{"id":383,"date":"2008-08-29T16:14:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T23:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2008-08-31T21:13:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T04:13:40","slug":"chi-cake-vegan-gluten-free-cheesecake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/29\/chi-cake-vegan-gluten-free-cheesecake\/","title":{"rendered":"Chi Cake (vegan, gluten-free cheesecake)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m visiting friends in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) and they introduced me to a local treat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Chi Cake<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicake.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.chicake.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nVegan, gluten-free, organic cheesecake<br \/>\nVegan Choice Foods, Inc., Contact: Alan Munro<br \/>\nUnit 14 &#8211; 7621 Vantage Way<br \/>\nDelta, BC V4G 1A6 Canada<br \/>\nPhone:\u00a0\u00a0778-88VEGAN (778-888-3426)<br \/>\nE-Mail:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:questions@chicake.com\">questions@chicake.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The good news is, it&#8217;s delicious.\u00a0 The bad news&#8230;it&#8217;s only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicake.com\/locations.html\" target=\"_blank\">available<\/a> in the Vancouver area.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also pricey: $20 for a 19 oz (540g) cake.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-text\" style=\"top: 300px; left: 30px; width: 315px;\">\n<blockquote><p><strong>Varieties<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>6&#8243; retail box (frozen) in New York Lemon<\/p>\n<p>8&#8243; wholesale cakes (fresh or frozen):<br \/>\nNew York Lemon<br \/>\nChocolate-Hazelnut<br \/>\nPumpkin Spice (seasonal)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>We had the New York Style lemon.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t really New York style, which is dense and rich.\u00a0 This was light and melted in your mouth.\u00a0 So doesn&#8217;t quite hit all my cheesecake satisfaction buttons (I&#8217;m a NY style girl) but it was really quite good.<\/p>\n<p>Given that I can&#8217;t get this at home, I wonder if I can duplicate it.\u00a0 It seems fairly simple.\u00a0 The filling is a soy-based cream cheese (the Follow Your Heart brand is very good and may be similar to what they use, if not the same) with tofu (I assume silken) and then they add sugar, lemon juice, salt, and an egg replacer (theirs is various starches).<\/p>\n<p>The crust is cornmeal, puffed millet, sugar, grape juice, coconut flour, Earth Balance margarine, and ginger.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe when I return home&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m visiting friends in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) and they introduced me to a local treat. Chi Cake http:\/\/www.chicake.com\/ Vegan, gluten-free, organic cheesecake Vegan Choice Foods, Inc., Contact: Alan Munro Unit 14 &#8211; 7621 Vantage Way Delta, BC V4G 1A6 Canada Phone:\u00a0\u00a0778-88VEGAN (778-888-3426) E-Mail:\u00a0\u00a0questions@chicake.com The good news is, it&#8217;s delicious.\u00a0 The bad news&#8230;it&#8217;s only available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,52,53],"tags":[96,7,6,8,5,12],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-food-products","category-sweets","tag-canada","tag-dairy-free","tag-egg-free","tag-gluten-free","tag-vegan","tag-vegetarian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}