No eggs, No Worries! 10 Best Eggless Cakes for V Day! I got you covered for a wide variety of eggless cakes that you can bake this Valentines Day. You can bake these anytime actually what with egg shortages being reported extensively. The more I experiment andbake without eggs, the more I am convinced that the lack of eggs cannot be a deterrent if you love baking like I do.
Just recently, I figured out how to bake really nice eggless lady fingers or eggless savioardi, hence the Eggless Strawberry Charlotte below. I hope you find what you’re looking for…Happy Valentines Day!
So here goes, please bake something for someone you love ♥!
Eggless Coffee Chocolate ❤️ Cavity Cake
… how deep is your love! If there was cake to demonstrate how deep your love is, this might just be it, the most apt #VDay cake. A heart shaped eggless coffee cake with a heart cavity cut out that is flooded with indulgent dark chocolate will convey your love deeply! This Kahlua moistened cake is delicious, the coffee chocolate pairing my all time favourite.
… because the month of love can't go by without a Persian love cake! It's almost Spring in the subcontinent and everything is a riot of colours. With the roses in full bloom, this is one cake I love to make at this time of the year. Saffron and pistachio add delicious notes to the simple one bowl eggless sponge, and indulgent beautiful hues to the shrikhand buttercream. What's not to love in a cake which is simple and stunning!
I love everything about tarts. I got this new tart tin that I've been dying to use and I was so pleased to see how well the cake baked up in it, left the sides and base so easily and looked so pretty! This chocolate tart cake is inspired by a dark chocolate strawberry pudding from my cookbook and it turned out great!
Delicate, calming and deeply indulgent, this is a special cake for now. The cake has gentle flavours and they all come together in a nice balance. An eggless sponge flavoured with fresh orange zest, Cointreau to moisten it {or a sugar syrup if you like}, a quick raspberry compote to bring in the pink, then a vanilla bean layer… Magic in every bite!
Eggless Strawberry Charlotte Cake … with homemade eggless lady fingers
Lady fingers are delightful little sponge cakes that are best known to be the base of a tiramisu. They have immense possibilities and this charlotte cake is one of them. That I managed to make it eggless makes me quite happy! Light buttery addictive eggless lady fingers build up the sides, a spiral baked of the same dough make the base. The filling is a silky smooth cream in two flavours, strawberry and vanilla bean, separated by a layer of fresh strawberries. It's a special cake, quite irresistible.
Layered cakes are really fun and always special. This one might look like a bit of work, but trust me, it's as simple as simple can be. A quick one bowl fuss free 'fail proof' batter that is part wholegrain and really moist and flavourful, a 2 ingredient buttercream that is no fail again and has an optional spoon of ghee, then a fruit filling.
Indulgent layers of coffee and chocolate make this very special cake. This is my vegetarian take on the classic French Opera cake, a 6 layer cake that needs little introduction. Eggless almond sponges, coffee syrup, a potent coffee buttercream and chocolate ganache make up 6 layers that are covered in a shiny, simple chocolate glaze. The cake is traditionally finished with Opera written across the top, possibly the part I enjoyed most.
This is a cavity cake filled with everything that screams love – the most perfect strawberries, luscious dark chocolate cream, then an indulgent vanilla bean cream, all wrapped in a mandarin flavoured eggless sponge.
A cake as delicious as it is interesting, that cream baked into the centre is divine! The idea to bake the cream within a cake is really interesting, especially for us on the subcontinent where whipping cream is hard to come by. How fun that you bake two layers of cake with the cream already within!
The season of love is incomplete without a mango tres leches! Everything is fresh about this cake. The light sponge, the beautifully addictive milk, the sweet mangoes and then the stabilized cream that holds the mangoes together.
Nutella Dessert Box … a quick, delicious dessert perfect for this time of the year, for V day! This dessert can be ready in under 30 minutes and is perfect if you need something sweet, something indulgent, something chocolatey in a hurry! It’s a great edible gift idea too. Come, dive right in!!
Nothing is more pleasing than the play of flavours and textures in dessert and that’s why I love layered desserts. I love the idea of making them in dessert boxes where the layers are well visible and tempt you to dive right in.
This Nutella Dessert box literally ticks off all the boxes for a perfect dessert to tempt the Nutella lover and chocolate lover. It uses a clutch of ingredients most of which you might have on hand already, comes together quickly, is no bake, very very simple and it’s good to the last spoon, perfect for Valentines day!
