A Bun in the Oven: Egg Free Biscuits, Pancakes, and Muffins Recipes

Can't have eggs or just don't have any in the fridge?  Maybe just looking for a quick and easy recipe?  Here are my scratch recipes for biscuits, pancakes and banana muffins.  Sometimes when I'm out of fresh milk I substitute with dry milk or watered down plain yogurt.  One good thing about not baking with eggs is that you and the kids can eat all the raw/undercooked dough they want and there is no risk of salmonella. All of these can be made ahead and frozen to reheat later.  I hope you enjoy these treats!

Drop Biscuits:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees
pour 1 cup milk into a 4 cup measuring cup or bowl (add less milk for cookie cutter biscuits)
add 1/4 to 1/2 cup oil or butter
add 2 cups of any flour (white, whole wheat, half white/half wheat)
add 2 tsp baking powder
add 1/2 tsp salt
stir until all ingredients are wet
add other stuff if you want like cinnamon, garlic, grated cheese, chocolate chips, raisins, sugar or frozen berries
spoon heaping Tablespoons on to a parchment paper covered or oil sprayed cookie sheet
cook for 15 minutes

Pancakes:
pour 2 cups milk into 4 cup measuring cup or bowl
add 2 Tablespoons oil
add 2 Tablespoons water
add 2 cups of any flour (white, whole wheat, half white/half wheat)
add 1 Tablespoon plus one 1 teaspoon baking powder
add 1 Tablespoon sugar
add 1/2 teaspoon salt

stir until all ingredients are wet and most lumps are gone

add other stuff if you want like cinnamon, chocolate chips, banana slices or frozen berries

cook on a pan on the stove on med-low sprayed with oil (or butter) before every time you pour a new set of pancakes

pancakes are ready to flip when bubbles come through the middle of the pancake (they work their way in from the outside) and the bottom is tan

serve when the other side is tan too with syrup, honey, jelly, yogurt, peanut butter, applesauce or what ever your family likes on pancakes

Banana Muffins: 

this recipe makes two muffin tins full or 2 loafs of banana bread and can be halved

preheat the oven to 400 degrees

squish 4 ripe bananas at the bottom of a bowl with a fork (2 cups)

add 1/2 cup plus 1 Tablespoon oil

add 3 Tablespoons water

add 1/2 cup honey or maple syrup (watered down brown sugar may work here)

add 1/2 cup milk

stir well

add 4 cups flour (2 white 2 wheat, or all white)

add 2 Tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon baking powder

add 1 teaspoon salt

stir until well mixed and moistened

add other stuff if you want like cinnamon, chopped nuts, chocolate chips, raisins, or frozen berries

spoon into two oil-sprayed muffin tins or two loaf pans half to 3/4 full

bake muffins for 20-25 minutes or loafs for 45 min to an hour until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean

What Came First?: How to Replace Eggs in Recipes

A few years ago, I finally discovered that eggs were the culprit every time I felt awful.  Egg allergies can be tricky, but not as difficult as some other more prevalent foods.  One thing people ask me is how can I handle not eating any pancakes, muffins, cookies, and quick breads.  These foods are tasty and, it's true, I can't eat many store bought or someone else's homemade baked goods.  But, I have these things all the time because I just make those recipes at home with out using eggs.  If the recipe has 2 eggs or less I can usually substitute each egg with the following:

2 Tablespoons Oil
2 Tablespoons Water
1 teaspoon baking powder (I use aluminum free or make my own using equal parts baking soda, cream of tartar and rice flour-wheat flour may work, I have never tried)

Then I reduce the cooking time by about 5 minutes.

It doesn't work for flan, pumpkin pie, or omelets, but at least I don't feel as deprived.

Drop the D-Bomb: Kids Vitamins

The new thing is vitamin D supplements even for new babies, and I am a bit squeemish about giving any weird chemical additives to babies, so I found some D drops with ONLY vitamin D suspended in natural oil.  The best thing is they only have to have one drop a day instead of a whole dropper-ful.  I think they are called Baby D-Drops from Carlson.  I got them online. 


Now Cal and Quentin both eat Little Critters Gummy Vites (or generic Target or Trader Joes brand) multi and dha- no artificial flavors/colors or fake sugar.

Cheapest Popcorn Trick Ever: How I Make Popcorn

Ok, this is just random, but it's one of the coolest things I have learned while staying home.  If you take 1/4 cup popcorn kernels and put them in a regular brown paper lunch sack, fold over the edge 3 times and lay it flat like microwave popcorn in the microwave for 1 min 50 sec, you will have a really cheap bag of popcorn with out any chemical weirdness on it.