The Best Brands of Vegan Baking Mixes

Of course it’s more natural to gather all your ingredients together and bake a cake or cookie from scratch. But often real life is not like that. So here are better baking mixes sold. Not just vegan but made with natural ingredients (use palm-oil-free vegan butter and egg replacer). For now, it’s difficult to avoid plastic packaging. So recycle these brands at the kerbside (or at supermarket bag recycling bins).

Read food safety for people & pets (many human foods including chocolate, coffee, dried fruits and spices are unsafe around animal friends). If used, keep xylitol (a sugar alternative) away from pets (lethal, even from a few crumbs).

Freyas Simple Vegan Baking Mixes

Freyas is a fresh new brand of simple-to-make baking mixes. They are all vegan and free from palm oil. What makes them special, is that they were created by the first-ever vegan contestant on BBC’s Bake-Off program. This former psychology student went on to win hearts and tummies, with her no-nonsense Yorkshire cakes and bakes.

The mixes are in four flavours:

Lemon Drizzle Loaf (a light lemon sponge, soaked in a tangy glaze)
Sticky Toffee Pudding (the world’s favourite pudding – from Cumbria)
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 with nontoxic parchment paper (or use a silicone baking liner). Pour oat milk, melted vegan butter (Flora has no palm oil) and the sachet into a bowl, then bake the mixed batter, and leave to cool.

Vegan Baking Recipes by a Yorkshire Lass!

Simply Vegan Baking is the debut cookbook by the same Yorkshire lass, on a mission to show how familiar recipes can be made without eggs, dairy or butter. From simple cakes and traybakes and bread to desserts and showstopping cakes, the faff-free recipes include:

Oat Cookies
Lemon Meringue Pie
Carrot Cake
Salted Caramel Cupcakes
Cinnamon Rolls
Banoffee Pie Slices
Black Forest Gateau
White Choc Raspberry Blondies
Triple Chocolate Cookies

Low-Carb & Low-Sugar Baking Mixes

Go-Low is a range of low-carb and low-sugar baking mixes, created by a woman who was struggling to lose ‘baby weight’ after having three children in close succession. The sugar’s removed but not the taste, so you can go from bowl to plate in minutes. The range includes:

French-style Crepes are nice with plant-based yoghurt, granola and maple syrup (or serve with fruit couli and vegan cream). Or even with mushroom sauce. Just add water, plant milk and egg replacer and get ready to flip!
Pancake & Waffle Mix is packed with fibre and healthy fats, to make yummy fluffy breakfast pancakes to fuel all your family for the day. Ready in minutes, just add water or plant-milk and egg-replacer.
Seedy crackers are made with sesame and linseeds, so rich in fibre and packed with protein and omega 6 fatty acids. Just add water, mix, roll and bake to snack on or serve with soup.
Easy Wraps are the homemade alternative to tortilla chips. Use in a vegan BLT or create fajitas or burritoss for Mexican food. Packed with fibre and nutrient-dense super seeds. Just add water and oil, roll and cook for just 2 minutes.
Buttery Cookies are ready in 10 minutes, just add vegan butter and vanilla, spread out on the pan and bake (takes less than 10 minutes). Brew your cuppa while they cool, or use as a vegan cheesecake base.
Chocolate Brownies are rich and gooey, made with natural sweeteners. Just add vanilla, vegan butter and egg replacer for a tasty low-carb brownie made with raw cacao (better than processed cocoa).

Other Good Vegan Baking Mixes

Katie Bakes offers a gingerbread baking mix in an eco-friendly pouch. Use a standard-size cookie cutter to make 12 gingerbread men. Make up with vegan butter (the mix already contains egg replacer and bicarbonate of soda).

Just Wholefoods makes nice organic baking mixes for pancakes, flapjacks, energy balls, brownies and matcha pancakes. Sweetened with coconut blossom, just add oil or vegan butter, and your favourite syrups.

Nom Nom Not Dairy makes delicious vegan baking mixes, sold without packaging. Made in the Midlands, this started as a ‘brownie project’ during lockdown, just enter your postcode to find stockists.

Where To Find Vegan Chocolate Chips

Many baking mixes call for chocolate chips (for cookies, brownies etc). Moo Free is the best brand, made with rice milk (although again you’ll have to recycle the recycled plastic packaging, sent in cornstarch packaging that dissolves in water). Unlike dark bitter chocolate, these drops are ‘milk chocolate’ flavour (made with Rainforest-Alliance sourced cocoa). Also as white chocolate drops.