Plant Cream

Technique 2

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Plant Academy: The Cookbook: Plant-based techniques & recipes for creative cooking

By Lauren Lovatt

Published 2025

  • About

The idea with this base recipe is that you can season it up to be savoury or sweet. Not ALL nuts and seeds will work as a cream. As a rule of thumb, harder nuts are less likely to make a good cream. The easiest nuts for making into creams are cashew, macadamia, hemp seed and pine nut. A milk is 1-part nuts/seeds to 3–4 parts water, a single cream would be a 1:2–3 ratio nuts/ seeds to water, and a double cream 1:1–1.5.