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Make tasty vegan desserts with Delicake
Creating raw desserts just got easier with this new product from Australian brand Delicake.
Rather than adding your final mix to the tin, this tool focuses on the step-by-step method of building no-cook desserts – from adding ingredients, to the delicious reveal.
The Delicake Master is lightweight and contains three sections to help you create a non-bake dessert of your choice, using just one piece of cakeware. Available in both rectangle and circular shapes, it has been designed in three sections to allow you to prepare, set and serve your dessert all-in-one. Sections include the base, a sleeve and a lid, created from high impact food grade clear acrylic, allowing you to control every step of the process.
Delicake Masters are available online direct from the Delicake website.
Booming sales of non-dairy milk in UK
Non-dairy milk such as soya, almond and oat milk are being added to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) inflation basket for the first time ever, reflecting the increase in popularity of dairy-free and vegan diets. The ONS said charities such as Veganuary had contributed to the growing popularity of plant-based milk, thanks to lifestyle choices rather than decisions driven by allergies. Analysts compile the virtual shopping basket’s contents based on four indices that reveal financial statistics about price inflation and consumer spending patterns drawn from 700 representative goods and services across 140 areas in the UK. Its contents are reviewed each year and some items are taken out of the basket and some are brought in to reflect the lifestyle of the modern consumer in Britain. Analysts added plant-based milk to represent what they say is ‘a distinct and growing market.’ Conversely, milk, cheese and eggs were removed from the 2015 basket due to failing sales.