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You knew it was coming!

This post was a lot of fun to put together. After compiling the most popular dessert recipes of 2011, here’s what I found:

You guys go crazy for:

  • Anything NO BAKE!
  • Quick & easy
  • Chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate
  • Chewy, crunchy things
  • Peanut butter AND chocolate
  • Short ingredient lists
  • Healthy blizzards (1, 2, and 3)
  • Bite-sized
  • Healthy “dessert-like” snacks (see end of post for list)
  • Cookie dough galore
  • Classic desserts made vegan
  • Balls, balls, balls

What kind of desserts did you love the most? Or maybe you want to let me know about a non-vegan dessert that you’d like to see “veganized” in 2012? Let me know in the comments below and I will add it to my list.

Here are the top 21 dessert recipes that you drooled over, indulged in, raved about, and baked (or didn’t bake) the most in 2011…

21. Peanut Butter and Jam Nanaimo Bars (a personal fav of mine & also no bake)

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20. Sinless Sticky Toffee Pecan Pudding

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19. 5-Ingredient Almond Butter Chews & Almond Butter Rice Crisp Treats (tied)

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18. 5-Ingredient No Bake Date Squares

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17. Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Spiced Doughnuts

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16. Rustic Chocolate Chip Banana Cake

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15. Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes with Raspberry Buttercream

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14. Brownie Pumpkin Pie with a Crunchy Pecan Topping & Pumpkin Pie Brownie Cupcakes

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13. Itty Bitty Carrot Cake Cookies

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12. Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

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11. Vegan and Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies – the crispers!

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10. No Bake Double Chocolate Torte

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9. Healthy Strawberry Oat Squares

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8. Vegan Pumpkin Pie, three ways (with gluten-free crust option)

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7. Dense, gooey, flakey Vegan Brownies, two ways (with killer gluten-free version!)

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6. No Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Crispies with “Fudge”

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5. 80-calorie No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

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4. Pumpkin Gingerbread with Spiced Buttercream

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3. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Blizzard

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2. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls

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1. Double Chocolate Torte (I would have to agree with the #1 pick, although I’m partial to the no bake version too)

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This torte photo was clearly before I learned how to white balance my photos…heh

If you are looking for a lighter treat, check out some of the healthier recipes below:

  • Itty Bitty Carrot Cake Cookies
  • Healthy Strawberry Oat Squares
  • Rustic Chocolate Chip Banana Cake
  • 80-calorie No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
  • Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls + Blizzard
  • 5-Ingredient Almond Butter Chews & Almond Butter Rice Crisp Treats
  • 5-Ingredient No Bake Date Squares (high in natural sugars, but uses all natural ingredients)
  • Almond Butter Rice Crisp Treats

On that note, I see carrot cake cookies in my future…

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Lia

12 years ago

Too much NOMM for my mind going on here!!

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luminousvegans

12 years ago

Holy moly, I am speechless! I am so glad I found your blog for this post alone!

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Nina

12 years ago

Hi Angela!
There are so many recipes I want to try but I’m having a heck of a time finding whole wheat pastry flour. Can you recommend a national (Canadian) grocery chain that carries it on a regular basis?
Thanks!

Catherine

12 years ago

Wow, I’m just realizing how many of your desserts have made it into my regular rotation: almond chews, banana chocolate oat cake, pumpkin brownies, and most of all – the double chocolate torte! These are staples for me. It is great having desserts that I know are awesome, and that I can bring to friends and family for a dependable treat. And I can’t wait to make some of the others. Thank you so much!!

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Liz

12 years ago

It’s honest to goodness food p*rn. I drool over this site. When does your cookbook come out? I think it would be cheaper then printing everything that I want to try.

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Dee

12 years ago

Wow! Such great desserts!!! To think that majority of people feel they would miss their favourite dessert when they switch to being a vegan. I wish they have vegan cookery programs on television. I am sure that would convince people that you can enjoy vegan desserts and live longer.

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Jen

11 years ago

Hmmm – how much are you getting from the ad at the top of the right column? Because it’s currently showing an ad for Nestle icecreams. Not quite in the spirit…

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Angela Liddon (Oh She Glows)

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Reply toJen

11 years ago

Hi Jen, Thanks for letting me know. I’ve been having some problems with my advertiser committing to vegan friendly ads but not following through. I will be sure to bring this up with them as soon as I’m back. I agree with you that these ads should not be on the site. Thanks.