The flavours are gentle and calming, and the biscuit crumbs add a really nice texture. Chocolate biscuit base, light mousseyNutella cream, deep and rich chocolate ganache are textures that come together in harmony, almost like they were meant to be!
In the past year and a half, I’ve made tons of small desserts, or rather desserts for two to four people. The good thing about small desserts is that they are easy to assemble or bake, and they get over pretty fast so you are ready to try something new soon. Of course all recipes are easy to scale up should you need to so there’s something for everyone!
… a quick, delicious dessert perfect for this time of the year, for V day! Makes one 2" X 4" dessert box
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 0 minutesminutes
15 minutesminutes
Total Time 30 minutesminutes
Instructions
Layers
#1 – Biscuit base
40g Bourbon biscuit crumbs. Layer at the base of box.
#2 – Nutella cream
100g cream, 25% fat
50g Nutella
50g cream cheese, whisked
With an electric hand beater whip together the cream and Nutella until smooth, then whip in the cream cheese. Fit a piping bag with a 2A nozzle and fill it with the cream. Pipe halve the cream over the biscuit base.
#3 Nutella Ganache
50g cream, 25% fat
15g 70% dark couverture chocolate
25g Nutella
Heat the cream and add the chocolate into it. Stand for 5 minutes until the chocolate is soft. Add the Nutella and stir until smooth.
Pour the ganache over the cream and place it in freezer for 10-15 minutes until firm. {Reserve 1 tbsp of the ganache to drizzle over the top if desired}
#4 – Top the Nutella ganache with 2 tbsp Bourbon biscuit crumbs.
#5 – Pipe the remaining Nutella cream over the crumb layer and level off.
To finish, edge the dessert shot with Bourbon biscuit crumbs.
This delicious VeganChickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake is literally a hug in a mug! Dessert for breakfast or breakfast for dessert, this addictive mug cake made with cooked chickpeas will win your heart. This is just deliciousness, love at first bite and so satisfying! ❣️
I make this mug cake for my son for his breakfast every morning and he loves it, looks forward to it every single day. That good! The VeganChickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake is perfect for breakfast and also makes a wonderful dessert – it’s clean on the palate, is gluten free, uses simple ingredients and tastes SO GOOD! Easily vegan using maple syrup or jaggery, it’s a very simple recipe you can experiment with, a dessert your kids will love.
Exploring versatile ways to include chickpeas/garbanzo in desserts has never been more fun, more satisfying. I created a couple of recipes while working with US pulses and it was a brilliant learning experience. Chickpeas or kabuli chana or chole as called locally in India, are more ften than never find there way into savoury dishes. Think pindi chana, think hummus, think chole masala, think chana jor garam, so much you can do with this humble legume. For me, the challenge was chickpeas in dessert, or rather cooked chickpeas in dessert.
Chickpea flour is a little easier to incorporate into desserts and I’ve used it a little. In nan khatais, a native Indian cookie I used to bake when young, or then this flourless vegan chocolate chickpea cake. The cake turned out surprisingly delicious, quite unexpected because that was the the first time I experimented with using chickpea flour in a cake. That recipe can be found in my cookbook.
If the Dark Chocolate Vegan Chickpea Pudding I posted on Instagram a few days ago was good, this VeganChickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake is as delicious! It’s interesting how easily you can up the protein and fibre to your diet by using humble chickpeas innovatively.
For this mug cake, I cook about a cup of chickpeas until soft and store covered by the the aqua faba/chickpea liquid in a covered steel bowl/glass container in the fridge. I strain the amount of chickpeas I need out every morning, heat the measured amount in the microwave for 30 seconds, add the remaining ingredients and quickly blend. It’s a quick and easy breakfast or fuss free dessert for that matter!
I also play around with the ingredients now that I make the Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake so often. Sometimes I increase the chickpeas by 15g per portion, use a different nut butter, or use a little more nut butter, use honey, or a combination of honey and jaggery powder, or then only jaggery powder. On one instance, I added a tbsp of cocoa powder too but found we preferred the original flavour. Oh I also added a tbsp of Biscoff cookie spread over the freshly baked chickpea mug cake one time. It melted over beautifully and tasted like heaven, still keeping the mug cake vegan since Biscoff is vegan!
Protip: Add a stick of cinnamon while cooking the chickpeas to get the most amazing cinnamon undertones in the mug cake. Keep the salt to a minimum.
This is a perfect breakfast and dessert – it’s clean on the palate, is gluten free, uses simple ingredients and tastes SO GOOD! Easily made vegan by using maple syrup, it’s a recipe you can experiment with, a dessert your kids will love.
