cream cheese for this recipe.

Vegan Banana Peanut Butter Cake

This vegan banana cake with peanut butter filling uses simple ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry. The creamy texture of the peanut butter filling will have you craving a second piece.

Vegan Banana Split Birthday Cake

This banana split cake recipe is made without eggs, dairy, or any animal products. This tasty treat is about what you would expect from the cake version of a banana split. It has 2 layers of banana cake, whipped cream filling and frosting, and a garnish of rainbow sprinkles and cherries.

Vegan Blue Velvet Cake

Vegan blue velvet cake is like the cool older sister of red velvet cake. It has a blend of cocoa powder and blueberries. It’s the perfect dessert because it will satisfy your chocolate cravings, but it still contains summer fruits.

Vegan Strawberry Lemonade Cake

Strawberry Lemonade Cake uses fresh lemons, fresh strawberries, and strawberry preserves. This is a light and refreshing cake for any time of year.

Vegan Loquat Cake

This vegan loquat cake recipe uses 2 pounds of loquats, which if you’ve picked loquats before, you know is quite a few. Loquats are a good source of vitamin A, vitamin B6, vitamin C, potassium, magnesium, manganese, calcium, and phosphorus. Loquats are also high in carotenoid antioxidants and phytochemicals.

Vegan Raspberry Nutella Cake

Raspberry nutella cake is a gluten-free chocolate cake. It has a fresh raspberry buttercream and fresh raspberries on top. The cake is moist from the addition of coconut oil and homemade vegan buttermilk.

Vegan Lemon Cake

Vegan lemon cake uses 2 lemons for a loaf cake or 4 lemons for a bundt cake. You can even use an additional lemon if you make the optional icing.

Vegan Chocolate Orange Cake

This vegan chocolate orange cake is one of the most popular recipes on my website. The recipe is unique in that it uses more of the orange than most orange cake recipes. We’re not wasters around here, and you get more nutrients.

Vegan Lemon Blueberry Cake

Vegan lemon blueberry cake is such a light and refreshing cake for the summer. The vegan vanilla buttercream is complementary. It uses margarine and sustainable palm shortening in the place of the butter.

Funfetti Lemon Cake

When you read funfetti lemon cake, are you thinking, oh no, not another lemon cake recipe? Haha. I get it. But if lemon cake weren’t so delicious and addictive, it wouldn’t be making such an appearance. It’s just plain logic.

Mini Vegan Cakes with Cherry Frosting

Mini vegan chocolate cake with cherry frosting is almost as fun to decorate as it is to eat.

Vegan Apple Cake

This apple cake is listed as vegan, but make sure you use vegan or organic sugar when you make it. This will ensure that it’s completely vegan. If you’re new to veganism and curious about the sugar thing, you can get the gist of it in my post about vegan powdered sugar.

Vegan Fig Cake

This vegan fig cake has a creamy filling of chocolate ganache between 2 layers of fig cake. You’ve seen pineapple upside down cake right? Think of this as a fig upside down cake. Just remember to use vegan sugar, even though their recipe doesn’t specify it.

Vegan Cupcake Recipes

Vegan Lemon Hibiscus Cupcakes

This vegan lemon hibiscus cupcake recipe uses 3 fresh lemons in the cake batter and the frosting. There’s also a dash of hibiscus powder in the frosting.

Vegan Strawberry Cupcakes

Vegan strawberry cupcakes are speckled with red strawberries inside. What a fun spring or summer treat.

Vegan Lime Cupcakes

Vegan lime cupcakes use lime juice and lime zest for the natural lime flavor. Remember whenever you see sugar in a recipe, to use vegan or organic sugar.

Vegan Donut and Muffin Recipes

Vegan Banana Bread Donuts

These vegan banana bread donuts use basic ingredients with a melted chocolate frosting. This is less like a cake donut and more like a donut-shaped banana muffin. I wouldn’t go as far as to call this healthy banana bread, but it’s certainly healthier than any banana breads that aren’t plant-based desserts.

Vegan Bearberry Muffins

Vegan bearberry muffins use the fruit that can be picked from a strawberry tree. They’re topped with a delicious vegan streusel topping, making them a special treat.

Vegan Plum Muffins

These vegan plum muffins are packed full of plum chunks and vegan chocolate chips.

Vegan Blueberry Muffins

Vegan blueberry muffins are a great way to sneak antioxidants into your diet. Even though the recipe doesn’t specify it, you should always use vegan, raw, or organic sugar to make sure your muffins turn out completely vegan.

