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Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Half-Hour)
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern
Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to cours… Read More.
Question:

What desserts do you enjoy?
— Maria Allen
Answer:
So I'm not really too big of a sweet tooth person myself, but, um, you know, there are all kinds of different things, uh, in the plant-based world for desserts. Um, I'm trying to think of just like, I mean, I'm even an oddball when it comes to like birthday cake. My favorite cake is a carrot cake, right? So when it's mostly carrots, it's um, you know, so I'm not the biggest, uh, sweet person, but, um, when I do make them, I'm usually going to make them from like, uh, and I'm, instead of using processed sugars, I'm usually going to use something like a date paste or I'll take a dried date or a bunch of dates, soak them in water for a while and then blend them all up and then I have a sugar substitution to be able to still make it a whole food plant-based, um, diet as well. So, um, and I'll do that with probably, yeah, probably banana bread's probably my go-to because we eat bananas a lot, but when they don't, you know, when you don't eat them, um, I peel them in, put 'em in the freezer, and then when I get enough I'll make banana bread for the family. So that's probably one of the sweets that I make most, I would probably say.
