The 100 Best Vegan Baking Recipes: Amazing Cookies, Cakes, Muffins, Pies, Brownies and Breads

Her daughter has an egg allergy & the recipient loves to bake, so this was a great gift for her.

"I am not vegan, I just eat like one" I quip to people after I excitedly tell them the cookie they just stuffed in their mouth is %100 vegan.Growing up with food allergies can be a nightmare. But lucky for me, the vegan diet is allergy free! And sometimes you just really want to make some flippin' cookies.I borrowed this book three times from the online library before I finally told myself "Just buy it." The recipes in here are clear, easy to follow and TRUE pantry staples. A problem I have with many vegan cookbooks is they claim to use ingredients easily found in the pantry, but they aren't even ingredients easily found at the grocery store! Or their ingredients are crazy expensive.This book starts with an explanation of vegan cooking, easy everyday vegan substitutes that don't compromise quality, and a few troubleshooting tips.There are no pictures, so you won't know what your endgame is supposed to look like, but these recipes are so simple and easy to follow that anyone with a basic baking knowledge can follow them flawlessly.I purchased this book used, but it arrived in near-new condition (Did you even use it, previous owner? You're missing out!) and it arrived promptly and undamaged though I was worried when I saw it was bagged and not boxed for shipment.

I bought this book to give some variety to my repertoire of allergy-friendly baked goods for my son with dairy, egg and nut/peanut allergies. So far, I'm not really impressed. The recipes SOUND good, with tasty-sounding names and nice descriptions, but the two recipes I've made so far have been less than great. (Just FYI, I've baked professionally, so it's not that I'm a crappy baker who can't follow directions.)I had high hopes for the Lime Coconut Bars, since regular lemon bars use eggs and there's nothing I could easily use to make my own substitute for him. Well... the crust, even though baked for the proper amount of time/browning came out SO hard, it was even hard to cut. Then the filling, again cooked for the proper amount of time and to the appropriate thickness, never set up that well in the fridge. Perhaps if you're looking for a cookie that is cold (it has to be stored in the fridge) and topped with an unappetizing-looking, pale green-flecked pudding, you'd be happy...but that's not what most people are looking for IMO. As a side note, the flavors weren't bad, but the appearance, texture and temperature made this a flop. (I may use some of the techniques for making him some pudding, though.) :)On to the Peary Berry Muffins: again, high hopes. This recipe wasn't so bad, but the muffins never baked through even though I baked them until they had gotten as brown as possible, probably because of an excess of moisture from the pears (I used quite hard Anjou pears, so they weren't overly juicy, either). I sliced the muffins in half and toasted them, and the flavors were good enough to make them worth eating. A little Earth Balance margarine and it made a tasty breakfast.I came away from the last attempt thinking that perhaps the bar is set a little lower for vegan recipes, since maybe people are so desperate to have a substitute for their favorite animal-based recipes! If I try another one and it has a different result, I will be sure to adjust my rating.I gave it two stars since for the low price of the book I gleaned the pudding idea.

I picked up this book for its whimsical cover. I am guilty of judging a cookbook by its cover! OK who doesn't? I was sold in the first pages. This book gives you baking tips, vegan equivalents to many things, a tutorial on how to use the book, etc. She doesn't just throw you to the sharks! Her thorough explanations make it super easy for the non-baking gal like me and for even kids to use! See pages 141 for the start of children's recipes.OK so if I had to pick one recipe that sticks out, b/c honestly they ALL do, I would select the Choco-Chai coffee cake. Rated 2 whisks (check out her super cool rating system using whisks!), I knew this recipe was for me! All of her recipes do not require exotic ingredients yet the results taste like they are out of this world! In approx. one hour, I had a delish, moist crumbly cake that I didn't want to share with my coworkers but caved since everyone needed to taste this delish, easy to make cake. Plus I wanted to show my super carnivorous coworkers that vegan cakes CAN be moist without the cruel use of factory farmed eggs and milk.I was so impressed with this book that I ordered 4 more copies via Amazon.com and have been giving them out for birthdays. Everyone has been super satisfied with the books and our tummies are singing happy songs to the delish food Kris has created for us.

