You'd be surprised at how many mixes are vegan. However, many of them call for eggs, and if you try using egg replacer, if often doesn't work. At least, not with some mixes... I can speak from experience for brownies when I tried to get my mom to use egg replacer... :[ But yeah, I've seen mixes on the shelves that are vegan!
Anywho, I'd imagine you can use just about any cake recipe for that, as long as it calls for some water, eh?
Same here. I've never used one with an egg replaces successfully. Besides, I like making stuff from scratch.
I guess you're right though...as long as it uses water I should be ok. I'll find one tonight and try and post some pics tomorrow. I'm thinking maybe cherry/lime or some other silly concoction.
Yeah, I'm not into mixes either. My very omnivorous mother, however.. uses a mix for everything, and I was trying to sell her on the egg replacer when she made a brownie mix. Well, that was embarrassing. lol
When I first started vegan baking, I used cake mixes with great success. Here is the secret:
Mix 1 box vegan cake mix with a few tablespoons of E-ner-G egg replacer. Mix with one can of soda. Bake.
I agree that it sounds pretty gross but it totally works and is delicous. For "yellow", white and fruit flavored cake mixes I would use sprite or ginger ale. For chocolate cake mixes I would use a coke.
Wish I could help on the baking bit, but one thing to check is the kool-aid ingredient list. If it shows either "carmine" or "E120", then it's not vegan (both being codewords for cochineal food colouring, which is the ground-up shells of a particular red beetle). I know some varieties of kool-aid have this additive.
Lol...I'm not trying to be healthy. And as for the Kool Aid, I know the various vegan flavors. It was just a spur of the moment idea I thought I would try out tonight...something different.
That doesn't necessarily mean they think cake mixes are bad because they're unhealthy. They could think that cake mixes are 'ew' because they taste crap.
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I'm totally curious how it comes out - keep us posted!
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Anywho, I'd imagine you can use just about any cake recipe for that, as long as it calls for some water, eh?
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I guess you're right though...as long as it uses water I should be ok. I'll find one tonight and try and post some pics tomorrow. I'm thinking maybe cherry/lime or some other silly concoction.
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Mix 1 box vegan cake mix with a few tablespoons of E-ner-G egg replacer. Mix with one can of soda. Bake.
I agree that it sounds pretty gross but it totally works and is delicous. For "yellow", white and fruit flavored cake mixes I would use sprite or ginger ale. For chocolate cake mixes I would use a coke.
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lol, this is a good point. Not to mention, from scratch or not white flour and processed sugar are pretty bad for you.
Most cake mixes call for eggs though, so I can see asking about a successful replacement for those.
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