Top 15 Vegan Frozen Dessert Products & Recipes To Enjoy This Summer (2023)

There’s nothing quite like enjoying a cold and creamy frozen dessert, especially in the summer. As the number of consumers seeking plant-based products increases, the offerings from vegan frozen dessert brands keep growing and growing! 

Author: Colleen Kane

Plus, recipe creators keep dishing up new delicious vegan frozen dessert recipes. Here we’ve compiled a comprehensive guide to all the best types of vegan frozen desserts we could find, including store-bought and homemade, to keep you going all summer long!

Store Bought Vegan Frozen Dessert Products

Daiya Cheezecake

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Available in plain, Key Lime Pie, Strawberry, and Chocolate. Find them through Instacart, Walmart, Doordash, Target, and Publix. Strawberry is available at Target or Doordash. Chocolate is currently available primarily through wholesale ordering online.

Vegan Ice Cream Bars

The SoDelicious brand offers Salted Caramel, Mint Fudge Swirl, Peanut Butter Fudge, Dipped Coconut Almond, Mocha Almond Fudge, Dipped Double Chocolate, Fudge Bars, Salted Caramel Sundae, and Vanilla Peanut Sundaes. Blend the creamy goodness of cashew milk or Wondermilk with your favorite flavor for a cold, creamy treat. Find these at Whole Foods, Wegmans, Target, Walmart, Instacart, and Doordash.

Oatly Frozen Dessert Novelty Bars

Photo Credit: Courtney’s Sweets

Oatly offers Chocolate Fudge Dipped, Salted Caramel Dipped, Strawberry Swirl, and Vanilla Dipped. 

Chloe’s Oat Milk Popsicles

Photo Credit: Chloe’s

Chloe’s brand offers oat milk-based popsicles in Cookies & Cream, Chocolate Peanut Butter pops, Raspberry Chip, Brownie Batter, Salted Caramel, and Mint Chip. To purchase, use their store locator to find them in stores near you or shop online.

Vegan Fruit Popsicles

Outshine Popsicles

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Outshine offers the following flavors of fruit bars:  Strawberry, Pineapple, Lime, Watermelon, Mango, Grape, and even Mango with Tajin. They also offer thinner fruit pops in lime, tangerine, lemon, strawberry, lime, and raspberry. However, their Coconut flavor, Simply Indulgent line, and Half-Dipped lines do contain dairy. They are part of the same company as the dairy brands Dreyer’s and Edy’s. 

Chloe’s Fruit Popsicles

They also offer fruit popsicles in Strawberry, Mango, and chocolate; cherry and grape, strawberry-lemon, lemon-lime & orange, and strawberry-Mango, and even no sugar added strawberry and blueberry popsicles and chocolate-dipped banana, coconut or strawberry popsicles.

Annie’s Organic Popsicles

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Available in grape and cherry flavors, Annie’s popsicles are made with real fruit juice and have no added artificial flavors, colors, or high-fructose corn syrup.

Vegan Ice Cream Sundae Cones

Tofutti Ice Cream Sundae Cones

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Crunchy sugar cones are lined with rich chocolate, filled with smooth ice cream, and dipped in a thick, crunchy chocolate coating with chocolate cookie crumbles. 

Vegan Ice Cream Sandwiches

So Delicious Vanilla Bean Ice Cream Sandwiches

A perfect vegan version of those ice cream sandwiches you remember from childhood. Only 100 calories per bar! A smooth vanilla and coconut center. Made with coconut milk, sugar, coconut oil, tapioca syrup, pea protein, and more. Contains coconut, gluten, and wheat. 

Tofutti Ice Cream Sandwiches

As a veteran vegan brand established in 1981, Tofutti has had time to perfect the classic “Sammy” ice cream sandwich. Try their line of snack-size ice cream flavors (“Cuties”), including Chocolate, Vanilla, and Mint Chip.

Store Bought Vegan Ice Cream

SoDelicious Ice Cream Pints

SoDelicious offers ice cream made of five plant-based milks, including cashew milk, oat milk, coconut milk, Wondermilk, and even soy milk. Find them at Walmart or use the SoDelicious store locator to find flavors near you.

Cashew-Milk Based

SoDelicious offers an impressive array of flavors in their pint sizes. Cashew-milk-based flavors include Bananas Foster, Snickerdoodle, Peanut Butter Brownie, Salted Caramel Cluster, Dark Chocolate Truffle, Very Vanilla, and Chocolate Cookies ‘n Cream. 

