Substitutions

I love baking & cooking! Here at Neema, I’ve tried making a couple different homemade goodies and I must say I’ve gotten fairly good at substituting ingredients we don’t have on hand. Pictured below is cookie dough which doesn’t look great, but the cookies turned out delicious!

Here’s a list of things I’ve learned you don’t need:

No white sugar? Using all brown sugar works fine!

No hand-mixer? It’s not the end of the world when things turn out lumpy!

No heavy cream? Melt some butter. Boil some whole milk.  Whisk together!

No cornstarch? Use flour instead, but you’ll add 8x the amount needed!

No sour cream? Mix vinegar into canned milk!

No baking powder? Use whipped egg whites!

No vanilla? Use a little pumpkin pie spice (those cookies turned out SO good)!

Lexi and I laughed so much while trying to figure out how to make chocolate pie without some of the ingredients listed above. We even had to FaceTime my mom to ask her a couple of questions! We weren’t ready to try making home-made pie crust so we settled on just eating the pie filling as pudding :).

I was pretty scared to attempt making the pie filling, but it turned out really good. Maybe next time I’ll even try making the crust.