Dairy free, egg free birthday cake recipe

[Patchybob]

Help! A friend of mine has a daughter who has recently been diagnosed dairy and egg free. She has found the whole process very stressful, isn't into cooking and is struggling to find things that her 9 year old will eat.

I offered to make her a birthday cake, thinking to myself it couldn't be that hard........my first attempt went in the bin, it was seriously awful!!!!!! I bake all the time and have never binned a cake before!!

Do any of you have any recipes you can share?!

Thanks

Pig in the kitchen- u can have any combo of wheat dairy egg gluten free recipes. :)

A friend of mine used to make ds a vegan chocolate cake using veg oil, I think.

It was always really moist and tasty and lasted well for a few days.

I'm sure you can google a recipe. If not, I may have copy somewhere.

I went to the vegan website and they had loads of recipes there. The one I used was (I think) called plain rich sponge (or similar) and I used the vanilla soy yogurt. It didn't look that great but tasted lovely! I made 2 sponges, sandwiched together with jam and drizzled with glace icing but the sponges were so thin. Think if I do it again I would just make one sponge or double the recipe so it doesn't look so measly. Good luck!

I seem to remember my friend always made one layer and said it was difficult to make anything other than a square or round shape - although one year she triumphed with a teddy bear shape.

I have just dug out the recipe. Op if you would like it, pm me your email address and I'll scan or photograph it to you.

This is the one you want, as long as you ok with chocolate cake. It is a moist chocolate fudge cake, people won't know it's vegan - and it also can be cut to shape. I've made it into a hedgehog, a train, a rocket, an alien, a caterpillar, and a cat. (kids are 4 and 2 so 6 birthdays so far!).

Ingredients
250g plain flour
50g cocoa
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
250g sugar
125g vegan marge I use Pure Sunflower
300ml soya milk (sweetened or unsweetened is fine)
2tbsp golden syrup
Instructions
Sieve flour, cocoa, sugar and bicarb then mix together in large bowl.
Melt marge, syrup and milk in a saucepan.
When melted, add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
Pour batter into cake tin. (Mixture should be fairly runny, don't panic).
Bake at 170 for about 35mins.

For icing, either buy Betty Crocker premade choc fudge (its based on veg oil so should be ok for dairy allergy) OR make your own with pure marg, if you can be bothered.
I just haven't found a decent plain sponge alternative yet so am sticking with the choc fudge.
My best attempts so far at a plain sponge have been using Co-op own sponge mix, making it with soya milk and pure marg instead of the egg and butter it asks for.

HOw lovely of you to offer to make the cake for your friend. Hope she enjoys it.

Ah brilliant, thanks everyone. Heliotrope I will try your one tomorrow! Need to do a dummy run first and then we can eat it ourselves!!!
DaftMaul I will pm you my email address so I can give the recipe to my friend as one to try. Thanks so much.
I will let you know how I get on!!

There's a dairy and egg free pirate ship cake on my profile!

I used this recipe:

4oz silken tofu, 4oz self raising flour, 4 oz caster sugar and 4 oz butter and 2 tbsp milk. cream butter and sugar then beat in the tofu and eggs until smooth and fluffy, gently mixing flour until smooth. For a chocolate cake I replaced a couple of tablespoons of the flour with cocoa powder.

I used a Wilton tin and 3x the above recipe for the pirate ship, but the above should be ok for a normal size tin.

Silken tofu can be found beside the sweetcorn in Sainsbury's.

Trixy, your recipe has butter and milk in it!

I have a brilliant tried and tested one passed on to me by another MNer-

Mary VBerry's American Chocolate Cake.
10 oz sr flour.
3 level tablespoons cocoa powder
6oz caster sugar
1 level tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/2 pint (300ml) milk (I used oat milk, would also work with soya milk)
1/4 pint (150ml) corn oil
3 level tablespoons golden syrup
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence.

Preheat oven to 180

line and grease two sandwich tins (8") I used the oil to grease.

Mix up flour, cocoa, sugar. Mix well. Make well in the centre.

Disolve the bicarb in 1 tbsp milk. pour into the flour mixture with the milk, oil, syrup, vanilla essense. Beat well into a smooth batter.

Divide into the tins. Recipe says to bake for 40 mins, but mine was more like thirty

Ah sorry, I use pure spread and oat milk!!!

Ha ha, thought you must have used alternatives

I've posted a link on the discussion on egg and dairy free banana cake but 1066 cake stand in Hastings is a vegan cake shop, the owners are lovely (they were at the allergy show) and they have a little book of recipes as well as making cakes to order which I probably won't do but I liked knowing that my children have that option open to them just as all children do :)

My littlest is newly diagnosed allergic to egg too and baking has been my biggest challenge - you are a very lovely friend :)