My nephew was recently diagnosed with a egg allergies which have reached a very serious level. His mom is a wonderful baker, but unfortunately the majority of bakes goods contain eggs. I'm looking to see if any of you can suggest alternatives for eggs that work as well as eggs. Many of the suggestions she has tried make the baked goods dense and they just don't rise like they do with eggs.
Thanks in advance to all you handy bakers out there who can help with this problem!
My daughter can't have eggs and I use banana in place of them when baking.
There are tons of options, most are detailed here:
http://www.peta.org/living/vegetarian-living/egg-replacem...
I usually use flax seed or banana.
You actually can buy Egg Replacer at the store. It is in the Naturally food sections....or Health food stores.
It comes in a box and is a powder you add water too....You cant even tell you are not using eggs.
I just got a big bag of milled flax seed and noticed on the bag that you can use it to replace egg. The directions say to mix 1 Tbsp. ground flax seed with 3 Tbsp. water.
You can use 1 T water + 1 T soy flour as an egg substitute. I've found soy flour is in the specialty flours in the baking aisle.
Long time off and on vegan here. Eggs are the eternal struggle with baking for pretty much every vegan I know. They are so darn hard to replace!
There are lots of alternatives to eggs though. Problem is what works best you have to kinda play around with on pretty much each recipe. I mean do you need a binder or do you need something that makes it more spongy, springy.. rise?
The easiest is pry just an egg replacer. It's sold in a box and in powder form. You add a certain ratio of water and egg replacer to your recipe. Problem is it doesn't work always. But It really depends on the recipe. Other usuals are bananas, apple sauce, pumpkin, flax seed, vinegar and baking soda. Those are the ones I use the most. There are others naturally. But you really just have to start baking and play. There are lots of recipes on vegan sites that are already perfected and I'd say start with those and get a feel for it. Cooking without eggs is an entirely new experience you'll find.
