Australia’s best vegan cheeses can totally pass for the real thing. Now you can dump the dairy and try amazing vegan cheeses on your pizza, sandwiches, burger, salads and more. If you’re thinking about cheese, these dairy-free alternatives are a game-changer.
These vegan cheeses makes your vegan meals easier and you can enjoy all your cheesy faves better. Imagine making delicious vegan cheese toasties, mac n’ cheese or nachos! Planning a party or needing a great gift idea? Try a gourmet, vegan cheese platter. Plus some of the companies below have vegan butters as well. This vegan cheese list has something for everyone. And, these vegan cheese products are Australian!
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The Vegan Dairy
Australia
The Vegan Dairy has the vegan cheese that you have been craving. Whether for a dairy-free cheesecake, vegan pizza, or plant-based cheese sauce replacement, their entire range offers something for everyone. The Vegan Dairy’s French-style fresh cream cheese is flavoured with sweet paprika, dried crushed capsicum and a hint of chilli and rolled in dried crushed capsicum. And their fresh goats-cheese-style soft cheese is dusted with vine ash as in traditional French cheese-making methods.
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And when it’s in season, we highly recommend the rich, European-style truffle butter infused with fresh local truffles. The Vegan Dairy is filling your plate with plant-based cheesy goodness.
La Petite Fauxmagerie
Newtown
La Petite Fauxmagerie sources and produces delicious, artisanal, plant-based products that expand palates and satisfy all cheese lovers, foodies, vegetarians and vegans alike.
La Petite Fauxmagerie vegan cheeses are cruelty-free, lactose-free, low in fat and cholesterol and gluten-free. Raw fermented organic cashew nut cheese with a strong and tangy flavour encrusted in Mediterranean herbs and olives and beautiful vegan cheeses adorned in seasonal herbs and flowers. Along with their range of vegan butter, plant-based deli meats, bread, crackers and patisserie items, you will find everything you want and more.
Dilectio
Australia
YAY! Foods
Sydney
YAY! Foods is an ethical and plant-based business passionate about heavenly food. Their most famous product, a delicious creamy nut-free feta, offers a tangy zest and melt-in-the-mouth texture. This vegan cheese is fantastic on its own and is also perfect on toast with avocado, sprinkled into salads, sliced onto crackers, or crumbled onto a pizza.
And you can’t go past their delicious pies and pastries. YAY! Foods creamy vegan mushroom pie has a thick, creamy sauce with caramelised onion and garlic and makes for the perfect vegan meal. They have many stockists in Sydney, so keep your eyes peeled for YAY! Foods.
Damona
Sydney
Damona’s unique dairy-free cheeses are made using techniques similar to traditional cheese-making methods. Their range of premium dairy-free and plant-based vegan-friendly cheeses deliver taste, texture and classic style melting dairy-free cheeses. Popular products include American cheddar, the perfect burger cheese, tasty, vibrant and melty. Black garlic pecorino is full of umami flavour and nuttiness, making it the natural choice to grate on pasta, melt in a cheese sauce or simply shave into your favourite salad. It’s the perfect vegan substitute for parmesan.
Damona’s vegan cheese is stocked in independent supermarkets, delis, health, organic and online food stores across Australia.
Fine Cultures
Australia
Fine Cultures is a premium artisanal brand delivering a line of cultured vegan cheeses Australia-wide. Their product range offers vegan cheese delights from cream cheese, cheddar, camembert, mozzarella, brie, alcohol-infused cheeses and more. A highlight on their menu is a soft vegan cheese rolled in plant-based bacon, walnuts and maple syrup.
Fine Cultures only use high-quality ingredients that are mostly organic. Their delicious hand-crafted vegan cheeses are stocked in around 200 locations around Australia.
Artisa
Australia
Artisa is a plant-based cheese board specialist. Their unique range of premium plant-based cheeses is perfect for all cheese board masterpieces and creations. Artisa’s creamy chevre-style cheese flecked with gold and won double gold medals at the Tasmanian Fine Food Awards and Reserve Champion Plant Based Product in 2021.
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Choose from their outstanding selection of handcrafted vegan cheeses made in beautiful Tasmania. There is sure to be something to please every cheese lover!
Made With Plants
Australia
Made With Plants is brought to you by Woolworths Australia. Made With Plants has the distinctive taste of cheddar cheese – only made with plants! Their dairy-free cheddar can be sliced, grated, cubed or crumbled. This vegan cheese offers full-bodied flavour and versatility.
Use Made With Plants Cheddar for delicious burgers, wraps, or the ultimate grilled cheese sandwich. The Made With Plants range also includes vegan mozzarella, sour cream, parmesan and more! Woolworths Australia is coming through with vegan cheese goods!
Sheese
Australia
Bio Cheese
Australia
Bio Cheese believes that plant-based food should taste great and be good for you. Bio Cheese halloumi is the perfect soft, mild, authentic-tasting semi-hard dairy cheese alternative. Their vintage cheddar is deliciously crumbly and sharp. Try their vegan cheese, cracker snack packs, and zingy, plant-based tzatziki.
Nourish Vegan Awards voted ‘Best Vegan Cheese’ 2021, and PETA has recognised their BioButtery product as the best vegan sandwich spread.
Green Vie
Australia
All The Things
Australia
All The Things is well known for its plant-based ashed cashew brie, handcrafted and aged to produce this artisan brie cheese’s distinctive aroma and flavour. Their vegan almond curd with rose harissa is rich with probiotics and full of the plant-based creaminess of artisan ricotta cheese, with the additional spice and fragrance of rose harissa. Add to a cheese board or dollop onto roasted eggplant.
The showstopper from All The Things range of vegan cheeses is their ‘Celebration Vegan Cheese Cake’, a seven-layer stack of delicious plant-based cheesy goodness!
Miller Lane
Australia
Casjubert
Australia
Casjubert is Australian owned and creates artisanal and raw plant-based vegan cheese (Brie style) from Kosher-Certified cashews using an imported vegan cheese culture from France. 100% organic cheeses in four delicous flavors await you! Whether you like an extra creamy style or a spicy cheese, Casjubert has cheese for all tastes.
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