Meetup Live

Recording: Whip it Up! Holiday Baking Demo

Get into the holiday spirit by watching this vegan holiday baking demo with Brittany Berlin from the popular plant-based recipe website, The Banana Diaries.

By Emily Trieste

Reviewed by Mary Garcia

Ready to wow your friends and family with your baking skills this holiday season? Watch this Meetup Live recording for a holiday baking demo with Brittany Berlin from the popular plant-based recipe website, The Banana Diaries. Brittany will show you how to make vegan pumpkin French toast and vegan double chocolate chip cookies that will impress your guests, vegan or not! She will also walk you through top plant-based egg replacements and share tips on making your recipes gluten-free.

Vegan baking recipes:

French Toast: https://thebananadiaries.com/easy-vegan-pumpkin-french-toast/
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies: https://thebananadiaries.com/vegan-double-chocolate-chip-cookies/

Timestamp:

Introduction (1:25)
Pumpkin French Toast (2:40)
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies (12:50)
Q&A (23:15)(31:30)(43:18)

Top Q&A/ Resources:

Where can you purchase aquafaba?
- So, if you buy a can of chickpeas that liquid that people usually discard can actually be used for baking. You drain the liquid into a jar and keep it for baking. Make sure the chickpeas are unsalted if it is salted it does not taste good. You also don’t have to use it right away to you can actually just store it in a container and it’ll like last in the fridge for like a week.
What vegan butter is best for baking?
- I’ve tried a few I honestly think that they all work quite similarly it really is just on your preference so I personally love Miyoko’s and Earth Balance is great if you want something that’s nut-free, Flora is also great but it is not as widely available so I mostly reccommend Miyoko’s or Earth Balance.
Different brands of applesauce have differing liquid content. How do we manage that?
- Yeah, so I found that it’s hard because I know from what my readers have told me that applesauce it’s not as widely available in Europe. So a lot of them try to make their own, and that is where you run into the issue of a little bit too much liquid content. A lot of brands applesauce, I find here are pretty similar so the real issue I think runs into if you’re making it yourself and you really have to make sure that you’re straining the applesauce so that it is more thick.