There are
lots of egg substitutes you can experiment with in your vegan baking.
The trick is lots and
lots of egg substitute, in this case a blend of commercial egg substitute and chia seeds, which I successfully swapped with flax.
Not exact matches
In a
lot of recipes however, you can just
substitute one
egg with 3 Tbsp.
I am vegan and tried to make these with a
substitute for the
egg whites, and it didn't quite work out as planned — the nuts either weren't sticky enough (
lots of excess granola) or too gooey / soft even after baking.
Pumpkin makes a great
egg substitute, but adds a
lot of moisture, so my first couple
of batches
of biscotti ended up soggy.
They're found in many healthy recipes, as they pack a
lot of nutrition into a teeny, tiny seed and make a great vegan
substitute for
eggs.
I use it in
lots of dishes I cook — in salads for texture, in soups to thicken, in baked products to
substitute egg, in curries to enrich the mineral intake, in crackers along with other nuts and seeds, but I really...
Pumpkin puree works beautifully as an
egg substitute in a recipe like this (incidentally,
lots of other fruit and veggie purees do as well, in case you're interested in some experimentation).
For one, I was aware that sweet potato works as an
egg substitute in
lots of baked goods, much like banana.
Since I haven't done a
lot of vegan baking before, I consulted this
egg substitute chart from Fork and Beans to see what would be the best
egg replacer to use, but feel free to experiment with another one -LSB-...]
There are a
lot of powdered yolk and
egg substitutes on the market but be very careful to read the labels carefully if you're looking for a vegan alternative, as many rely on
egg whites in their formulas.
I've been looking around at other recipes for similar sorts
of bars... a
lot of the vegan versions use Lucuma powder as a
substitute for
egg white — it has a slightly sweet flavour, but it's low GI and adds other vitamins and minerals.
Hi Natalie, I haven't tried it with coconut flour but if I were to
substitute it, I would use less coconut flour and more liquids (add an
egg) as coconut flour is a
lot more absorbent (I generally use about 1/3 cup coconut flour per cup
of almond flour).
Ground flax seed, I had never used until I started baking vegan and that, when you combine it with water and let it sit for a little bit, it becomes sort
of a gel and makes a really good
egg substitute in a
lot of things.
«Lignin proved to be a surprisingly efficient
substitute for whole
eggs and
egg yolks,» according to the VTT Technical Research Centre
of Finland, which finds not only that wood - based products have applications to a
lot of foods, but that people might actually like them better that way.