The Simplest & Best Eggless Fluffy Pancake Recipe … you’ll be addicted to this stack!

Eggless Fluffy Pancakes … quick, simple and ever so satisfying, you’ll never need another pancake recipe again! The recipe ticks all the boxes. Simple staple pantry ingredients, one bowl batter and a well behaved one at that. The pancakes hold up well and taste amazing. Did I tell you that they taste fab cold too? Strangely enough but they are addictive cold as well!

The idea of fluffy pancakes was always tempting as we grew up. Tall piles of golden brown pancakes, maple syrup streaming down the sides, berries, butter and everything delicious. Yet attempts at making pancakes then were dismal and made you wonder what the hype was about anyway! All I can recall is that they were soggy and eggy!

Cut to now and these light, fluffy, eggless pancakes will have you addicted. It’s a simple 6 ingredient eggless pancake recipe and you’ve probably got all the ingredients on hand already. Takes all of 5 minutes to get the batter together, 4-5 minutes to cook each pancake and soon enough you’re ready to dive right in. It’s therapeutic to pipe the batter, see them bubble gently and rise, get a golden blush and then you flip them over.

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I cut the clarified butter / ghee into the dry mix of the eggless pancake recipe so that the fat coats the flour and keeps the pancakes light. In my opinion, that really made a difference to the texture and lightness. Also, do make sure the pan is of good quality, has a heavy bottom and the heat stays low for even cooking. This is the one I used.

The rest is literally a ‘pan’ oops cakewalk, so hope you give these a shot soon!

Simple recipes like these that make being in the kitchen so fun! This is a very basic eggless pancake recipe and should take well to changes. You could experiment with substituting part of the plain flour with a whole flour, maybe some nut meal, possibly oat flour too. Also think of add-ins … chocolate chips, blueberries, banana, nuts etc. Last but not the least, toppings! Think butter, whipped cream, a chocolate sauce or salted caramel, mango, else just a sifting of sugar. I am addicted to these, and I’m sure you will be too!

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Fluffy Eggless Pancakes

Quick, simple and ever so satisfying, you'll never need another pancake recipe again! The recipe ticks all the boxes. Simple staple pantry ingredients, one bowl batter, a well behaved one at that. The pancakes hold up beautifully and taste amazing.
Course Appetiser, Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American, British
Keyword cake, dessert, eggless, eggless cake, no bake, one bowl, simple, stovetop, vegetarian
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes
Servings 2 people

Equipment

  • 1 pancake pan/tawa non stick, heavy bottom
  • 1 glass bowl
  • 1 whisk
  • Piping bag
  • 1 spatula

Ingredients

Dry mix

  • 135 g all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • Pinch salt
  • 1 tbsp vanilla sugar {or castor sugar & a dask of vanilla extract}
  • 1 1/2 tbsp ghee/clarified butter melted, cooled

Wet ingredients

  • 180-185 g buttermilk room temperature

Toppings

  • Maple syrup/honey butter, fresh berries/fruit etc

Instructions

  • Place the dry ingredients in a large bowl and whisk to mix. Add in the ghee and mix in with fingertips to coat the flour. {You can do this in a small blender too}.
  • Whisk in the buttermilk until the batter is smooth. It should be pipeable but not runny. Add a spoon of plain flour if it’s runny, or a tsp of buttermilk if it’s too thick.
  • Pipe or spoon about 1/2 a cup batter on a non stick pancake pan/tawa over very low heat. Cook for 2-3 minutes until the edges begin to show a little light brown. Flip over gently and cook the other side for 2-3 minutes. You can do a toothpick test to check if you are unsure of the doneness.
  • Stack and serve with maple syrup/honey, fruit, butter etc.

Eggless Tiramisu Inspired Cake … everything you’d want in dessert!

Eggless Tiramisu Inspired Cake – Coffee, Kahlua and mascarpone, everything you’d want in dessert if you love coffee! Those who’ve known me over the years, know my deep love for everything coffee. It’s been my first love forever and just a whiff of morning coffee is known to inspire me to create coffee based desserts! This eggless cake is the outcome of one such early morning whiff!

Hello there and a 1000 apologies for having gone missing. With the second wave of the pandemic ruthlessly sweeping across the Indian sub continent, it’s been a really traumatic ride. Waking up to precious lives needlessly lost every single day, there isn’t anyone who hasn’t lost a loved one and the news has been heartbreaking. Things are limping back to normal now, a new sense of normal. Slowly, so am I.

