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justaprogressive

(6,227 posts)
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:21 PM Dec 6

Irresistible Desserts For The Holidays V: Vegan Desserts 🌞

You'll like 'em too!



Date Cake

This is a no-bake date cake that has bits of dark chocolate and
flavorful groundnuts.

Preparation Time: 1 hour

Cooking Time: No Cooking Required

Serves: 4

Ingredients:


1 cup date paste
½ cup dark chocolate, finely chopped
1 cup groundnuts
½ cup honey
½ tsp sea salt
1 tsp cinnamon powder

Instructions:

In a large mixing bowl, combine the groundnuts and date paste.
Add the dark chocolate, sea salt, cinnamon, honey, and mix well.
Add to a serving dish. Add the dish in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

Serve.


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Date Coconut Balls

Coconut date balls taste great and need no cooking time.
Isn’t it remarkable?

Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: No Cooking Required
Serves: 12 balls

Ingredients:

1½ cups date paste
½ cup desiccated coconut
4 tbsp honey
1 pinch sea salt
1 pinch cinnamon
½ cup shredded coconut
4 tbsp groundnuts

Instructions:

In a mixing bowl, combine the date paste with the honey,
groundnuts, sea salt, cinnamon, and shredded coconut.

Mix well and make little balls.

Roll them on the desiccated coconut.
Let them set for 1 hour and then serve.


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Vanilla Custard Slice

This is really a vegan dessert! The texture is soft and the light
vanilla flavors soothes the senses.

Preparation Time: 4 hours
Cooking Time: 50 minutes
Serves: 4

Ingredients:


2-sheet vegan puff pastry
4 cups soy milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/3 cup corn flour
1 pinch turmeric
1/3 cup granulated sugar
½ cup almond butter

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

Grease to baking trays using butter.

Place the puff pastry and bake them for 15 minutes.

Take out of the oven.

In another cake pan, add wax paper.

In a saucepan, add the soy milk, vanilla, and simmer for 10 minutes.

Take off the heat and let it cool down.

In another saucepan, combine the sugar and the corn flour.

Add the soy milk mixture gradually and keep stirring.

Cook for 10 minutes. Add the turmeric and butter, mix well.

Take off the heat.

Place one puff pastry on your prepared cake pan.

Add the milk mixture. Top with the other puff pastry.

Place in the fridge until served.


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Cinnamon Rice Pudding

This rice pudding is filled with flavors of molasses
and cinnamon, and it tastes amazing.

Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Serves: 4

Ingredients:


1/2 cup rice
4 cups coconut milk
1/2 cup shredded coconut
1 pinch salt
1 tsp cinnamon powder
1/2 cup molasses

Instructions:

In a large saucepan, add the rice with coconut milk.

Cook on medium high heat for 15 minutes.

Simmer for 5 minutes.

Add the shredded coconut, salt, sugar, cinnamon, and
molasses. Stir well.

Cook for 10 minutes. Serve cold.


All the above from "Vegan Desserts"


Mmmmm Dates!

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Irresistible Desserts For The Holidays V: Vegan Desserts 🌞 (Original Post) justaprogressive Dec 6 OP
Wow, they look wonderful wendyb-NC Dec 6 #1
thanks! justaprogressive Dec 6 #2
Oh my -- I love dates ! Too bad the Middle Eastern grocery is not closer by, they have a big selection of dates. eppur_se_muova Dec 6 #3
If you change the honey in these recipes... Trueblue Texan Dec 7 #4
True, but I know many vegans who still eat honey. Besides Maple, there are also these other options: justaprogressive Dec 7 #5
Hm... buzzycrumbhunger Dec 7 #6
Yum jfz9580m Saturday #7
Aww thanks justaprogressive Saturday #8
Thank you jfz9580m Saturday #9
"I just read recipes"... and that is chef-ly too! justaprogressive Saturday #10

wendyb-NC

(4,578 posts)
1. Wow, they look wonderful
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:29 PM
Dec 6

Thank you, for sharing those recipes. I am bookmarking for future reference.

eppur_se_muova

(40,802 posts)
3. Oh my -- I love dates ! Too bad the Middle Eastern grocery is not closer by, they have a big selection of dates.
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 10:12 PM
Dec 6

Recently, I tried adding dates to an oatmeal pudding. They really helped sweeten it, so that the lack of blueberries was hardly noticeable. All the other fruits were dried -- raisins, prunes, cherries -- and it turned out firm and chewy, almost like a desert bar rather than a pudding -- but it was delicious !

Trueblue Texan

(4,134 posts)
4. If you change the honey in these recipes...
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 07:32 AM
Dec 7

...to maple syrup, they will be vegan. Some vegans are very strict, some not so strict. But technically speaking, honey is not considered a vegan product.

justaprogressive

(6,227 posts)
5. True, but I know many vegans who still eat honey. Besides Maple, there are also these other options:
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 10:15 AM
Dec 7

Date syrup, molasses, butterscotch syrup, golden syrup and agave nectar.

buzzycrumbhunger

(1,578 posts)
6. Hm...
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 08:40 PM
Dec 7

Those “custard slices” might be a good place to use up that jar of chocolate sunflower butter instead of almond butter as I bought it on a whim and no one really cares for it in a sandwich…

jfz9580m

(16,492 posts)
7. Yum
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 07:15 AM
Saturday

The vanilla custard slice looks awesome .
That’s the first time I have seen turmeric in a dessert of that sort (cardamom, saffron, cinnamon yes, but not turmeric).

Fun fact about turmeric I found out a few years ago: it’s apparently potent enough that patients on chemotherapy are sometimes advised to not eat it. Not sure they understand the mechanism.

Love the vegan desserts .

( As an aside, was trying to remember why I had picked DU out of the various sites back in 2006 to join and it was because of Elad! I figured a site where 1/3rd of the admin was vegan would be a good fit, though I can’t think of the last time I saw a post by Elad . Never regretted it..)

justaprogressive

(6,227 posts)
8. Aww thanks
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 10:38 AM
Saturday

I try to keep vegan (strict and otherwise) people/recipes in mind for my posts...

jfz9580m

(16,492 posts)
9. Thank you
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 10:59 AM
Saturday

That’s very sweet of you justaprogessive..

I read all recipes anyway, just automatically swopping out various (much maligned meat substitutes ;-/) automatically….

I like your series..especially the chocolate ones. lol..I don’t really cook much. I just like reading recipes..

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