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Sabs' Awesome Vegan Cheesecake Recipe
Jul. 3rd, 2016 01:12 pmOKAY KIDS GATHER 'ROUND I'm gonna tell you all how to make a vegan cheesecake.
So, now it's out that I've gone all strident irritating vegan, etc., but cheesecake is my favourite thing in the world and I'm quite good at it. I've eaten vegan cheesecake before and it was very good, and I've searched high and low for a recipe that would work for me. There are a lot, but I'm picky as fuck and none were perfect, so I've invented my own based on a composite of multiple recipes that contained bits that I liked.
Sabs' requirements for a cheesecake:
1) Crust is not optional and should be made of some sort of cookie or biscuit crumbs. No pre-made crusts ever.
2) Innards must be light and fluffy.
3) It has to involve actual baking. I'm sure all the no-bake recipes I see around are tasty, but for fuck's sake, human civilization did not evolve for 200,000 years to have us eat our food raw.
4) Ingredients must be readily available at a normal grocery store, not some hippie health food bollocks. That means no "vegan cream cheese"; that is cheating, and also expensive. Most importantly, vegan cheese is an Abomination Unto the Lord.
5) I should be able to afford to make this thing. This rules out cashew as a filling, much as it sounds very tasty and I know I'd like it.
6) Must be easy to modify. I made chocolate mint because that's my favourite, but you should be able to make it whatever flavour you want without much in the way of extra work. For example, I found an excellent-sounding pumpkin one, but pumpkin is for fall, not July, and it seemed to heavily rely on pumpkin as a filling/binding agent.
With this said, I believe I now have the answer, which I will share with you.
LOOK AT THIS THING IT IS A MASTERPIECE
( Instructions and more photos )
So, now it's out that I've gone all strident irritating vegan, etc., but cheesecake is my favourite thing in the world and I'm quite good at it. I've eaten vegan cheesecake before and it was very good, and I've searched high and low for a recipe that would work for me. There are a lot, but I'm picky as fuck and none were perfect, so I've invented my own based on a composite of multiple recipes that contained bits that I liked.
Sabs' requirements for a cheesecake:
1) Crust is not optional and should be made of some sort of cookie or biscuit crumbs. No pre-made crusts ever.
2) Innards must be light and fluffy.
3) It has to involve actual baking. I'm sure all the no-bake recipes I see around are tasty, but for fuck's sake, human civilization did not evolve for 200,000 years to have us eat our food raw.
4) Ingredients must be readily available at a normal grocery store, not some hippie health food bollocks. That means no "vegan cream cheese"; that is cheating, and also expensive. Most importantly, vegan cheese is an Abomination Unto the Lord.
5) I should be able to afford to make this thing. This rules out cashew as a filling, much as it sounds very tasty and I know I'd like it.
6) Must be easy to modify. I made chocolate mint because that's my favourite, but you should be able to make it whatever flavour you want without much in the way of extra work. For example, I found an excellent-sounding pumpkin one, but pumpkin is for fall, not July, and it seemed to heavily rely on pumpkin as a filling/binding agent.
With this said, I believe I now have the answer, which I will share with you.
LOOK AT THIS THING IT IS A MASTERPIECE
( Instructions and more photos )
