vegan cream cheese: is there a recipe?
I am looking for a recipe of a soy-free cream cheese.
I found a couple of brands of cashew cream cheese that have gotten good reviews from what I can tell from various blogs and message forums. The first is called Playfood, made by Taran Smith who played Mark on Home Improvement, a classic 90s sitcom. But the website is down and I am pretty sure the business has gone under. The other is called Dr. Cow. I live nowhere near any of the stores that sell it, and to buy it online you have to buy it with $75 worth of other vegan cheese products, which I definitely will not do. Plus, I'm not sure I would even want to try it after it is sitting in a box on a truck for several days.
I googled cashew cream cheese and found this recipe: http://www.drbenkim.com/healthy-cream-cheese-recipe.htm but I want to see if others have a better idea.
So I ask you fellow vegetarians, do you know of a soy-free CREAM CHEESE alternative recipe? THANKS!!!
I made a recipe once, but can't remember where I found it. It was really awful! Its kind of like when you find a recipe for 'sour cream', it usually just tastes like tofu and vinegar with a little bit of garlic. Maybe there have been advancements, but I really don't eat cream cheese that often, and those little tofutti tubs last a freakin' lifetime so I don't mind buying them.
Have you ever been to Bryanna Clark Grogan's site ? She has a Cooking forum, too and since she has made some nice things with cashew cream she might be able to help you.
Until then, here's what the WWW showed me
http://gfcfblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/cashew-cream-cheese.html
http://www.recipezaar.com/raw-cashew-cream-cheese-359133
The Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook has a recipe for Incredible Almond Cream Cheese. I haven't made it yet but it's on my list. I'll report on my results in the Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook Thread in Cookbooks Lab.