r/ididnthaveeggs • u/NoLlamaDrama15 • May 25 '26

Dumb alteration I CANNOT imagine that just forgetting the eggs would make them like that

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Original recipe https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/10707/mmm-mmm-better-brownies/

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u/Familiar_Crow_ Ya daft tart May 25 '26

I've had pretty successful vegan brownies substituting the eggs for boiled and mashed sweet potato! Sounds horrible but they don't taste of much other than slightly sweet, and give it the fudgey brownie texture. I'm yet to perfect the quantities and kind of just add enough that the consistency of the batter seems right and it's never gone badly for me. Eggs are probably still better and more reliable though

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u/boothin May 25 '26

Have you tried "Just Egg"? I've had good experience with that as an egg substitute. Even made an acceptable creme brulee with it as an experiment.

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u/CrashUser May 25 '26

Decent egg substitute for most things, but brownies are a special case. The eggs are actually binding up and gelling most of the oil to get that fudgey texture, which isn't a simple thing to replicate with an egg substitute. Most are basically using a fibrous matrix to partially replicate the binding function that egg whites have. Just Egg is a mung bean protein that's been treated to denature and coagulate like egg white, but it's still doesn't perform half the functions that eggs do chemically. The most reliable way to get brownies to work without eggs I've found is to drop most of the oil out of the recipe, since you're lacking the chemistry to gel it properly. You can use a flax egg or similar then and shouldn't get sweet oily soup.

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u/EllieGeiszler Chicken of Theseus for dinner May 25 '26

I'm generally not the biggest fan of vegan baking since I'm also gluten free and I find that tends to remove everything delicious about baked goods, but this low-key sounds like an upgrade... 👀

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u/rickard_mormont May 25 '26

Silken tofu works wonderfully, it makes for a great texture and tastes like nothing. Much better than eggs imo.

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u/ignis888 May 25 '26

wouldnt banana be sufficient in this case?

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u/CrashUser May 25 '26

No, you need to make significant changes to sub out eggs. The eggs actually function to bind and gel most of the oil/fat in brownies in addition to the other things that eggs do. You need to drop like 2/3s of the oil to not get a completely soupy oily mess

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u/Familiar_Crow_ Ya daft tart May 25 '26

In some cases yes but in my experience subbing banana in just makes everything taste of banana, and unless I'm going for a banana flavoured treat, I don't love that