With the cooler weather coming it’s the best time to fire up your ovens and bake something sweet. Baking is a great hobby that requires exact measurements to make a successful cake, cookie or brownie. Not only is baking a relaxing hobby, it is also great to share the treats you made with your friends and family. But if you are vegan, then you can’t use eggs when you are baking your desserts. Luckily, here are many alternatives that people can use when it comes to baking without eggs. So keep reading to discover the top five alternatives to use instead of eggs when you are baking.
Alternatives For Eggs – Pumpkin Puree
A great solution to not using eggs while baking is to switch out the eggs for pumpkin puree. This can be done by substituting a fourth of a cup of pumpkin puree per egg in the recipe. The puree acts as the egg and helps combine all of the other ingredients together to create your mixture or dough.
The best part is that the pumpkin puree adds a bit of pumpkin flavor to your dessert making it even tastier! So make sure you always have a can of pumpkin puree around when you are baking.
Alternatives For Eggs – Applesauce
A sweet treat all on its own is applesauce, but we bet you didn’t know you can use applesauce to replace an egg in a recipe. Applesauce is a wonderful egg substitution since it can hold together and combine other ingredients. All you need is a quarter cup of applesauce in place of one egg.
When picking out your applesauce, make sure it’s unsweetened since most recipes you are following will have you put in sugar and you don’t want your dessert being too sweet! But it doesn’t matter if you use store-bought or homemade applesauce for your dessert since the outcome will be all of the same.
Alternatives For Eggs – Bananas
An item you probably already have on hand that you can replace eggs with is bananas! Bananas are not only tasty, but they work as a great egg replacer too. All you have to do is replace one egg with one mashed banana to make your dessert vegan. Make sure that you mash the banana with a fork before you add it to the rest of the mixture or else you will just end up getting banana lumps in your dish instead of a binding ingredient.
When you are picking out what banana to use, make sure you are selecting a ripe banana that has brown spots or else it will not work! And if you use bananas, no one will even notice that you replaced eggs with bananas since bananas do not have a strong taste over the other ingredients.
Chia Egg
In the last few years, chia seeds have been on the rise. From adding them into oatmeal to making chia seed pudding, these seeds are making their own movement. People have been able to replace chia seeds with eggs in recipes by making a chia egg and adding it to the recipe.
Chia eggs are made by adding one tablespoon of chia seeds mixed with three tablespoons of water, then mix it together and let the mixture sit for fifteen to twenty minutes. The chia seeds are going to absorb the water making a very gooey mixture just like a real egg! But make sure you prepare your chia egg before you start your recipe so the chia seeds have time to work their magic.
Flax Egg
Another popular seed-egg alternative people use when baking is flax eggs. Before you start baking prepare your flax egg by combining one tablespoon of flax seeds and three tablespoons of water to replace one egg. Just like the chia egg, you’re going to want to leave this mixture out for fifteen to twenty minutes before adding into your recipe.
When you are making your flax egg, make sure you are only using grounded up flaxseed to make the egg. You can buy grounded flax seeds at stores or if you cannot find any that are ground up run your whole flax seeds through a food processor or blender.