Vanilla recipes for vegans & vegetarians

These vegan chocolate ice pops are creamy, sweet and satisfying. They’re also quick and easy to make, completely nut-free, totally kid-friendly and hide a wonderfully nutritious ingredient – beans!

Raw chocolate hemp pudding with only four ingredients – dates, hemp, cacao & vanilla – and the richness and creaminess you’d expect from chocolate mousse. But it’s dairy-free and nut-free! So simple, so quick and SO delicious. You will thank me, I promise.

This raw caramel sauce is also vegan and paleo, takes barely 5 minutes to make and is a rich, creamy, sweet and decadent topping for just about anything. Like fruit salad, ice-cream, raw cake, or even just a spoon.

This raw pina colada smoothie combines the rich and creamy taste of coconut milk with the tang of fresh pineapple, which is then perfectly melded together with banana, dates and vanilla. And did I mention that there’s tiny paper umbrellas?

This vegan chocolate coconut ice cream recipe gives you rich, flavoursome, creamy scoops of chocolate goodness. It’s also nut-free and kid-friendly, and it goes so well with so many things. In my case, it’s usually more chocolate.

This raw vegan almond milk is so simple and fast to make, and turns out rich and creamy. And it’s so delicious with everything – on homemade raw muesli, with raw chocolate fudge brownies, or just in a glass on its own.

What do you get when you cross raw coconut macaroons with chocolate? Raw chocolate coconut macaroons, of course! So simple and so delicious, and being nut-free, gluten-free and dairy-free, they’re perfect for social gatherings and school lunches.

With just four wholesome ingredients, these raw date coconut macaroons are gorgeous balls of pure bliss. Just coconut, dates, vanilla beans and a pinch of salt, which makes them gluten-free, nut-free, vegan and paleo. So simple, so easy, so quick, so tasty! Just. Too. Delicious.

I love it when I discover things by accident, especially when they’re as delicious as this raw hot chocolate. It’s so creamy and warm and tasty and sweet and chocolatey and everything that’s wonderful about hot chocolate.

These raw coconut macaroons are armed with a taste so dangerously compelling, that I dare you to eat only one. Oh yeah, these babies are irresistible. The perfect coconutty balance of crunchy outsides with soft melty insides.

The walnuts and macadamias in this raw cake are a winning combination (even with the kids), and being another ‘just chuck it all in the processor’ recipe, you can have your cake (and eat it too) in less than 15 minutes if you want.

If you’re looking for a dairy free, nut-free yoghurt alternative, give my avocado banana yoghurt recipe a try. And although it does look a bit like avocado snot, I promise that it tastes like a tangy, sweet banana and vanilla yoghurt.