It’s been a rough last month with Covid 19. We had 50% of the family unwell, some close calls, but fortunately things are a lot better now. Trying to return to a new normal, constantly being careful, masks on, barely stepping out and life isn’t very easy. Well, I finally had a cup of coffee yesterday after absolutely forever, over a month actually, and it gave me deep comfort. One sip down I knew had to make a coffee cake.

Staying at home gives me time to experiment, think out of the box, also rethink simple recipes. The base, an eggless sponge recipe, for this cake is a simple, fuss free, one bowl recipe. I’ve made it sooooo many times, sometimes with small changes and I love how it works each time! At times I simply use everything out of the fridge when short on time. It still works.

I’ve tried it with different flavours too, and I can honestly say I’m loving it. Vanilla, coffee, chocolate, saffron all work beautifully and the sponge turns out quite airy and light, almost waiting for a filling or frosting to finish it up. The first version I’m sharing is this Eggless Tiramisu Inspired Cake with a coffee sponge.

Love how many avatars a simple cake can take, and this one turned out to be the perfect coffee lovers dessert! Such a simple one bowl fuss free recipe, and the filling turned out quite divine too! I spend my late evenings and early mornings thinking of how I can fiddle around with basic desserts to make them more interesting. This was one of them. The final look reminded me of Paris Brest once I was done with it, don’t you think?

Don’t forget to comment here or tag me on Instagram @passionateaboutbaking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

Find more EGGLESS recipes or COFFEE  recipes here. And CHOCOLATE too♥

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Eggless Tiramisu Inspired Cake

Eggless Tiramisu Inspired Cake … Coffee, Kahlua and mascarpone, everything you'd want in dessert if you love coffee. I love how many avatars a simple cake can take, and this one turned out to be the perfect coffee lovers dessert, simple & fuss free!
Course Dessert
Cuisine Italian
Keyword baking, cake, chocolate, coffee, dessert, eggless, eggless cake, eggless layered cake, homemade, one bowl, simple, sweet
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings 4 people

Ingredients

Eggless Coffee Sponge

  • 100 g buttermilk
  • 30 g oil
  • 65 g brown sugar
  • 1 tsp instant coffee
  • 1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • Pinch of salt
  • 90 g all-purpose flour

Ganache

  • 150 g cream 20% fat
  • 140 g dark chocolate, chopped fine
  • 1 tsp instant coffee

Mascarpone filling

  • 150 g cream 20% fat
  • 1 tbsp cornflour
  • 1 tsp agar agar
  • 40 g vanilla sugar {or plain}
  • 1/2 tsp coffee extract
  • 1 tbsp Kahlua {optional}
  • 100 g mascarpone chilled

Instructions

Eggless Coffee Sponge

  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Lightly grease and line a 5" baking tin.
  • In a large bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, oil, brown sugar and coffee well. Add the apple cider vinegar, baking powder, baking soda and salt and whisk again. Leave to stand for 5 minutes until bubbly.
  • Now sift over the plain flour and whisk in to mix.
  • Transfer batter to the prepared dish. Bake for approximately 30 minutes until the tester comes out clean.
  • Remove to cooling rack, demold after 10-15 minutes, then cool completely. Cut into 2 layers.
  • Using a 3″ cutter, gently cut a hole through the cake. Slice a 1/2″ slice of the cut out cake and return to the hole to make a base.
  • Moisten the base with Kahlua {optional}. See reels on @passionateaboutbaking {Alternatively use a strong shot of slightly sweetened coffee}.
  • Pipe ganache on the rim and top with the other later. Chill in freezer for 10 minutes until firm, then fill with mascarpone.
  • Return to freezer for 2 hours, else refrigerate overnight.
  • Pipe ganache on the top edge.

Ganache

  • Place the cream and chocolate in a bowl and place the bowl over a double boiler to melt.
  • Whisk until smooth then allow the ganache to rest until it reaches piping consistency.

Mascarpone filling

  • In a saucepan, whisk together the cream, cornflour, agar agar and sugar well. Simmer over low heat until it thickens slightly, stirring constantly, 3-4 minutes.
  • Take off heat and whisk in the extract, Kahlua if using, and mascarpone. If not using Kahlua, perhaps add a tsp of coffee powder. Cool to room temperature, whisking often.

