Vegan baking: cake and cookies | Jamie Oliver | Features. Baking can be challenging if you are a vegan. No dairy and no egg – two major ingredients when it comes to baking sweet stuff. But fear not – I have a few simple solutions for you that are pretty much foolproof. The dairy part of the equation is pretty simple. You can try substituting butter with olive oil or coconut oil, often with fairly satisfying results. You will likely end up with a slightly denser cake, but I am quite partial to these anyway. Replacing eggs in a recipe though can be a little trickier. I am yet to find a replacement for egg white that will create a pavlova or meringue. Baking is a science and a lot of it is a matter of trial and error, but when it comes to finding out what does and doesn’t work, lets just say I can tell you quite a bit about the latter.
So, here are a few options for you if you are looking to use eggs to bind your cookies, cakes or pastry: Chia seeds These are a little more fancy, but I think they do a really great job. Serves 6 -8 Makes 12. Flax Seed Egg Replacer - An Egg Substitute That's Almost Magic. Traditional bakers have been able to create a vast variety of foods over the last several hundred years of baking evolution. It’s surprising when you realize that everything from puddings to cakes to cookies vary little in the range of ingredients used. Versatile ingredients such as flour, sugar, fat and eggs make this sort of variation possible.
These are the building blocks of pastry. Vegan baking is easy when all you have to worry about is manipulating flour, sugar and fat. Understanding the Egg Love them or hate them, the chicken egg is an extremely useful food. Structure builder Eggs contain a particularly useful protein, among other egg proteins, called ovalbumin that is found in the translucent white, or albumen. Foaming agent This is somewhat similar to structure building in that the egg proteins are not only good at strengthening, but also trapping air bubbles. Emulsifier Flax Egg Replacer Flax seeds have an outer hull consisting of five layers. Flax Seed Drawbacks 3 cups water.