This Easy Ingredient Swap Makes Cloud Bread Vegan-Friendly
What makes cloud bread healthier is its few key ingredients: Sweetener, corn starch, and egg whites. The inclusion of eggs is what makes the TikTok obsession off-limits for vegans. But not all hope is lost — some bloggers have come up with a way to make cloud bread vegan.
Use aquafaba instead of egg whites
Because egg whites are the primary ingredient of cloud bread, you can't simply remove it from the recipe and hope for the best. But you can substitute something else that imitates egg whites and is vegan: aquafaba. If you've never heard of that, it's basically a fancy word for chickpea water. The blogger behind My Dainty Soul Curry explains that aquafaba has the same properties of egg whites and can be whipped into stiff peaks (which is an essential step of the cloud bread-making process). It also adds just the right amount of airiness and fluffiness so your bread won't turn out too dense.
Where do you buy aquafaba? America's Test Kitchen explains that it's simply the liquid that you drain out of a can of chickpeas. Rather than pouring it down the sink, catch in a container and use it the next time you're whipping up a batch of cloud bread.
