How to Veganize Any Recipe: Sweet Edition (2024)

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What makes a baked good vegan? ›

Traditional baking, unlike vegan baking, heavily relies on animal products. Often, recipes for baked goods will call for eggs and dairy products such as butter, cream, and cow's milk. Vegan baking, on the other hand, omits all animal products.

Turns out, you don't need milk products, eggs, or any kind of dairy at all to achieve the luxurious and rich flavor of some of the best sweets out there. From strawberry shortcake pops and vanilla cupcakes, to fudge pies and sugar doughnuts, here are the best easy vegan desserts for you to try out this week.

In recipes, milk is replaced by plant milk (almond milk, oat milk, rice milk, soy milk and other plant milks) which can be also found with chocolate, vanilla and other flavors, butter is replaced by vegetable margarine (preferably non-hydrogenated) or oil, cow yogurt and cream are replaced by their plant-based ...

“Foods and baked goods that call for traditional butter can turn out great when you use plant-based butter instead,” he says. “We make everything from shortbread cookies to biscotti to omelets with plant-based butter and get the same kind of taste and texture that you expect.” Use a 1:1 ratio.

Coconut oil is a delicious vegan alternative to butter as it behaves similarly to butter compared to other oils. It solidifies when cool and melts at room temperature, making it very versatile. If you use unrefined coconut oil, you can expect a more distinctive taste, but refined coconut oil is basically flavourless.

Beer and Wine

Isinglass, a gelatin-based substance derived from fish, is used as a clarifying agent in some beer and wine. Other non-vegan ingredients sometimes used are casein (from milk) and egg whites.

The bottom line. Most types of peanut butter are free of animal products and can be enjoyed as part of a vegan diet. However, some varieties are made in facilities that also process animal products or contain refined sugar that was produced using bone char or non-vegan ingredients like honey or fish oil.

Many vegans refer to Oreos as “accidentally vegan,” meaning they don't contain animal products — but they weren't created to be a specifically vegan treat. Oreos do not contain milk, eggs, or any other animal-derived products, so they are technically vegan in that sense. Plant-based cookies and cream lovers rejoice!

Agar agar can be used as a vegan-friendly substitute in any recipe that calls for gelatin as a thickening agent, including sauces, jelly-based desserts, custards and puddings.

Is Cool Whip vegan? ›

Cool Whip is a store-bought whipped topping meant to be used as whipped cream. It's light, fluffy has a creamy texture, and can be used as an ingredient to make desserts or used as a dessert topping. What is this? It is not made with dairy whipping cream but it does contain dairy ingredients making it not vegan.

Did you know Crisco Shortening is plant-based? Made with plant-based oils and no animal products, Crisco Shortening is the perfect ingredient for vegetarian & vegan bakers.

A vegan cake contains no ingredients from animals. So there's no eggs, and no dairy. A vegan cake is either designed to not need these ingredients, or it will contain comparable plant based ingredients, like soy yogurt instead of dairy yoghurt, or a margarine made from vegetables oils instead of butter.

You probably have far more options for local baked goods than you realize. To start, French bread and baguettes are nearly always vegan, and excellent regional brands are available almost everywhere. Your local bakery probably has a few vegan items as well, even if it makes no particular effort to cater to vegans.

A product is vegan if it does not contain any animal extracts or animal by-products in the product or manufacturing process. It also means that the product hasn't been tested on animals. To be sure, look for the Vegan Trademark.

The global demand for vegan pastry grew at a CAGR of 5.6% between 2016 and 2022, and it's expected to expand at a CAGR of 5.7% between 2023 and 2033.

A vegan diet is another form of vegetarianism where only plant foods are eaten and all foods from animal sources are avoided (meat, seafood, dairy, eggs and sometimes honey and gelatine).