Cocoa powder or similar free from...

[mamakoukla]

nuts, dairy, egg, peanuts?

(also tomato, carrot, pear, sweet pepper but not likely to be in cocoa powder!).

We are hoping to make a chocolatey cake or similar for DD's birthday but cannot source cocoa powder or similar.

Help much appreciated as the day looms!

TIA

Use this raw cacao powder - there are no added bits to it, it's just pure raw chocolate.

Clippers cocoa powder only has organic cocoa powder and sugar, + it's really nice. Can be found in Waitrose.

Just cocoa from the baking section, add sugar? There is a great chocolate cake recipe on the web....hang on....

Chocolate cake
Ingredients
? 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
? 1/2 teaspoon salt
? 1 cup white sugar
? 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
? 1 teaspoon baking soda
? 5 tablespoons vegetable oil
? 1 tablespoon white vinegar
? 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
? 1 cup cold water
Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8x8 inch baking pan.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, salt, sugar, cocoa powder, and baking soda. Mix well with a fork, then stir in oil, vinegar, and vanilla extract. When dry ingredients are thoroughly moistened, pour in cold water and stir until batter is smooth. Stir in chocolate chips and pour batter into prepared pan.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted Make sure to mix long enough 3 min or more, till it looks like real batter

Forgot which site, so sorry to the originial author!!!! THis tastes great.

Thanks all! DD was very excited... dropped the fork in the batter (Oh Mummy... my fork...), thought scraping the bowl was fun (called daddy at work) and her face was a picture when it was time to blow out candles and cut the cake. She adored the frosting but not the cake but she has never liked anything with a doughy consistency or wheat-based (if it is crispy, then okay)... overall, definitely worth it. We asked her what her favourite part of her birthday had been - "cake!"

We have a daughter 42yrs,very ill but included is a total nut allergy.Elsewhere I have seen whether Kinnerton chocolate is any good for cakes .A definite yes.Wife uses it for making Black Forest Gateau and other cakes specifically for her. Similarly Sainsbury own cocoa powder is okay,they even telephoned the manufacturer for us on our initial enquiry.Kinnerton belgian chocolate bars are to die for and I thankfully do not have this allergy All the best

I thought all cocoa powder is free from all those things? I have a Tesco brand one and it doesnt have anything in it.

I've spent hours in supermarket aisles looking at things like this! (PM if you want a link to my blog )

the only really egg, milk and nut free cocoa powder is Tesco own brand in a brown pot. I've safely used the m and s one, but is made in a factory that uses milk

for drinking choc, clipper (from waitrose) is the only option