Vegan BakingVegan baking is easy and delicious when you know. Vegan muffins, vegan cakes and vegan desserts are easy with these vegan cooking tips.
Vegan baking is quite easy when you learn which vegan substitute ingredients to use for which recipes. First of all I wanted to talk a bit about eggs and what they are actually used for in cooking.
Eggs are used for a variety of reasons in baking. They are used to bind ingredients, to add air (through the whisking process), to add colour, thickening and texture to a recipe. Eggs are also used as an emulsifier to help bring the oil and liquid ingredients together in a recipe.
Eggs are used for different reasons, so the trick is to find which vegan replacement ingredient(s) will do the same job in vegan baking. Eggs perform as a leavening agent in cakes to make them light and fluffy, and in biscuits and muffins eggs act as a binder by adding moisture bringing all the ingredients together. To add consistency to recipes such as quiches, it is better to use silken tofu which can be found in health food stores. When we are baking, we need moisture and leavening, and when we have those sorted out with vegan substitute ingredients, we have the other baking goods left over. Ingredients such as cocoa powder, flour, corn starch, yeast, baking soda and baking powder are of course used in non vegan baked goods.
Eggs are the main ingredient we need to worry about in vegan baking because you can easily replace butter and milk with their vegan alternatives. The vegan egg replacer can be done, but it is best to go for a recipe which calls for fewer eggs rather than more.
For one egg in any recipe, use one of these: 
I personally prefer to just use baking powder (which is slightly different from baking soda) in most of my
cake recipes
as it saves faffing around but everyone is different.
Or To replace condensed milk in a recipe, use:
Add the milk and sugar to a saucepan and cook over a low-medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture is reduced to 1 cup. Add the vanilla extract and the salt. Cool before using. Or
Place ingredients into a blender (or use a hand blender as I do)and blend until smooth. Cool before using.
Or 1 pound soft (silken) tofu 1 tbsp vanilla extract 1/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup soy milk
Blend ingredients together in a blender until smooth and refrigerate.
To replace honey in a recipe, try using agave nectar (available from health food shops), or a wonderful product "just like honey" rice nectar. To help your vegan cakes to rise, try adding an extra teaspoon of baking powder in the recipe. Also mix the wet ingredients together first before gently folding in the dry ingredients. This will help keep the air in the mixture. Butter in a non-vegan cake helps to enhance the cakes flavour so you might like to try adding a drop of vanilla extract to the mix or the zest of a lemon or lime for a lovely tangy twang. You could also try adding some soya yoghurt to the cake batter mix (before adding the dry ingredients). This will make the cake texture a bit heavier with a slight fudgy taste to it. To make a moister cake, try adding vegetable oil instead of soya spread - or use a mixture of the two.
There are many vegan pancake toppings around too. Fresh fruit and soya cream, treacle, lemon and sugar, vegan honey alternative and many others.
If you want to try your hand at scones, you should have success as these do not require eggs either. To get a nice shiny finish on your scones, just brush some soya milk over the top before baking. Scones are great to make as you can add all sorts of additional ingredients such as various nuts, glace cherries or chocolate chips.
Just remember when you bake eggless vegan muffins, to add more moisture by adding some sort of oil or water or both.
Vegan muffins are easy to make and are of course very versatile so you can really have fun with these.
Want to make some classic vegan desserts? How about making
vegan rice pudding, chocolate pudding, trifle, apple strudle and other vegan dessert recipes.
Vegan cakes, vegan muffins and general vegan desserts are very easy to make when you have the egg substitute sorted out. All the pictures on this page are vegan baked goods, so you can see that when you know how, it can be done. Happy baking!!
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You also do not need to use eggs in pancakes. You can make perfectly good pancakes using ingredients such as flour, sugar, soya milk, soya spread, vegetable oil, baking powder and water and they taste great. Eggs in pancake recipes are used to make them light and fluffy, so if you prefer a lighter pancake, choose a vegan pancake recipe which uses an egg replacement product.
