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Kwanzaa desserts include Southern annd holiday favorites such as pecan pie and sweet potato pie. Scroll through these Kwanzaa dessert ideas below, try out a couple, and create a new family tradition. Enjoy your Kwanzaa feast and your Kwanzaa dessert!
Easy Vegan Sweet Potato Pie Recipe
This sweet potato pie recipe uses a pre-made crust so it's very quick and easy to make. You can have it in the oven in ten minutes flat, five if you're quick! Plus, because it uses tofu to carry the sweet potato flavor, you're getting a healthy boost of soy protein too!
Sweet Potato Bread Pudding
Sweet Potato Bread Pudding
Vegan Banana Cake
Vegan Banana Cake
Orange, Pineapple and Honey Cake
Citrus Honey Cake - a very light and low-fat Southern-style cake recipe suitable for a Southern-themed Kwanzaa dessert.
Old-Fashioned Coconut Pudding
You don't need eggs to make a thick creamy, old fashioned coconut pudding. This vegan dessert recipe is super sweet, so serve up small portion sizes!
Crockpot Cranberry Peach Cobbler
Crock Pot Cranberry Peach Cobbler makes for a sweet breakfast treat or a light dessert. The cranberries add texture and color, making for a vibrant and tasty recipe. Serve plain or with a dollop of whipped cream.
Egg-Free Pecan Pie Recipe
This recipe could easily be made vegan by omitting the whipped cream topping. Perfect for an easy Kwanzaa dessert.
Vegan Coconut Frosting
Frost your coconut cake with vegan coconut frosting!
Sugar-Free Apple Cinnamon Crisp
Apple crisp, spiced with cinnamon and just a dash of nutmeg makes for an indulgent vegetarian and vegan breakfast or a healthy dessert for your Kwanzaa celebration.
Easy Apple Crisp
A quick and easy recipe for apple crisp using cereal as a topping. Apple crisp can be served for breakfast or for a light dessert. For a vegan version, just be sure to use a vegan cereal brand.
Benne Wafers
Benne wafers are traditional African sesame seed cookies, and are a popular treat at Kwanzaa.
Benne Cookies
Another Kwanzaa benne cookies recipe.
Candied Pecans
Candied Pecans
Biscuit Bread Pudding
A fancy Southern dessert for Kwanzaa.
African Coconut Pie
A Kwanzaa dessert recipe from Africa, with a bit of the history of coconut pie in Africa as well.
Mississippi Mud Pie with Bourbon
One Southern favorite for a Kwanzaa dessert is Mississippi mud pie. This recipe is rich, chocolately and decadent, with ice cream as well as bourbon. Indulge!
Easy Coconut Cake
Start with plain cake mix to make this decadent and rich coconut cake, a popular Kwanzaa dessert.

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