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Egg-free blueberry coffee cake
Saturday, 28 Aug, 2010 – 8:20 | No Comment
Egg-free blueberry coffee cake

I know I have a blueberry coffee cake recipe … um, somewhere. Where the heck did it go? Aw, never mind. I’ll just Google.
I’m glad I did, because the new one I conjured up went …

Egg-free brownie muffins
Saturday, 21 Aug, 2010 – 8:26 | No Comment
Egg-free brownie muffins

Sometimes it really is this easy.
Aside from the soda-pop cake, though, it’s usually not this easy in the world of egg-free baking. That’s why I eyed the recipe my mom had clipped from a magazine …

Egg-free Venetian butter cookies
Sunday, 16 May, 2010 – 9:19 | Comments Off
Egg-free Venetian butter cookies

This egg-free version only vaguely resembles the original Martha Stewart recipe, which is described as biter-biscuit hard. That’s a good thing, because I’ve spent too much on dental work of late to crack a crown …

Egg-free fruit cobbler
Saturday, 8 May, 2010 – 9:44 | Comments Off
Egg-free fruit cobbler

It turns out that even an ugly cobbler still tastes pretty dang good.
I found that out this week when I doubled this recipe and made it in a small roaster to take to a pot …

Egg-free dessert pizza
Saturday, 17 Apr, 2010 – 9:12 | Comments Off
Egg-free dessert pizza

This is another fine mess that Club Penguin and my big mouth got me into.
There’s one section of the online community where kids can earn “money” by making pizza – decidedly strange pizza, with ingredients …

Egg-free brownies for Dad’s birthday
Saturday, 10 Apr, 2010 – 8:52 | Comments Off
Egg-free brownies for Dad’s birthday

I thought this was going to be a stumper that involved a week of failed kitchen experiments: Create an egg-free brownie recipe that tastes good but is stable enough to survive a trip to Afghanistan …

Pineapple cake filling
Saturday, 10 Apr, 2010 – 7:46 | Comments Off
Pineapple cake filling

Sometimes, it’s not that hard to spend a few extra minutes to get rid of some dye and high-fructose corn syrup.
Such is the case with this cake filling recipe. You could easily open a can …

Egg-free banana bread
Saturday, 20 Mar, 2010 – 9:02 | Comments Off
Egg-free banana bread

Big Guy was not going to like banana bread at all. At least, that’s what he told me when he saw me reach for loaf pans instead of muffin tins last weekend.
“Why don’t you just …

Egg-free strawberry muffins
Saturday, 13 Feb, 2010 – 11:23 | Comments Off
Egg-free strawberry muffins

In part because I live in a place where egg replacer isn’t readily available and in part because I’m tired of toting ingredients when I’m on the road, I’ve been experimenting lately with baking with …

Egg-free chocolate-chocolate chip cookies
Saturday, 30 Jan, 2010 – 15:19 | Comments Off
Egg-free chocolate-chocolate chip cookies

It took Big Guy a while to work up the nerve to trust a chocolate cookie after his heart-breaking disappointment at the chocolate-espresso drops I made at Christmas. He even made Boots try them first, …

Egg-free pumpkin pie
Saturday, 9 Jan, 2010 – 9:21 | Comments Off

Usually I don’t bother messing with a good thing, and Rosemarie Emro’s pumpkin pie recipe in her most-excellent “Bakin’ Without Eggs” is perfect as far as I’m concerned. Don’t make the version with extra brown …

Egg-free sour cream coffee cake
Sunday, 27 Dec, 2009 – 12:08 | Comments Off
Egg-free sour cream coffee cake

Sour cream is a magic potion when it comes to egg-free baking. It has the fat needed to replace part of the missing egg, plus the “sour” part seems to help leavening as well.
That’s why …

Egg-free snickerdoodles
Wednesday, 23 Dec, 2009 – 8:09 | Comments Off
Egg-free snickerdoodles

It’s not necessarily odd that I’d never made snickerdoodles before tonight.
What is odd, though, is that I’d never had one until a couple of years ago, when someone brought some into work for a potluck. …

