Who Is Your Veganesse?

Angela Holster, founder and creator of Your Veganesse, has been veganizing recipes since the age of nine. Through much experimenting and refining, she has solved her personal conundrum of being a 'vegan with a sweet tooth' with the desserts featured in this collection.

Vegan should mean a better way of eating and living. Angela believes that vegan signifies a healthy and fulfilling diet, free from trans fats, refined oils and sugars that many commercial [vegan] products have.

Your Veganesse will NEVER use refined white sugar, table salt, bleached flour, hydrogenated oils, or artificial colors.

What you can expect are carefully chosen healthy ingredients that result in a pure and yet decadent dessert.

All the desserts are customizable. If you have an allergy to soy, for example, or want to have an item sweetened with stevia only, just say so.

Choosing the Best Ingredients

The table below shows the glycemic index per type of sweetener. To put it in perspective, agave nectar is rated safe for diabetics; stevia, an herbal sweetner, has a 0 glycemic index.

Natural Sweeteners Glycemic Index

Natural Sweetener	Glycemic Index Rating
Agave Nectar	15
Fructose	17
Rice Syrup	25
Raw Honey	30
Barley Syrup	42
Maple Syrup	54
Blackstrap Molasses	55
Turbinado Sugar	65
Pastuerized Honey	75
Refined White Sugar	80

Here's a comparison of the calorie and fat info for one tablespoon of oil.

Oil	Calories	Total (g)	Saturated Fat (g)
Almond oil	120	14	1
Avocado oil	124	14	1.6
Canola oil	120	14	1
Coconut oil	117	13.6	11.8
Corn oil	120	14	2
Cottonseed oil	119	14	3
Extra virgin olive oil	120	14	2
Flaxseed oil	120	13.6	1.3
Grapeseed oil	120	13.6	1.3
Hemp seed oil	126	14	1.5
Macadamia nut oil	120	14	2
Olive oil	119	13.5	1.9
Palm oil	120	13.6	6.7
Palm kernel oil	116	14	11
Peanut oil	119	13.5	2.3
Safflower oil	120	13.6	.8
Sesame oil	120	13.6	1.9
Soybean oil	120	13.6	2
Sunflower oil	120	13.6	1.8
Vegetable oil	124	14	.9
Walnut oil	120	14	1.5
Wheatgerm oil	120	13.6	2.6
Butter	102	11.5	7.3