Cake is Veg ?
By ravalarun
@ravalarun (337)
India
6 responses
@nishant5n (1067)
• India
9 Oct 11
Since you consider egg dishes as non-veg, Yes, in your definition, cake is non-veg!
Actually, if you buy it from market most probably it will have egg as an ingredient. But yes, you can make it at home without using eggs for which you can search and find good recipes anywhere over the internet or in any cookery book.
We are vegetarian and on the occasions of birthdays, my mother make cake without using egg so that we can enjoy the fun of cutting cake on birthdays and singing the birthday song.
@marguicha (223777)
• Chile
9 Oct 11
This is interesting! I love to cook, but I have never heard of a cake without eggs as it´s the egg whites that makes the cake rise. I will surelly check it at internet, just for the fun of it. But, as you say, if it has eggs, then it is not vegetarian for people who will not eat eggs in any other way. I thought vegans did not eat eggs,but vegetarians did.
@nishant5n (1067)
• India
10 Oct 11
Hi Marguicha,
Instead of egg, we can using baking soda to rise the cake. So, there will be no need for eggs.
Now, is egg veg or non-veg...that's a point of debate...
there are eggs in market which are not natural eggs and they cannot hatch to give chickens...
Vegans are subdivisions of vegetarians, so they can't eat eggs
@criticalman (65)
• Philippines
9 Oct 11
Eggs give cakes that fluffy feeling and helps expand the sweet treat. It synergizes with the other ingredients so it is a key ingredient in all baked products. Without it is like building a home with no walls.
Thus I think its impossible to make a cake without eggs and you might have a diffcult time my friend
@rovered777 (649)
• United States
9 Oct 11
Well, if you can manage to use peanut butter in your cake instead of eggs that would be a good solution. Make the batter a bit thicker by adding peanut butter, half and half milk and 100 percent cocoa powder. This should resolve this issue of making this cake vegetarian.
@pepai123456 (879)
• Philippines
28 Oct 11
Eggs in baked goods is not only for color,taste, and texture.The eggs in the mixture has a very important rule in baking.Remember our little friends water and fat/oil? Have you ever seen them join together? I don't think so, that where our little friend egg comes to the rescue, eggs have both hydrophilic (water loving) and lipophilic (fat loving) properties as a result it emulsifies your fat and liquid ingredients to make a homogenous mixture to create uniform baking.And mostly all baked goods are made from dairy products.
You can try making eggless cake but the mouth feel would be different.