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Eggless Tiramisu Inspired Cake… Coffee, Kahlua and mascarpone, everything you’d want in dessert if you love coffee! (Recipe on @pabrecipes.)

Best Ever Eggless Banana Walnut Chocolate Chip Loaf – Simple & delicious

Eggless Banana Walnut Chocolate Chip Loaf , simple, so delicious and wholegrain too. Did I tell you it’s hand whisked and takes about 10 minutes to get into the oven? Yes, that too. Above all, the coconut sugar and clarified butter add deep, earthy flavours making the loaf a winner.

Have you ever used coconut sugar?

And do you use walnuts often? I just think they make everything taste better!

3 ripe bananas, a mix of flours, sugar and ghee/clarified butter yield this delicious moist and above all, VERY SIMPLE Eggless Banana Walnut Chocolate Chip Bread/Loaf. The basic recipe works with everyday ingredients.

Walnuts and chocolate chips are add ons, but they do add deliciousness. You could also add a dash of cinnamon powder if you like.

Hopefully I’ve convinced you to get into the kitchen and begin mashing bananas! I’ve had like a million requests over on Instagram for an eggless version of a Wholegrain Banana Bread video I shared a while ago. I tried a couple of times to make it eggless, but I wasn’t convinced.

Then one day, I saw a comment from someone on Instagram who said she was really grateful for an eggless recipe I had shared since her daughter was allergic to eggs. I’ve now begun trying to share both sort of recipes, with eggs and without. I’ve made a few videos as well.

I had a really nice time making the videos. As you can see, the recipe is really really simple, fuss free and quick. So easy that I’ve begun making this Eggless Banana Walnut Chocolate Chip Loaf {and the recipe version with eggs too} quite often.

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Eggless Banana Walnut Chocolate Chip Loaf

3 ripe bananas, a mix of flours, sugar and ghee/clarified butter yield this delicious moist and above all, VERY SIMPLE Eggless Banana Walnut Chocolate Chip Bread/Loaf. The basic recipe works with everyday ingredients and walnuts and chocolate chips are add ons.
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings 1 loaf

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup clarified butter/ghee melted
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup coconut sugar {or brown sugar}
  • 3 large bananas well mashed
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1/2 cup all purpose flour {maida}
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • Pinch salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 180º.
  • Line a loaf tin with baking parchment.
  • In a small bowl, whisk the flours, baking soda, baking soda and salt. Reserve.
  • In a large bowl, whisk together the clarified butter and sugars, followed by the mashed banana and vanilla extract.
  • Add sifted flours, chopped walnuts and chocolate chips into the wet mix.
  • Mix gently just until combined. Do not overmix.
  • Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan.
  • Top with walnut halves and chocolate chips.
  • Bake at 180Cº for approximately 35-40 minutes, or until the tester comes out clean.
  • Cool in tin for 30 minutes at least, then cool on rack.
  • Serve sliced warm or at room temperature.
  • Note: Loosely tent the top with a sheet of aluminium foil in the last 10-15 minutes if the top is over browning.

Eggless Wholegrain Strawberry Frangipane Tray Bake …simple, one bowl deliciousness

Eggless Wholegrain Strawberry Frangipane Tray Bake… simple, one bowl deliciousness. The buttery shortbread base which holds an indulgent fragrant almond filling, finished off with sweet tart strawberries and sprigs of fresh rosemary. The whole bake comes together quite quickly and simply, you’ll love it!

This has been a while coming and I’m not really sure why. The last time I baked this wholegrain frangipane tray bake, it was one with eggs, the recipe jotted down on one of my million post-it notes. While it did see light of day in a ‘blueberry tray bake‘ avatar, it felt like it was time to do a strawberry version again.

That truckload of strawberries in my fridge leads me on everyday. This is one of 3 strawberry seasons up in North India, and I can’t get enough of it. There’s SO MUCH you can do with these luscious berries…

Then again, one thing led to another, and further inspiration from the infinite eggless requests kicked in. I’ve been baking for donkeys years, some of the best years were with the Daring Bakers. I recall an eggless frangipane we once made back then, so this is a spin off that recipe.

Those were some of the best years of my baking life, a steep learning curve then, and very challenging. It’s one thing to get up and push your creativity a little. It’s altogether another when you completely shove the boundaries, doing things you never thought you would do!

