I have made this pie only once so far, but I already know it will be one I will be making lots of times again 🙂 Made this when we had friends over for dinner, and everyone loved it!
Beware: making this pie requires advance preparation (soaking the cashews and cooling the pie and the topping in the fridge so it can stiffen).
Lemon mousse pie
Lemon mousse pie
You need a large springform pan (23 cm / 9 inch).
Ingredients vegan lemon mousse pie
For the crust
- 1 + 1/4 cup finely grated vegan crackers (230 g or about 7 packs of double crackers, I usually use kamut crackers).
- 3 tbs sugar
- 4 tbs melted cocount oil
- 1 tbs soy milk
For the pie
- 1/2 cup cashews, soaked until very soft (I ususally leave these to soak overnight)
- 400 ml coconut milk
- 1/2 cup almond or soy milk
- 1/2 ts agar agar powder
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 3 tbs coconut oil
- 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
- 2 tbs lemon zest
- 2 ts vanilla extract
For the topping
- 3/4 cup water
- 1 tbs cornstarch
- 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 3/4 ts agar agar powder
- 1/16 ts turmeric (for the Dutch readers, this is kurkuma, it gives a yellow colour to the topping).
- 2 ts lemon zest
Preparation Vegan Lemon mousse pie
Crust
Preheat oven to 180° (350F), and brush the inside of the springform with some canola oil.
Ground the crackers (by hand with a rolling pin, or in a blender). Mingle with the sugar.
Slowly add the melted coconut oil, then drizzle in the soy milk.
Place in springform pan, and push down. Bake for 10-12 minutes.
Let crust cool before filling with pie.
Pie
Mix the drained cashews together with the coconut milk in a blender or food processor. Until very smooth (a couple of minutes).
Heat the almond or soy milk, agar powder and sugar in a sauce pan til it boils. Than reduce heat and let simmer for 5 minutes. Add the coconut oil, and stir til it is melted.
Add the hot oil mixture to the cashew/milk mixture in the food processor, and blend.
Add lemon juice, zest, vanilla extract and mingle.
Pour this mixture onto the prepared and cooled crust. Don’t worry that it is very thin, it will set in the fridge, but this takes a couple of hours (at least 4 hours).
Topping
Put all the ingredients in a saucepan and boil. Then lower heat and let simmer for 5 minutes. Pour it over the pie, and put back in the fridge (for at least 1 hour, but several hours is better).
Lemon mousse pie
Recipe is adapted from the recipe for little lemon mousse pies in Vegan Pie in the Sky, from Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero. But not with a gingersnap crust but a regular cracker crust.
The Bruges Vegan 
This pie is beautiful Bruges Vegan! It’s so vibrant; it makes of think of Easter/spring time. But stop trying to give us a sweet tooth- haha! 😉
Thanks, yes, now that you mention it, the colour is perfect for Easter!
Sorry about the sugar. I do experiment and use other sweeteners too, like maple syrup, coconut syrup or coconut flower sugar, stevia, rice syrup, but I’m reading so many different things about all of those (good and bad) that I don’t really know anymore which one is better to the other. Maybe an idea for your blog? 😉
Yes, it’s the perfect Easter table pie 🙂 Haha, it’s not just about the sugar, just sweets in general! WP has too many sweet (and tasty) posts! I used to be an avid baker but I tried to tone that down; it’s hard when there are so many beautiful creations! Yes, with a lot of these ‘health foods’ there is mixed dialogue. We will be covering some of these issues in the near future and hopefully coming out with a tasty summer time treat!
Ooh, this looks absolutely delicious! I love zesty lemon desserts.
me too! It has a really fresh taste!
That looks too wonderful for words. One thing I miss most since being vegan is lemon treats (like lemon meringue pie, lemon bars, lemon curd…). This kind of treat is right up my alley. Thank you for sharing!
Lemon meringue pie! Now there’s a thought. With all the experiments making meringues lately going around on the internet (with the chickpea brine) that’s one to try!
I haven’t heard about the chickpea brine before. That sounds interesting! Hopefully some genius baker will whip something up… I’ll be looking forward to that.
Lovely! I’ve been meaning to try a vegan cheesecake or cream pie – this one looks excellent.
thank you 🙂 let me know how it goes!
Waw! Well done you! I love it too! I think I am going to make it into smaller tartlets! Ooh yes!
A big yum! xx
Thanks! 🙂 I’ll defintely try that too one of the next times I make this one. Just need some more little springform pans before I can do that 😉
Ooh yes!
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I have bookmarked this, to try making in the future 🙂
It’s a really nice pie Emy, and it presents very well. Hope you like it 🙂