Vegan Kaiaroha Baked Cheesecake with a Shortbread Base and Blueberry Sauce

Chef Alara was involved in the food business in London, United Kingdom, in the 1990s and early 2000s, before moving back to New Zealand where she ran a vegetarian market stall for several years before becoming vegan in 2011. She started making nut cheeses to sell, and today the artisan vegan cheeses are aged in a purpose-built two-story high glass cheese cave on site at her cafe, Kaiaroha Organic Vegan Cafe &Deli, which opened in October 2017. Today we are delighted to have Chef Alara, and her daughter Elyse, to show us how to make a healthy, delicious, and beautiful vegan cheesecake, which also happens to be Alara's own recipe.