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Mousse is a crowd-pleaser dessert that looks beautiful and is super delicious! Impress your guests and your taste buds with these 15 creamy and jaw-dropping mousse desserts. For more fantastic vegan mousse recipes, check out this list of 25 Creamy and Decadent Dairy-Free Chocolate Mousse Recipes or browse through our Mousse Archives!
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1. Chocolate Pumpkin Mousse Cake
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Want to bring something a bit different than the classic pumpkin pie to your next holiday gathering? Here’s a creamy and luscious Chocolate Pumpkin Mousse Cake by Mitra Shirmohammadi for all the pumpkin AND chocolate lovers out there. Made with a handful of wholesome high-quality ingredients, this dessert is not only super delicious and free of dairy, gluten, and grains, but it is also quite nutritious.
2. Mini Cookie Dough Chocolate Mousse Cups
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Decadent, yet healthy, these chocolate Cookie Dough Chocolate Mousse Cups by Caroline Doucet are made in big part from nuts and dates. Not to mention that they’re gluten-free, vegan and sugar-free! Have them as a sweet snack or a healthy dessert.
3. Raspberry and Dragon Fruit Mousse Cake
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These Raspberry and Dragon Fruit Mousse Cakes by Leno Regushadze are an amazing dessert experience. Melt-in-your-mouth and sweet, with a dark chocolate drizzle, they get their amazing mousse-like texture from cashews and their flavor from fresh, juicy dragon fruit and raspberries. You’ve got to try it to believe it. Healthy and flavorful — what’s not to love here?
4. Peanut Butter Mousse Cake
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Vegan or not you are going to love this new recipe for Peanut Butter Mousse Cake by Gretchen Price! It is so creamy and light with a brownie base and ganache icing, globs of peanut butter cookie dough and fudge rosettes!
5. Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Chia Pudding
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A deliciously healthy and decadent chia pudding recipe that is perfect for breakfast, or spruced up to create a jaw-dropping dessert. Using only a handful of ingredients, this recipe is simple, affordable, nutritious and so good! This Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Chia Pudding by Taryn Fitz-Gerald makes a yummy but healthy treat around the holidays.
6. Salted Caramel Chocolate Mousse
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This dessert is easy to make, and it tastes absolutely divine! A smooth and creamy mousse, topped with popcorn, salted caramel sauce, and vegan cream and cookie, there’s no reason not to try Holly Jade‘s Salted Caramel Chocolate Mousse!
7. Raspberry Linzer Mousse Cakes
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Layered with raspberry jam, and a light hazelnut mousse, Gretchen Price‘s Raspberry Linzer Mousse Cakes is really a crowd-pleaser. And, they also look so beautiful, almost too beautiful to eat!
8. No-Bake Cashew Chocolate Mousse Cake With Fresh Mint
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Sometimes you just want a beautiful, decadent cake but don’t want to expend the effort of turning on the oven. Quelcy Kogel‘s delectable No-Bake Cashew Chocolate Mousse Cake With Fresh Mint makes it possible. Made with dates that add a fruity note that complements the filling, this cake is a sure knockout hit.
9. Chocolate Mousse Tart With Lemon Cashew Cream
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Emily von Euw‘s Chocolate Mousse Tarts With Lemon Cashew Cream are absolutely unbelievable. There’s a chocolate crust encasing raw vegan chocolate mousse, topped off with sweet lemony cashew cream and cacao powder. The recipe includes whole foods like dates, avocado, and cashews. If you end up with extra chocolate mousse and cashew cream, that’s just a yummy bonus.
10. No-Bake Sweet Potato Chocolate Mousse Pecan Pie
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A masterpiece of a cake, this No-Bake Sweet Potato Chocolate Mousse Pecan Pie by Jasmine Briones will disappear fast from the table! A chocolaty crust and a decadent chocolate mousse make this pie oh-so-delicious!
11. Beet and Chocolate Mousse Cake
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A decadent cake with earthy flavors of beets, topped with a smooth and creamy chocolate mousse layer you simply can’t resist! Krisztina Berta‘s Beet and Chocolate Mousse Cake is the ultimate chocolaty dessert!
12. Espresso and White Chocolate Cashew Mousse
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All the creaminess of a classic mousse, without any of the dairy! Light, sweet, and full of espresso and white chocolate flavor, you won’t be able to get enough of this Espresso and White Chocolate Cashew Mousse from the Vegan Reset.
13. Pumpkin Mousse
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Gretchen Price‘s Pumpkin Mousse is so creamy and light just like an authentic mousse recipe should be. Whipped aquafaba stabilizes this mousse and it is obviously molded so you can see right away it holds up it’s integrity as a cake topping.
14. Purple Sweet Potato Mousse Shooters
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Emma D’Alessandro‘s Purple Sweet Potato Mousse Shooters embody all the things great about cooler weather in an easy to prep and easy to gobble down dessert. Purple sweet potato is boiled until tender, then puréed with creamy coconut milk, maple syrup, and warm spices. Impress your guests (and your taste buds) with this colorful dessert at the end of the meal — and don’t forget to top it with coconut whipped cream!
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