Oat-Milk Based

Oat Milk based flavors include Coffee Chip, Salted Caramel, S’mores, Chocolate Hazelnut Brownie, Caramel Apple, and Oatmeal Cookie.

Coconut-Milk Based

Coconut milk-based flavors include Vanilla Bean, Mint Chip, Chocolate, Butter Pecan, Mocha Almond Fudge, Mint Chip, Cookie Dough, and Cold Brew. They even offer a soymilk-based Vanilla Bean flavor. 

Wondermilk-Based

Made primarily of a mixture of oat milk, coconut milk, and coconut oil to achieve a taste very similar to that of dairy-based milks. Flavors are available in Vanilla, Chocolate Cocoa Chip, Cookies & Creme, Buttery Pecan, and Strawberry.

Nada Moo Ice Cream Pints

With a dairy-free organic coconut milk base and certified vegan ingredients, you’ve got nada to worry about. Plus, they’re made with about half the fat of dairy and dairy-free ice creams alike. They’ve even been known to slip in a Peppermint Bark flavor around the holidays. Find them in a store near you or order online.

Tofutti Ice Cream Pints

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An OG vegan brand (dating back to 1981!), Toffutti offers Vanilla, Chocolate, Wildberry, Butter Pecan, Vanilla Almond Bark, and Vanilla Fudge. Find their products near you here.

Earth Grown Vegan Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert

The supermarket chain Aldi has a line of all-vegan products called Earth Grown. You can find Mocha Fudge, Chocolate, and Vanilla pints made from almond milk at Aldi locations. 

Cado Avocado Ice Cream

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In addition to being dairy-free, Cado ice cream is a winner for those looking for healthier desserts. Made creamy using unsaturated avocado fat, Cado avoids GMO, artificial flavors, corn syrup, sugar alcohols, and stevia. It’s also soy-free, Kosher, and has 50% less added sugar than most ice creams. 

Flavors include Choco Peanut Butter, Chocolate Mud Pie, Deep Dark Chocolate, Mint Chocolate Chip, Cookies & Cream, Java Chip, Salted Caramel, Vanilla Bean, Sherry Amaretto, and Simply Lemon. Check out the Cado location map to find a store near you, or order online here.  

Nada Moo Frozen Snack Bites

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These low-calorie frozen snack bites boast a 100% plant-based soft, chewy coating and creamy coconut milk core. Choose from Salted Caramel, Mango, Mint, Orange Creme, and Chocolate Peanut Butter. 

Vegan Soft Serve

Oatly Soft Serve (only in stores)

Oatly has invented a dairy-free, nut-free, and gluten-free soft serve. At present, it’s available in stores only (not grocery stores). Use their Oatfinder to find a store near you that offers it! 

Oatly Ice Cream

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Choose from 10 rich flavors, including Fudge brownie, Mint Chip,  Raspberry Swirl, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Salted Caramel, Chocolate Chip, Coffee, and, of course, the classic trio of Vanilla, Chocolate, and Strawberry. Find at Target and through Instacart, or use the Oatfinder to find flavors near you.

Best Vegan Frozen Dessert Recipes

Vegan Frozen Cheesecake

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This mouth-watering, ultra-indulgent dessert boasts a deserved five stars! This creation is basically, “Cheesecake, meet ice cream bars and Oreos!” An Oreo crumb base, bittersweet dark chocolate cheesecake layer, and toasted coconut cheesecake layer, all dunked in dark chocolate! Simply blitz up the Oreos in a food processor with melted vegan butter. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Then, melt the chocolate and coconut oil, blend, and pour onto the Oreo base. Freeze for an hour. 

Brown the coconut butter (not coconut oil or cocoa butter). Then, freeze your tray, cut triangular slices, and get your chocolate shell ready. Simply melt together the chocolate and coconut oil in a double boiler and transfer them into a long, thin glass. Adding coconut oil makes the chocolate runnier and much easier to dip. Then, insert a skewer into each cheesecake slice and dunk away! Place them on parchment paper and keep them in the freezer. Find the recipe on School Night Vegan.

