It’s not always easy to get hold of eggs. This is especially true if you want to ensure your eggs come from chickens that enjoy a good quality of life. So when you’re in the mood to bake, but you don’t have any eggs to hand, here are some of the best egg-free cake recipes out there.
There are a lot of reasons why people don’t want to or can’t bake with eggs. Some are allergic, some can’t eat them for religious reasons and some just can’t get hold of them. Perceived wisdom leads us to believe that you need flour, eggs and butter to make a cake. But this clearly isn’t true. Some of the nicest cakes I’ve tried in recent years are either eggless or vegan.
Here you’ll find a diverse range of egg-free cake recipes. Some are vegan and some are gluten-free. And there are quite a few that include milk, honey, butter or yoghurt. There are healthy bakes, chocolate bakes, brownies, fruity bakes, nutty bakes and a selection of others.
I’m hoping you’ll find something you’ll both want to and are able to bake from the thirty recipes below. There should be a cake recipe suitable for every occasion. Most of them are easy to make. Some are useful for budding bakers and some of them are just what you need to get the kids cooking with you in the kitchen. There are a couple that require a bit more experience.
I have quite a few vegan bakes on my blog, but these egg-free cake recipes are for everyone.
Egg-Free Chocolate Cakes
As a nod to this blog’s chocolatey beginnings, I’m starting off with chocolate cakes. Everyone needs a good chocolate cake recipe. Kids love them, adults love them and they’re a winner for birthdays, celebrations and bake sales.
Chai Masala Chocolate Fairy Cakes
Chocolate Mayonnaise Cupcakes
Water Cake (vegan)
Eggless Chocolate Cake
Devilishly Good Chocolate Cake (vegan)
Vegan Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Caramel Cake
Vegan Brownies
You can’t have a list of best cakes without one or four chocolate brownie recipes. These ones are all vegan, but each one is quite distinctive.
Chewy Vegan Brownies
Vegan Cosmic Brownies
Cherry Brownies (vegan)
Fudgy Black Bean Brownies (vegan & gluten-free)
Egg-Free Fruity Cakes
Fruit cakes can really lift the spirits with their vibrant colours and fresh flavours. Tuck into one of my rhubarb honey cakes, or perhaps you’d prefer a lemon cake. There’s even a mango cake made with wholemeal flour that I have my eye on. And don’t forget a good old dried fruit cake. They can be fabulous.
Fresh Fruit Cakes
Rhubarb Honey Cakes Flavoured with Rose
Lemon, Rose and Pistachio Mini Bundt Cakes
Blackcurrant Rose Honey Cakes (Nonnettes)
Lemon & Orange Olive Oil Cupcakes
Eggless Dorset Apple Cake
Cranberry Duff Cake
Lemon Poppy Seed Cake (gluten-free)
Whole Wheat Mango Cake
Dried Fruit Cakes
Cornish Hevva Cake (aka Heavy Cake)
Old Fashioned Granny Loaf
Vinegar Cake
Eggless Nutty Cakes
If you have a nut allergy or are cooking for someone who has one, these cakes are not for you. But pistachios, walnuts and almonds are incredibly hard to resist. Not to mention peanut butter.
Vegan Peanut Butter Banana Muffins
Eggless Gulkand Muffins
They are good during thr coming summer months as Gulkand is believed to have a cooling effect on the body. Recipe from Cook With Renu.
Date and Walnut Loaf Cake
Fudgy Almond Chocolate Cake (gluten-free)
Other Egg-Free Cake Recipes
If all you want is a basic sponge cake or perhaps a carrot cake, don’t miss out on the miscellaneous.
Vegan Vanilla Sponge Cake
Nonnettes - French Honey Cakes
Vegan Sticky Ginger Cake
Vegan Carrot Cake with Easy Orange Frosting.
