These vegan Yorkshire puddings are perfect and delicious with their golden, crispy crowns and an elusive ‘well’ ready to fill with gravy! A rewarding bake that is great served with a mushroom wellington and all the trimmings.
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🌟 Why this recipe works
Practice makes perfect – we practiced and practiced until we got this vegan Yorkshire pudding recipe just right. Dan spent literally years trying different tins, ingredients and temperatures. We always want Yorkshire puddings with a vegan roast dinner, so it was a labour of love to create a decent vegan version – especially ones with the crispy outside and the hole in the middle. There are many factors at play to get them to rise nicely, but if you're as obsessed as we are, it's completely worth persevering for. Plus, we use a similar recipe for this vegan toad in the hole too.
Detailed notes and tips – this is by no means the most straight-forward recipe and there's no guarantee of the perfect vegan Yorkshire puddings first time. Different ingredients and ovens can lead to slightly different results, but what we can offer you is a comprehensive guide to making vegan Yorkshire puddings along with all the tips and tricks to help you succeed.
Great for lots of dietary requirements – this vegan Yorkshire pudding recipe is vegan, of course. That makes it suitable for dairy free and egg free diets. Gluten free? Don't worry, while the recipe calls for half-and-half regular flour and chickpea flour, you can use all chickpea flour and still get a delicious Yorkie.
🍽 Equipment
When making vegan Yorkshire puddings, there are some essential bits of kit needed to give you the best chances of success.
Muffin tin – Yorkshire pudding or popover tins don't cut it here. When making vegan Yorkshire puddings a metal muffin tin or cupcake tin is essential. The vegan Yorkshire pudding mixture doesn't cook exactly like a traditional one does, so the shape of the muffin tin is really important. And it has to be a metal muffin tin to distribute the heat evenly and to hold its shape while they cook. We've tried a silicone muffin mould and it doesn't work.
Whisk – it doesn't matter whether it's a hand whisk or an electric whisk. A whisk is important for mixing and helping to achieve a smooth batter.
Measuring equipment – kitchen scales along with cup and spoon measurers. When it comes to baking, nothing offers the accuracy that a good set of digital kitchen scales offer. This is needed to measure out the flours. And when it comes to measuring liquids and spices, we find cup and spoon measurers are best for consistency.
📋 Ingredient Tips
Yorkshire puddings traditionally contain a couple of animal-derived ingredients – milk and eggs. We've utilised a few less traditional ingredients to help us create a vegan Yorkshire pudding. The full ingredients list and measurements can be found in the recipe card below.
Chickpea flour – also known as gram or garbanzo flour. It's a gluten free flour that's made with dried chickpeas. When it comes to making vegan Yorkshire puddings, chickpea flour offers a few benefits:
It helps to create a slightly lighter batter that will rise better.
The yellow hue of the flour helps to produce a classic looking Yorkshire pudding, which would otherwise gain a slight yellow colour from the yolks of the eggs used. This recipe also calls for a little turmeric powder to enhance the colour further and produce truly golden vegan Yorkshire puddings. Chickpea flour is also great in a vegan omelette.
Aquafaba – this is the egg replacement in this recipe. It’s the water that beans or other pulses have been cooked in. You know, that kind of weird smelling liquid that most people pour down the drain when you open a tin of chickpeas? Aquafaba isn’t just found in tins of chickpeas, though most references to it mention chickpeas. We’ve successfully made this recipe using aquafaba from tins of kidney beans and butter beans, so if you’re making our famous vegan fish pie, keep the aquafaba from the tin!
Baking powder + apple cider vinegar – both of these ingredients work together to help the mixture rise in the oven. Baking powder needs a liquid and an acid to activate, which is where the apple cider vinegar comes in. Once activated, baking powder produces carbon dioxide which helps baked goods to rise and become fluffy.
Plain flour – or all-purpose flour, it's just the regular old kind of white flour. There's a simple reason why we don't use self-raising flour – we like the control of adding our own baking powder. Self-raising flour is just flour that's been mixed with baking powder. You can use it as an alternative, but we found better results when mixing the two ingredients separately.
🔪 Step-by-step instructions for vegan Yorkshire puddings
This is a step-by-step overview for making vegan Yorkshire puddings. The full recipe, along with measurements and detailed instructions can be found in the recipe card at the bottom of the page.