Makes two mug cakes
Two Ingredient Lotus Biscoff Mousse … all you need is five minutes to make this simple, satisfying, delicious dessert! Desserts don’t get simpler than this two ingredient egglessmousse. That it’s gentle and light as a cloud certainly gets brownie, oops Biscoff points! It’s also so pretty when it’s piped into a stem glass,don’t you think? For me, it’s a great make ahead dessert option that tastes as good as it looks!
Having a jar of smooth Lotus Biscoff spread in the pantry is always helpful {sometimes dangerous too if you know what I mean?}, especially if you want to make an emergency dessert or one in a hurry. The cookie butter spread is vegan and paired with the veganBiscoff biscuits can create a lot of magic, read delicious desserts.
I’ve had a field day experimenting and creating different desserts with Lotus Biscoff spread and biscuits. Just when I think there’s probably nothing more I can create with Biscoff, along comes inspiration, another idea.
This two ingredient Lotus Biscoffmousse is as simple as it is satisfying. With an equal weight of cream to Biscoff spread, you can scale the recipe as you like, or even half it for a smaller portion. That easy!! I’ve used a 30% fat dairy cream here, Amul whipping cream, probably the only easily available dairy whipping cream we get in India.
Desserts don't get simpler than this. That it's gentle and light as a cloud certainly gets brownie, oops Biscoff points! It's also so pretty when it's piped into a stem glass, don't you think? For me, it's a great great make ahead dessert option that tastes as good as it looks! Makes 2-3 servings
Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American, British
Keyword Biscoff, cream, dessert, eggfree, eggless, homemade, no bake, one bowl, sweet, vegetarian
Eggless Tiramisu Dessert Box … with eggless lady fingers from scratch, each bite is heaven! This is one of my favourite desserts of all time. I absolutely love how easily tiramisu can be reimagined in so many different ways, each as delicious as the other!
Ever since I successfully figured out how to make eggless lady finger biscuits, I’ve had the eggless version of a tiramisu in mind, one I wanted to make in a dessert box. That’s just what I did and I loved how well it worked out. Each bite is delicious and the coffee soaked lady fingers are brilliant in there! Take a look …
There was a time when I thought baking desserts without eggs was impossible and not worth a try. As time passed, reader requests on Instagram pressurised me to attempt baking without eggs, and I gave up pretty soon. Come the pandemic and I was back to endless experimenting since eggs were in short supply, and honestly, I’ve never looked back!
Eggless lady fingers were something that I experimented a lot with, trying to get them looking good. I’m quite pleased with these ones. They are easily piped out, taste buttery and delicious and work in a load of desserts. This eggless Strawberry Charlotte Cake with eggfree savioardi was fabulous too. You can find the recipe here.
My baking from then on turned completely eggless and I have never been more satisfied and more motivated to bake. I absolutely love baking without eggs and must admit that I never did care for the taste of eggs in my baking or desserts. I just baked with eggs because that was all I knew!
And now look at me, I only bake without eggs and I’m absolutely loving it. It’s not that I am a vegetarian because I enjoy cooking curries like a chicken korma or a lamb stew. It’s just eggs that I never liked the taste of, the slight egginess they give to desserts. Just a personal choice I guess but it gave me something to do, something really fun and colourful, definitely delicious too!
My eggless savioardi or lady fingers might not be as perfect as the ones with eggs ones but they are darned delicious and do the job! So of course there are limitations with eggless baking but that’s the fun of things. Find new ways to make dessert and I assure you they taste as nice. It’s a different way of thinking I guess…
An eggless take on this classic Italian dessert. With eggless lady fingers from scratch, each bite is heaven! Two 4" X 4" dessert box
Course Dessert
Cuisine Italian
Keyword baking, biscuit, coffee, cream, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless lady fingers, eggless savioardi, homemade, lady fingers, one bowl, simple, tart, vegetarian
Prep Time 30 minutesminutes
Cook Time 20 minutesminutes
Refrigerate 1 hourhour
Total Time 1 hourhour50 minutesminutes
Servings 4people
Ingredients
Lady fingers
Makes 16-18 fingers {Need 1/2 batch for this dessert}
85gunsalted buttersoftened
50gcastor sugar
1/4tspbaking powder
1/4tspbaking soda
Pinchsalt
60gbuttermilk/chaach
130gall purpose flour {plain flour}
Castor sugar for sifting over
Coffee syrup
50mlstrong coffee
1tbspbrown sugar
15mlKahlua {optional}
Cream
150g25% fat creamchilled
3-4tbspicing sugar
250gmascarpone {or cream cheese}chilled
1/4tspvanilla extract
Cocoa powder to sift over
Instructions
Lady fingers {see blogpost for detailed recipe}
Fit a piping bag with large 1A round piping nozzle.
