You know the dairy-free industry is booming when stores come out with their own brand of dairy-free cheesecake! Loblaws has launched a whole line of plant-based convenience foods, including President’s Choice Vegan Cheesecake Style Dessert. And in 2020, they added a second flavor!
President’s Choice Vegan Cheesecake is Now in Two Plant-Based Flavors
Since they also released dairy-free cashew dips, I expected this plant-based cheesecake to be cashew-based. But it actually appears be nut-free, and free of most top allergens (aside from wheat)! Based on the ingredients, it looks like it is made with Wayfare cream cheese alternative. When you try this cheesecake, don’t forget to leave your rating and review below!
Original
Ingredients: dessert base (water, lima beans, oats, coconut and safflower oils, gum arabic, sea salt, konjac flour, cultured dextrose, blue agave syrup, natural flavour, calcium citrate, citric acid, lactic acid, tocopherols, sunflower lecithin), sugars (sugar, corn maltodextrin), graham crumbs (enriched wheat flour, graham flour, sugar, sunflower oil, blackstrap molasses), palm oil shortening, enriched wheat flour, water, natural flavour, modified tapioca starch, corn starch, salt, concentrated lemon juice, concentrated pumpkin juice, citric acid.*
Nutrition (per 135 gram serving): 410 calories, 19g fat, 57g carbs, 4g fiber, 36g sugars, 4g protein.*
Chocolate
Ingredients: dessert base (water, lima beans, oats, coconut and saffower oils, gum arabic, sea salt, konjac our, cultured dextrose, blue agave syrup, natural favour, calcium citrate, citric acid, lactic acid, tocopherols, sunfower lecithin), sugars (sugar, corn maltodextrin), chocolate crumbs (enriched wheat our, sugar, palm oil, cocoa, salt, natural favour, baking soda), palm oil shortening, enriched wheat our, cocoa, water, natural favour, modified tapioca starch, corn starch, salt. may contain: tree nuts, soy.*
Nutrition (per 135 gram serving): 410 calories, 20g fat, 55g carbs, 5g fiber, 34g sugars, 4g protein.*
More Facts on President’s Choice Vegan Cheesecake Style Dessert
Price: $7.99 per 540g cheesecake
Availability: President’s Choice Vegan Cheesecake Style Dessert is sold at Loblaw’s stores across Canada. This includes Real Canadian Superstore, No Frills, Zehrs, Fortinos, and Shoppers Drug Mart.
Certifications: President’s Choice Vegan Cheesecake Style Dessert is Certified Vegan.
Dietary Notes: By ingredients, President’s Choice Vegan Cheesecake Style Dessert is dairy-free / non-dairy, egg-free, nut-free, peanut-free, soy-free, vegan, and vegetarian. It’s also labeled as plant-based.*
For More Product Information: Visit the Loblaw’s website at www.loblaws.ca.
*Always read the ingredient and nutrition statement prior to consumption. Ingredients, processes, and labeling are subject to change at any time for any company or product. Contact the company to discuss their manufacturing processes if potential allergen cross-contamination is an issue for you. No food product can be guaranteed “safe” for every individual’s needs. You should never rely on ingredient and allergen statements alone if dealing with a severe food allergy.
Amazing
It was so delicious and creamy. It tasted like the real deal.
Threw it away!
First off, you need to defrost it for 90 minutes, then you have a window of about 10 minutes to consume, otherwise the consistency goes from “I imagine this is what cheesecake feels like in my mouth” to instantly dissolving on your tongue like cotton candy. Flavour? Sugar. That’s it, a big mouth full of sugar. Was tolerable in the semi-frozen state, but my girlfriend tried her slice past that magic 10 minute window, and the look on her face was utter disgust and contempt. Thinking she was being dramatic, I tried her slice and agreed.
ORGASMIC!
This is better than any pastery i have ate at my town bakery store. It’s taste amazingly good. Would buy again.
Spectacular
Dense texture, sweet, and just a wee bit tart – like a cheesecake should be. Add some cherry or cherry/cranberry pie filling to add some more tart flavour and you’re in dessert heaven.
Sugar Cheesecake
I thought I’d give it a go based on the “creamy and tart” description right on the box, but it tastes like pure sugar. Although I love fudge & chewy candy which are almost pure sugar, I hate it when people use sugar to mask tastes. It needs more acidic flavours, specifically lemon. I am not vegan or vegetarian, so I am not sure why I felt drawn to try this. The ingredients are listed weirdly: the “dessert base” is the FIRST ingredient. Inside the dessert base ingredient brackets, cultured dextrose and blue agave syrup are the 8th & 9th. The SECOND ingredient is “sugars”. Inside its brackets, there are sugar and corn maltodextrin. The THIRD ingredient is “graham crumbs”. Its brackets also contain sweeteners: number 3 is sugar, number 5 is blackstrap molasses. There seems to be a big effort to disguise their excessive use of sweeteners. I googled “What does 36 grams of sugar look like” and found that 40 is a mountain. I think I will throw the cake out even though it tastes okay…beyond the sugar taste issue.
Wow
Plan on keeping these in my freezer. This and canned cherries..vegan heaven
Splendiferous cheesecake, smooth and creamy!
As someone who has made cheesecakes for for more than four decades,
I was duly impressed. In fact, more than merely duly impressed, I was as
the British say, “ gobsmacked “ with its authentic cheesecake like flavour
and texture. So far, four of these amazing cheesecakes have been purchased
and consumed. My freezer has a new set of companions, boxes and boxes of
this wonderful dessert. Along with President’s Choice frozen,four
berry blend fruits as a luscious topping accompaniment, I am ready for any guest, for a short stay or longer. After tasting this totally decadent dessert,
one would imagine they’d opt for a longer stay. Now that I will not be baking my own, there will be more time to spend planning fun summer activities. Thank you to all the bakers in the President Choice Cheesecake kitchen. Kudos to each of you. ?
Um, Amazing?!
After having tried dairy free desserts in the past that did nothing but disappoint and trigger my gag reflex, I didn’t have high hopes for this vegan cheesecake going in. Colour me surprised! It’s SO GOOD!! Do yourself a favor and give it a try – you may thank me later. 🙂