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Sticky buns! Trying to get back in the habit of photographing and posting bakes, so there’s some backlog to work through.

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🫐 🍓 Fruit tart with pastry cream filling

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My fellow American hobby bakers, demoralized by egg prices and scarcity and how you will make the American apple pie or the chocolate chip cookie, fear not. I have spent many years turning regular baking recipes vegan for my corrupt and traitorous sister who last week ate a salmon cream cheesed roll. There are many, many substitutes for eggs including but not limited to:

Mashed banana: best added to compliment flavors of whatever it is you're baking (peanut butter, chocolate) make sure it's MUSHY and ripe

Apple sauce: again, best with complimentary flavors (cinnamon, brown sugar) use unsweetened and have the rest as a snack

The big boy champ, ground flaxseed: flavorless, though it does darken your batter/ dough a bit. Bags found next to cornstarch and almond meal, etc. Instructions on how to use right on the bag! Make sure to let the flaxseed water combo sit in a separate bowl until it has the consistency of mucus 👍

Now with all of these you MUST add a bit more leavener, they don't have the lil bit of lift eggs give, so make sure you add a touch more baking powder. Sort of ok for brownies and cookies if you want them a bit more dense but KEY for cakes, quick breads, muffins and other things like that or she is gonna be SQUIDGY 🫡

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strawberry and pistachio birthday cake by 5thcirclegirl

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Chocolate babka 🍫

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Still cooking! Soup today

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Fried rice 🍚

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Custard tarts 🥄

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French toast 🍞

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Chocolate chip scones 🍫

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Yellow cupcakes with caramel icing 💛

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Strawberry Crunchy Layer Cake

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Hash browns 🥔

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Lemon layer cake