Vegan Baking Project by Aleka V., Emmett P., and Joseph S. 6B

           In this project, we were supposed to find a problem, so we chose the problem of livestock. Livestock produces ½ of the greenhouse gases in the world, so one way to stop that is to go vegan. In our project, we looked at the difference in vegan baking and non-vegan baking to prove that even some of the most popular foods (baked goods are still delicious when made vegan. We made pancakes to show the people who came to our station that pancakes are still delicious without milk and eggs.
            At first, we were not sure what to bring to the maker faire. Maybe we should make a bunch of vegan cookies and hand them out? But that would be a lot of work. Then we thought that pancakes are delicious and easy to make quickly, the ingredients are in the budget, so why not make those. One problem that we encountered was when we found a pan that was too warped, so it would not get hot enough on the electric stove. This made the pancake batter stick to the pan, making it impossible. This resulted in a scrambled pancake. At first. We found out the problem and got another pan. Some advice for anyone who bakes vegan is you can’t overthink the recipe. If it looks like the dough for cookies is too dry, don’t try to make it wetter by adding more liquid. These people know their stuff, and adding more liquid might ruin the cookies.
            Our process was very simple. We were going to make individual baked goods at home, then bring them to school for everyone in the group to try and document the taste and texture. Also, we were working on perfecting a vegan pancake recipe for the Maker Faire. Once we had baked and eaten all the vegan and non-vegan muffins and cookies we wrote a couple of questions about vegan baking that people at the faire might have. We just straight up answered them. For example “What is a substitute for butter in baking?” Our answer was oil and nut butter. Within our project, we learned that making vegan baked goods isn't that hard. Our estimated price for all of our pancake ingredients was about $10, because of the flour, sugar, and soy milk which we bought. This is a site with our favorite vegan recipes. If we had enough time to do more we would’ve made regular pancakes at Maker Fair and we might have brought a lot of vegan and non-vegan cookies and lemon poppyseed muffins, also we would’ve more baked goods at home.