24 super tasty eggless desserts

We all have our preferred go-to breakfast foods—to the point where morning routines become second nature. There's nothing wrong with that, but there's also nothing wrong with adding in a little zest. This "citrusy olive oil yogurt cake" recipe is exactly that. The cake is eggless and also manages to taste good without any butter. To make the recipe vegan, you simply have to substitute regular yogurt and milk with dairy-free options.

Hot chocolate is usually an automatic yes. This vegan raspberry hot chocolate recipe should garner the same reaction. The ingredients are as simple as the drink is delicious: dark chocolate (with the option to substitute milk or white), non-dairy milk, vegan cream, vegan marshmallows, and rose extract.

Here, Cookilicious' Priya Lakshminarayan drew upon her Indian roots. Beetroot halwa, she explains, "is a light and delicious Indian dessert recipe that's vegan and gluten-free." You also have the option to make your beetroot halwa vegan by using almond or oat milk. The recipe will only take 25 minutes of your time. 

Carrot? Ice cream? Just hear us out. In Hindi, halwa translates to pudding. With this carrot halwa ice cream recipe, you can bring an Indian tradition into your home with just four ingredients: grated carrots, heavy cream, full-fat milk, and mixed nuts alongside cardamom and saffron. To make it vegan-friendly, use almond or coconut milk with vegan cream. Sugar rather than condensed milk is also an option.

It would seem impossibly by nature for ice cream to be dairy-free, but anything is possible on this list. This vegan strawberry marshmallow ice cream recipe is founded on vegan cream and almond, coconut, or oat milk. Karo corn syrup gives the ice cream its soft consistency, and marshmallows add an extra sweet texture to melt in your mouth.

These Indian-style shortbread cookies, also known as Nankhatai. "These sweet and salty condensed milk cookies are light, flaky, and mildly sweet," writes Cookilicious' Priya Lakshminarayan of her recipe. "They literally melt in your mouth." All you need: all-purpose flour, baking powder, cashews, condensed milk, salted butter, and vanilla extract.

This vegan sweet corn pudding recipe is also gluten-free. Your ingredients will be almonds, coconut milk, coconut oil, saffron, sweet corn, and sugar. The best part is that it only takes 15 minutes to make. In a microwave. A microwave!

Rose-flavored coconut ladoo is a popular Asian dessert made with rose syrup and fresh or desiccated coconut," explains Cookilicious' Priya Lakshminarayan of this 10-minute recipe. Ladoo, she adds, is an Indian term for truffles, which can be enjoyed cooked or uncooked. The complementing ingredients for coconut and rose syrup are condensed milk, chopped nuts, ghee, and rose water. Not only do the finished ladoos look so cute you could pinch them, but they're also delectably addictive.

More marshmallows! "These soft and chewy cookies taste so much like chocolate brownies and the perfect amount of sweetness coming from the caramelized marshmallows makes it uber delicious to taste," explains Cookilicious' Priya Lakshminarayan of this 30-minute vegan recipe. Your ingredients will be vegan butter, baking powder, cocoa powder, flour, salt, sugar, dairy-free milk, plain vegetarian mini marshmallows, and vanilla extract.

This is a perfect dessert during the holiday season, but this flavor-filled thandai chocolate bark recipe should be enjoyed all year long. Thandai is an Indian milk-based drink associated with Holi. Here, thandai masala is used alongside mixed chopped nuts and white chocolate chips.

In South India, this dish is known best as Paal Payasam or kheer. This recipe is particularly enticing because it can easily be done in an Instant Pot with a five-minute preparation time and 25-minute cook time. The ingredients include almonds, cashews, ghee, pistachios, raisins, sugar, rice, and milk. To make your pudding vegan, substitute coconut oil for ghee. If you want a dairy-free dessert, substitute in dairy-free milk or creamer.

