— Carmen Sammut

I have cake, I have date paste in my freezer at all times. It doesn't freeze solid so I can scoop out what I need. And for those of you who may not know, date paste is made by soaking whole dates, pitted of course in some hot water and then blending them up and you get in the same way you would get any fruit paste and date paste is used very often in raw desserts and in many of our desserts. So I don't substitute it for sugar. In baking cakes, sugar tends is a granulated substance. And within the granulated sweeteners that are used to make vegan desserts, you're going to find differences. Date paste is between a liquid and a salad. And I don't find that it works in baking cakes, but in doing creams, absolutely I use it. Here's an example. This is some of our cashew vanilla, cashew vanilla pastry cream that is made with vanilla and some sweetener I have used instead of sugar, I have used date paste in here and dates. And of course it is quite delicious, quite delicious.