1. Preheat the oven to 220°c / 425°f. Sieve the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl and stir to combine.
2. Mix the aquafaba, water and apple cider vinegar in a large measuring jug.
3. Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry and whisk until smooth.
4. Let the mixture rest for at least 15 minutes.
5. Pour the oil into the wells of the muffin tin, allowing 1 tablespoon of oil per well. Place the tin in the oven until smoking hot – this should take around 10 minutes, but keep an eye on it.
6. Once the oil is hot, work quickly (but safely) and pour the batter mix into each well of the tin. Don't overfill them. Leave a gap of around 5mm from the top of each hole. Put the filled tin back into the oven as soon as possible and leave to bake for 15 minutes.
7. After 15 minutes, turn the oven temperature down to gas 190°c / 375°f and leave in for another 15 minutes.
8. Remove from the oven and allow them to rest for a further 30 minutes.
Use a spoon to carefully remove them from the tin. Great served with stuffed acorn squash and vegan roast potatoes for a roast dinner, and they're great for a Christmas roast too!
👩🍳 Expert Tips
Preheat the oven and the oil – turn the oven on when you start making the recipe and let it come fully up to temperature while you get the batter mix ready. It should be on gas 200°c / 425°f to start off with.
Then, while the batter mix rests, preheat the oil. It has to be smoking hot, so pour it into the muffin tin and get it into the pre-heated for at least 10 minutes.
Resting time – much like the preheating, there are two times when resting is essential in this vegan Yorkshire pudding recipe. First – rest the batter. You can transfer the batter once it's mixed into a jug so that it’s easier to pour later. Rest it for 10-15 minutes, but don't leave it any longer than that because the baking powder has a limited life on its effectiveness once activated.
Then be sure to rest the Yorkshire puddings once they've baked. The rest time helps the base of them to firm up, so leave them for 15-30 minutes before serving up.
Work fast but carefully – the faster you can pour the batter into the tin and get it back in the oven, the better your chance of success. Every minute the oil is out of the oven it's cooling down, especially once the batter is poured in, so be careful but try your best to get it back in the oven quickly.
What not to do
Don't overfill it – the amount of batter to pour into each well will come with practice, there should be a gap of about 5mm from the top of each one. Once you’ve made them a couple of times you should be able to tell by eye and have them in the oven within a minute.
Don't rush it – we know it’s tempting to rip one vegan Yorkshire pudding straight out and dunk it in gravy to toast your victory, but hold off. If you give them 15 minutes (or longer) to sit on the side, the middle of the pudding will continue to cook and, more importantly, set. In addition, they’ll be easier to get out of the tin. Otherwise the middle will be soft and gooey, which is not how they should be.
Don't skimp on the oil – we know oil isn’t healthy in large quantities, but there’s no way to get the hole in the middle without it. You need a good few millimetres of oil in each well of the muffin tin. The oil should pool in the batter and weigh down the centre of your vegan Yorkshire puddings, leaving the sides to rise and get crispy.
💭 FAQs
Usually, no. Thankfully you don't have to miss out on Yorkshire puddings if you're vegan though. With a few smart ingredient switches, you can make amazing vegan Yorkshire puddings at home with this recipe.
By making a few smart ingredient substitutions! Chickpea flour, aquafaba and baking powder are all essential – check out our full recipe for the details.
Of course! You can switch out cow's milk for a dairy free milk alternative, such as oat or soy. But actually you can even make vegan Yorkshire puddings without a milk alternative, like in our recipe.
You certainly can! Traditional Yorkshire pudding recipes use eggs to help bind the mixture and create an airy batter for them to rise. But have you heard of aquafaba? It acts as a great egg white substitute.
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📖 Recipe
Vegan Yorkshire Puddings
Ingredients
- 100 g plain flour
- 100 g chickpea flour – also known as gram or garbanzo flour
- 3 teaspoon baking powder
- 0.5 teaspoon salt
- 0.5 teaspoon ground turmeric – optional but recommended
- 10 tablespoon aquafaba
- 450 ml water
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- 0.75 cup vegetable oil
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 220°c / 425°f.
