Sinfully Vegan Tempts with Animal-Free Delights
This moist chocolate cake filled with chocolate pudding and coated with a thin chocolate candy covering is a chocolate lover’s dream. If you feel ambitious and want to impress your friends, go ahead and take the extra time to garnish this cake to make it look truly spectacular.
With these words, Lois Dieterly introduces “Richer than Fort Knox Cake,” and entices even those who are not chocolate lovers. Sinfully Vegan (DaCapo Life Long Books) has been revised and updated with twenty new recipes, offering over 160 recipes for “Decadent Desserts to Satisfy Every Sweet Tooth.”
Dieterly is not kidding when she says “every sweet tooth.” Sinfully Vegan indulges chocophobics with such fancies as “Lemon Times Two Cake” and “White on White Tropical Cake.” “I Dream of Lemon Cream Cheesecake” is already haunting my waking hours, along with “Fruit Spring Rolls with Raspberry Sauce.” Making Sinfully Vegan even more sinful is the simplicity of many of the recipes, such as “Chocolate Raspberry Celebration Loaf,” which need not wait for a celebration (or anyone else to share it with).
Dieterly’s introductory chapter offers comparisons between vegan and “traditional” (butter, egg, milk) recipes and ingredients, and compares the nutritional value (calories, fat, cholesterol, and saturated fat) of some of her recipes to those made with “traditional” ingredients. As expected, the vegan recipes are much healthier choices than those using animal products. Sinfully Vegan includes a glossary of vegan ingredients, a list of suggested equipment, and a variety of quotes about animal-free choices. Additionally, Dieterly offers advice on converting conventional recipes to vegan.
Recipes for cookies and brownies include gluten-free/sugar-free vegan cookies, and are followed by cakes and quick breads, cupcakes and muffins, tapas, Boston Cream pies, pies and tarts, cheesecakes, puddings, doughnuts, candy, ice cream, beverages and smoothies, and frostings, toppings, and crusts. In short, there are enough recipes to keep bakers busy for quite a while. Chocoholics will find a bounty of recipes that will appeal to them, and chocophobics will be equally pleased with the selections.
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