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What item serves as a food thickener? As a leavening?

Few more questions:
What would happen if you left eggs or oil in a cake?
In oatmeal raisin cookies, would it make a difference if you substitued the raisins with chocolate chips?

you don't have to answer all of these but if thers some you can answer please help!
I meant what would happen if you left OUT eggs and oil in a cake?

Hi...in all these answers no one suggested what I feel is by far the best thing to thicken...ARROWROOT. It is a white powder. It's more expensive than starch or flour but there's a reason for that...it's MUCH better. With the other 2 you often get a chaulky taste and the color is muddy. Don't know what you are making, or if the color would make a difference. But when you use arrowroot it just thickens but the sauce becomes clear.

Here's an example. One of my fav things to do is make a black cherry sauce. Looks like it was hard, but it is silly simple and done in a couple minutes. You just save the liquid (they are cheaper in a jar...great if you have Trader Joes near you). Mix some of the cool liquid with the arrowroot separately. IE take a small bowl or cup and use about 1/4 cup of liquid and depending on how much you are making about 2 heaping teaspoons of arrowroot. Mix until blended (this will be cloudy). Then add this to as much of the rest of the liquid as you need. I then add a dash of vanilla, salt, and sometimes a little bit of a liquor for flavor. Then when it's almost done and thickened, add the cherries or other fruit. Awesome on chicken or duck breasts....or anything! Will look like you slaved in the kitchen hehehe!

But that is just one suggestion. It will thicken whatever you want using the same technique, be it stew, soup, whatever. And if it's not thick enough add a little more. Just be sure to use cool or warm liquid to mix with whatever you use, be it arrowroot, flour or corn starch or you will have hard, clumpy balls that don't break down! Mix separately until totaly dissolved then add to main dish.

I would suggest looking for arrowroot at a store that sells stuff in bulk or a farmers market (got a HUGE bag really cheap last time I vacationed in Amish country PA). The market is pricey, but you can try one jar to see if you agree it's the best. Bet you can find it online too...lots of good spice sites.

Another tip...if you are going to use flour I'd strongly suggest getting a cannister of Wondra flour. (Either in the flour or spice aisle). It's super fine and blends much better than regular flour to thicken. And yes cornstarch will work but it's my least fav as it adds a gummy, chaulky taste. Yuk!

And if you were asking about leaving eggs out of cake, there are some recipes for dense cakes without them. I'd suggest web searching recipes. I know there are some online, as I have a vegan friend. Leavening ingredients are primarily Baking soda or baking powder, but they are definately not a substitute for eggs FYI. And there are oil substitutes, like butter, fake butter (I can't believe it's not butter bakes better than most), some swear by applesauce. And Yum yes choc will work fine...choc always works lol. Think I got em all! hehe

Good luck!

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