5 Food Hacks To Make Your Favorite Desserts Vegan
So you made the choice to go vegan. Congratulations! We commend you for your self-control and conviction! Whether you made the dietary switch for your own health, for ethical reasons or just to prove that you could, it’s certainly a testament to your willpower!
Going vegan can be hard sometimes. There are bound to be foods that you miss, one way or another. And we’d be willing to wager that some of the things that you miss the most are your favorite desserts. Those decadent indulgences.
Well, no matter your reasons for going vegan, it’s good to treat yourself from time to time! “But how,” you may ask, “do I eat my favorite desserts and maintain the lifestyle that I’ve chosen?”
Look no further! There are many, many ways to work around your dietary choices and create delicious, delectable dessert masterpieces, cruelty-free! There is a long list of food hacks to incorporate veganism into countless popular recipes, so you won’t have to miss out on your sweetest meals.
We’ve assembled just a few of those food hacks to get you started on your way to confectionary contentedness. Here are 5 food hacks to make your favorite desserts vegan!
1. Homemade Vegan Ice Cream
Let’s start off with a bang! Homemade ice cream is everyone’s dream, and it’s even easier to do it vegan-friendly than it is with dairy!
Just peel some bananas, cut them into coins and freeze them for a night. Once they’re good and iced over, pop them into your favorite food processing machine and you’ve got yourself the perfect pureed base for any vegan ice cream!
All you need to do from there is add whatever flavors you want!
2. Coconut Whipped Cream
Who doesn’t love whipped cream on top of their sundae? Hold on a minute; whipped cream isn’t vegan! But it can be now!
That’s right; you can make your very own whipped cream, too! Just grab yourself some canned coconut milk, refrigerate the sealed can overnight and then whip it just like you would with traditional cream! It turns out so great, you won’t even know the difference!
3. Earth Balance
Butter, butter, butter! Everything needs more butter! It can be tricky out there as a vegan to find the right butter substitute for you. Something with the right balance of healthy and delicious; no sacrificing taste for consistency or affordability for healthiness.
Look no further than Earth Balance and the related family of products! This butter substitute can be found in almost any grocery store chain, and offers a creamy, melty butter that’s better than any other butter you’ve ever tasted!
This stuff melts effortlessly onto a toasted bagel, sure, but it also cooks seamlessly into any dessert that calls for butter!
4. Caramel
Did you know that you can make your own vegan caramel at home? How amazing is that! But wait! It gets better; it’s extremely easy to make!
By combining sweet potatoes with canned coconut milk in a pureed blend, you’ll create a gooey, sticky and delicious caramel that’ll knock the socks off of any vegan dessert denier out there!
5. Egg Substitutes
When baking, nearly every recipe you could ever look up calls for eggs. What is a vegan to do about that? Well, plenty! Did you know that there are several vegan-friendly foods that you can substitute for eggs into any recipe?
That’s right! Applesauce, bananas and flaxseed, to name a few, are all viable vegan egg substitutes! We would strongly recommend applesauce when preparing pancakes, waffles or anything else that you really want to fluff up. But for those harder, more intensive bakes, you ought to go with the sturdy flaxseed substitute instead!
Don’t worry! You’ll get the portions right with some practice, and once you’ve got it down to a science, no one will be able to taste the difference!
We hope that our food hacks have been helpful and have brought you closer to the desserts of your dreams! Now you can go and tell all those vegan-haters who said you’d never eat dessert again!
