Vegan Cooking Tips with Ann Gentry

Ann Gentry is a chef, restaurateur, food educator and visionary. She opened Real Food Daily in Los Angeles 1993, a totally vegan and organic restaurant that has since spawned another in West Hollywood. Please visit Real Food Daily to find out more about this truly unique restaurant and to learn more about Ann Gentry.

Question:

I need to make a cream cheese frosting, do you know of any vegan cream cheese out there?

Answer:

I haven't seen one. We found a vegan sour cream and experimented with it in our faux cream cheese icing (tofu based) and it was too sour tasting for a sweet dessert.

Web Mother's Note: Tofutti Cream Cheese is used by a lot of vegans, but be aware that the sugar in the product may or may not be processed through bone char. The company stated to me that they use both refined and beet sugar and could not guarantee which one was in which batch. For more information on whether refined white sugar is vegan, read "The Great Sugar Debate: Is it vegan?"

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