Lemon Bars and Questions About Agar

[anoceanview]

This weekend I made the V'con recipe for Lemon Bars, which was also my first attempt with agar. I had to substitute tapioca flour for arrowroot flour and some agave for sugar when I ran out

Comments

[blueheron]

I always use 1 tsp of powder to 1 tbsp of flakes. What ratio did you use for this recipe?

[anoceanview]

I used 2 Tbsp whole and it definitely seemed like too much. I wish I'd come and asked here first!

[andystarr]

Personally I use the Joy of Vegan Baking's lemon bar recipe. I have made it for non-vegan parties and nobody could ever tell they were vegan and they were really lemony. You also don't have to use agar which kinda weirds me out a bit. I only make one substitution to this recipe and that is replacing the vegan butter with vegetable shortening.

[anoceanview]

The more I'm hearing about that book, the more I'm considering picking it up. I was never into baking as an omni so I'm still having trouble rationalizing buying an entire baking cookbook. But it seems like I'm finally developing my sweet tooth.

[andystarr]

Oh, I don't own it because I don't do much baking either. I just go to Google books and get the recipe from there. I should just write it down since I have been using it a lot lately for parties. :-)

[supercarrot]

3x flakes is equal to 1x powder.

so like blueheron says. 1 tbsp is equal to 3 tsps of the same thing, so divide the 3 tsps by 3, and there you go. 1 tsp of powder per tbsp of flakes.

[meganleewelch]

I can't answer the question about agar but I do have a yummy vegan lemon bar recipe that turns out well for me :)

(Posted at http://megsvegrecipes.blogspot.com)

[kumquatpie]

I'm surprised - I made the lemon bars from V'con and they were an absolute dream to me! Just like the lemon bars by my mom, except no nasty animal parts. :)