Baked cheesecake, raw or fresh. 3 vegan recipes to succeed!

The vegan cheesecakes They are generally easy to prepare. They can be raw, based on nuts, with tofu, with creams or nut butters, with a biscuit base, baked, fruit…

If you do not have much experience with this type of preparation, you better start with the raw pies, which are much simpler and it is easy to fit you well.

Today I explain how to make some basic vegan cheesecakes and I propose a recipe for each one, which you are free to modify to your liking with the flavors and ingredients that you like.

How to make raw vegan cheesecakes (no oven)

The easiest vegan cheesecakes we can make are raw cheesecakes.

The main ingredients are nuts and for creaminess we can use coconut milk (canned), drained yogurt, soft tofu or silken tofu, or spreadable vegan cheeses.They are much better if we freeze them or serve them very cold, so they are ideal for when it’s hot.The best flavors for these tarts are fruity (use seasonal fruits) and nuts (whole, chopped, or nut butter), but they can also be made in chocolate, vanilla, or other flavors, or combine more than one (for example, orange and chocolate). trick of these cakes is that they are frozen to keep them firm, that’s why it gives us such a wide margin with the ingredients.

In this video you have the recipe to make mini cheesecakes, without an oven.

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How to make fresh vegan cheesecakes (the base is baked)

fresh cheese cakes they are creamy, to serve cold, and we don’t need to bake them whole, but we do need the base (depending on the ingredients) or some ingredients.

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They look great with any flavor and any fruit, so you can always make them to your liking.As a base you can use cookies, nuts, a sablé pastry homemade or whatever we want. For the cake, since we achieve the consistency with ingredients such as agar-agar, we can use almost any combination that we like. If you want to make it with two flavors You just have to divide the base dough in two and add the main ingredient you want in each ones (poor example in one lemon and in the other orange). Then pour in one of the flavors first, let it cool down a bit, and pour in the second, being careful not to mix them.

How to make vegan baked cheesecakes

They are made like many traditional cheesecakes, baking them and getting a golden and caramelized surface.

For this type of cakes, if we want a flavor and texture like the traditional ones, it is preferable to use vegan cream cheeses homemade (such as labneh) or purchased. Ingredients such as silken tofu, soaked cashew nut creams, etc. are good, although they tend to be a bit heavier. These cakes are more delicate and in many cases it is advisable to bake them in a bain-marie (placing the mold on a larger one in which we will put a little boiling water) so that it cooks evenly but without forming a crunchy layer. The good thing is that Vegetable purees can be used (beetroot, sweet potato or pumpkin) for flavor and color, which are very good.