Vegan Blackberry Muffins

Vegan blackberry muffins are a quick and easy recipe that doesn’t dirty a bunch of dishes. I recommend using the organic light brown sugar from Whole Foods because their 365 brand is always cheap. That way, you can ensure the muffins will be vegan.

Vegan Fruit Tart, Galette, and Pie Recipes

Vegan Peach Pie Pops

This mini pie pop recipe uses stone fruits (peaches). However, these sweet treats can be made with any fruit.

Mini No-Bake Vegan Key Lime Pies

Mini key lime pies require no baking, making them a perfect summer treat. These mini healthy vegan desserts are made with lime juice, cashews, and date syrup.

Vegan Apple Tart Roses

Vegan apple tartlets are one of the recipes in this list that do require fresh produce. Luckily, apples are easy to find at the grocery store any time of year. The pastry dough for these requires a food processor, and the fruit bakes in the oven with the dough.

Vegan Lemon Tarts

This vegan lemon tart recipe makes mini lemon tartlets. They are reminiscent of lemon bars with the shortcrust pastry shell and the lemon curd filling.

Mini Vegan Blueberry Pop Tarts

Mini blueberry poptarts are a delicious way to eat blueberry pie on the go. Not only that, but they can be any color and any shape you want!

Vegan Cherry Pop Tarts

Do star-shaped multi-colored blueberry pop tarts seem too ambitious? Try this recipe for traditional vegan cherry poptarts.

Vegan Apple Hand Pies

Wow, I really need to retake pictures for these vegan apple hand pies haha. They’re delicious AF, but you’d never guess it from the pics taken with my old iPhone 3.

Vegan Key Lime Pie

Vegan key lime pie is probably my favorite of all the fruit pies. That creamy filling with the whipped topping is right up my alley.

Vegan Passionfruit Meringue Tart

This passionfruit tart will make you feel like you’re on a tropical vacation. Just remember to use organic or vegan powdered sugar and sugar in this recipe, even though the author didn’t specify it. I wonder if you could sub apricot for the passionfruit to make an apricot tart.

Vegan Peach Galette

Vegan peach galette is like a shortcut to making peach pie. You still get all that great flavor but less of the hassle of working with pie crust. Make sure you use organic or vegan sugar when you make this galette.

Vegan Strawberry Pie

This vegan strawberry pie can be made gluten free if you use a gluten-free pie crust.

Sugar-free Vegan Key Lime Pie

This vegan key lime pie is advertised as being a raw pie, but it uses canned coconut milk, so it’s not technically raw. However, it does have similarities to a raw pie, such as a crust made with nuts and medjool dates.

Vegan Banoffee Pie

How have I never had banoffee pie before??? It sounds amazing! Caramel and bananas and whipped cream, oh my.

Vegan Ice Cream and Popsicle Recipes

If you’re looking for vegan summer dessert recipes, look no further.

Vegan Strawberry Ice Cream Popsicles

Dairy free strawberry ice cream is one of my favorite no-bake summer desserts. Featuring fresh strawberry chunks and a coconut milk base, this frosty treat is a perfect dessert on hot days. Press the ice cream into popsicle molds and drizzle it with dark chocolate. It would also make delicious ice cream sandwiches if sandwiched between chocolate cookies.

Vegan Strawberry Ice Cream Cake

Vegan strawberry ice cream cake is one of my favorite tasty vegan summer recipes. Not only does it have fresh strawberries inside, but it’s also topped with fresh cherries.

Mini Lemon Ice Cream Cakes

Mini vegan ice cream cakes are like the cupcake version of an ice cream cake. They’re made with lemon vanilla ice cream and each layer is colored with a different superfood powder to make a rainbow in each serving. These use corn starch or arrowroot powder to make them as creamy as a dairy ice cream.

Vegan Chocolate Milkshake

This vegan chocolate shake recipe uses a secret fruit that you may not know about it. It’s bananas! No, I mean, it’s not bananas to put bananas in your chocolate shake. But bananas is the secret ingredient. But I guess it’s not a secret anymore now that I told you. I need a zipper on my mouth like that emoji.

Vegan Black Forest Ice Cream

Black forest ice cream is packed full of cherries and chocolate chips. You can use frozen cherries or pitted fresh cherries for this recipe.

Vegan Berry Sorbet

This vegan berry sorbet is more like a thick smoothie where you’re blending frozen berries with a little liquid to get it to spin. It’s similar to the method I use to make my chocolate shakes.

Vegan Cantaloupe Popsicles

Cantaloupe creamsicles are a healthy popsicle that swirls blended cantaloupe with vegan yogurt. Just make sure when you’re sweetening the vegan yogurt, you use vegan powdered sugar.