Australian Frozen Mango and Coconut Ice Cream Bars

Photo Credit: Rainbow Nourishments

Known as the Weiss bar, this popular frozen treat consists of a thick layer of frozen mango ice cream atop a thinner layer of frozen coconut. This recipe uses raw cashews, canned coconut milk, maple syrup, vanilla, and lots of frozen mango chunks. (Costco is a great place to find big bags of frozen mangos!) Find the recipe on Rainbow Nourishments.

Vegan Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches

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When you pair two already perfect creations together – chocolate chip cookies and vegan vanilla ice cream – what do you get but utter perfection?! Vary this recipe to suit your tastes with oatmeal cookies, tahini cookies, or chocolate oatmeal cookies and ice cream flavors like chocolate, cashew, almond butter, or coconut. Find this recipe on Beaming Baker.

Vegan Mango Mousse with Coconut Cool Whip

Photo Credit: Vidhya’s Home Cooking

While this recipe from Vidhya’s Home Cooking is stellar, the coconut milk cream can be a little tricky to make. For a simple hack to create an equally delicious and healthier dessert, simply thaw frozen mango chunks (Costco sells affordable bags of frozen mango chunks) and blend them into a puree in a high-speed blender. 

Pour on top of SoDelicious Coconut Cool Whip (which you can find at Publix) and top with crushed pistachios and fresh mint leaves. This combination of refreshing and sweet flavors pairs perfectly with just the right amount of crunch. A light and airy dessert perfect for summer.

Tahini Banana Soft Serve

Photo Credit: Minimalist Baker

Savory, sweet, chocolatey, and nutty. All you need is overripe, sliced, frozen bananas; tahini; cocoa powder; maple syrup, pitted dates, vanilla extract; sea salt, and Magic Shell (optional topping). Simply blend ingredients in a food processor or high-speed blender until it reaches a creamy “soft serve” consistency. Find the recipe on Minimalist Baker.

Vegan Frozen Yogurt Recipe

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This easy homemade vegan froyo uses only five ingredients. Simply blend unsweetened plant-based yogurt, frozen blueberries, maple syrup, vanilla extra, salt, and non-dairy milk. For aesthetic appeal, you can transfer it to a piping bag, and pipe swirls into a cup or cone. 

Vegan Milkshakes

Mint Chocolate Milkshake

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Simply blend a pint of vegan vanilla ice cream, spinach (for color), mint extract or mint leaves, and a plant-based milk. Top with a dairy-free whipped cream, vegan sprinkles, and crushed bits of a vegan minty candy bar (like Amy’s). Find the full recipe here.

Strawberry Milkshake

Photo Credit: The Conscious Plant Kitchen

A super quick, two-minute recipe that you can adapt to all milkshake flavors. The four base ingredients include vegan vanilla ice cream, plant-based milk, frozen fruits, and vanilla extract (optional). For a thick, creamy milkshake, 1/2 cup milk is enough. To make it festive and fun, top it off with vegan sprinkles, chocolate drizzle, vegan marshmallows, cherries, and/or chocolate chips.  Find the recipe here.

Peanut Butter Fudge Brownie Milkshake

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Have leftover brownies? Use them to craft an ultra-decadent, show-stopping milkshake! This recipe uses vegan vanilla ice cream, plant-based milk, leftover brownies, and peanut butter. Top it off with dairy-free whipped cream, melted vegan chocolate, and garnish with a brownie. Find the recipe here.

Best Vegan Frozen Desserts & Best Vegan Frozen Dessert Recipes

Plant-based consumers have options galore to enjoy this summer! If you opt for store-bought vegan frozen desserts, you can choose from dairy-free ice cream bars, fruit popsicles, ice cream sandwiches, soft serve, frozen snack bites, or endless flavors of ice cream pints. 

If you’d rather whip up your own homemade vegan frozen dessert recipes, you might enjoy delicious options like vegan frozen cheesecake, frozen mango, and coconut ice cream bars, ice cream cookie sandwiches, mango mousse with coconut cool whip, tahini banana soft serve, vegan frozen yogurt or dairy-free milkshakes.

This summer 2023 – I scream, you scream, we all scream for – vegan ice cream!! (And other frozen desserts!) Visit Vkind.com and download the app to find more sweet vegan treats this summer!

Author Bio:

Colleen Kane is a vegan activist, blogger, and public speaker. She writes about the power of veganism to promote social justice, health justice, and climate justice on her blog, Veganspired. You can connect with her on LinkedIn for guest blogging and speaking requests.