how to make fake cheese please?

PikkuMyy

· #2 · Dec 4, 2008

It totally depends on what kind you want to make and with what. Generally there are soy based cheeses and then nut-based cheeses.

I have made my own ricotta with great success but not my own sliced/melting cheese.

There is a cookbook called the Uncheese Cookbook that I hear a lot of people raving about.

Bryanna Clark Grogan also does a lot of fake cheeses. Her website is here and her blog is here.

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Keeta

· #3 · Dec 4, 2008

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Originally Posted by mommabeehilly

want to make a pizza...someone suggested making fake cheese....how???
thanks!

The thing about fake cheese is that there are only 1-2 commercial brands that actually even attempt to melt like mozzarella (Follow Your Heart and Teese).

I make a cashew cheese that's great on bagels and sandwiches and tossed with pasta, and I've dabbed it on pizza before but it in no way resembles mozzarella in look or taste. You can also do a tofu ricotta cheese, but again, it's not going to be like mozz. We also like to use Vcon's recipe for pine nut cream sauce on pizza and on top of lasagnas/parmesans.

So what are you looking for exactly? Some salty deliciousness that simulates the taste/mouthfeel of cheese or is it about aesthetics, i.e. you want it to LOOK like pizza? Both are valid wants, it's just that you really can't have both with vegan cheese. That will determine what kind of faux cheese you use.

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veganf

· #4 · Dec 4, 2008

you can either make a cheeze sauce and pour it on the pizza, or a block cheese and try to grate it. I generally prefer the sauce kind for pizza, but my kids like the grated stuff. I do use the Uncheese Cookbook for solid cheezes.

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appifanie

· #5 · Dec 5, 2008

i tried some follow your heart mozz on a pizza the other day, and i was again disappointed. i will not buy it again. there's a recipe in "veganomicon" for a cashew ricotta that is inexplicably amazing on pizza. other than that, i am willing to try teese or cheezly if i can get my hands on them.

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mommabeehilly

Discussion Starter · #6 · Dec 11, 2008

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Originally Posted by PikkuMyy

It totally depends on what kind you want to make and with what. Generally there are soy based cheeses and then nut-based cheeses.

I have made my own ricotta with great success but not my own sliced/melting cheese.

There is a cookbook called the Uncheese Cookbook that I hear a lot of people raving about.

Bryanna Clark Grogan also does a lot of fake cheeses. Her website is here and her blog is here.

thanks. that is a good website! yummy!

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mommabeehilly

Discussion Starter · #7 · Dec 11, 2008

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The thing about fake cheese is that there are only 1-2 commercial brands that actually even attempt to melt like mozzarella (Follow Your Heart and Teese).

I make a cashew cheese that's great on bagels and sandwiches and tossed with pasta, and I've dabbed it on pizza before but it in no way resembles mozzarella in look or taste. You can also do a tofu ricotta cheese, but again, it's not going to be like mozz. We also like to use Vcon's recipe for pine nut cream sauce on pizza and on top of lasagnas/parmesans.

So what are you looking for exactly? Some salty deliciousness that simulates the taste/mouthfeel of cheese or is it about aesthetics, i.e. you want it to LOOK like pizza? Both are valid wants, it's just that you really can't have both with vegan cheese. That will determine what kind of faux cheese you use.

something that melts in the mouth....don't really care too much about what it looks like as long as it's yummy. thanks!

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mommabeehilly

Discussion Starter · #8 · Dec 11, 2008

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Originally Posted by appifanie

i tried some follow your heart mozz on a pizza the other day, and i was again disappointed. i will not buy it again. there's a recipe in "veganomicon" for a cashew ricotta that is inexplicably amazing on pizza. other than that, i am willing to try teese or cheezly if i can get my hands on them.

can you share this? i am not sure what veganomicon is.....thanks!

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