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
Little cakes made with milk chocolate, chai masala tea and spices that could easily be transformed into 15 cupcakes if something a little larger is required.
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Chocolate Mayonnaise Cupcakes
Chocolate mayonnaise cupcakes or cakes are delicious and moist old-fashioned chocolate cake. One bowl and a few ingredients are all you need. These chocolate mayonnaise cupcakes (or cakes) don’t use any eggs. Caution: eggs may be in the mayonnaise. Recipe from Beyond The Kitchen Coop.
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Water Cake: A Dairy-free, Egg-free Cake
No milk, no butter, no eggs needed, only simple cupboard ingredients. This water cake is absolutely magic and perfect to bake with the kids. Recipe from The Petite Cook.
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Eggless Chocolate Cake (+Vegan & Whole Wheat)
This easy, one-bowl Eggless Chocolate Cake recipe with Cocoa Icing is a simple vegan recipe you’re sure to come back to time and again.
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Chocolate Crazy Cake
Chocolate crazy cake that is devilishly good without eggs or butter. This cake is rich, moist, delicious and super simple to put together. All you need is a bowl, a whisk, some pantry staples and a little bit of time. Recipe from Cooking with Carlee.
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Eggless Chocolate Caramel Cake
Layers of moist eggless chocolate cake with salted caramel frosting and homemade caramel topping served with some caramel popcorn on the side. This caramel cake is a chocolate caramel desserts heaven. And just to let you know No candy thermometer required. Recipe from Spices n Flavours.
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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
These eggless and dairy free brownies are perfect if you like a dense, chewy, fudgy, intensely chocolatey brownie. Easy to make and so satisfying. Recipe from Domestic Gothess.
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Vegan Cosmic Brownies – The Baking Fairy
These Vegan Homemade Cosmic Brownies are reminiscent of your childhood lunchbox favourites, but plant-based and made from scratch! Don’t worry, they still have the thick frosting on top and signature rainbow sprinkles. Recipe from The Baking Fairy.
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Cherry Brownies
Love cherries? Then you’ll adore these cherry brownies. Made with fresh cherries and chocolate, this vegan recipe is gluten free and dairy free. Lower in calories too. Recipe from Greedy Gourmet.
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Black Bean Brownies
These incredible fudgy black bean brownies are made without flour. Chocolatey, satisfying, full of goodness, gluten free and suitable for vegans. Recipe from Sneaky Veg.
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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
These delicious individual French cakes, known as nonnettes, are lightly flavoured with rose. They’re made with the addition of rye flour but without eggs. This gives them an almost silky mouthfeel with a delightfully soft texture.
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Lemon, Rose and Pistachio Mini Bundt Cakes~Recipe Swap
Mini bundt cakes with mouth watering middle Eastern flavours of rose, lemon and pistachio make these cakes delectable and simply delicious. Recipe from Simply Food.
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Blackcurrant Rose Honey Cakes (Nonnettes)
Sweet and sticky, these little cakes are known as nonnettes in France. They're egg-free, easy to make and thoroughly delicious. Little chunks of caramelised white chocolate just add to the fun, but can be left out if preferred.
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Eggless Dorset Apple Cake
This easy Eggless Dorset Apple Cake has all the fruity, tangy and caramel flavours of the traditional apple cake, but perfect for those with an egg allergy. Recipe from LinsFood.
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Cranberry Duff Cake
Fresh cranberries give this light, egg free cake fruity and bright flavours. Each piece is best served with a warm, delicious cinnamon and vanilla cream sauce drizzled on top. Recipe from Plowing Through Life.
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Gluten & Dairy Free Lemon Poppy Seed Bread
A light, crumbly but not dry Lemon Poppy Seed Bread coated with a luscious lemon icing glaze that is sure to please any lemon lover. Gluten, dairy-free and full of flavour. Recipe from The Delicious Spoon.