Egg-free cranberry icebox cookies
Monday, 21 Dec, 2009 – 8:42 | Comments Off
Egg-free cranberry icebox cookies

Were it not for the fact that I’m incapable of rolling pretty little round logs of cookie dough, this might be the perfect recipe. It’s easy to make, has no hard-to-find egg replacers, and two …

Egg-free chocolate-espresso snowcaps
Sunday, 20 Dec, 2009 – 17:26 | Comments Off
Egg-free chocolate-espresso snowcaps

Yes, there is such a thing as a cookie that’s too chocolate-y. I thought that was impossible, too, until today.
Based on a recipe from Martha Stewart’s Web site, the egg-free version behaves perfectly. It’s just …

Peanut-free haystacks
Sunday, 20 Dec, 2009 – 13:24 | Comments Off
Peanut-free haystacks

Yes, it is possible to get sick of chocolate. And after making chocolate fudge, chocolate-raspberry fudge and chocolate cookies, I’d reached that point.
So I decided to give haystacks a try. But definitely not the chocolate …

Can we build an egg-free gingerbread house? Yes, we can
Wednesday, 9 Dec, 2009 – 22:29 | Comments Off
Can we build an egg-free gingerbread house? Yes, we can

Somewhere, there’s a”Max and Ruby” episode that involves gingerbread. I haven’t seen it but Boots has, and it set him clamoring to make houses. Foolishly, I promised him last week that we would over the …

Egg-free carrot cake
Friday, 30 Oct, 2009 – 15:33 | 2 Comments
Egg-free carrot cake

Pardon me for the mistake in the headline – most people do not spell “pumpkin” c-a-r-r-o-t. We do in this house, though, especially when Mom’s craving carrot cake and she needs a way to convince …

Egg-free zucchini bread
Monday, 21 Sep, 2009 – 23:00 | Comments Off
Egg-free zucchini bread

Rarely do I make a recipe so revolting to the rest of the house that no one else will touch it. That was the case with this zucchini bread, but the heck with them. I …

Egg-free cake donuts
Thursday, 3 Sep, 2009 – 21:08 | Comments Off
Egg-free cake donuts

Once upon a time, in a land about 370 miles away, there was a donut shop that didn’t use egg or peanut oil. That made Big Guy very happy, because it allowed him to enjoy …

Egg-free cookies and cream ice cream
Sunday, 21 Jun, 2009 – 21:47 | Comments Off
Egg-free cookies and cream ice cream

You know that old ditty about screaming for ice cream? It’s a good thing my daily newsletter from Feels Like Home lands while the guys still are awake, or there would have been no getting …

Egg-free strawberry cake from a mix
Sunday, 3 May, 2009 – 21:09 | Comments Off
Egg-free strawberry cake from a mix

For some reason, the guys have been clamoring for strawberry cake for about the past month.
They’d never had strawberry cake before in their lives, but I guess the assumption was, we love strawberries and we …

Egg-free lemon scones
Wednesday, 1 Apr, 2009 – 13:25 | 2 Comments
Egg-free lemon scones

Lemon and I just don’t seem to get along.
It’s not that I don’t have a deep love for it. It’s just that every time I try to convert a lemon recipe to egg-free it results …

Shortbread a big hit with the short people
Wednesday, 11 Mar, 2009 – 21:10 | One Comment
Shortbread a big hit with the short people

This is going to be one of those recipes that lands me in trouble some afternoon when one of the guys asks, “But didn’t you just make cookies yesterday?”
Oops. You see, guys, sometimes around 2 …

Egg-free chocolate muffins
Monday, 9 Mar, 2009 – 11:23 | One Comment
Egg-free chocolate muffins

If at first you don’t succeed, try chocolate again.
Frustrated after two failed attempts at a lemon layer cake – the second formulation still fell, but at least the oven didn’t catch fire – I grabbed …

Egg-free chocolate fudge layer cake
Sunday, 1 Mar, 2009 – 11:19 | 3 Comments
Egg-free chocolate fudge layer cake

