Cake without eggs?

HGLTsuperstar

Eggs act as the binder, so replace with something that does similar. My friend with egg allergy, uses mashed banana, or mashed tofu, and to no detriment to the final product.
Any vegan cakemakers out there who can expand on this

thriftlady_2

HGLTsuperstar wrote:

Eggs act as the binder, so replace with something that does similar

Thanks for that,the recipes I use all have a fair amount of liquid in- milk or water,so I suppose that replaces the 'binder' function of the eggs and makes the mixture wet.I think the acid-alkali thing is quite important to get a good rise.I'm not sure what soya flour does except replace the protein element of the egg.

krishna

Soya flour will also act as a binder. A cheaper alternative is chickpea flour (also known as besan in indian grocery shops). Both also appear to act a bit as raising agents. Eggless cakes tend to be crumbly. The soya/chickpea flour helps reduce this.

reehsetin

any recipies for an eggless chocolate cake that doesnt involve vinegar? think my bloke would be a bit funny if he found out vinegar in there, not keen on raisins or golden syrup either

couple of years ago i made one with coke?!?!! dont ask! only one i could find but it dried out pretty quickly

thriftlady_2

See post number 3;) When you do use vinegar in a cake it is a really small amount and you cannot taste it !. Don't tell him it's in there, why does he need to know the exact ingredients ? The golden syrup in my recipe isn't apparent either honestly. The cake tastes like chocolate cake trust me !:D

letsgobilliejoe

thriftlady wrote:

See post number 3;) When you do use vinegar in a cake it is a really small amount and you cannot taste it !. Don't tell him it's in there, why does he need to know the exact ingredients ? The golden syrup in my recipe isn't apparent either honestly. The cake tastes like chocolate cake trust me !:D

completely true. been vegan for a whole, and I just put 1TBSP soya flour for every egg that there should have been as well as a few drops of vinegar.

P.S. thi is one of my fave choc cake recipes, but I throw a bit of vinegar in to make it airier.

P.P.S damn you people, I want to make one now!

reehsetin

thanks guys! ill take your word for it
somesone made a cake for my brother today though and it was great have a feeling it was eggless so will see if i can get the recipe for that and try that! will post it up too
if not ill give the one above a shot got a month to perfect it should be enough time!

nabowla

I can highly recommend the chocolate cake (post #3). If I hadn't known that it contained vinegar, I wouldn't have known - if you see what I mean. Just don't tell the boyfriend that it contains vinegar. What he doesn't know won't hurt him.....

rubytuesday

You can use mayonaise instead of eggs if you've got that.

thriftlady_2

If that's the case, I'm sure you could use a vegan mayo like Plamil. I might try that for my dd (not the one with garlic though !)