- Sieve the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl and stir to combine.100 g plain flour, 100 g chickpea flour, 3 teaspoon baking powder, 0.5 teaspoon salt, 0.5 teaspoon ground turmeric
- Mix the aquafaba, water and apple cider vinegar in a large measuring jug.10 tablespoon aquafaba, 450 ml water, 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry and whisk until smooth. Let the mixture rest for at least 15 minutes.
- Pour the oil into the wells of the muffin tin, allowing 1 tablespoon of oil per well. Place the tin in the oven until smoking hot – this should take around 10 minutes, but keep an eye on it.0.75 cup vegetable oil
- Once the oil is hot, work quickly (but safely) and pour the batter mix into each well of the tin. Don't overfill them. Leave a gap of around 5mm from the top of each well. Put the filled tin back into the oven as soon as possible and leave to bake for 15 minutes.
- After 15 minutes, turn the oven temperature down to gas 190°c / 375°f and leave in for another 15 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and allow them to rest for a further 30 minutes.
- Use a spoon to carefully remove them from the tin. If needed, re-heat them in the oven just before plating up or let the gravy heat them up on your plate!
Foob
Tried these a couple of times now, and haven't been able to get them to rise properly (although they've come the closest to working of the vegan recipes I've tried). I had a pretty good success rate with non-vegan yorkshires, so this is making me a bit crazy! I'm wondering, when you mention whisking the ingredients together, how much beating do I need to do? Obv with the non-vegan recipe, the answer is "a lot!", but with a baking powder based recipe I'm worried about overdoing it. I guess my question is how much does aerating the aquafaba contribute to the rise vs the baking powder?
Jess & Dan
Hey Foob! I don't usually whisk for much longer than it takes to be sure that the batter is completely smooth. I have tried aerating the aquafaba separately before adding the rest of the ingredients, but it honestly didn't make a difference, so don't worry about trying to whip the aquafaba up at all.
But I'm not sure why they wouldn't be rising! How long did you leave the batter to rest? I'm always changing what I do when I make this recipe just to see if I can make any improvements and I've started only letting the batter rest for as long as it takes to heat the oil up in the oven now, max of 15 minutes. The results are pretty similar but I felt like they were rising very slightly better, so that could be worth a go.
Satinder
Look no further! This is THE BEST vegan Yorkshire pudding recipe by far! My family and I have been vegan for almost 5 years and I’ve never managed to master Yorkshire puddings until now! It worked first time! Thank you so much. I’ll be “buying you a coffee” to show my gratitude. Awesome. 🙏🏼
Jess & Dan
Thank you so much Satinder! We really appreciate your review and we're so glad you enjoyed our Yorkie recipe, that is amazing! Jess 🙂
Laura
I have tried making these twice and followed the instructions exactly, but they still stay really gooey in the middle, even after resting. I have tried leaving them in the oven for longer but it doesn’t seem to work.
Jess Saunders
Hi Laura, sorry to hear that these haven't been working out for you! Have you taken a look at all of the helpful trouble shooting information in the article above? My first instinct would be to try pouring less batter into each muffin tin. Hopefully with practice they'll work out for you! Jess 💚
Barbara
Have tried many vegan Yorkshire Pud recipes, yours at present
are the best so far!!
Jess Saunders
So glad to hear this Barbara, thanks so much for letting us know! Jess 💚
Jacqueline H
I have tried this recipe twice, followed it to the letter and failed both times. I am not sure what I am doing wrong as my normal Yorkshire puddings turn out really well. ☹️
Simon Pitts
Hi, I've been looking for a good vegan Yorkshire Pudding recipe and will definitely be giving this a try. Can I ask if just using all purpose flour instead of chickpea flour would work, and in my old traditional version I used milk, not water. Would this recipe work with soya or oat milk, or is there a reason it has to be water? Thanks
Jess Saunders
Hey Simon, great questions. We have tried all of the options – just all purpose flour and with different types of plant milks and none of the results are as good than with using the two types of flour and water. The reason for using water is that the milk makes the batter too heavy so when baked there's no well in the middle. Hope you love this recipe, please do let us know how you get on! Jess 😊
Alexandria Kling
I have just found your recipe,but my problem is that I need to reduce the carbs:Do you think that I could remove the plain flour and maybe reduce the chick pea flour with soya and maybe coconut flour,or do I still need a degree of plain and chickpea flour for the whole thing to work ?; Your recipe does sound very good ,and I imagine stabile enough to add other tastes either sweet or savoury.Thankyou
Jess Saunders
Hi Alexandria, good questions! I would say that the quantities of the flours in this recipe need to be exact, and the ratio of chickpea flour and plain flour shouldn't be changed to get a good outcome. It is possible to just make it using chickpea flour but we wouldn't recommend the other flours unfortunately. If you do try making them with coconut flour or soya, please let us know what happens as it sounds like it could be a cool experiment. Email us anytime on [email protected] Jess 😊
Dusty
These are incredible. They're like crispy, savory donuts with a puddingy soft inside. I'm obsessed.
