Here's a list of 16 Vegan Pumpkin Dessert Recipes, including cakes, pies, muffins, breads, cookies and brownies! They're all gluten-free and refined sugar free too. Perfect for the autumn season, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas!
All of these recipes use pumpkin purée. So here are some tips for cooking and baking with pumpkin purée!
Some of these recipes use pumpkin purée, which can be a challenge to find if you don't live in the US. In the UK you can usually find it in larger supermarkets, usually either the tinned fruit section or the "world foods" section. You can also find it online.
Yes - you can absolutely make it yourself! The best way to do this is:
- Halve the pumpkin.
- Scoop out the seeds.
- Bake in an oven at 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit) for around 45 minutes - it will depend on the type and size of the pumpkin, but it needs to be baked until the pumpkin is soft enough to gently pierce with a fork and it's coming away from the skin slightly.
- Scoop the flesh out of the pumpkin into a food processor, discarding the skins.
- Whizz until completely smooth.
It keeps covered in the fridge for up to a few days and in the freezer for a month.
Yes! If you can't get hold of pumpkin, it can generally be replaced with butternut squash or sweet potato.
1. Pumpkin Muffins
These Pumpkin Muffins are seriously moist, subtly spiced, and super satisfying.
2. Pumpkin Pie
This Pumpkin Pie is perfectly spiced, rich and creamy and has a flaky, crispy and buttery crust.
3. Pumpkin Scones
These Pumpkin Scones are moist and fluffy, fragrantly spiced and perfectly rich.
4. Pumpkin Cake
This Pumpkin Cake is moist and fluffy, full of subtly spiced pumpkin flavour and slathered with a delicious "cream cheese" frosting!
5. Pumpkin Bread
This Pumpkin Bread is moist, subtly spiced and perfectly dense.
6. Chocolate Pumpkin Bread
This Chocolate Pumpkin Bread is super rich and tastes like pumpkin brownies!
7. Pumpkin Pancakes
These Pumpkin Pancakes are moist and fluffy, subtly spiced and perfectly satisfying!
8. Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins
These Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins are super rich and moist and taste like pumpkin brownies!
19. Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies
These Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies are soft and chewy, sweet and fragrant, and studded with chocolate chips!
9. No-Bake Pumpkin Pie
This No-Bake Pumpkin Pie is rich, indulgent and perfectly sweet! A chewy, crunchy crust filled with creamy pumpkin topped with fluffy clouds of coconut whipped cream.
10. Pumpkin Brownies
These Pumpkin Brownies are rich and fudgy, naturally sweetened and perfectly satisfying!
11. Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
These Pumpkin Sugar Cookies are soft and chewy, slightly fluffy, fragrantly spiced and covered in a rich, tangy "cream cheese" frosting.
12. Pumpkin Loaf Cake
This Pumpkin Loaf Cake is moist, fluffy and covered in a rich "cream cheese" frosting.
13. Pumpkin Cookies
These Pumpkin Cookies are soft and fluffy, seriously moist and covered in a silky "cream cheese" frosting.
14. Pumpkin Bars
These Pumpkin Bars are moist, fluffy and covered in a tangy "cream cheese" frosting. They're warmly spiced and slightly denser than pumpkin cake.
15. Pumpkin Pie Bars
These Pumpkin Pie Bars are such a comforting dessert: a "buttery" base with a creamy, warmly spiced pumpkin pie filling and nutty crumble topping. An excellent alternative to Pumpkin Pie!
16. Baked Pumpkin Cheesecake
This Baked Pumpkin Cheesecake is rich and creamy, subtly spiced, and covered in a silky salted caramel sauce. It's perfectly sweet, a little tangy and has a crunchy, "buttery" crust!
If you make any of these vegan pumpkin dessert recipes, I'd really love to see what you come up with! You can show me by tagging a photo @rhiansrecipes #rhiansrecipes on Instagram! Thank you.
For savoury pumpkin recipes, check out my 27 Vegan Pumpkin Recipes post!
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