Recipe: Vegan Chocolate Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes
20.05.12
For chef Chloe Coscarelli preparing vegan meals is more about being creative and adding variety with new ingredients and flavours than simply not using animal products in her recipes.
Coscarelli, who stopped eating meat while still a child, is a classically trained chef who shot to fame after winning the U.S. cooking TV competition "Cupcake Wars" in 2010, after impressing the judges with a variety of vegan cupcakes.
In her first cookbook " Chloe's Kitchen " the 24-year-old California-based chef dishes up 125 recipes and proves that vegan food can be exciting, delicious and creative, as well as healthy.
Q: What made you decide to become a vegan chef?
A: "My love for animals inspired me to choose a vegan way of eating and cooking. But once I went to college I just decided I wanted to intern in a restaurant and learn more creative ways to prepare vegan food because a lot of the old-fashioned notions are that it is dry or bland or boring. It was my mission to break those stereotypes and find delicious creative ways of eating vegan."
Source: Vancouver Sun