February 10, 2022

32 Vegan Valentine’s Day Candy Recipes for your Sweetie

One of the best holidays of the year for candy and chocolates is Valentine’s day! But since most chocolate has milk, and many other candies have non-vegan ingredients, we thought we would help all our vegan loves out this year with some amazing recipes for vegan Valentine’s day candy. We’ve got candy bars, fruit-based faves, fudge, barks, and plenty of truffles. All of them lovely ways to show your love.

32 Vegan Valentine’s Day Candy Recipes

Without further ado, let’s go on to the recipes! We’ve made a few different categories, so you can find the right type of sweet for your sweetie- truffles, fudge, barks, plant-based treats (fruit, nut, or veg forward recipes), candy bars, and a few that don’t really fit in any category. This collection is chocolate-heavy, and we’re not sorry about it.

Vegan Chocolate Bark Recipes

Well, not all chocolate here, but the general idea with a bar is a slab of sweet goodness, rustically broken up into free-form pieces. Add some toppings, and you’ve got a simple but sweet treat! Here are a few of our favorite barks, all vegan of course.

Orange Chamomile Honeycomb Vegan Candy

This simple, crunchy candy bark from Very Vegan Val (that’s us!) is coated with chocolate. The flavors of chamomile and orange give this bark a sweet honey flavor!

Caramelized Almond Rocky Road Bark

Salty, gooey, crunchy, chocolate goodness! This 10 minute chocolate bark from Spabettie is a great vegan Valentine’s day treat for gifting!

Bark with a Bite

If you want a little more spice in your giftable bark, try this one from Bitter Sweet. The bite comes from ginger, cinnamon, and cloves, giving your cocoa bark a ginger-bread cookie flavor!

Superfood Chocolate Bark

Want your chocolate with a little more micro-nutrient value? Try this one with goji berries, mulberries, raspberries, chia seeds, quinoa, flax, coconut, and more! Goodie Goodie Gluten-Free shared this chocolate bark with all the textures and flavors.

Homemade Vegan Fudge Recipes

Creamy, rich, and decadent, fudge is one of the most perfect candy options there is. Make a batch, and share some with a friend, but make sure to keep some squares for yourself.

Vegan Coconut Key Lime Fudge

Rich, creamy, and tangy, this fudge brings tropical flavors to the table. If you love key lime pie, this fudge is another great way to celebrate the flavor of key limes.

Vanilla Bean Almond Butter Vegan Fudge

Healthier than your typical fudge, this vanilla bean and almond creation comes to us from Dreena Burton. A dusting of vanilla bean powder on top takes vanilla from a background flavor into the star of the show!

Dark Chocolate Vegan Peanut Butter Fudge

Another fudge recipe that holds back on the sugar, our recipe is creamy and just satisfyingly sweet. It’s super easy, and only requires a few ingredients.

Vegan Maple Cream Fudge

As a New Englander, I have to say that maple is probably the best flavor ever. For basically anything. That’s why this recipe from Go Dairy Free looks so amazing- perfect for a vegan Valentine’s day gift!

Plant-Based Candies from Scratch

From oranges to pecans, pumpkins, to mushrooms, all of these candies have a fruit, nut, veg, or fungi at the center.

Dark Chocolate-Covered Candied Orange Slices

Anyone else a fan of those chocolate oranges, that are all chocolate with a little orange flavor? These are kind of like that, but with way more amazing orange flavor! Craving Something Healthy shares these sweet slices with us, and you can share them with your sweetie!

Chocolate Coated Cranberry Wood Ear Mushrooms

I know it’s a weird one, but it’s one of my favorite recipes I’ve ever made. These wood ear mushrooms are fairly flavorless, but have a great, jelly-like flavor. They’re soaked in cranberry juice for flavor, but you can switch it up to your favorite fruit juice if you want to try different flavors.

Perfect Pumpkins

It’s pumpkin candy! Because pumpkins have more worth than just the fall time. Bitter Sweet brings us these pumpkin patties, homemade little candies.

Stove Top Candied Pecans with Maple Syrup

Sometimes the simplest candies are the best, and candied nuts are a classic. Unfortunately, many candied nut recipes include egg whites, but Plant-Based Jess shows us that those are totally not needed. Plus, some amazing maple flavor for the perfect nutty, candied, bites.