This is another fine mess Madhuram at egglesscooking.com has gotten me into.
Here I was, rolling along in my little egg-replacer rut when she throw a curve at me:  This month’s egg-free baking challenge is using …

Egg-free cutout sugar cookies
Thursday, 12 Feb, 2009 – 23:43 | Comments Off
Egg-free cutout sugar cookies

Normally, I wouldn’t have tried this sugar cookie recipe, because my policy is find something that works and stick with it. I was just the opposite when I baked with eggs, but in the allergy …

Egg-free devil’s food cake a little slice of heaven
Saturday, 7 Feb, 2009 – 11:47 | One Comment
Egg-free devil’s food cake a little slice of heaven

Pssst … Did you hear the one about the egg-free cake with all the height, structure and texture of the original? It’s no longer just an urban legend.
I wouldn’t have believed it either had I …

Sour cream frosting
Saturday, 7 Feb, 2009 – 11:11 | Comments Off
Sour cream frosting

Not that there’s anything wrong with basic buttercream – Big Guy actually prefers it, making his “ick” face when first exposed to this recipe.
But I have a low boredom threshold and like to play around. …

Strawbery cake filling
Wednesday, 4 Feb, 2009 – 11:25 | Comments Off
Strawbery cake filling

Big Guy is world-famous for not liking much that’s healthful, but he’ll always eat strawberries.
That means he also loves this cake filling, which is another ladycakes.com recipe that predates allergies. He doesn’t love it quite …

Egg-free chocolate drop cookies
Monday, 2 Feb, 2009 – 0:51 | One Comment
Egg-free chocolate drop cookies

Christmas-baking burnout lasted a little longer than usual this go-round. By the time Boots was begging for cookies Saturday, it’s been going on six weeks since I’d last seen an Air Bake.
At least I think …

Egg-free yogurt cake
Friday, 30 Jan, 2009 – 1:25 | Comments Off
Egg-free yogurt cake

Once in a while, I run into a recipe that I keep around strictly for practical purposes. Such is the case with this one.
Aside from the stock reason – that it’s a great frosting-delivery platform …

Egg-free cranberry-cheesecake bars
Thursday, 29 Jan, 2009 – 0:40 | Comments Off
Egg-free cranberry-cheesecake bars

The time might seem to have passed for cranberry bars, but that particular season never ends in this house. At least not for me.
I chug the juice by the gallon and start hording fresh berries …

Egg-free, peanut-free no-bake oatmeal cookies
Wednesday, 21 Jan, 2009 – 13:02 | 2 Comments
Egg-free, peanut-free no-bake oatmeal cookies

No-bake oatmeal cookies are probably the ideal baking-on-training-wheels recipe.
It’s the first cookie I made by myself after the recipe made the rounds during my pre-teen years. It requires only one pan, no baking sheets and …

Egg-free chocolate cheesecake
Monday, 19 Jan, 2009 – 15:28 | One Comment
Egg-free chocolate cheesecake

I’d given up hope of ever making cheesecake again until I found Rosemarie Emro’s excellent Bakin’ Without Eggs cookbook. Not only does the book offer an amazing collection of time-tested egg-free recipes, but it also …

Egg-free hot milk pound cake
Friday, 16 Jan, 2009 – 13:02 | 2 Comments
Egg-free hot milk pound cake

I shall never bake again.
Late last night, I said that as the guys caterwauled around me while I peering into the oven and staring at a cake showing every sign of falling faster than my …

Egg-free butter cake
Sunday, 11 Jan, 2009 – 11:17 | 2 Comments
Egg-free butter cake

Betty Crocker’s Bonnie Butter cake was my stand-by in the pre- egg-free baking days. It’s moist, nearly infallible and you don’t have to mess with separating eggs.
Back then, I didn’t even use cake flour because …

It’s a frosting! It’s a filling! Ganache is easy and egg-free
Saturday, 10 Jan, 2009 – 13:31 | 2 Comments
It’s a frosting! It’s a filling! Ganache is easy and egg-free

One of the biggest ironies of Big Guy’s egg allergy is that I used to be a pretty skilled baker and cake decorator. I won’t say highly skilled, because, like anything, it takes practice and …