Product Reviews

Hip Whip
www.nowandzen.net
Review by Erin Pavlina

UPDATE: Now and Zen has floded so this product is no longer available in the market.

Hip Whip is the vegan answer to whipped cream toppings. It was a pleasure to discover this product actually existed; yet as soon as I went back to the store to buy it, it was gone! Thanks to a chance encounter at the same store a few weeks later, I managed to procure a tub. Someone had ordered a case of it and I convinced her to let me have a tub to take with me.

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It sat in my freezer until I made a pumpkin pie for the holidays. I didn't want to try it with just any old food, it had to be pumpkin pie. So after my pie was chilled and the Hip Whip was thawed, Steve and I sat down to eat it. It had a strange taste, not at all what I was expecting. In fact, it sort of tasted like chocolate. I wasn't impressed, but Steve loved it and proceeded to take my Hip Whip off my pie and add it to his own. So what can I say but that you should try it for yourself. We only used it on the pumpkin pie, but you could certainly try it in other recipes that normally require whipped cream.

Hip Whip Ingredients: water, grape juice concentrate, expeller pressed high oleic canola oil, cocoa butter, tofu (soybeans, calcium sulfate), brown rice syrup, cashew butter, pure vanilla extract.

Serving Size: 2 Tablespoons
Calories per serving: 7

Erin Pavlina is the author of Raising Vegan Children in a Non-Vegan World, and a new cookbook, Vegan Family Favorites. She lives in Las Vegas with her vegan husband and children, Emily and Kyle.

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