Reddit reviews The Joy of Vegan Baking: The Compassionate Cooks' Traditional Treats and Sinful Sweets

r/vegan and r/veganbaking may be able to help you with this. Vegans don't eat eggs (among other things) and we have to get really good at replacing eggs with other things.

First off: cook as much as you can from scratch; this way you know exactly what is going into your son's tummy.

Secondly, here is a list of things that you can use to replace an egg:

• 1 mashed banana
  
  
• 1/4 cup apple sauce
  
  
• 1 tbsp ground flax + 3 tbsp water - mix and let sit for five minutes
  
  
• 1/4 cup silken tofu - soft tofu also works
  
  
• EnerG Egg Replacer - this stuff is a little more expensive (about $7 a box, but it lasts forever). I don't use it for everything, but there are some recipes that will only work with EnerG.
  
  
  This is an excellent cookbook. If you don't want to use vegan margarine and soy milk, I'm sure that butter and cow milk would work too.

The dye is powdered food colour, liquid food colouring doesn't give the same results (too diluted).

The frosting is a simple buttercream recipe also found in The joy of Vegan Baking It's made with non dairy butter (or non dairy margarine, as there is no butter substitute here in France), vanilla extract, icing sugar and a tiny bit of non dairy milk.

I was skeptical to try it, but I was asked to make it for a childs birhtday party and took the plunge. You can use any white cake recipe with the food colour (which you can buy on amazon too)

I love this one!

The Joy of Vegan Baking: The Compassionate Cooks' Traditional Treats and Sinful Sweets https://www.amazon.com/dp/1592332803/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_whyjxbMB5V038

And the PPK book is supposedly super rad.

I choose /u/youreillusive because she's been there for some great venting and discussion lately. Plus, we're meant to be together because we both love cheesecake. So, naturally, she needs this desserts cookbook from her Cookbooks list.

Tyara, I'm not used to the username yet.

The Joy of Vegan Baking is pretty comprehensive

Good luck. We're here if you need it. In the meanwhile, here are some good vegan cooking starters:

Chloe's Vegan Italian Cookbook
Some are simple, some less so. All so far have been fantastic.

The Lotus and the Artichoke
Lots of restaurant favorites and a good way to get your feet wet on things like tofu, seitan and tempeh.

Joy of Vegan Baking
Hands down the best vegan cookbook I've ever had.

Ok, I may be violating the theme here, but my favorite cookbook isn't vegan - it's Jack Bishop's "Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen." It's not exclusively vegan, but contains many vegan recipes or recipes that can be easily made vegan. Ingredient lists are short, no faux meat (includes tofu and tempeh, though I don't consider those faux meat), mostly very quick, filling, cheap, and damn good. I'm completely vegan and find more recipes in this book than most exclusively vegan books.

I own lots of vegan cookbooks, but too many rely on whisking nutritional yeast with arrowroot powder to make cheese and other chemistry experiments trying to approximate omnivorous cooking.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau's "Joy of Vegan Baking" kicks ass too.

• Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone one of my earliest veg cookbooks and i still use it often as a vegan
  
• Passionate Vegetarian this is one of those cookbooks that's enjoyable to read.
  
• The Joy of Vegan Baking for baking, i've never been disappointed with any of these recipes