The best Vegan Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes made with apples, pumpkin, sweet potato and spices. Whether your favorite treat is a simple apple pie or a tasty pumpkin parfait, all of these sweet meals will be the perfect addition to your festive menu!
Vegan Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes
Fall provides with a lot of fresh produce option to use as a base in any yummy dessert. The most popular options of course, are apples, pumpkins, pecans and cranberries.
We have collected for you the best of the best vegan Thanksgiving dessert recipes, so you don’t have to spend hours searching for them. Be it healthy, or indulgent, easy or a little more fancy, it’s your pick. Adults or kids, vegans or meat eaters alike will be delighted with any of these amazing dishes.
May your Thanksgiving dinner be filled with delicious pies and treats!
1. Whole Wheat Apple Pie
Photo: Vegan Family Recipes
Ditch the white flour and go for this super healthy Whole Wheat Apple Pie! Your family will never tell the difference and you will feel nice, that you treated them to something nourishing.
2. Moist Chai Applesauce Cake
Photo: Full of Plants
Applesauce is a fantastic ingredient to use in desserts, as it is demonstrated in this moist cake. Forget dried up cakes and the dissapointment that comes with them. This one’s the winner.
3. Caramel Apple Cobbler
Photo: My Darling Vegan
Caramel and apple creates a super food combo. When you pair them with this crumbly cobbler, it’s a 10/10 culinary experience. It is also a good choice as breakfast for cold/dark fall mornings. Good mood is guaranteed!
4. Gluten-free Apple Pie
Photo: Allergy-Free Alaska
This gluten-free apple pie is just as delicious and satisfying as any standard pie (if not better).
5. AIP Salted Caramel Apple Parfaits
Photo: Grass-Fed Salsa
The beauty of this parfait is that it’s just as easy to make as it is fancy. Impressive taste and looks-wise too.
6. Easy Applesauce Spice Cake
Photo: The Full Helping
A simple dessert, but yummy nonetheless. Definitely a contender in the best versatile dessert category.
7. Buckwheat and Yogurt Apple Cake
Photo: Naturalmente Buono
If you are bored of traditional or familiar tastes, this Buckwheat and Yoghurt Apple Cake is something you definitely need to try. There is a perfect harmony between the ingredients that will be hard to resist.
8. Healthy and Creamy Pumpkin Pie
Photo: Chocolate Covered Katie
Pumpkin pie (next to apple pie) is probably THE Thanksgiving dessert. But did you know that it can be healthy and ‘ultra creamy’ too? This pumpkin pie recipe beats all other pumpkin pie recipes.
9. Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake
Photo: Lands and Flavors
Do you like pumpkin? Do you prefer cheesecakes to pies? Then this one might be your new favorite. It combines everything good that a fall dessert should be.
10. Pumpkin Cookies
Photo: A Saucy Kitchen
Fall is the time of TEA. And when it’s tea time, you should have some yummy cookies to eat. The most suited for this job are definitely these frosted pumpkin cookies. Kids will love them at the Thanksgiving dinner table too.
11. Pumpkin Meringue Pie
Photo: Vegan Huggs
A meringue pie is on the “bit more complex” recipes side. It doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t bother with it though. The main reason of course, is that it’s so delicious, you will want to make it every week.
12. Pumpkin Roll (gluten-free)
Photo: The Spoon and Shovel
Such an easy recipe to make, and so addictive. You can slice off a piece and go. Delicious, soft, pumpkin heaven.
13. Pumpkin Pie Pudding
Photo: Blissful Basil
Yay for healthy pudding! Indulge in this creamy and creative pumpkin pie adaptation. (Tip: Put it on an apple pie for maximum enjoyment!)
14. Pumpkin Muffins (gluten-free)
Photo: Texanerin
Muffins are always a good idea. Even though they are not the most unique or festive treat ever, they have a place at the Thanksgiving dinner table. Especially, when they are coated in such lovely cinnamon sugar.
