If youโre searching for eggless recipes then you are in luck, with this list of 40 Eggless Recipes that vary from Quick and easy desserts to cookies.
The cost of living is rising and eggs (as well as other basics) are either becoming incredibly expensive or in short supply which means making our usual baked treats can be difficult. How are you finding ways to cope?
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Quick and Easy
These eggless recipes are mostly desserts which require little effort to put together and other than preparing fruit, where necessary, the actual dish doesnโt require a lot of mixing, making this ideal for any day.
- Bakes in: 55 minutes
- Serves: 6
Crumbles or crisps are one of the best and easiest desserts to make without eggs, though they do rely on butter to bring the topping together. If you prefer other fruit then here is a recipe for Peach Crumble or even Fennel and Apple Crumble.
Blackberry and Rhubarb Cobbler
- Ready in: 1 hour
- Serves: 6
Cobbler dough is perfect for almost any juicy fruit you have lying around. Whether it's this combination, Strawberry or even a mixture of fruits from the frozen section in your supermarket.
- Ready in: 35 minutes
- Serves: 6
Made with mashed potatoes and cooked on a griddle or skillet, these homemade potato scones are perfect for breakfast, brunch, or a savory snack.
Chocolate Self-Saucing Pudding
- Bakes in: 45 minutes
- Serves: 8
Anyone who is craving chocolate cake, warm with a side of chocolate sauce can make this. It's easy to make dairy free and only requires 10 minutes preparation time.
- Ready in: 55 minutes
- Serves: 8
Sweet pears are turned into a minimal dessert that keeps them center stage for an ideal quick dessert that can be made several hours ahead.
- Ready in: 23 minutes
- Serves: 4
You only need 5 ingredients and no butter in this dessert that does require fresh raspberries and includes a dash of whiskey.
- Ready in: 55 minutes
- Serves: 16
This is perfect to warm you up on cold days and is best served a day or two after baking to become stickier in it's signature texture.
- Ready in: 56 minutes
- Serves: 16
With its signature sandy texture and golden edges, shortbread is the ultimate four-ingredient biscuit.
Bread
Whilst most plain breads donโt need eggs, there are many recipes that do, meaning those weekend Cinnamon rolls are harder to whip up, but this list is ideal for a selection of ways to serve up.
- Ready in: 1 hour 15 minutes
- Serves: 10 slices
Made for a morning or afternoon tea treat, this bread relies on fine mashed potato and milk for it's moisture and is best served speckled with raisins, though you could most probably omit, if you prefer.
- Ready in: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Serves: 12 slices
This recipe relies on chia eggs for moisture alongside the mashed bananas for a unique twist on classic banana bread with a crushed seed brittle strewn throughout the batter and on top.
- Ready in: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Serves: 10 flatbreads
Light and fluffy flatbread owes it's texture to water and Greek yogurt for a fantastic side bread or even as a individual pizza base.
- Ready in: 35 minutes
- Serves: 9 large biscuits
Flaky and buttery, these buttermilk biscuits require little time and are great to whip up for a lazy weekend breakfast. If you want a Savory spin on this recipe, there is also this recipe which includes Broccoli and cheese.
- Ready in: 3 hour 50 minutes
- Serves: 1 large loaf
Beautiful masa turns this bread into a warn inviting addition to a soup or stew or smeared with honey.
Cookies
The variety of cookies in this list do rely more on butter for their moisture, but they are perfect for those lunchboxes or simply to satisfy those baked good cravings.
- Ready in: 1 hour
- Serves: 12 medium biscuits
Not the best named cookie, but these rely on butter for moisture and are laden with cornflakes before being topped with a chocolate icing. One of the best eggless biscuits out there!
- Ready in: 45 minutes
- Serves: 20 cookies
Effectively these are chewy oatmeal cookies that are beloved throughout Australasia for how well they last, though once you start eating them, they might not stick around for long. You can turn these into bars or even sandwich biscuits for an ideal twist on these beloved cookies.
Polvorones - Mexican Wedding Cookies
- Ready in: 1 hour
- Serves: 24 small cookies
With a triple layer of powdered sugar, these are hard to eat only one of. They include finely chopped walnuts for a nice light crunch texture in the center.
- Ready in: 51 minutes
- Serves: 15 medium cookies
These eggless Ginger Biscuits, also known as Cornish Fairing have an intense ginger and spice flavor for a perfect accompaniment to a hot drink.
- Ready in: 45 minutes
- Serves: 20 cookies
This recipe requires little butter and also uses a little water for moisture, making it light on resources and effort in preparation time.
- Ready in: 1 hour 6 minutes
- Serves: 26 medium cookies
You don't need much to make a batch of these cookies with their bright jammy centers.
