Vegan desserts?

Question

Does anyone have a good recipe for gluten-free vegan cakes and/or cookies? I have a relative who's allergic to wheat, dairy, and eggs, so I need a recipe for a vegan dessert that doesn't have flour in it because I would like to make her a good dessert that she can eat.

Answer 1

You can use flour for Gluten free recipes. It has to be a certain type of flour such as in this recipe.
Another good/easy dessert would be to make her a crisp. Replace flour by rice flour and the butter by vegetable margarine. You can serve it with soy delicious ice cream.

Pumpkin Wonders (vegan) (gluten free)

* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 teaspoon baking powder
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 1 cup white rice flour
* 3/4 cup potato starch
* 1/2 cup vegetable margarine
* 3/4 cup sugar
* 1 cup canned pumpkin
* 1/2 cup ground walnuts
* water to mix

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Sift the dry ingredients together. Cream the shortening and the sugar. Add the pumpkin. Add the remainder of the dry ingredients and nuts. Add a little water and mix until smooth.
Drop by tablespoonfuls onto cookie sheets and bake 9 to 12 minutes, until brown. Cool until firm, and remove to a wire rack to cool.

Answer 2

Baked apples. Take a naturally sweet apple, like Fuji or Gala, and cut it in half. Cut out the core and cut off any spots, but leave the skin on. Put the apples in a pan ... normally I put butter in the bottom of the pan, but in the case of your friend maybe you could just drizzle the pan with a little extra virgin olive oil or canola oil... whatever oil that she can have. Put the apples in there with the cut side up, and generously drizzle the apples with honey & cinnamon. Bake on 350 for like 25 minutes - the time depends on the size of the apples and how many are in the pan. Just experiment with the time to see what works ... you want them to be fully cooked all the way through, but not to the point that they're soggy.

Very yummy, healthy dessert! Good luck!

Answer 3

The baked apple recipe sounds good, except they're asking for a vegan recipe so I'd sub agave nectar or some other sweetener for the honey.

Answer 4

The absolute easiest thing to make is what my sister calls a Vegan candy bar. She takes pressed dates or figs and puts them on celery. Thought I would hate them, but I must have eaten a dozen.

Answer 5

Well, there's not a lot to choose from, but you could see what you can find in this list:

http://www.the-health-site.com/articles/137.html

Alternatively, you could try using a recipe that would normally call for milk, and substituting soy milk or rice milk.

Answer 6

www.vegweb.com is all vegan recipes, and you can probably find gluten-free recipes on there.

Answer 7

http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/37/Vegan_Banana_Soya_Ice_Cream57979.shtml