15. Pumpkin Spice Latte Cheesecake
Photo: Plant Tribe
Did someone say creative and unique? This pumpkin spice latte cheesecake is a brilliant idea and a perfect choice for a festive dessert, and not just for latte lovers!
16. Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Bread
Photo: Averie Cooks
Dessert breads are really in this year, and seem to be everyone’s favorite. With a mouthwatering pumpkin recipe like this, it’s perfectly understandable.
17. Pumpkin Pie Parfait w/ Coconut Whip (gluten and soy-free)
Photo: I Love Vegan
Fancy and without hassle. You can be a hobby chef or a professional, young or elderly. You can totally rock this parfait recipe and win over everyone.
18. No Bake Pumpkin Pie Bites (gluten-free)
Photo: Evolving Table
These pumpkin bites are a great idea if you are throwing a casual Thanksgiving dinner or you crave some fall flavors on average days. Super easy and quick to make, but absolutely satisfying.
19. Pecan Pie
Photo: Namely Marly
Pecan pies are a popular choice when it comes to Thanksgiving desserts. Pecan nuts provide a lot of healthy fats and protein, so they are mostly guilt-free as well.
20. Pecan Pie Fudge (paleo, gluten-free)
Photo: Texanerin
A fancy twist on the classic cupcake/muffin. Super chewy fudge, that will be the favorite treat of the night. Beware though, it’s not easy to stop eating these sweets!
21. Raw Maple Pecan Pie
Photo: Running On Real Food
Super healthy food lovers should not compromise with desserts. This amazingly healthy and sweet raw pecan pie is the perfect choice for your health-conscious family members or friends.
22. Salted Caramel Pecan Pie (gluten-free)
Photo: Rebel Recipes
Salted caramel makes everything better. This pecan pie is not an exception. You can use edible flowers as an extra to wow your guests.
23. Chocolate Ganache Pecan Pie
Photo: Loving It Vegan
A super indulgent chocolate cake with crunchy pecans is something to dream about. Well, no need to to only dream about it. This recipe is incredibly easy to make, so don’t hesitate!
24. Cranberry Blueberry Crisp
Photo: The Pretty Bee
What’s fall and Thanksgiving without super healthy cranberries? This cranberry crisp will warm up any soul and belly too.
25. Apple Cranberry Slab Pie
Photo: The Veg Life
There is no need for a table centerpiece or other Thanksgiving decoration, when you have this breathtakingly beautiful and aromatic apple cranberry pie. Your taste buds will like it too!
26. Pear Custard Pie With Caramelized Almond Crust
Photo: My Vibrant Kitchen
Fresh pears and caramelized almonds are a guarantee for a fantastic and memorable dessert, you will want to go back to constantly.
27. Vanilla Bean Roasted Acorn Squash
Photo: Dessert For Two
If you are lover of simple flavors and recipes, you will love this one for sure. Because sometimes less is more.
28. Butternut Squash & Orange Cake
Photo: Wallflower Kitchen
Using butternut squash, but sneaking in a little winter flavor with oranges, this cake is the perfect transitional dessert for the Thanksgiving period.
29. Purple Sweet Potato Pie (paleo)
Photo: Pretty Pies
This purple sweet potato pie will be the center of the talks this fall. Its unique and beautiful look does not dissappoint taste-wise. It is as creamy and delicious as any pumpkin pie will ever be.
See these FALL-themed recipes too:
- Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes: the perfect recipes for a delicious vegan holiday to impress everyone at the table.
- Clean Eating Fall Desserts: super healthy, yummy sweets and treats for sweater weather.
- Fall Clean Eating Dinners: vegan clean eating recipes for healthy fall dinners.
- Fall Desserts: super yummy fall sweet treats.
- Healthy Fall Dinner Recipes: for cold, dark fall evenings, when you need something easy, but nourishing!
- Pumpkin Recipes: everything that’s pumpkin and delicious!
What are your favorite Vegan Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes? Let me know in the comments!
