When you’re baking bread, the whole thing is not quite complete without that shiny, golden coat over it, right?One problem with that is the way you get that shiny golden color in conventional baking is with an egg wash.So if you’re vegan, can you still get that look and effect without using eggs? We’re looking into that today at the Curious Cat Bakery Test Kitchen. The Substitute Options I’ve been using a mixture of plant milk and agave and I love the results.But I decided to test out 3 other different types of egg wash replacements on vegan croissants to see if they work better or worse. When Googling for alternatives, the most common are plant milk, coconut oil and...
Considering it’s early June, odds are you have a fruit problem in your hands right now. Maybe that mango tree in your backyard has gone bonkers and given you buckets of ripened fruit. Maybe it’s your neighbor’s orange tree that yielded quite the harvest and they came knocking and unloaded a whole basket of it on your hands. Maybe you got a little overexcited at the grocery store when you saw those beautiful peaches and added way too many to your cart or you, like me, have a passionfruit plant that’s been giving you nothing but yard work to do for the last three years and now all of a sudden you have three years’ worth of passionfruits. You guys,...
Have you ever set out to do something and then 3 minutes in, you're like what the heck did I get myself into? That was me after announcing on my Instagram that I was going to be veganizing the challenges from season 10 of The Great British Baking Show. When I set off on this challenge, I had no clue of what I was getting myself into to be honest. I just thought it'd be fun. Little did I know I would learn so much in the process too. Here were my favorite moments and recipes: Bread Week: Helena's Cinnamon Rolls I had never made cinnamon rolls before and I was so nervous! It's crazy to think these amazing cinnamon rolls...