Vegan Cookie and Bar Recipes

Vegan Lemon Blueberry Cookies

Lemon blueberry cookies are packed with fresh blueberries. However, the recipe does have a modification to use frozen blueberries if needed. With both lemon juice and lemon zest, these cookies are brimming with lemon flavor. I could just eat the cookie dough by the spoonful.

Vegan Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies

Strawberry cheesecake cookies are made with powdered freeze-dried strawberries. I used a spice grinder to turn the freeze-dried strawberries into a fine powder that gives the cookies a delicious strawberry flavor.

Vegan Strawberry White Chocolate Sandwich Cookies

These vegan sandwich cookies are inspired by a deck of cards. The spades and clubs cookies are filled with dark chocolate ganache. The hearts and diamonds cookies are filled with strawberry-flavored white chocolate. This recipe uses freeze-dried strawberries, rather than fresh or frozen strawberries.

Vegan Parfait and Smoothie Recipes

Vegan Strawberry Shortcake Parfait

Strawberry Shortcake Parfaits are a healthy treat that's low in sugar. They can easily be converted to a gluten-free version. Layer lightly-sweetened shortcake, fresh strawberries, and vanilla whipped cream made with coconut cream.

Vegan Rainbow Yogurt Parfait

A vegan yogurt parfait is a simple recipe that takes very little effort. The wholesome ingredients include a combination of fruit and vegan yogurt, and that's it.

Vegan Orange Julius

A vegan orange julius actually uses frozen oranges, rather than fresh fruit. The recipe offers the optional addition of vegan sugar to make it sweeter, but you can replace that with maple syrup if you avoid added sugars.

Vegan Unicorn Frappuccino

This vegan Starbucks unicorn frappuccino recipe is a copycat of the one Starbucks had for a very limited time long ago. This recipe isn’t healthy and doesn’t use seasonal fruit. It uses 2 kinds of frozen fruit, so it’s certainly healthier than whatever they were serving at Starbucks.

Vegan Eton Mess

I’ll be the first to admit that I've never heard of an eton mess. However, now that I know this delicious treat exists, dare I say that I need it? We don’t typically have caster sugar here in the U.S. But, you can put some organic or vegan sugar into your blender and use the pulse button to get the granules a little bit finer.

Vegan Dessert Recipes Using Berries

Vegan Cakes and Cupcakes with Berries

Vegan blackberry chocolate cake uses fresh blackberries in the frosting. Vegan blue velvet cake uses fresh blueberries in the cake.

Vegan Strawberry Lemonade Cake uses fresh strawberries dipped in chocolate as the garnish. It also has strawberry preserves in the filling. Vegan strawberry cupcakes have strawberries inside and are garnished with strawberries on top.

Raspberry nutella cake uses fresh raspberries in the buttercream frosting.

Vegan Pies with Berries

Mini blueberry poptarts are a delicious way to eat blueberries. True, you can’t fit very many into each little pie pocket, but what they lack in filling, they make up for in fun.

This vegan strawberry pie uses 2 pounds of fresh strawberries.

This vegan blueberry cobbler also has blackberries in it. I predict they can be optional if you’re anything like me and you avoid berries that get seeds stuck in your teeth.

Vegan Muffins with Berries

Vegan bearberry muffins use the fruit that can be picked from a strawberry tree. You can usually forage this fruit, so it will save you money. Vegan blueberry muffins are packed with fresh blueberries. Anthea, the food blogger who created this recipe, says you can also use frozen blueberries. Vegan blackberry muffins uses a cup of fresh or frozen blackberries.

Vegan Frozen Treats with Berries

This vegan berry sorbet can be made with any variety of frozen berries (or other type of frozen fruit).

Bite-sized Desserts with Berries

Strawberry shortcake bites are an hors d’oeuvres version of strawberry shortcake. It’s great for a cocktail party where people are standing and mingling. It would also be good at a children’s event, because I know those little hellions don’t sit still haha.

Vegan raspberry brownie truffles are a bite sized treat that uses freeze-dried raspberries. I bet you could also sub some of the nuts and nut milk with almond butter.

Vegan chocolate covered strawberries don’t really need a recipe. You just melt vegan chocolate, dip fruit into it, and let it harden. I used chocolate covered strawberries as a garnish on my strawberry lemonade cake. I added sprinkles to them to make them extra cute.

Vegan Dessert Recipes Using Stone Fruit

Vegan plum muffins aren’t the prettiest muffin, but besides dehydrated fruit leather, they’re my favorite way to use up plums in the summer.

Black forest ice cream is packed full of cherries and chocolate chips. You can use frozen cherries or pitted fresh cherries for this recipe.