The Best Egg-Free Cake Recipes
I hope you found something to inspire you with these egg-free cake recipes. Let us know if you’ve tried any of them in the comments below. We’d love to hear what your favourite eggless recipes are too. Do you have any tips to share?
If you’d like even more egg-free cake inspiration, head over to my egg-free bakes Pinterest board.
And don’t forget the most wonderful of egg-free bakes, the humble flapjack. You’ll find plenty of flapjack recipes on Tin and Thyme, including carrot cake flapjacks. These along with my chocolate coconut flapjacks and the raspberry and white chocolate ones are your favourites.
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Choclette x
Jill's Mad About Macarons says
What a fabulous round-up of recipes, Choclette and perfect timing – we’re rather rationing eggs at the moment, so thanks for sharing this.
Choclette says
I think everyone’s finding eggs difficult to get hold of at the moment Jill. One minute they’re there and the next they’re gone. Along with the flour and yeast!
Janice Pattie says
Well, who knew there were so many egg-free cake recipes? Certainly not me, this is a great resource especially when eggs are hard to come by.
Choclette says
Yes exactly. I’ve not found any eggs in our local supermarket for ages. Luckily, we had a five eggs delivered on our doorstep the other day from CT’s place of work – which he’s now been furloughed from.
dassana amit says
Nice collection of eggless cake recipes
Choclette says
Thank you, I’m hoping to try quite a few of them.
Jacqui – Recipes Made Easy:Only Crumbs Remain says
At the moment I am fine for eggs but they have been a bit hit and miss over the last few weeks. Thansk you for this post really useful Ive shared with my Only Crumbs Readers
Choclette says
Thanks Jacqui. Glad you’re OK for eggs. Luckily for me CT managed to get a few from work before he was laid off, but I’m fast running out and our supermarket shelves are empty.
Lathiya says
Awesome collection. Each one looks fabulous. Pinning it for later. Thank you for including my Mango Cake.
Choclette says
Your mango cake sounds really good Lathiya. It’s on my list to try.
Swati says
This one is a fabulous collection with wonderful eggless cakes.. very handy list for those who avoid eggs in their diets..ThanK you so much for including Fudgy Almond cake from Foodtrails25.
Choclette says
I’m finding it really useful to have a list of delicious cakes that don’t need eggs, so I’m hoping others will too.
Azlin Bloor says
That is an amazing collection of cake recipes, Choclette! I have 2 girls with egg allergy, so am going to enjoy going through them! Thank you for including the Eggless Dorset Apple Cake from LinsFood.
Choclette says
Oh goodness, two of your children. That must make eating out difficult – cake and desserts anyway. Thanks for your Dorset apple cake and I hope you find a few more ideas here.
Andrea @The Petite Cook says
Thank you so much for sharing so many helpful recipes! I’m trying to save eggs for our meals, so these desserts are perfect for us!
Choclette says
Eggs are getting increasingly hard to find for sure. I’m looking forward to trying some of these myself – especially your water cake.
Mandy says
This is such a useful post! So many people are struggling to get hold of eggs and will find this very useful indeed. Thanks for including my black bean brownies.
Choclette says
Indeed, we’ve had no eggs on the shelves for quite some time. Mind you, no flour either!
Renu says
That is a wonderful collection of egg less cakes. Each and every type of cake is there. I am bookmarking this post to create some delicious cakes.
Choclette says
Thanks Renu. Sometimes it’s really useful to have quite specific recipes all in one place.
Karen Burns-Booth says
What an absolutely decadent and delicious selection of egg free cakes! It’s a bit of a myth that you always need eggs for cakes, and one of the original no-egg cakes was a vinegar cake, where the combination of vinegar (not much) when mixed with bicarbonate of soda created a light and fluffy cake with no eggs! Made by farmers wives when the hens were “off lay”. A lovely post. Saved and shared, Karen.
Choclette says
Thanks Karen. It’s good to be reminded that there are various ways of baking. I have a vinegar cake in the post, though the photo is pretty shocking.