Desserts

Classic vegan oatmeal raisin cookies with crisp lacy edges and chewy dark brown sugar centers — the plant milk and soy flour do their work quietly. The recipe's biggest instruction is knowing when to pull them: while the middles still look slightly undone. One...

Coconut orange quinoa pudding is what happens when a grain cooks in coconut milk and fresh orange juice instead of water — creamy, citrusy, and genuinely good for you. Dried cranberries plump as it chills, and every spoonful tastes like a much fancier dessert than 30...

This 5-minute blueberry compote is the make-once, use-all-week sauce: spoon it over yogurt, pancakes, or ice cream, or stir it into oatmeal. Lemon juice and a pinch of salt make the berries taste more like themselves, and arrowroot gives it a glossy, jammy set. Frozen...

Baked sweet plantains with cinnamon and nutmeg caramelize in the oven in 14 minutes, and the small pinch of cumin in the seasoning is the detail people can't place but always notice. Choose the blackest plantains at the store — that's not spoilage,...

The best healthy peanut butter banana cupcakes are built on three very ripe bananas and a whole-grain flour blend, then capped with peanut butter yogurt frosting. They bake up moist enough to eat plain, which is the true test of a healthy cupcake. Fifty minutes, one...

Chocolate orange avocado mousse with fresh strawberries is the 15-minute dessert I make when I want something silky without turning on the oven. Ripe avocado, cocoa powder, and orange zest blend into something that tastes entirely of chocolate and citrus. The...

Healthy no-cheese raspberry cheesecake is the dessert I serve skeptics first: silken tofu and yogurt cheese make a filling so creamy nobody asks what's missing. The graham crust uses coconut oil and brown-rice syrup, and the long chill after baking does the rest....