Jess Saunders
We're so glad that you like them Dusty! Thanks so much for leaving this review 💚
Claire
Woohoo...Finally a vegan Yorkshire recipe that works!!! Follow every step to the letter and you’ll get the most perfect looking and tasty puds!!
Ann Wheatcroft
Loved the texture And flavour. Was prepared to be disappointed,again. But ,no they were perfect.
Jess Saunders
Thanks so much for the review Ann, so glad that these Yorkies worked out so well for you! Jess x
Sharon S
Best vegan Yorkshire recipe ever, we now have several in the freezer (yes they freeze) ready to eat with everything.
Lisa Barrett
I was perusing the comments and was just about to ask this question! I bake & cook in advance and freeze everything so being able to freeze them and they still taste good afterwards is important!….now, where’s my apron!🤣
T-Nasty
Love this recipe. My heart has always sunk when I’ve tried vegan Yorkies in the past, as what used to be a roast dinner highlight in my dark carnivorous days became a constant disappointment when I chose vegan. Always hopeful, always crestfallen.
I have used this recipe four times now, and they have turned out amazingly well every time, but better each time too. I can’t thank you enough!
Next time it’s Toad in the Hole. I’ll let you know how that goes 🙂
Shadiya & Elliot
Finally we've found a recipe that actually look and taste like Yorkshire puddings! Great recipe! Thanks guys!
Shadiya & Elliot @plantsmywifeandi
Leah
I've tried loads of recipes for vegan yorkies before and they've always come out rock hard.
This recipe was brilliant, by far the best ones I've made.
I cannot eat a roast dinner without them.
Jen
Could you create a vegan recipe for sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream please?
Vegan Punks
We love the sound of that! We'll add it to the list 🙂 Dan x
Meredith
There are some things out there that are extremely hard to veganize, like Yorkshire Pudding, and the Vegan Punks nailed it! I love their detailed tips and enthusiastic pep talks. Give this recipe a try - it really comes together quickly and takes very few ingredients. I look forward to making it again!
Vegan Punks
Thanks so much for trying the recipe and leaving us a review! Glad it went well for you – also super pleased that the tips helped. It took us quite a while to get these right, so we wanted to document everything that helped get there 🙂 Dan x
JP
These are easily the best Vegan Yorkies I have tasted. Have had vegan Yorkshire puds before in nice pubs/restaurants but always felt disappointed as they were"heavy/stogy' these however are light and delicious.
Vegan Punks
What lovely feedback – thanks so much! Dan x
Gill
Would it work with just 100g gluten free flour? (Halving the recipe as it's for one person. They can't have legumes or gluten)
Vegan Punks
We haven't made it with only gluten free flour, as we found that the chickpea flour was better for the Yorkshires, when making them gluten-free. However, we think it will work with only gluten free flour, but they may not look like perfect Yorkshires, and may not get the dip in the middle. As we haven't tried it with just gluten-free flour we wouldn't be able to say whether it would work or not for sure but we would love to know how it turns out!
Kevin
WOW!! This recipe really works and tastes GREAT, I'v had Vegan Yorkies on several occasions , but they are usually stogy, these however are light and look so good when plated up.
Vegan Punks
Thanks Kevin! Vegan Yorkshire puddings are definitely a tricky one to get right, so we're overjoyed when people like the recipe. Dan x
S Miller
Made some Yorkshires last night for an impromptu roast dinner and we loved them. We've tried making vegan Yorkshire puddings using a lot of different recipes and this is easily the best.
Vegan Punks
So pleased that you liked the recipe! And we really appreciate you leaving us a review. Dan x
Sharon Saunders
Hubby makes these regularly and has got better and better. Great recipe - latest batch all have decent wells, best batch ever!!