— Ingela Bjork Loch

I would say that every dessert in essential vegan desserts, whether it is a baked dessert or a non baked dessert, definitely tastes like dessert, but none of them are overly sweet. That's the nature of our recipes in the course. And the recipes that I do, too much, too much sugar, too much sweetener, dulls the flavor of a dessert. And so does dairy in fact dulls the flavor of dessert. So where a step ahead by doing vegan desserts, um, in terms of like, well for example, that cake that I showed you, this is a very small gluten-free brownie that it has been glazed. The top spin glaze with a dark chocolate ganache. And if there's anybody who does not isn't familiar with the term ganache, it is an emulsion of a percentage of chocolate, a percentage typically, or traditionally, let me not say typically traditionally of heavy cream and then sometimes other ingredients are added. My ganaches, the ganaches that I have in my book, vegan chocolate that we practice in the course are made with a higher percentage non milk chocolate and a rich plant milk. And that's it. Sometimes a bit of fat in the form of a little bit, maybe two teaspoons of a neutral oil is added to bring up the shine. So there is no sugar added and it's a lovely dessert. But this absolutely tastes like dessert. I think one of the tricks for being able to eat a healthier dessert that still tastes like dessert is to have a smaller portion. And this is a two bite portion, maybe three and it's really nice. And the same thing with this slice of chocolate cake. It's smaller, it's light and it's good. And in terms of light and airy, if we're not talking about a baked dessert, if we're talking more about a pudding, you can do any number of agar based fruit gels. Um, agar is something that's super important to learn how to use to replace bovine gelatin. And it like, it makes a gel as it implies or as I said, but in combination with a starch, it gives you a moosey kind of a texture. So there are lots, um, there are lots of recipes in the course and I think, you know, if you wanna go to my website, you will find some recipes as well.