3 decadent chocolate desserts that can be made vegan, gluten-free and healthier

Food allergies are hard to handle and can sometimes take the joy out of eating — especially if your list of restrictions is long. You're in luck because Gesine Bullock-Prado wants to help. Here, the pastry chef and author of "Let Them Eat Cake," is sharing some of her favorite chocolate dessert recipes — including cookies, whoopie pies and chocolate zucchini bread — with instructions on how to modify each recipe to make it vegan, gluten-free or just all around healthier.

Make these fudgy ‘Big Winooski’ cookies

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The Big Winooski

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Chocolate zucchini bread

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Chocolate whoopie pies

This article was originally published Mar. 5, 2015 at 8:31 a.m. ET.