Substitutes for baking
100 cards, each listed with its best swap. Open one for the amount and every option, stamped.
In this drawer
100 cards0–9
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B
- Baker's ammoniabest swap: Baking powder
- Bakewell creambest swap: Cream of tartar
- Baking chocolatebest swap: Cocoa powder plus fat (for unsweetened baking chocolate)
- Baking powderbest swap: Baking soda + vinegar or lemon juice
- Baking sodabest swap: Baking powder
- Bamboo fiberbest swap: Oat fiber
- Black cocoa powderbest swap: Dutch-process cocoa powder plus espresso powder
- Bread yeastbest swap: Instant yeast
- Brownie mixbest swap: From-scratch dry brownie mix
- Buttercreambest swap: Whipped chocolate ganache
C
- Cacao pastebest swap: Unsweetened baking chocolate (100 percent bars)
- Cake enhancerbest swap: Leave it out entirely
- Cake flourbest swap: All-purpose flour + cornstarch
- Cake mixbest swap: From-scratch dry mix (yellow or white cake)
- Candy meltsbest swap: Almond bark, confectionery coating or melting wafers
- Carbquikbest swap: Homemade carbalose bake mix
- Carob chipsbest swap: Semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips
- Carob powderbest swap: Unsweetened cocoa powder
- Casein protein powderbest swap: Milk protein isolate or a casein-whey blend
- Cheeseclothbest swap: Muslin cloth
- Chestnut flourbest swap: Almond flour plus a little honey
- Chestnut pureebest swap: Homemade puree from cooked chestnuts
- Chocolate cake mixbest swap: From-scratch dry mix equivalent
- Chocolate chipsbest swap: Chopped chocolate
- Chocolate chunksbest swap: A chopped chocolate bar
- Chocolate cookie crumbsbest swap: Graham cracker crumbs plus cocoa
- Chocolate frostingbest swap: Cocoa buttercream from cocoa, butter and confectioners' sugar
- Chocolate ganachebest swap: Chocolate chips melted with evaporated milk or whole milk
- Chocolate graham crackersbest swap: Plain graham crackers plus cocoa powder
- Chocolate pudding mixbest swap: Instant vanilla pudding mix plus cocoa powder
- Chocolate sprinklesbest swap: Grated or shaved dark chocolate
- Chocolate wafer cookiesbest swap: Chocolate sandwich cookies, filling scraped off
- Coconut flourbest swap: Almond flour
- Corn flourbest swap: Cornmeal
- Cornstarchbest swap: All-purpose flour
- Couverture chocolatebest swap: Good-quality baking bar plus added cocoa butter
- Cream of tartarbest swap: Lemon juice
D
- Dark chocolatebest swap: Semisweet or bittersweet chocolate
- Devil's food cake mixbest swap: Chocolate cake mix plus extra cocoa
- Diastatic malt powderbest swap: Nothing at all, plus a longer ferment
- Digestive biscuitsbest swap: Graham crackers
- Drageesbest swap: Nonpareils
- Dream whipbest swap: Frozen whipped topping (Cool Whip)
- Dutch-process cocoa powderbest swap: Natural unsweetened cocoa powder plus a pinch of baking soda
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M
- Malt extractbest swap: Barley malt syrup, malt syrup or non-diastatic malt powder
- Maltodextrinbest swap: Cornstarch
- Marzipanbest swap: Homemade marzipan from almond flour and powdered sugar
- Matzo cake mealbest swap: Matzo meal, reground and sifted
- Meringue powderbest swap: Fresh egg whites
- Mexican chocolatebest swap: Semisweet or dark chocolate plus sugar and cinnamon
- Milk chocolatebest swap: Semisweet chocolate plus sugar plus dry milk powder
- Modeling chocolatebest swap: Homemade modeling chocolate from chocolate and corn syrup
N
P
- Parchment paperbest swap: Silicone baking mat
- Pastry creambest swap: Instant vanilla pudding, made thick
- Pastry flourbest swap: All-purpose + cake flour mix
- Peanut butter chipsbest swap: Chopped peanut butter cups
- Phyllo doughbest swap: Yufka or bourek sheets
- Pie crustbest swap: Press-in oil crust
- Piping gelbest swap: Homemade cornstarch and corn syrup gel
- Poppy seed fillingbest swap: Home-ground poppy seed filling
- Puff pastrybest swap: Rough puff pastry (homemade)
R
S
- Self-rising flourbest swap: All-purpose flour + baking powder + salt
- Semisweet chocolatebest swap: Semisweet or dark chocolate chips
- Shortcrust pastrybest swap: Homemade shortcrust pastry
- Shorteningbest swap: Butter
- Sourdough discardbest swap: Equal weights flour and water plus an acid
- Soy lecithinbest swap: Sunflower lecithin
- Sprinklesbest swap: Colored sanding sugar or coarse sugar
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Y