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Cashew Ricotta, Cream, Mozzarella, and Garlic Cheese Recipe

The problem with vegan cheese (and a lot of allergy free food) is that the manufacturers ignore that their ingredients start with a slightly different taste profile than the originals. Instead of working with those different tastes to create a unique foodstuff you can use as a “cheese”, they just bodge right through and declare that the finished product is tastes just like cheddar cheese when at its best it tastes like plastic and at its worst it tastes like cardboard. I had given up on dairy free cheese until I learned about cashew “cheese.” The thing that makes this dairy free vegan cheese recipe work is that it plays into the flavor of the cashews, adds a hint of nutty cheese flavor with nutritional yeast and the slight cheese tang with lemon juice. Cashew cheese doesn’t taste like a traditional dairy cheese (or plastic sawdust vegan cheese) but a unique flavor that allows you to do cheesy things with it. This cashew cheese recipe is very versatile. You can use it to make

How to Make Homemade Baking Powder

I wanted to make cornbread and found out mid recipe that I didn’t have baking powder.

Naturally I was baking after a late dinner and most of the stores were closed.

What to do? What to do?

Learn how to make baking powder from pantry ingredients of course!

Here’s how.

Homemade Baking Powder Recipe

Pin this recipe hack for later!

To make one teaspoon of baking powder you will need: 

 

1/2 Teaspoon cream of tarter

1/3 Teaspoon baking soda

1/8 Teaspoon salt

How to Make this Recipe

 

1. Thoroughly mix the ingredients in a small bowl.

2. Ta da! You made baking powder!

The only downside to homemade baking powder is you can’t make it up ahead of time and store it in your pantry for later because it doesn’t store well. Fortunately this 3 ingredient baking powder hack is so quick and easy you won’t have to!


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