Those Daring Baker golden years. All from scratch ... Hungarian Kalács, Tres Leche, Momofuku’s Crack Pie, Battenberg, Armenian Nazook, Povitica, Swedish Princess cakes, Savarins, Croquembouche, Baklava, Pavlova, Empanada Gallega, Entremets so many more!

It was these challenging bakes that gave me a foundation, a ‘baking education’ that allowed us to think differently, perhaps more creatively too. At the time, ingredients were tough to come by in India and the challenges were for a worldwide audience. Doing things from scratch had a different meaning, something I will always be grateful for.

This Eggless Wholegrain Strawberry Frangipane Tray Bake is the result of all that experimentation. Doing a whole lot of baking, and a whole LOT of eggless baking makes you often think out of the box.

The recipe is super simple, using no ‘equipment‘ as such. It’s a quick, one bowl recipe {used twice}, gets the fingertips in a bit and gets into the oven in under 30 minutes.

Then you need to wait for the bake to cool to allow you to slice it. The flavours just sing your name. I mean look at the ingredient list. All that almond meal will make anyone HAPPY!

Using ghee/clarified butter instead of normal butter is a game changer for me in many ways. I think I use it more than butter in baking now.

Ghee – doesn’t spoil and stays indefinitely at room temperature. That it tastes great and is difficult to stop eating … it is delicious! I think it also works really well because of a lower water content as compared to butter. I think I’ve read somewhere that it’s easier to digest too. Well, I’m not complaining!

So here’s the recipe for the Eggless Wholegrain Strawberry Frangipane Tray Bake. Hope you make it soon, and enjoy it as much as I have.

If you make any changes, please jot them down and do share them with me in comments. It’s always nice to know how things work differently with different folk, and how we can share experiences.

Thank you for stopping by as always. If you have any requests for recipes, please leave me a note. Will try and get something going for you.

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Eggless Wholegrain Strawberry Frangipane Tray Bake

Eggless Wholegrain Strawberry Frangipane Tray Bake… simple, one bowl deliciousness. The buttery shortbread base which holds an indulgent fragrant almond filling, finished off with sweet tart strawberries and sprigs of fresh rosemary. The whole bake comes together quite quickly and simply, you’ll love it!
Keyword baking, dessert, eggless, fruit, sweet
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 50 minutes
Servings 16 squares

Ingredients

Wholewheat biscuit base

  • 1 cup whole-wheat flour/aata scant} {110g}
  • 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp clarified butter / ghee melted, cooled {75g}
  • 2 tbsp brown sugar
  • Pinch salt
  • 2 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • 3 tsp Water

Eggless Almond Frangipane

  • 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp clarified butter / ghee melted, cooled {75g}
  • 1/2 cup raw sugar/boora {75g}
  • 1 1/2 cups almond meal {145g}
  • 3 tbsp cornflour 25 {25g}
  • Few drops almond extract
  • 1/2 vanilla bean scraped
  • 2 tbsp Greek yogurt

Instructions

Wholewheat biscuit base

  • Preheat oven to 180C. Line a loose bottomed 8 X 8″ square baking tray with parchment paper.
  • Place flour, sugar, salt and clarified butter in a large bowl. Whisk with balloon whisk to get an even breadcrumb like mix. Since it’s winter here, the ghee was semi solid which was perfect.
  • Whisk in the apple cider vinegar evenly, then whisk in just enough water that the biscuit base holds together when pinched between fingertips, much alike a crumble.
  • Transfer to prepared tin, even out, then gently press into place with your fingertips.
  • Bake for 12 minutes at 180 C until light golden brown.
  • Meanwhile, make the eggless almond frangipane.

Eggless Almond Frangipane

  • Place everything in a large bowl and whisk to mix. Use fingertips to get an even moist crumb. Turn over baked biscuit base and spread uniformly using an offset spatula.
  • Top with sliced strawberries, a scattering of fresh rosemary. Sprinkle over a tbsp of vanilla sugar.
  • Bake for 30-35 minutes until slightly firm to touch, and the strawberries are cooked and slightly coloured at the edges.
  • Cool completely before slicing.

Delicious Strawberry Apple Crumble … a very easy heart friendly dessert!

