If you can find cocoa butter you could sub that along with sugar- white chocolate is usually around 20-25% cocoa butter and 50% sugar. You could probably sub coconut oil for the cocoa butter.
Even if one could successfully replace the white chocolate with a vegan substitute, that doesn't change the other four or so ingredients that are resolutely *NOT* vegan: butter, eggs, honey, and granulated sugar.
I don't understand the justification behind giving this recipe the vegan tag as it clearly is not.
99.9% of US commercial cane sugar is processed with bone char (carbonized animal bones) to bleach the product.
Beet sugar does not undergo this treatment.
However, if a given product's label ingredients simply list "sugar" then one must accept the very high probability that some or all of the sugar occasionally or always contains commercial cane sugar (thus processed with bone char).
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I don't understand the justification behind giving this recipe the vegan tag as it clearly is not.
Beet sugar does not undergo this treatment.
However, if a given product's label ingredients simply list "sugar" then one must accept the very high probability that some or all of the sugar occasionally or always contains commercial cane sugar (thus processed with bone char).
Ask a vegan about commercial honeybee hive rental and the California almond harvest.
You will likely get the most uncomfortable stony silence from someone who typically lets everyone in the room immediately know that he/she is vegan.