Courgette
Because of its high water content, adding courgettes to cakes and muffins creates a very moist and light sponge.
Courgettes are often combined with chocolate and other fruits, you would hardly even know it contained any trace of a vegetable!
Aubergine
It’s tender and gooey qualities make aubergine an ideal dessert ingredient candidate! From the French classic tarte tatin to more traditional cakes and bakes, aubergine really adds an intriguing element to sweet dishes – who knew that aubergine could be so versatile?!
Sweet Potato
Much like pumpkin, sweet potato is a great choice for desserts and the potential for recipes are far too numerous to list here.
Obviously, they hold a natural sweet flavour, and the texture works extremely well in most baked goods.
Avocado
Ok technically not a vegetable but as they are traditionally used in savoury dishes, hopefully you will forgive us!
Avocados are so incredibly versatile you can make some truly luxurious desserts. They’re healthful as they can replace unhealthy fats such as butter, eggs, and cream. You can use them to make so much – ice cream, cheesecake, mousse, and brownies!
Beetroot
Not only does this veggie bring rich earthly flavour, but it also delivers that visually appealing vibrant burst of colour associated with desserts. As such, it is pretty hard to ‘hide’ this ingredient!
Beetroot can be used to enhance flavour and texture in almost any dessert recipe including pastries, donuts, cakes, puddings, cookies, pancakes, scones, breads, ice creams, sorbets, smoothies, mousses – you name it you can sneak a beetroot in it.
Spinach
Yep, it’s an actual thing. Spinach in dessert may sounds strange and perhaps not particularly appealing but combined with other ingredients this nutritious hit is worth experimenting with. In fact, you would hardly even notice if it weren’t for its distinctive colour, and you could still be fooled its pistachio.
Why not throwing in some spinach when you bake your next cake?
