Eggs are essential to cake batter and other baked goods ... Aquafaba is a versatile cooking helper to keep around, and it’s essentially free if you’ve been draining it from your beans all ...

the flour proteins join the egg proteins and reinforce that web around the air bubbles. As you bake the cake, all that protein coagulates with heat, stopping the bubbles from popping. The result?

For yellow cake, egg yolks also add a deep yellow color ... cake from his new book “Mastering the Art of Plant-Based Cooking.” Arrowroot yields the fluffiest result, but cornstarch works ...