vegan desserts?

[Eden]

One nice tip is that you can sub applesauce for butter or oil and eggs in many recipes (it wouldn't work in things that butter makes flakey - like pie crust or biscuits). In fact I'd suggest it over vegan butter substitutes. The end product will be a little less light and fluffy, but works fine.

Of course there are recipes like quick breads (zuchinni bread, banana bread, pumpkin bread) that don't use butter in the first place. Sub in a little apple sauce for the egg and you'd be all set.

Tofu chocolate pie is super, super (I think it rivals pie made with whipping cream for richness). It's totally easy. 1 block of silken tofu, a teaspoon of vanilla, a 1/3 cup of strong coffee, tablespoon or two of honey and a package of bittersweet chips melted (almost all quality dark style chocolates are dairy free - just check the ingredients and of course avoid milk chocolate....). Melt the chocolate and mix with all of the ingredients except for the tofu. Put the chocolate mixture and the tofu in a blender and mix well.

The crust might be a bit trickier - I tried a cookie crust with vegan butter once - not too tasty... I'd try using almond oil or walnut oil to bind the crust or just leave it out and serve the tofu like mousse or layer with cookies like trifle.