Melomakaronas - Greek Holiday Cookies
Ready in: 1 hours 40 minutes
Serves: 28 small cookies
Some Greek's love these cookies so much, they cannot wait for the holidays to make a batch. They rely on butter and oil for moisture, but also a syrup once baked. Honestly, with and without the syrup, these are delightful!
Ready in: 1 hours 14 minutes
Serves: 7 sandwich biscuits
A buttery melt-in-your-mouth sandwich biscuit with a passionfruit icing center. These are a classic found throughout Australia and New Zealand cafe and bakery counters.
Bars and Slices
Perfect for lunchboxes or simply to fill that sweet craving, these bars are an ideal way to bake without eggs.
- Bakes in: 32 minutes
- Serves: 16
This delightful Tan Slice recipe is a classic Kiwi treat featuring a buttery biscuit base topped with a luscious caramel filling, all finished off with a layer of rich chocolate and shortbread crumble.
- Ready in: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Serves: 12-16
The most melt-in-your-mouth shortbread base and crumble topping envelopes cubes of apples for an ideal lunchbox filler. If you prefer Blueberries, these bars are a great alternative to an apple filling.
- Bakes in: 32 minutes
- Serves: 16
The ultimate in no bake dessert bars includes crushed biscuits in the base, a custard powder and butter filling and smooth chocolate topping. This recipe does rely on a lot of butter, however. Alternatively you could make a pistachio version of these bars too.
- Bakes in: 25 minutes
- Serves: 12-16
This Carres granola aux Fraises - French Strawberry Bars recipe has an oat crumble crust dough with a homemade strawberry jam center that bakes up golden for a perfect lunchbox or picnic treat.
- Bakes in: 10 minutes (+1 hour setting time)
- Serves: 16
Easy Ginger Crunch is a nostalgic New Zealand classic, featuring a melt-in-your-mouth base and a crunchy golden ginger topping.
- Bakes in: 12 minutes (+1 hour setting time)
- Serves: 18
A handful of pantry staples create this beloved dessert that is perfect for lunchboxes or whenever the craving for something sweet hits.
No Bake
The amount of dishes in this section really proves how many incredible ways you can make a dessert without needing to turn your oven on.
Atol de Naranja - Costa Rican Orange Pudding
- Ready in: 1 hour 15 minutes
- Serves: 4
Vegan and gluten free with minimal butter makes this orange pudding more like a gelatin free jello perfect for kids and adults alike.
- Ready in: 2 hours 10 minutes
- Serves: 4
Three ingredients are needed for this custard that can be made with lemon juice or replaced completely with grapefruit juice or even passionfruit.
- Ready in: 45 minutes
- Serves: 8
Similar to a cobbler topping, but cooked on the stovetop is this sweet Canadian Blueberry dessert.
- Ready in: 2 hours
- Serves: 16
Crunchy and full of nostalgic flavors, you don't need much time to make a batch of rice krispie treats. This batch includes browned butter and malted milk powder for a twist on flavors.
- Ready in: 1 hour 15 minutes
- Serves: 12 truffles
Cocoa powder truffles coated in sprinkles that will satisfy a sweet tooth. This is ideal to make alongside littlies to shape the truffles.
- Ready in: 3 hours 15 minutes
- Serves: 24 (or more as very rich)
If for any reason you need to bring a something to a work event or kids party this comes together in 10 minutes flat and goes far. Every single time I've made this, people have requested the recipe.
Manuka and Vanilla Panna Cotta
- Ready in: 2 hours 15 minutes
- Serves: 4
Panna cotta is one of the easiest desserts to make without eggs and if this combination isn't up to your preference then this Coffee Panna Cotta might also work.
- Ready in: 1 hours 55 minutes
- Serves: 4
This traditional Estonian Cranberry Pudding dessert showcases the vibrant flavors of tart cranberries in a comforting pudding that is best served cold.
- Ready in: 4 hours 30 minutes
- Serves: 6
This gelatin free, light and creamy mousse is topped with a homemade passionfruit syrup makes for a rather quick and easy dessert.
Eggless recipes requiring a little effort
These recipes require a little more effort and time to prepare, but will impress when you serve up.
- Ready in: 3 hours 10 minutes
- Serves: 10
A homemade thin pastry coats a filling of apples for a classic European dessert. Less than 100 grams / 3.5 ounces of butter needed for this one too which makes it ideal for saving your butter.
- Ready in: 45 minutes
- Serves: 14 fritters
A coconut batter coats bananas and is served alongside scoops of vanilla ice cream for a dish that will transport you to warm Thailand.
- Ready in: 5 hours 55 minutes
- Serves: 24 baklava
Pistachio Baklava is one of those sweets often on the counter of Middle Eastern eateries, but making this at home, whilst taking some time, is well worth it. This recipe doesn't require any special ingredients either which is a bonus.
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