In a large bowl, whisk together the butter, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt until smooth.
Whisk in the buttermilk a tablespoon at a time. The mixture might look slightly curdled.
Add all the flour together and stir with a spatula to get a smooth pasty dough. We’re looking for a firm churro like dough that holds shape when piped out.
Transfer the dough to the piping bag and pipe out 3″ fingers.
Dip your fingertip into water and shape the piped out fingers around the tops and bottoms to get even shapes.
Sift over castor sugar and place the baking sheet in the freezer while you preheat the oven.
Preheat the oven to 170C for 20 minutes.
Bake the fingers for 17-18 minutes until light golden brown and firm to touch. Cool completely on a cooling rack.
Coffee syrup
Stir the sugar into hot coffee. Cool. Stir in the Kahlua if using.
Cream
Whip the cream and sugar at high speed until lightly whipped.
If using mascarpone, whip until smooth, then mix into cream until just mixed in.
If using cream cheese, whip the cream cheese until smooth, then whip it into the cream to desired consistency.
Assemble
Line the base of your dessert box with lady fingers. Moisten generously with the coffee syrup.
Pipe over the cream, top with more lady fingers and repeat.
If you are a fan of Lotus Biscoff and it’s hard to see why not, here are 7 unique recipes to make with either a jar of Biscoff spread {smooth please} or Biscoff biscuits, or both! I have you covered for dessert every day of the week. Each idea is different and exciting, things I brought together in my little kitchen. Read on …
And if you haven’t dived into a jar of the spread as yet or nibbled one of these crisp flavourful caramelised biscuits, then you honestly don’t know what you’re missing!! It’s hard not to fall in love with the beautifully flavoured, gently spiced biscuits that are originally known as speculoos. They are vegan too I hear.
Speculoos (sold as Biscoff in the United States and the United Kingdom) is a biscuit originally manufactured in Belgium. Although the name is similar to speculaas, speculoos is a different product. The biscuits are made without the mixture of spices used in speculaas.
The main ingredients of speculoos are wheat flour, candy syrup (from beet sugar), fat, and sometimes cinnamon. Fewer spices are involved in the process of making Belgian speculoos compared to the Dutch speculaas, as the spices were much more expensive to import to Belgium as opposed to the Netherlands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculoos
Lotus Biscoff Panna Cotta, no gelatine
Smooth, indulgent, satisfying and so delicious, this #nogelatine panna cotta is heavenly! Every spoonful of the dessert is indulgent, almost like digging into a jar of Biscoff, only lighter and creamier just like a good panna cotta should be!
This is love at first bite. It's such fun when a handful of ingredients come together so deliciously. We love a good banoffee at home, and this Biscoff twist to the banoffee was everything good. It's really easy to make as well.
Delicious layers of happiness on repeat! These simple dessert shots turned out to be an absolute joy! So much flavour, and texture and oh-so-pleasing on the palette, it's another fuss free dessert inspired by much loved Biscoff. https://bit.ly/3GNmsqp
or dessert heaven! It's another dessert on my list of 'must make again soon' and it's all thanks to Biscoff! Just when I thought Tiramisu couldn't get any better, here comes my most favorite version yet. It's simple, it's deep, it's delightful and it has the most amazing coffee caramel notes. https://bit.ly/3WhLcgf
Layers of absolute joy with a gentle play of delicious flavours and textures. It's hard not to get tempted by a jar of Biscoff if you have one on hand, so it's best to hit dessert mode pretty soon. Add some crisp caramel flavoured Biscoff biscuits to it and you have magic!https://bit.ly/3CVTJ1M
Never underestimate the deliciousness that Biscoff brings to dessert!If you're looking for a really satisfying dessert and love everything Biscoff or everything caramel or speculoos cookies or tarts in general, look no further. The Biscoff dessert box was much loved when I shared it last week, so I knew that jar of Biscoff spread should be headed for another dessert {rather than spoonful's in my mouth}https://bit.ly/3QJ4t9g
Refreshing, delicious and addictive, where each layer calls your name! Bringing together these dessert boxes has become a whole lot of fun, and I am grateful for all the comments and DMs I get. Ever since I shared the first one, I've had several requests for a Biscoff Dessert Box and I finally succumbed to temptation! Here's another play of textures and flavours for you.