This is the baking book I have been waiting for! I own so many vegan books, and I am an avid baker, and this book has great potential to be my new favorite ! I have already bookmarked half the book for 'to try recipes'!! Even my non-vegan friend read through my copy and was oohing and ahhing at every recipeThis has a fantastic variety of recipes: muffins, cookies, bars, cakes, pastries, yeasted breads etc. It even has a section for easy bake ovens for kids!! Too cool. Although I don't own an easy bake oven, I want one now just to try these super cute recipesTo me, this book is a perfect balance of creativity and simplicity. Meaning the recipes are simple to prepare, ingredients are not too wacky at all, yet the recipes are still exciting and they have cute perky names! :D Flavor combinations are definitely interestingI have already tried 3 recipes after getting the book yesterday! Everything turned out great!Most recipes are based on soy yogurt (at least the cakey/quick bread recipes).I really like this book and I plan to try almost everything!! I can't wait!Only critique is that some pictures here and there would be nice!

This is one of the best vegan baking cookbooks ever. Any people giving bad reviews because of the “ingredients” clearly haven’t read the first chapter. (Pages 13-28)

Searching through the many vegetarian and vegan cookbooks on Amazon, it was hard to know whether there was much difference between them (having not bought a vegan cookbook before). I wanted to focus on baking and by purchasing this book, that's what I got. With trepidation, I created my first batch of "French Toast Muffins" thinking that the author's claims about her vegan baking not producing "unappetizing brown blobs" might be inflated. I'm pleased to say that they turned out very well and tasted fantastic. Even my 11 year old devoured half of them.While this is an American cookbook, it's mostly easy to make conversions for the UK. The oven temperatures are easy enough, but it's ingredients like applesauce and molasses you might have to look around for (or use a replacement). There are hardly any "weird health-food shop" ingredients which means you can normally start baking straight away. The measurements in the book are all in cups and spoons which is not normally how we bake in the UK, but I actually found it easy to follow and even not being super-precise, my muffins turned out great.There is an excellent introduction where the author explains the key ingredients needed to produce various baked goods - I actually found that this de-mystified non-vegan as well as vegan baking for me! The book makes it seem easy to cook without eggs (one of the major reasons I wanted to own a vegan cookbook, even though I'm vegetarian myself and not vegan) and you can use various types of both flour and milk in the recipes (she rarely specifies a particular type, but there is some good tips in the beginning about replacements). There is a good variety of different types of baked goods here with varying degrees of difficulty. There aren't any pictures, but that has never really bothered me. The recipes are clear and easy to read.Note that the author also makes a valid point about vegan baking not necessarily being "healthy". Many of the recipes contain sugar or other sugar replacements and almost all of them contain 1/4 to 1/2 a cup of oil. If you are trying to be low fat - this probably won't be the best recipe book to try it with.Recommended for anyone who would like to try baking when they don't have any eggs in the house or a vegan with a flair for baking. I'm trying the best banana bread this afternoon :)

The recipes are fine. I only have two minor complaints about this book.1. I bought it second hand and the version I have is American so all the ingredient lists are in US measurements (i.e. cups, which I don't understand). There is a conversion table at the front but it's a pain. I don't know if there's a UK version of this book or not.2. This book has no pictures so you have no idea before you start what the cakes are supposed to look like.

The introduction brings about a baseline knowledge to understand how vegan baking works, substitutes for eggs and milks, and how to think about the balances between wet:dry ingredients. At least half of these recipes have been tried and tested on even the most skeptical friends I have when it comes to veganism, and they LOVE it. If I hadn't told them it was vegan, they'd never know it. In fact, I've given out at least a quarter of the recipes to non-vegan friends because they thought these recipes yielded better tasting and moister baked-goods than the conventional recipes. Highly recommended!

Who needs eggs to bake with! This book is fantastic, I have made lots of the recipes and apart from one which I wasn't fussy on they have all been fantastic. Oh Joe's brownies is basically the best chocolate cake I've ever made and I've made a lot. Vegan or non vegan this book is excellent.Update - still working my way through this book and everything has turned out fantastically. My work colleagues get most of the benefit and many have commented how good the cakes/bars etc are.

I have quite a collection of Vegan cookbooks so was hesitant to buy another, I first looked on the authors blog and tried the Lemon Drop Cookie recipe she posted there. Well one recipe is all it took, I quickly bought the book and I have not been disapointed at all, every recipe I have made has been incrediable. My Husband is not a muffin eater but he has loved all the muffins I have made from this book. After years of stuggle trying to make bread and ending up with rocks this book finally has me baking nice soft dinner rolls and loaves of bread.I can't recommend this book highly enough, even if you're not vegan this is still a great cookbook!!