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liz

11 years ago

Fantastic recipes! I mail vegan cookies and cupcakes to my son, the vegan. Which
ones would do well with shipping? About 3 days usually.

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Amy

11 years ago

This is my first day visiting and I’m already making the vegan apple muffins. I can smell them in the oven. Is there any way to make vegan and gluten free croissants? My son (allergic to many things) really misses them. Thanks for the great ideas!

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Kells

11 years ago

pretty cool recipes dude

Vegan Radhika Sarohia

11 years ago

Omg of course I find this post over a year late at 3am one rainy morning after I have stuffed myself with salty stuffed grape leaves and am now dying for something sweet hahaha
These vegan desserts look spectacular, amazing, gorgeous!
Now the challenge to just figure out which one I will make first *contemplates* :)

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Kimberly Ernest

11 years ago

Hi!

I really like your no bake oatmeal chocolate cookie recipe. I wanted to make them but maybe vary the ingredients a little and was wondering what you thought. I wanted to add almonds… also I was wondering if I could substitute anything for the banana?

Thanks for posting such great recipes! I recently turned vegan and it is wonderful to have to many options.

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Angela Liddon (Oh She Glows)

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Reply toKimberly Ernest

11 years ago

Hey Kimberly, I don’t know of any subs for the banana…sorry about that! Im sure almonds would be fine to add in too.

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KJ

10 years ago

Is it possible to substitute the earth balance buttery stick with banana or apple sauce?

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Rusty Socks

10 years ago

Man do I love meattttttttt

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Patra

10 years ago

I made the vegan chocolate chip cookies and took them to a birthday party. Everyone loved them. They really were delicious. Thanks for a great recipe.

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Mel

9 years ago

Hi, maybe I have misinformation, but I thought that sugar was not vegan because often it is filtered through cow bones. Is that not true? I was excited about #15 until I saw that it has tons of sugar.

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Michelle

9 years ago

These Cupcakes came out Amazing!!! The texture and taste of the chocolate cake recipes is perfect, and the almond frosting while sweet, was perfect and fluffy! I bought raspberry jam and piped it into the cupcakes. It was such a hit that my daughter who’s 3 noticed there was only one cupcake left and asked “when are we gonna eat that cupcake mom”? We already shared one today and had one the day before LOL!

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Michelle

Reply toMichelle

9 years ago

I thought i was leaving a comment on the vegan chocolate cupcake recipe with raspberry cream.

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hannah millerick

8 years ago

I’m going to make the strawberry oat slice today. I’ve got a laminated version of a hand written recipe of my nana’s. This is a healthier version. Will send you a photo when I’m done.

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ella

8 years ago

Wow i didn’t knew i could eat sooo delicious in my vegan diet! I made the Chilled Double Chocolate Torte, but i didn’t have pecan so i tried it with walnuts, i didn’t have arrowroot powder so i used cornstarch. I didn’t have chocolate chips so i used some vegan chocolate and extra cacao powder, maple syrup and milk to balance it out kind of. It was delicious anyways! And very easy to make and eat, next time i will try it with all the ingredients. yummmmmm<3 thank you for posting!

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Olga

8 years ago

Love your dessert recipes! Thank you for sharing.

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Michael

8 years ago

Hey Guys, I make this delicious VEGAN Jam roly poly and I want to share the recipe with all of you. Here it is :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5gQanowl8s

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Wendy

7 years ago

Hi Angela! Love your blog and so much appreciate all the wonderful recipes. It is so wonderful to have someone creating delicious vegan food for which no explanations have to be made because they are just plain delicious as well as healthy. I am a southerner who loves pecan pie for the holidays. It is very much a southern tradition, but it certainly is not a healthy or vegan one. Would you consider creating a vegan version which eliminates the eggs, butter and awful corn syrup? You have no idea how much I would appreciate a recipe or advice.

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Angela Liddon

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7 years ago

Hi Wendy, that is definitely something I’ll have to keep in mind for the future!! Love that idea. :) Happy holidays to you!

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