3 Best Eggless Cake Recipes
‘Cake’ is one of the most sought-after recipes after laddu and gulab jamun for many occasions. You are either celebrating a birthday, giving a farewell or welcoming someone home, cakes are the best way to celebrate them all. However, you might have a few guests or even your family members who don’t eat cakes because it has eggs in them. They might be vegetarians or vegans or on a special diet, or they just don’t like eggs. You may be tempted to order one to satisfy everyone’s taste. Here are a few recipes for eggless cakes that you might want to try before you pick from a baker’s store. After all, you are baking a cake not only for an occasion but also to show off your baking skills, right?
Eggless Orange Cake
If you would like to do something different, it is always good to choose a fruit flavored cake. Orange cake has a unique taste, and there are a lot of substitutes for an egg to bake a delicious cake. Along with all-purpose flour or whole wheat flour, you will need olive oil, butter or any vegetable oil which are substitutes for eggs, and the main ingredient, orange juice, and orange zest. You will also need sugar replacement if you are calorie conscious too. Jaggery, stevia or unrefined sugar is good. The rest of the ingredients are familiar: baking powder, baking soda, corn flour or eggless vanilla custard powder. Always use freshly squeezed orange juice!
Eggless Black forest cake
Black forest cake is the world-famous flavor among the cakes after vanilla and chocolate. If you don’t know why, it has the best of both – chocolate and vanilla. Plus, the attractive icing with more chocolate to die for. Here too, you can use whole wheat flour for a healthier option, along with pure cocoa powder, vanilla extract or powder, sugar or stevia, a tablespoon of lemon juice, vegetable oil or butter, a pinch of salt and water. There… your cake mix is ready. For icing, you will use the regular ingredients like fresh or chilled whipped cream, icing sugar, grated chocolates… and don’t forget to add cherries on the top.
Eggless choco lava cake
Who doesn’t love to take a bite of cake with melting chocolate inside it? Of course, you can make the most magical cake without eggs! The ingredients for eggless choco lava cakes is very simple too. For the cake, you will need just whole wheat flour, cocoa powder, a pinch of salt, and baking soda. For mixing the batter, you will need sugar, water, sunflower or olive oil, lemon juice or vinegar, and vanilla essence. When choosing chocolate make sure you use the best quality chocolate, preferably non-flavored dark chocolate. The size of the baking cups shouldn’t be big either, or else you will not get a good chocolate texture.
This list deserves a few honorable mentions. Just like orange, you can prepare mango, lemon, banana, dry fruits cake. You can also bake a sponge cake in the pressure cooker or bake a simple cake with just three main ingredients: whole wheat flour, condensed milk, and butter. Just like art, there’s no limit to creativity when it comes to preparing desserts.
