Avoiding animal products doesn't mean missing out on the holiday baking fun. Here are 10 favorite recipes for vegan cakes, breads, cookies and more, including no-knead cranberry-walnut pumpkin bread and simple vanilla almond sandies.
CAKES & CUPCAKES
• Sticky Orange Cake with Marmalade Glaze
• Vegan Chocolate Ginger Orange Cupcakes
• Vegan & Gluten-Free Chocolate Cupcakes with Coconut Icing
MUFFINS & BREADS
• No-Knead Cran-Walnut Pumpkin Toasting Bread
• Peanut Butter Ginger Muffins
• Apple-Cinnamon Toastie
BARS & COOKIES
• Life-Changing Vegan Thumbprint Cookies
• Hazelnut and Olive Oil Shortbread
• The Raw Brownie from My New Roots
• Vegan Vanilla Almond Sandies
The recipes above are vegan as written (a few are gluten-free as well), but many bakers also have good luck adapting non-vegan baking recipes with vegan ingredients. Check out this post for some helpful tips on vegan baking substitutions:
→ Banana For an Egg: Vegan Substitutions for 8 Common Baking Ingredients
Do you have any favorite vegan baking recipes?
Related: Best for Last: 10 Gooey, Crunchy, & Creamy Vegan Desserts
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I've made a version of the orange cake a few times, it's always delicious but the texture is a little bit gummy. Suggestions?
Oooh yay vegan baking recipes! They all sound good but hazelnut and olive oil shortbread particularly appeals..and I love a good raw brownie.
MaryWynn: is it possible that you're over mixing the batter? If you mix too much the gluten in the flour becomes overdeveloped and results in a tough, gummy texture.
I've had very good results with this, using almond milk and... er... more chocolate chips than the recipe TECHNICALLY calls for (I used 150g, which is 5.3oz, and the recipe calls for 3oz, and... yeah).
And then I drizzle melted chocolate over them.
And, once, I added cocoa powder to the batter to make triple-chocolate cookies.
They disappeared pretty fast...
These are the triple-chocolate ones, and this is the first-ever batch I made with a large block of chocolate instead of chocolate chips, so they're technically chocolate chunk.