“In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.”
Erma Bombeck

I made this 2 days ago after the dieting diva was pestering me for dessert, with a condition that it must be healthy and low fat… and delicious of course. She has a penchant for strawberries, yet as I lazily dithered she loudly wished there was a diet food delivery service! I didn’t tell her that like pizzas, diet food here too is also just a phone call away. My belief often … what you don’t know, can’t hurt you!

As I learnt fairly recently, the concept of gourmet diet food delivery is catching on in India now as well. It’s a novel concept for folks on the go and customises a diet for individual requirements with consultation with  nutritionist, keeping in mind individual dietary requirements, heart rates, lipid profiles and what not! It’s a concept that seems to work well here too as it breaks certain trends like fat and sugar laden meals which are traditionally prepared in Indian households where deep fried food and the lavish use of clarified butter is much the norm.  What you get is a nutritionally balanced meal from each of the five food groups etc with a mix of complex carbohydrates, vegetables, lean protein {vegetarian or non vegetarian}, using a heart friendly oil like olive oil … with the promise to deliver delicious meals!

Making diet food is much my voluntary vocation at home these days, with the dieting teen refusing to eat otherwise. I dived into the fridge to put together a ‘healthy dessert’.  Apples stared back at me and a box of strawberries. I knew just the thing I’d make… a fruit crumble. I find crisps and crumbles one of the easiest desserts to bake. They are therapeutic, satisfying and look pretty with fruit juices oozing out invitingly. For this recipe, use firm tart apples for this as they pair tantalizingly with sweet strawberries … We’ve bid a hasty adieu to winter and with it pears, apples. Even more hastily, we’ve welcomed summer. Spring was sweet and short , marked in India by the festival of colour, Holi, which as you can see above the kids enjoyed to the last drop of colour! Need I say more? {Just for the record, they are back to looking normal again!}. With Spring came strawberries that flooded the market for a bit.

Think summer in India and think Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid day sun … lyrics from a song I heard when I was a kid. It’s from the musical revue “The Third Little Show” (1924), Noel Coward and is about all I recall from the song. It paints a graphic picture of the blistering heat that beats down during the Indian summer, with Englishmen wearing sola topees {pith helmets often worn by the British in the tropics} walking about at noon! The song is amusing to say the least. Here are a few lines from the song …

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun
The Japanese don’t care to, the Chinese wouldn’t dare to
Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve till one
But Englishmen detest-a siesta …

And as you hum the song, here’s a recipe for a heart friendly dessert with complex carbs, delicious fruit and low calories. Use fruit of the season, stone and pip fruit work great here, throw in a handful of chopped dry fruit, almonds, pistachios, walnuts etc, then throw in some tart cherries, craisins, raisins if you like, add some fresh herbs like thyme for a nice Spring feel …  and bake until the juices begin to enticingly ooze out. ENJOY!!

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Strawberry Apple Crumble

A heart friendly dessert with complex carbs, delicious fruit and low calories. Use fruit of the season, stone and pip fruit work great here, throw in a handful of chopped nuts then throw in some tart dried berries, add some fresh herbs! Enjoy
Course Appetiser, Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 28 minutes
Servings 4

Ingredients

  • 6 firm apples diced {tart,crisp ones}
  • 150 gm strawberries chopped {fresh or frozen}
  • Juice of 1 lime
  • 2 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup walnuts chopped
  • 1/2 cup raisins
  • Fresh thyme

Topping

  • 2 heaped tbsp plain flour
  • 2 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup butter; chilled
  • 1/2 cup rolled oats

Instructions

  • Toss the diced apples with the lime juice as soon as you chop them.
  • Mix in the strawberries, sugar, raisins and walnuts.
  • Put into 6-8 individual ramekins or a shallow pie dish (9” or 23cm or 1L), and press lightly into place.

To prepare crumble topping:

  • Mix plain flour and sugar with a spoon in a dry bowl.
  • Put in cold butter cut into pieces and work with finger tips to make a breadcrumbs like texture. Now toss in the oats lightly with a spoon.

Assemble:

  • Preheat the oven to 180C for 10 minutes. {You can do this just as you begin chopping the fruit}.
  • Put this crumble over the fruit mixture, pressing down gently to cover the top & seal the fruit in.
  • Bake till top light brown and stewed fruit juice begins to appear on edges {about 30 minutes

Notes

Use seasonal fruit. Crumbles and crisps are good destinations for overripe fruit too.

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