Vegan Dairy & Egg Substitutes

Hallelujah for all the vegan dairy & egg substitutes nowadays. Some are already prepared for you, while others have easy homemade options.

Also, lots of grocery stores are now carrying what you need. Isn’t it great?

This makes it so much easier to veganize “traditional” recipes. Many times they have even fooled me, and I’m the one making the food. lol

Muffins + Pancakes using vegan dairy & egg substitutes

My blog is filled with recipes that I have already veganized for you.

Some of the older ones have a different method, because many of these newer products weren’t available at that time.

They still may not be available, or are really expensive where you live, but you can still use the other methods I listed. I do.

Let’s start with milk substitutes. I find that they are usually the easiest to swap out.

Canned coconut milk was an ingredient I used often in the past, but I tend to reach for oat milk now. The neutral flavor and creamy texture works great in most recipes.

These are just suggestions though, not an ad or “you have to use this!” commandment. lol Just go with what’s available to you, and / or what you prefer.

Article on Why Oat Milk Rocks & Good Brands

Here is a list of the three oat milks that I use:

Chobani Oat Milk Plain Extra Creamy

Silk Oat Milk Full Fat Extra Creamy

OATLY! Full Fat Oat Milk

Let me know if you have others that you love. I’m always up to trying something new.

And look, I found these great recipes for homemade oat milk. I haven’t made them yet, but they are bookmarked and I cannot wait.

How to Make Homemade Oat Milk (the photo above is from their post)

Ultra Creamy Homemade Oat Milk

Homemade Oat Milk Creamy and Delicious

Great tips on making Homemade Oat Milk

Note: To make vegan buttermilk: Use 1 tablespoon of white vinegar for every cup of milk (1/2 tablespoon for 1/2 cup).

You measure it like this: Add 1 tablespoon of white vinegar to a clear glass measuring cup. Then add enough milk to bring the measurement up to 1 cup. Stir with a non-reactive (like wood) spoon or chopstick.

—> Don’t use apple cider vinegar though, because the acetic acid is lower. White vinegar is the strongest, and that’s what you want to get the best reaction from your leaveners- like baking soda.

Chocolate Milk

Oatly! Chocolate Oatmilk

Pacific Foods “I need to try this” Hazelnut Chocolate

Chocolate Milk by Ripple

Homemade Chocolate Milk by The Vegan 8 (that’s her yum photo above).

Brands for non-dairy creamers and creams

This post has a list of vegan Whipped Creams

Silk brand has a great vegan heavy cream, but this article also covers other options.

I use vegan half and half or coffee creamers pretty much interchangeably.

I have used both plain and flavored creamer in my Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal, and it’s delicious!

List of sweetened condensed milk

(I used this in the PUMPKIN PIE above. The pie is usually thicker, but it was baked in a 10″ pie plate by mistake. oops)

Let’s Do Organic Sweetened Condensed Coconut Milk.

Here is a homemade recipe for 2 Ingredient Vegan Sweetened Condensed Milk.

Another homemade vegan sweetened condensed milk.

Vegan options for butter, cream cheese, sour cream & yogurt

These are the two brands I use. I prefer the first one for baking, and I always use the second for cooking.

Miyoko’s European Style stick butter salted or unsalted, whichever they have in stock.

Earth Balance Buttery Spread in the tub.

Note: I previously used EB’s baking sticks for cookies and other baked goods, but I find that Miyoko’s taste more realistic for that purpose.

Earth Balance is fantastic for cooking though, and I talked about that in this blueberry pancake post.

I used vegan dairy & egg substitutes in the cheesecake above, and it turned out SOOO amazing! No one can believe that it’s vegan, and that comes from people who aren’t vegan.

Here are the vegan cream cheese and sour cream brands that I keep on hand.

There are really great recipes for homemade too, and I plan to try them out soon.

Cream Cheese

Tofutti Plain Cream Cheese

Kite Hill Plain Cream Cheese Alternative

Violife Cream Cheese

Daiya Cream Cheeze Style Spread

Sour Cream

Tofutti Sour Cream

Kite Hill Sour Cream Alternative

Follow Your Heart Dairy Free Sour Cream

Yogurt

OATLY! Oatgurt Plain

SO DELICIOUS unsweetened plain coconutmilk yogurt

Homemade Yogurt: Easy 2 Ingredient Coconut Yogurt

Note: I covered sour creams and cream cheese- what brands worked and what didn’t- in this Luscious Vegan Cheesecake post. Definitely worth your time reading it.

Vegan Egg Options

You have quite a few choices- both store bought and homemade.

For store bought I use JUST Egg, but I know that it can be hard to find or very expensive in many places.

That’s why I’ve included this information from PETA They list 13 egg replacements for cooking and baking.

For homemade, I prefer flax eggs for quick breads, cakes, and cookies. Well the recipes that do well with the nutty taste that flax eggs give.

Chia eggs have more of a neutral flavor. Here’s a recipe for both types of eggs.

Want no taste for your vegan egg? I always use aquafaba. You honestly cannot taste it in the recipes.

You can learn more about it and its uses in this Guide to Aquafaba. It’s pretty amazing!

(I used coconut milk and aquafaba as my vegan dairy and egg substitutes in the stack above, and look how beautifully they worked. Those are my Very Best Fluffy Vegan Pancakes.)

Also, here is a helpful guide on how much liquid to substitute for eggs:

Medium animal egg = 3 tablespoons liquid
Large animal egg = 3 1/2 tablespoons liquid ( 4 TBSP for thicker vegan egg- like JUST Egg)
Extra-large animal egg = 4 tablespoons liquid
Jumbo animal egg = 4 1/4 tablespoons liquid

Note: Sometimes I will make a super flax egg and add 1/2 to 1 tablespoon more to the liquid- if the recipe calls for just 1 egg.

For numbers 7 and 12 (gelatin), in the link below, make sure your substitutes are vegan.

–>Here are some more Vegan Egg Substitutes.

It’s cheese time!!

There are so many flavors and types, I would be on here for days listing them. (Check out your stores, and the web for reviews.)

I do want to mention a couple that I have used in recent recipes.

One is Violife Just Like Parmesan. It comes in a block form, so you can grate it. The taste is amazing.

I also used Violife just like FETA cheese in these Black Bean Burgers. So good!

Here is a new one that I have been using on my pizza, and also to top lasagna. It’s absolutely amazing, so if Miyoko’s Pizza Mozzarella is available definitely try it.