Evan’s Recipes

This is my deliberately simple cooking website.

I’m making lots of cakes these days! Photos of my cakes are here; it’s like my only social media

Baking

• Coconut banana brownies
• Chocolate cake/cupcakes and chocolate frosting (via Noracooks), with the following modifications:
  • Cake base: substitute [applesauce] for [1 banana + 2 chia eggs]. After lots of experiments, this is my favorite egg substitute
  • Cake base and frosting: coconut oil is best. It melts when it’s hot enough outside, so store in the fridge when possible
  • Cake frosting: I use 1/2 cup coconut oil instead of (expensive and mysterious) fake butter
• Vanilla frosting (via Noracooks)
  • For an oreo cake, blend the frosting with oreo cookies
• Vanilla cake (via Noracooks)
  • Cake base: for your egg substitute, use aquafaba as recommended in the recipe, or two bananas. Don’t use chia eggs: they taste fine, but the dark chia seeds against a light-colored vanilla cake aren’t very aesthetic.
• Strawberry frosting (via LifeLoveAndSugar)
• Strawberry shortcake (via FlouredFrame)
  • Many other recipes use biscuits, but this recipe’s more my style - I grew up eating tiny one-person shortcakes
  • I’ve made this with commercial fake-heavy-cream, but it’s very hard to find in stores. TODO: try more common heavy-cream substitutes, like coconut cream

Not yet attempted

• pumpkin pie cupcakes: https://www.thelittleblogofvegan.com/2022/09/mini-vegan-pumpkin-pies.html

https://www.noracooks.com/ is my favorite place to look for new baking recipes. Naturally I’ll search with Google, but tend to click noracooks links first.

I’ll often try different egg substitutes, based on what I like most and what I have in the kitchen, but a mixture of banana and/or chia-eggs is usually my favorite.

Other incomplete recipes

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