Enjoy a helping of vegetables and dessert—at the same time!
Discover 12 delicious baked goods that happen to include vegetables. We’ll bet that many of you who aren’t vegetable lovers won’t be able to tell what’s hidden inside!
When our parents told us to eat all of our vegetables, we might have been more cooperative if they had been disguised in cakes, pies, and brownies!
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1. Beet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
This delicious beet cake recipe offers a new twist on an old vegetable!
2. Zucchini Brownies
Zucchini brownies? Yes! Zucchini adds moistness, texture, and nutrition to this popular dessert. And we’ll bet NO one will know they have zucchini inside!
3. Best-Ever Carrot Cake
The Best-Ever Carrot Cake is moist, rich, and topped with a tasty cream-cheese frosting. We’ve tested this reader recipe, and trust us—it’s aptly named!
4. Sweet Potato Pie
Sweet potatoes for dessert? Yes, please! This simple-to-make sweet potato pie recipe will perfectly complement any dinner.
5. Pumpkin Sugar Cake
Here’s a coffee cake in the tradition of Moravian sugar cake, the yeast-raised cake made from potato dough and covered with a buttery sugar topping. Our version uses pumpkin instead of potato and has an orange hue that’s quite pretty.
6. Zucchini Bread
What’s great about zucchini bread is that it doesn’t taste like vegetable bread. Don’t say anything to those picky vegetable people until afterwards!
7. Sweet Potato Smoothie
This sweet potato smoothie is flavored with warm spices, anti-inflammatory ginger, and nutritious sweet potato. It tastes like a sweet potato pie without all the sugar!
8. Carrot Pecan Pie
You might be surprised to learn that the secret ingredient in this pecan pie recipe is carrots! They add natural sweetness.
9. Irish Potato Pie
This velvety, creamy treat made with mashed potatoes, eggs, cream, sugar, and nutmeg. It tastes like a smooth custard—with no taste of potato.
10. Butternut Squash Spice Cake
Watch out, carrot cake! Cooked squash adds rich flavor and plenty of moisture to this spiced, delicious cake.
11. Zucchini Spice Cake With Orange Cream Cheese Frosting
A great cake with hidden fruits and veggies to share with your kids!
12. Pecan-Crust Sweet Potato Pound Cake
This is one of our favorite vegetable cakes. It is tender, faintly spicy, and has a light orange crumb.
Sarah Perreault
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