Hold the honey! A Rosh Hashanah cake for vegans – Chefs from Tel Aviv’s Meshek Barzilay restaurant present The Seven Species Cake, which subs in maple syrup | Timesofisrael

Honey may be one of the main symbols of Rosh Hashanah and the new year, but it’s verboten for vegans.
When vegan chef Omri Sibul, who heads the kitchen team at Tel Aviv vegan restaurant Meshek Barzilay, wanted to create a new honey apple cake for Rosh Hashanah, he had to figure out a way to make it without the elixir created by bees.