This apple and pistachio mousse recipe takes a bit more commitment than other recipes on this list, but its simplicity makes up for the 70-minute investment. There are just seven ingredients: apples, cream cheese, lemon juice, pistachios, saffron strands, sugar, and sour cream.

Thandai returns—this time in the form of homemade (or store-bought) thandai masala as the basis for a spiced and chilled milkshake. The beverage gets its texture from almonds, cashews, peppercorns, pistachios, and various other seeds. You can drink it chilled or warm, depending on your preferences, and repurpose the recipe for thandai ice cream or popsicles.

This chocolate coconut ice cream is dairy-free, eggless, and gluten. You might be wondering, "Well, then, what's left?" Plenty is packed in four ingredients: coconut milk, coconut chips, cocoa powder, and sugar. 

"Ghee cookies were a staple in our house," writes Cookilicious' Priya Lakshminarayan of this recipe. It came from the bakery nearby. Mom would get them for us on her way back from picking up the weekly groceries. She preferred these because they were no egg cookies. We would be the happiest that day. Those Indian butter biscuits would just melt in our mouths." To replicate that nostalgic feeling, all you'll need is ghee, castor sugar, salt, vanilla extract, and whole wheat flour.

This may just be the simplest recipe on our list, as the no-cook lemon cream cheese bites only call for cream cheese, lemon extract, and sugar. From start to end, you'll only spend 10 minutes making this dessert.

This Kesar Pista badam biscuits—or saffron cashew almond cookies—recipe is very easy. Are you sensing a theme yet? If you're in need of a quick gift for friends or a dessert option for the family, this is your answer. Gather ghee, saffron strands, sugar, warm milk, cardamom powder, nutmeg powder, flour, and mixed nuts, and you're on your way. 

Banana strawberry, like the aforementioned chocolate and peanut butter, is an undefeated combination. This banana strawberry bread recipe is dairy-free and vegan with ingredients such as bananas, strawberries, mixed nuts, brown sugar, cinnamon powder, nutmeg, and whole wheat flour. "Baking is a great de-stressor," notes Cookiilicious' Priya Lakshminarayan. "[This recipe is a] great way to use up all the ripe bananas you have."

Remember those cute little coconut ladoos several slides ago? Here's a new (and even quicker) version with just 20 minutes spent beginning to end on instant coconut ladoos. The ingredients necessary are coconut powder or freshly grated coconut, ghee, pistachios, fine sugar, and milk. 

For the uninitiated, gulkand is a rose petal preserve that adds a natural sweetness. This no-churn rose gulkand ice cream recipe is a great introduction if you've never had it before. You'll need condensed milk, gulkand, heavy cream, rose extract, rose syrup, and 15 minutes to spare.

This far into the slideshow, you know that kheer is Indian pudding. Pair that with khoya, and you have a unique base for this recipe: apple, ghee, mixed nuts, milk, saffron strands, and sugar. 

Usually using "moist" to describe something is a non-starter, but this chickoo figs loaf cake recipe is an exception to the rule. The bread is vegan, though not dairy-free, with fresh chickoo fruit and figs at the center alongside whole wheat flour, sugar, yogurt, vanilla extract, and a few other simplistic ingredients.

These red velvet cupcakes will be even more vibrantly red because beetroot puree is in the recipe. The necessary ingredients include all-purpose flour, fine sugar, cocoa powder, freshly pureed beetroot, lemon juice, and vanilla extract. "Serve with any frosting on top or as is," writes Cookilicious' Priya Lakshminarayan. "This cupcake has a slight tang to it due to the lemon juice, and I swear you cannot taste the beets at all."

Again, we'll defer to Cookilicious' Priya Lakshminarayan: "Shrikhand milkshake, also known as Piyush, is a sweet and creamy Indian beverage. This aromatic summer drink is yum!" Her recipe involves shrikhand—homemade or store-bought—milk, nutmeg powder, cardamom powder, pistachios, saffron, sugar, and yogurt. The dessert beverage only takes 10 minutes to prepare.