Simple Vegan Chocolate Pudding and Cake Recipes

Chocolate is one of England’s most popular dessert foods. And supermarkets everywhere sell millions of chocolate cakes and puddings. But it’s very easy to make your own from simple plant-based affordable ingredients (choose Fair Trade chocolate, as cocoa is grown in the world’s poorest regions).

This sweet potato chocolate cake (Rainbow Nourishments) uses one of nature’s sweetest vegetables, for a cake that’s rich in vitamins, so you can eat more of it!

Avoid caffeine for pregnancy/nursing. Read more on food safety for people and pets (chocolate, nuts and many other ingredients are unsafe near animal friends). 

For tinned ingredients, pop lids inside cans (or pop ring-pulls back over holes) to avoid wildlife getting trapped).

Homemade Beetroot and Chocolate Cake

Same with this beetroot chocolate cake (Rainbow Nourishments), the sweetness of beetroot combining well with the bitterness of espresso powder (we like Sanctuary Coffee Espresso Powder, as profits help animal sanctuaries!)

Vegan Chocolate Cake (no flour required!)

This homemade chocolate cake (Rainbow Nourishments) is not just vegan and simple to make, but doesn’t even need flour! There’s nothing wrong with good flour, but it’s good not to eat too much of it, especially wheat flour.

This fudgy cake is not too sweet, made with no oil (it uses applesauce) and sweetened with coconut sugar. The secret ingredient is almond flour (which is not really flour) by whizzing up slivered almonds until they turn into what looks like flour! It also means this cake is rich in protein and calcium.

Choose organic European-grown almonds, as American almonds have ethical issue with migratory bee-keeping etc (in simple terms, they are harming bees, by the way they are grown). 

2-Ingredient Vegan Chocolate Pudding

This 2-ingredient chocolate mousse (PlantYou) contains just dark chocolate and hot coffee or tea!

Easy Vegan Chocolate Chia Pudding

This easy vegan chocolate pudding (The Simple Veganista) is made with vanilla and sweetened with maple syrup. Chia seeds replace gelatine to thicken it up (always mix chia seeds with water first, and avoid for choking hazards).

A Simple Recipe for Plant-Based Tiramisu

This simple recipe for vegan tiramisu (Rainbow Nourishments) is by an Aussie baker, who knows how to make the flavours pop, but gets it that most people are not going to have the time and inclination to find, buy and use all the different ingredients in this popular Italian dessert. So revert to those plastic pots in supermarkets.

Tiramisu is a coffee/chocolate dessert that is Italian for ‘pick-me-up’. Unlike most vegan versions, Anthea’s recipe requires no soaking of nuts, nor needing sponge fingers (which can be difficult to find or fiddly to make).

Instead, it uses a simple base of vegan cookies (look in stores for Rhythm 108 which are both vegan and free from palm oil), and then replaces dairy with coconut cream (not milk).