What really annoyed me on Bake Off!

If you watched the first week of the new series of Great British Bake Off, you might have caught Nigella Lawson making a comment about eggless cakes.

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“I’ve been watching the new series of Bake Off and I’ve been really enjoying it, but there was one thing that really annoyed me!  Welcome back to my Wednesday thoughts.

If you watched Bake Off last week, you’ll have seen one of the contestants made a vegan cake which, unfortunately, fell apart.  Nigella commented that this was because cakes without eggs lack the “glue” needed to hold them together.  And this annoyed me because that’s not really how vegan baking works!

You can’t just take a cake recipe that uses eggs, leave the eggs out, and expect the cake to work.  That’s definitely asking for trouble!  But vegan cake recipes are formulated differently.  They use different ingredients and techniques to provide the structure, moisture and texture that eggs would normally contribute.

As someone who has created hundreds of multiple tiered vegan cakes, you can absolutely make a cake that’s just as structurally sound and delicious as one made with eggs!  So no, eggless cake isn’t inherently doomed to fall apart. You just need to use a good recipe!”