Coconut-lime 🥥 vegan tart

COCONUT-LIME 🥥 VEGAN TART

written by @juliarecipes

I have been inspired by my fellow food blogger and friend Nick from www.blogtastic.com to try to create vegan dessert. He made this divine vegan lemon meringue pie and as much as I couldn’t believe, that there is a possibility to recreate one of the famous desserts, such as lemon meringue pie in vegan version, he did it!🙌

This post is as well as collaboration with other amazing food bloggers, cooks and bakers and we will all make you salivate over our VEGAN DESSERT CREATIONS (to see the other vegan desserts created by the other amazing food bloggers, please scroll down).

Me personally, I don’t have any experience in vegan baking (cooking yes, but not real baking). So I had to browse a bit through the internet to educate myself, how and what not to use, and what I can substitute for example for eggs or butter & etc. In traditional baking you always use eggs, butter, milk, right? But these ingredients are absolute no in vegan cuisine. I have learned, that in vegan baking, desserts or sweets, is often used these ingredients:

7 Main Ingredients used in Vegan Baking

Coconut oil is a vegan butter, it stays solid at room temperature and when need it in liquid form, just reheat it.

Organic sugar & sweeteners, this might come as a surprise: conventional sugar cane sugar is often not vegan because of the animal bone char through which it is sometimes processed and bleached. There is many varieties of organic sugars and sweeteners, such as beet sugar, dates sugar, coconut sugar, apple honey, Agave nectar or maple syrup 🍁

Oat milk All plant-based milks (almond, coconut ) can be used in baked goods, but, oat milk is the absolute best. This is because it has a high sugar content, which allows it to brown nicely when baked. It also adds a subtle sweet taste, as cow’s milk does.

Aquafaba is an amazing egg substitute. It can be whipped like an egg white and will hold a stiff, fluffy foam when beaten with cream of tartar. You can get it in health stores.

Vegan chocolate unsweetened chocolate is almost always vegan. Look for dairy-free, organic, or vegan labels.

Lemon juice usually buttermilk is used in baked goods to boost baking soda’s ability to leaven and tenderize, but that’s not an option for vegan bakers. The best substitute is lemon juice, which is 10 x more acidic than vinegar. Because of this, it does a great job at mimicking buttermilk’s abilities, helping your cakes to rise and biscuits to be fluffy.

Agar Agar It’s a vegan gelatin substitute, a thickener for soups, in fruits preserves, ice cream and others desserts. It is made from dried red algae. As with traditional gelatin, this vegan substitute has a neutral flavor and does NOT taste like seaweed.

Well simply said, vegan baking isn’t that difficult as I imagined, it’s just challenging in aspect of getting all the right ingredients. But if you have a health store near to you, it shouldn’t be a problem at all. I choose this beautiful coconut-lime vegan tart, when it comes to my first vegan dessert. It doesn’t even require baking yay! So for the beginner, I found this recipe fairly easy and extremely yummy. So let me tell you how I did it.

RECIPE