What can be used to substitute eggs in baking?
Just because you’re trying a vegan diet doesn’t mean you can’t eat baked goods. Baking without eggs is easier than you think! Eggs added to recipes act as binders, holding the ingredients together, or as leavening agents, adding lift and texture. Depending on the flavours and textures needed in the recipe, ingredients such as banana, apple sauce, fruit juice, soya milk, tofu, soya or bean flour, cornstarch or ground flaxseeds to name a few, can be used as substitutes. Sometimes the egg can even be omitted from the recipe altogether without affecting the results. For more detailed information on baking without egg, look at the section on ‘Egg Replacers’ under ‘Vegan Dairy and Meat Alternatives in the ‘Recipes’ section. Aren’t free-range eggs and organic meat more humane? Although free-range conditions may be better than those in factory-farms, they are not more humane. Since only hens can lay eggs, male chicks are either killed or raised for food in inhumane conditions. The hens are the
