The Best Brands of Vegan Baking Mixes

It’s obviously good to bake your own vegan cakes and cookies. But there is a huge market for ready-made baking mixes, so why not swap to a healthier and kinder vegan baking mix brand instead? These mixes are also free from palm oil, use these mixes with oat milk and palm-oil-free vegan butters.

Use with zero waste baking tools. Keep mixes away from young children and pets (read more on food safety for people and pets. Recycle packaging at supermarket bag bins, if your kerbside does not recycle. 

Freyas Vegan Baking Mixes

Freyas (there’s no apostrophe!) is a young fresh baking mix brand, created by the first vegan contestant on BBC’s Great British Bake-Off. All these mixes are vegan and free from palm oil, in traditional flavours that everyone will enjoy.

Choose from four flavours:

• Sticky Toffee Pudding (the world’s favourite pudding – from Cumbria)
• Lemon Drizzle Loaf (a light lemon sponge, soaked in a tangy glaze)
• Choc Chip Brookie (half brownie, half cookie!)
• Choc Chip Marble Cookies (vanilla and chocolate dough)

To make, just follow the pack instructions. Line a baking tray. Pour oat milk, melted vegan butter  and the sachet in a bowl, bake the mixed batter and leave to cool.

Benefits of Baking with Freya’s Mixes

As well as being kind to animals, vegan baking mixes are also free from cholesterol, when mixed with plant-based ingredients. They are also lower in calories, which means you can eat more of them!

Vegan baking mixes also have a far lower carbon footprint, as livestock farming (for meat or dairy) is one of the world’s biggest contributors to greenhouse gases.

You can also make them a bit healthier, by serving with fresh organic berries and plant-based yoghurt. Add some chopped walnuts (adults only) to chocolate baked treats, for a boost of omega 3 fatty acids.

Tips for Using Vegan Baking Mixes

We don’t live in a high enough elevation in England to worry about adjusting baking times. But here are a few useful tips, for vegan baking success!

• Use room temperature plant milk for a smoother batter.
• Don’t overmix your batter (or open the oven too early).
• If not using silicone bakeware, line tins with zero waste parchment paper.
• Rest cookie dough for 20 minutes to improve texture.
• For lighter sponges, add 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar to activate rise.
• Store cooled bakes in an airtight tin (not the fridge) to hold moisture.

Freya’s Homemade Vegan Baking Recipes

If you fancy making some of Freya’s own homemade recipes, buy her book Simply Vegan Baking. This is packed with fun and easy recipes, by a Yorkshire lass on a mission, to show how familiar recipes can be made without eggs, dairy or butter.

Just bin citrus or rhubarb scraps (as like tomato and alliums (anything from the onion family), acids could harm compost creatures, if not balanced with other items in the compost bin.

Some of the delicious recipes in the book include:

• Vegan Victoria Sponge Cake
• Lemon Passionfruit Cake with Rum Drizzle (above)
• Banoffee Pie Slices
• Salted Caramel Cupcakes
• Vegan Lemon Meringue Pie
• Vegan Tiramisu

A Vegan Gingerbread Cake Mix

Katie Bakes Gingerbread Cake Mix is sold in an eco pouch, to make 12 delicious gingerbread biscuits, using a standard size cutter. It can be made with palm-oil-free vegan butter, and needs no eggs, as it includes egg replacer in the mix.