Friday Food: Easter, Passover, and Vegan Cadbury-Style Eggs

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-04-10 13:47:00 UTC
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Look, I've had a really crappy week, on top of a pretty crappy series of weeks and months. And do you know what would make it all better? Cadbury Creme Eggs. Not those icky caramel ones. And not the miniature ones. The originals. Every year pre-veganism, despite knowing how not-good-for-me they are, I nearly made myself sick on those glorious gooey orbs. I bought boxes at a time. And when they would start disappearing from store shelves, I stockpiled them. Cashiers looked at me funny, but I didn't care. I have awaited their arrival and mourned their disappearance every spring since childhood. And eating the last one from my stockpile was always a bittersweet experience. (I do the same thing with local brewery Schlafly's Pumpkin Ale, by the way.)

But my love for Cadbury eggs does not outweigh my ethics, so until Cadbury gets with the program and gets cruel ingredients out of their recipe, none for me. But! there are vegan recipes floating around out there. I don't have the time (or, frankly, probably the talent) to make them myself, but I will swear lifelong love to anyone who makes me vegan Cadbury-style creme eggs. My love's not enough? OK, I'll pay you for them. No, really--I will.

On to the recipe...

And because we cannot (or should not try to) live on fondant-filled chocolate eggs alone...

  • Gluten-Free Vegan Passover '09 from I Am Gluten Free

  • Veganizing Easter and Passover Celebrations from Vegetarians in Paradise (including matzah balls and eggless deviled eggs--I must admit that I always found deviled eggs revolting myself, but it seems I'm in the minority, and it also seems this cruelty-free version tastes and looks pretty authentic, so go to town if you like and miss these staples)

  • Easter & Passover Recipe Roundup from The GirlieGirl Army

  • Easter Vegan Candy from Your Vegan Mom

  • Passover, Vegan Style! from Crazy Sexy Life (Funny: "My sister and I knew we had to do something about the gefilte situation, so we decided to make fresh spring rolls instead of gefilte fish for our first course. Spring rolls have the same shape, and, oddly enough, similar color to gefilte fish, so they do the trick. . . . The recipe is not too traditional, but when tradition involves opening a jar of compressed fish in a jelly and letting it thump out of the glass, I don’t feel bad about breaking tradition.")

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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