17 Baking Recipes That Don’t Require Eggs

These naturally blue two-bite blueberry cookies are studded with blueberries and white chocolate chips.The only ingredient you don't need? Eggs!

Chocolate cobbler is sure to be unlike any other bake you've made prior. It's a molten cross between a fudgy brownie-like cake and a saucy pudding with a ASMR-worthy crispy, shattery top. From head to toe, this egg-less cobbler packs in a seriously rich chocolate flavor.

Breadsticks are a great thing to bake if you want to cut back on your egg use because they get all of their rise and structure from yeast. Case in point: Our recipe for copycat Little Caesars' "Crazy Bread," which is an allium-loaded and buttery-soft yeasted mash-up of classic breadsticks and garlic bread.

Here's a hot tip: Creamy nut or seed butters make a pretty phenomenal egg substitute. A few spoonfuls will provide the same type of binding properties, and then some. In this twist on the classic O'Henry candy bar, tahini is not only the glue for the oat base, but also the primary ingredient that makes them taste so good.

Softened fruits or vegetables — like mashed banana, applesauce, pumpkin purée, and mashed potatoes — work as a great replacement when you're short on eggs. A full cup of mashed sweet potatoes is what gives these biscuits from Toni Tipton-Martin a soft and flaky interior.

Delectable cinnamon rolls usually start with a dough enriched with a lot of eggs. Our shortcut cinnamon rolls, however, start with buttery, flaky store-bought puff pastry.

Inspired by the Depression-era recipe that went viral in 2020, this recipe adds a touch of extra fat (more oil, no eggs) to give the loaf a tender crumb and an almost stick-to-the-roof-of-your-mouth effect you get from a spoon of peanut butter.

If you're looking to put your skills to the test after a Great British Bake Off marathon with a project that doesn't rely on eggs, this banoffee pie is an excellent choice. Quinessentially an icon of classic British dessert culture, it's a shortbread crust crowned with ripe bananas and a toffee filling, made with nothing more than caramelized condensed milk.

Dump cake is an endlessly adaptable concept that really couldn't be simpler. You dump everything in a baking pan: canned sliced peaches or any flavor base, sugar, a few spices for flair, salt, and a whole box of cake mix. Notice how there's no mention of eggs. With melted butter drizzled over the top, the cake mix has plenty of necessary moisture to bake up properly.

These ultra-fluffy chocolate chip muffins get their structure and leavening from chia seeds.

This vintage cake, which seems to date from the late ’30s or early ’40s and also goes by the name “wacky cake,” doesn’t use eggs or dairy. And thanks to a combination of baking soda and vinegar, you’d never know it. The texture and taste screams classic chocolate cake right out of the box.

Flaxseed meal stands in for eggs in this surprisingly delicious French toast that happens to be entirely plant-based.

Look to the Instant Pot for a fresh loaf of no-knead, egg-free bread.

Pizza dough – perfectly pillowy from rich olive oil – isn’t just for pizza. It’s also the base of these Parmesan- and parsley-studded garlic knots.

These ridiculously snackable cookies are made with four ingredients: ripe banana, unsweetened coconut, mini chocolate chips, and coconut oil.

This delicate almond-tahini cake soaked with a sweet rose syrup and topped with buttery green pistachios is reminiscent of baklava, and also happens to be naturally vegan and dairy-free.