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Whole Wheat Mango Cake – Egg less, Butter less – Lathiskitchen
To make this cake eggless, I used Coconut Oil. You can use Olive oil too. The sweetness is mild, the way we liked it.
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Cornish Hevva Cake (aka Heavy Cake)
A traditional Cornish cake made by fisherfolk. It’s a very simple recipe with only a few ingredients, but it’s absolutely delicious.
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Old Fashioned Granny Loaf
An amazingly tasty fruit loaf, that was popular during WW2 due to the fact that it is fat-free, egg-free, and only uses a scant amount of sugar and mixed fruit, which were rationed or hard to source. This fruit loaf may appear frugal, but it’s packed with flavour and is wonderful when served warm with butter (during non war-time days!), or when toasted the next day. Recipe from Lavender and Lovage
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Vinegar Cake
Vinegar in a cake? Well yes, it helps to make this egg-free fruit cake rise in a rather spectacular fashion. It has a nice soft crumb and is pleasantly fruity as well as malty with an unexpected sort of sprightliness about it.
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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
This is a really quick and easy recipe to put together. They can be made in 30 minutes with very little faff. They’re also delicious, vegan and not to heavy on the sugar. As with most of my bakes, they’re made with wholemeal spelt flour.
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Eggless Gulkand Muffins
Flavourful and moist, these are the most delicious muffins, bursting with flavours from Gulkand aka Edible Rose Petal Jam and Cardamom. 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.
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Date & Walnut Loaf Cake
Go nuts with this date and walnut loaf cake. This cake is super delicious, soft and moist and it’s made with whole wheat flour for a healthier version. It’s not only egg-free but dairy-free too. A a perfect tea time snack and is worth a try. Recipe from Belly Rules the Mind.
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Fudgy Almond Chocolate Cake
Soft and melt in the mouth chocolate cake with the goodness of almond flour and a perfect crumb. Recipe from Food Trails.
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If all you want is a basic sponge cake or perhaps a carrot cake, don’t miss out on the miscellaneous.
Vegan Birthday Cake (Vegan Vanilla Sponge Cake)
A light, fluffy vegan sponge packed with vanilla flavour. It’s also perfect for covering with fondant icing to make a birthday or celebration cake. Recipe from Charlotte’s Lively Kitchen.
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Nonnettes: French Honey Cakes
Delicious egg-free French honey cakes with a lovely smooth texture. They're lightly spiced and topped with marmalade to give a delightful bitter contrast to the sweetness of the cake and then drizzled with orange icing.
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Vegan Sticky Ginger Cake
This Sticky Ginger Cake is so incredibly light and fluffy despite not having any eggs to give it it’s bounce. I like to cut it into small bitesize squares to have alongside a cup of tea or coffee. Recipe from Supper in the Suburbs.
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Basbousa: Egyptian Semolina Yoghurt Cake
This Egyptian classic dessert, is a dense semolina yoghurt cake flavoured with burnt butter and honey and doused with rose, lemon and cardamom syrup.
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Easy vegan carrot cake + zesty orange drizzle | Family-Friends-Food
A moist, fruity, lightly-spiced vegan carrot cake recipe that’s easy to whip up in a food processor or by hand. A wonderful tea-time treat!
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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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What a fabulous round-up of recipes, Choclette and perfect timing – we’re rather rationing eggs at the moment, so thanks for sharing this.
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!
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.
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.
Nice collection of eggless cake recipes
Thank you, I’m hoping to try quite a few of them.
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
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.
Awesome collection. Each one looks fabulous. Pinning it for later. Thank you for including my Mango Cake.
Your mango cake sounds really good Lathiya. It’s on my list to try.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Eggs are getting increasingly hard to find for sure. I’m looking forward to trying some of these myself – especially your water cake.
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.
Indeed, we’ve had no eggs on the shelves for quite some time. Mind you, no flour either!
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.
Thanks Renu. Sometimes it’s really useful to have quite specific recipes all in one place.
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.
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.