Conscious Indulgence: Healthy Holiday Desserts

Schedule

Tue Dec 02 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Santa Cruz Seventh-day Adventist Church | Santa Cruz, CA

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Join Eat for the Earth in the preparation and enjoyment of guilt-free desserts for the holidays!
About this Event

Can Dessert Inspire, Nourish, and Energize?


If it's made solely with whole plant foods, that's not only possible, it's a given!



Join Rev. Chef Beth Love in the creation of several delectable, vibrant desserts that nourish on all levels without cruelty or self-harm.


All dishes will Whole Food, Plant-Based, and free of added Sugar, Oil, and Salt!



In This Interactive Class, You Will:
  • Learn to make delightfully tasty desserts that are healthy for your body, environmentally sustainable, and compassionately produced,
  • Learn from a master chef while practicing techniques in class,
  • Get a peek into powerful hacks for insuring your whole plant-exclusive creations exude the "WOW Factor,"
  • Learn techniques for culinary creativity, ingredient substitutions, and making food taste scrumptious without reliance on added salt, sugar, or fats,
  • Receive recipes for the dishes we make in class,
  • Find out about the healing power of whole plant foods,
  • Enjoy delightful desserts in the company of your classmates,
  • Have a chance to get your questions answered,
  • Get inspired, and
  • Enjoy connecting in community!



The Menu
  • Love Cake
  • Kiwi Lime Pie
  • Chai Pecan Pie



Your Donation is Appreciated.
Similar classes can cost upwards of $100. Eat for the Earth offers our classes on a donation basis in order to make them accessible to people of varying economic circumstances. If you have the capacity to make a donation, your support will help us to be able to continue offering these high quality, potentially life-saving classes.



All Proceeds Benefit Eat for the Earth.
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About Rev. Chef Beth Love:

Rev. Chef Beth Love is the author of the Tastes Like Love book series. A gifted speaker, facilitator, teacher, and ordained New Thought minister, Beth has motivated and educated people in diverse contexts such as nonprofit organizations, schools, churches, businesses, and the California State Pr*son system. She has inspired large and small audiences, in-person and through radio and television, from local community TV to the Oprah show.

Rev. Chef Love delights in helping people to create amazingly delicious and deeply satisfying foods that please the palate, nourish the body, demonstrate compassion for animals, and have a light footprint on the earth. Due to her concern about the contribution of animal agriculture to climate change and other environmental issues, she started Eat for the Earth, a nonprofit organization that makes it easier for people to eat more plants and less animal products to sustain all life on earth. Learn more and find out how you can get involved at EatForTheEarth.org.



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Where is it happening?

Santa Cruz Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1024 Cayuga Street, Santa Cruz, United States

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