So I learned something new today.

You see I started mixing the ingredients for the below simple vanilla cake:

Ingredients

• 2 cups (500 mL) sugar
• 4 eggs
• 2-1/2 cups (625 mL) all-purpose flour
• 1 cup (250 mL) milk
• 3/4 cup (175 mL) vegetable oil
• 2-1/4 teaspoons (11 mL) baking powder
• 1 teaspoon (5 mL) vanilla

Cooking Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
2. Line two 9-inch round cake pans or one 9×13-inch rectangular baking pan with parchment paper.
3. Grease the paper and the sides of the pan well.
4. In a large mixing bowl, with an electric mixer, beat sugar and eggs together until slightly thickened, about 1 minute.
5. Add flour, milk, oil, baking powder, and vanilla and beat for another minute, just until the batter is smooth and creamy.
6. Don’t overbeat. Pour batter into baking pan(s).
7. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes until the tops are golden and a toothpick poked into the center of the layer comes out clean.  (A single rectangular pan will take longer to bake than two round ones.)
8. Loosen the sides of the cake from the pan with a thin knife, then turn out onto a rack and peel off the paper.

Silly of me I didn’t realize that I was out of eggs and this recipe needs 4 eggs. I looked quickly on the internet for an answer to a replacement. I was bound to find a replacement with something that I already had in the house. Apparently if you like bananas, one banana is equal to 1 egg if you are baking a cake.

However putting 4 bananas into this cake would have made this cake a banana cake instead and I also didn’t have any bananas lying around in the house.  Then I read somewhere that if you mix 2 tablespoons of water with 1 tablespoon of oil and 1 teaspoon of baking powder it equals to 1 egg.  Below is the formula in an actual equation form:

1 tbls of water + 1 tbls of oil + 1 tsp of baking powder = 1 EGG

So I tried this system and at first got a little jumpy as when you mix these ingredients it gives a little exploding type sound and makes a lot of bubbles. But low and behold the cakes rose and replacement of the egg was done.  The best part is that the vanilla cake should be a lot less fattening now without the eggs.

This is can a really good replacement for those who are allergic to eggs.

Tags: egg allergies, egg allergy, egg replacement, no egg recipe, vanilla cake recipe without eggs

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