You can make peach pie pops with other stone fruits as well, like nectarine or cherries or apricots. If a pie pocket that’s only 1 bite seems like too much work, try these vegan cherry poptarts.

Mini vegan chocolate cake with cherry frosting only requires a half cup of frozen cherries to pack a ton of cherry flavor into the frosting.

Vegan peach galette is a perfect summer dessert. You know when your neighbor’s peach tree hangs over into your yard just enough to give you a few pounds of free peaches? No? Well, come to my house and I’ll show you what I mean.

Vegan peach cobbler is another easy peach dessert like peach galette. It uses up 6 peaches.

Vegan Dessert Recipes Using Citrus

Vegan Cakes that use Lemon

My vegan loquat cake uses a total of 4 lemons, between the lemon curd filling and the lemon buttercream frosting. Or you can make a vegan lemon cake and use 2 lemons for a loaf cake or 4 lemons for a bundt cake.

Vegan lemon blueberry cake which marries 2 beloved fruits: lemons and blueberries. Funfetti lemon cake adds vegan sprinkles to an already perfect cake.

Vegan Cupcakes and Muffins that use Lemon or Lime

Vegan lemon hibiscus cupcakes use 3 fresh lemons in the cake batter and the frosting. Vegan lime cupcakes only use the juice and zest of a single lime, so this recipe is good if you’re running low on produce.

Another option for an individual-sized lemon dessert is mini rainbow lemon ice cream cakes.

Save this recipe for vegan plum muffins. You’ll need it at the end of summer when your plum tree (or a neighbor’s plum tree) just drops hundreds of plums all in the same week.

Vegan Cakes that use Orange

Vegan chocolate orange cake was the cake that convinced me that chocolate and orange go well together. Before that, I swore that it wasn’t a good combination, and now it’s one of my favorite desserts. Good thing I can admit when I’m wrong.

Vegan Pies and Tarts that use Lemon or Lime

Mini vegan lemon tarts are a perfect way to use a lot of lemon juice. Or you might prefer a large lemon tart,

Vegan key lime pie uses over a half a cup of key lime juice in one pie. Or if you prefer a healthier version, this vegan key lime pie uses 12 key limes!!!

Vegan Dessert Recipes Using Apples and Pears

Rainbow Apple Chips

Apple fruit crisps might be the easiest and healthiest dessert in this entire list. I might call it a snack before I would call it dessert. However, if you can trick kids into thinking this is dessert by painting the apple slices with natural food coloring, then you win at parenting.

Vegan Apple Tart Roses

Vegan apple tartlets are perfect for a garden party, mother’s day, or just a nice gift to bring a neighbor.

Vegan Apple Hand Pies

I promise these vegan apple hand pies are better than they look haha. Food photography wasn’t in my skillset in 2017 apparently. With almost a half an apple in each hand pie, these would keep any doctor away. (You know, because an apple a day…)

Vegan Apple Crisp

This vegan recipe for apple crisp layers apples with a crumble topping. It’s a great way to use up a lot of apples if you went apple picking. Like other vegan cobbler recipes, it turns a nice golden brown on top when you bake it and pairs well with vegan vanilla ice cream or vegan whip.

Vegan Apple Cake

This apple cake is an easy cake to make and doesn’t have any icing or frosting, so it’s healthier too.

Poached Pears

These poached pears are poached in red wine, but I recommend using cranberry juice in place of the red wine. Then it will give you that same pretty color, but without the wine flavor. If you do use red wine, make sure you get one that’s vegan. Barnivore is a great resource for finding vegan wine.

Vegan Dessert Recipes Using Bananas

Vegan Banana Cakes

Vegan banana cake with peanut butter filling and banana split cake are 2 delicious ways to use bananas.

Vegan Banana Pies

This vegan banoffee pie uses 3 medium bananas. Make sure when you’re shopping for ingredients for this recipe that you look for soymilk and cornstarch that is organic or non-GMO if you avoid GMOs. And make sure the light brown sugar is organic or vegan.

Vegan Banana Drinks

This vegan chocolate shake recipe uses 2 and half frozen bananas.

Vegan Dessert Recipes Using Pineapple

Vegan Hummingbird Cake

Vegan hummingbird cake has a few different fruits, but pineapple is the highlight.

Vegan Chocolate Covered Pineapple

Chocolate covered pineapple is one of those snacks you can make without a recipe. If you’re new to chocolate dipped things, this recipe might be helpful to you. You can use any fruit. Just make sure you use vegan chocolate chips, even though the recipe doesn’t specify.

So, what’s your favorite fruity dessert?

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