These sweet potato truffles are packed with nutrients not only from the sweet potato but from superfoods such as goji berries, walnuts and raw cocoa powder (@nutritionstripped/Instagram).

Getting your daily dose of vegetables can be hard. Between busy schedules and demanding tummies, just finding the time to scarf something down midday and again before you pass out for the night is all most can manage. Unfortunately, nourishing our bodies and ensuring we consume the proper number of veggies each day often falls to the wayside.

But what if your veggie intake for the day didn't have to consist of trying to find a way to make kale edible and ignoring the fact that celery tastes like mild raw onion? Most are led to believe that the only way to get your veggies is to be miserable, and to eat things that you are required to eat instead of eating things that you love.

That idea is a myth. Not only are there thousands of recipes around for making beautiful and bountiful salads and other vegetable side dishes, but there are also simple and easy ways to sneak those veggies into dishes without you - or the people you feed on the daily - even realizing. The answer is dessert.

Adding fruit, such as bananas, to baked goods has become common among those who want to avoid the butter, sugar and eggs that are usually a staple in cakes and cookies. The idea of adding vegetables to baked items, however, is not as common. People often forget that carrot cake has carrots in it, most likely because the popular version contains little amounts of carrot.

Allergenic challenges, such as celiac disease and lactose intolerance, and other dietary restrictions have also driven this innovation of sweets due to the need for ingredient substitution. Black Bean Brownies have become a common dessert in which vegans and the gluten-free can indulge.

As the market for healthy food expands, the masses also continue to look for ways to make their diets healthier and more nutritious. Adding vegetables to your diet is one of the easiest ways to accomplish this, and so recipes upon recipes have risen to the occasion. Dietary restrictions aside, hiding vegetables in desserts is one of the most brilliant ways to get everyone to enjoy their veggies.

1. Spiced Parsnip Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Parsnips are a root vegetable most commonly found in winter soups and fall veggie bakes. But adding them to a cupcake recipe gives it new depth. With high levels of fiber, potassium, vitamin C and folate, parsnips are a perfect way to give your dessert a healthy kick.

2. Velvety Beet and Cocoa Cake

Adding beets to cake is not a completely new idea... hello, Red Velvet. Unfortunately most red velvet cake recipes nowadays use food coloring instead of natural beets to attain the iconic red color. If you want to embrace the healthier and more wholesome version of red velvet, try this recipe out. It may not be a bright red color, but it will be packed with vitamin C and betaine.

3. Triple Layer Cauliflower and Raspberry Mini Cheescakes

Adding cauliflower to cheesecake may seem like a bad idea, but don't knock it before you try it. The light texture of cauliflower combined with creamy ricotta cheese and tart raspberry creates a dessert that is not only delectable but full of vitamin B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9, omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin K.

4. Chocolate Chip Eggplant Muffins

Eggplant is most often associated with Italian food, which certainly does not have a healthy reputation. Supplement regular chocolate chip muffins with raw eggplant and you add in some vitamin A, magnesium and phosphorous into the mix.

5. Sweet Summer Squash Crumble

By virtue of its name, summer squash (also known as yellow squash) is usually used for fresh summer dishes. This recipe, however, gives it an autumnal twist by incorporating it into a crumble. Replacing the more standard apple or plum filling with squash reduces the sugar content of the dessert and ups the antioxidant content, specifically one called nasunin.

Avocado mousse is a creamy, decadent way to incorporate healthy ingredients into your desserts (@thekitchn/Twitter).

6. Zucchini Pecan Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Zucchini has become quite popular in cake and cupcake recipes. This particular recipe includes the scrumptious addition of cream cheese frosting, and the zucchini provides high levels of vitamin A and potassium.

7. Cinnamon Sweet Potato Truffles

Sweet potatoes are no stranger to desserts due to their sweet and creamy quality. Avoid high-sugar pies with this truffle recipe, and reap the benefits of calcium, potassium, vitamin A and vitamin C.

8. Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream with Spinach

Making ice cream with spinach sounds a bit out there, but the water content of the leafy green lends itself to a sorbet-like consistency when combined with bananas. As a dark leafy green, spinach is among the most nutritious foods in the world and provides vitamin A, vitamin K, manganese, folate and magnesium.

9. Carrot, Banana and Kale Muffins

While the banana in this recipe gives the muffins a sweet quality and good texture, the nutritional factor really comes from the kale and carrots. Kale gives the body phosphorous, vitamin K, iron, copper and many more vitamins and minerals. Carrots contain enormous amounts of vitamin A and beta-carotene.

Honorable Mentions:

Avocado Mousse

Avocados are technically a fruit, however their nutritional benefits make them hard to ignore, even in the company of all of these wonderful vegetables. Avocado mousse is one of the more well-known healthy dessert recipes, combining cocoa, banana and avocado to make creamy goodness. Avocados are high in protein, have a high percentage of potassium and are full of healthy fats.

Flourless Chocolate Chip Chickpea Blondies with Sea Salt

Chickpeas (also known as Garbanzo Beans) are part of the legume family. Full of protein, fiber, folic acid, zinc and magnesium, adding chickpeas to your dessert gives it both texture and nutritional benefits.

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