Vegan Candy Bar Recreations

Is there a favorite candy bar your significant other loves, but isn’t vegan? Here are a few of the more popular commercial candy bars, but remade vegan!

Vegan Twix Copycat Recipe

Crunchy cookie based, gooey caramel layer, coated in chocolate, who could not love this vegan version a Twix bar! Rainbow Nourishments brings us this caramel bar, made with a real vegan caramel. Yummy!

Nut Free Vegan Reese’s

This one is here for the vegan folk, but also those who are nut-free! Dark chocolate on the outside, and a super creamy, gooey, homemade sunflower seed butter in the center.

Vegan Snickers Bars

I think Snicker’s are probably the most popular candy in the US, and Make it Dairy-Free has- well, made it dairy free. It’s got nougat, peanuts, caramel, and chocolate. What a fantastic vegan Valentine’s day recipe!

Homemade White Chocolate Crispy Bars

Heart-shaped, for Valentine’s day! This one isn’t exactly a copycat of a particular candy bar, but it reminds me of a white chocolate Crunch bar. Thank you to Go Dairy Free for this awesome recipe!

Vegan Kit Kat Bars

Wafer cookies, cream filling, and chocolate. Give me a break, I need one of those! Namely Marly uses store-bought wafer cookies to make this recipe super easy and quick!

Vegan Mounds Bar

Mounds bars are made with a sweet coconut filling that’s coated with chocolate. The Hidden Veggies takes us through how to make this classic recipe vegan. If an Almond Joy is your scene, you can just throw a few almonds on there and you’re good. Two candy bars in one!

Homemade Vegan Truffles in Every Flavor

Truffles are named because they look like the mushroom, the truffle. But really they’re just small, 2-ish bites of awesomeness, often in small sphere-like forms. I almost want to make all of these truffles for myself this Valentine’s day!

Classic Vegan Chocolate Ganache Truffles

These truffles are classics- chocolate, creamy, dusted in cocoa powder. They are delicious in their simplicity- they just simply melt away in your mouth. Perfect.

Salted Chocolate Date Caramels

These little caramelly bites are made with dates, which saves a lot of hassle with candy thermometers and burning sugar. By adding flaky sea salt, Heartbeet Kitchen adds even more flavor to these sweet little bites.

Healthy Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles

Sweet little dark chocolate hearts, filled with hazelnut cream. Sort of like nutella, but in heart-shaped, vegan, truffle form. Beet of the Wild is the fantastic creator behind this one!

Vegan Oreo Truffles

These beautiful little spheres take Oreo cookies (which are vegan, by the way), and elevates them into a fancy little treat! Baked by Clo makes them with vegan cream cheese, which makes them almost like Oreo cheesecake truffles!

Dark Chocolate Peppermint Truffles

These truffles are inspired by Christmas, but peppermint lovers, don’t limit yourself! Delish Knowledge has the answer to your chocolate mint dreams.

Green Tea Matcha Truffles

Smooth, cashew and matcha filling on the inside, glossy chocolate on the outside. The chocolate and the green tea flavor work together amazingly, so go on and give this vegan Valentine’s day candy to your vegan Valentine.

Scottish Rum Chocolate Truffles

Scottish rum truffles are made with coconut, digestive biscuits, cocoa powder and rum. Tinned Tomatoes shares a vegan version of these pretty little Scottish treats.

Vegan Cookie Dough Bites

Cookie dough is awesome, and vegan cookie dough is the most awesome since it doesn’t come with the risks of raw eggs. So let’s make it even better by covering it with chocolate! And if you weren’t convinced yet, this recipe comes to us courtesy The Cookie Dough Diaries, so you know it has to be good.

Pumpkin Pie Truffles

It only takes a handful of ingredients to make these pumpkin pie truffles. It’s a great way to get that pumpkin pie flavor without the work of making a pie- Short Girl Tall Order uses cassava flour to keep it gluten-free and no bake!

Other Vegan Valentine’s Day Candy Recipes

Not every candy fits nicely into a category, so here are a few delicious and fun vegan valentine’s day candy recipes that don’t fit into the categories we listed above. One might say that they break free from the candy mold.

Irish Potato Candy

In the same way truffles are named for their appearance resembling a dirt-covered truffle, these potato candies are named because they look sort of like freshly dug potatoes. Strength and Sunshine assures us they contain no actual potato, just coconut and cinnamon goodness.