Any dairy free/soya free bakers?

[Dorisday13]

What's the best alternative for baking? Oat milk? Rice milk? I'm trying to make savory muffins :-) x

[CouthyMow]

Tesco own battered cod and haddock are dairy & soy free. DS3 is fine with them.

WATCH OUT FOR FAB ICE LOLLIES. I'm in discussion with the manufacturers because it doesn't say 'contains milk' on the outer box, but it does on the individual wrappers. Which you can't SEE in the supermarket.

Most water ice lollies are fine.

[CouthyMow]

DS3 reacts to those mini gingerbread men, painful experience

[CouthyMow]

I've just thought of another one...Birds custard (NOT the instant sachets), the old fashioned tub, is dairy & soy free.

All I do is make it up with around a third more custard powder and using Oatly cream instead of milk.

A quick curry recipe - tin of chopped tomatoes, mild curry powder, ground cumin, and whatever meat and veg you have lurking in your fridge want to chuck in...

[CouthyMow]

I managed to make an alternative to dream topping at Christmas.

Oatly cream, heated in a pan. Mix some cornflour with water and stir that in. Add a tsp or two of sugar. When it starts to thicken, take it off the heat.

Use an electric whisk, and whisk until cool. Dairy, soy free dream topping alternative!

[CouthyMow]

We made him his own trifle!

[CouthyMow]

Tesco sponge fingers for trifles are dairy, soy, nut free.

[Dorisday13]

Thank you for the choc cake recipe will do next time

[Dorisday13]

Omiqueenof.. Is that 2 lots of baking powder?

Couthy you should definitely go for that icecream maker, I did choc orange last night and its gooood
Thinking on your yoghurt alternative the prefrozen ice cream mix I just made has a yoghurt consistency, and tastes good!! Did you want the yoghurt for the calcium though? If so it's no good really.
My 'base' recipe is 2 cans full fat cocunut milk and half a cup of sweetener (I vary this depending on the flavour I'm going for) usually liquid sweetener is better because of the scooping properties when you freeze it will try to go back to original form if that makes sense. For choc flavours I do 1/3 cup coco powder and honey, for fruit flavours (and baby suitable) agave nectar.

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[Dorisday13]

Oh and an optional tbsp on alcohol makes for a lovely texture

[CouthyMow]

I was looking at Oatly cream, vanilla extract, honey, and maybe some vanilla seeds.

What I want to know is if you can buy Oatly cream in bigger quantities than the tiddly boxes in the supermarket.

Because I'd like to make a whole tub of it to keep so that he can have it whenever the older DC's have ice cream.

Yoghurt - I am looking for a dairy, soy free starter IYSWIM. If I find one I will let you know.

[CouthyMow]

I might leave the alcohol out as I'm making it for a 2yo...

[CouthyMow]

I think sorbets would be good too, really easy with lemon juice, water and puréed fruit.

I have made him granita like that last year.

I also have frozen bananas. Shove a lolly stick in half a banana, stick it in the freezer in a sandwich bag, and you have VERY healthy ice lollies!

Oranges work too - I use plastic corn cob holders, and shove one in a quarter of an orange. Very refreshing on a summer's day. Nice way to get fruit into DC's.

[Dorisday13]

Oh and an optional tbsp on alcohol makes for a lovely texture

[CouthyMow]

This thread needs to be stickied or something, so we don't lose the recipes, and other people can find it!

[OmiQueenofTypose]

Oops - I was writing out the recipe while small people hung off me. I've checked and can confirm that it should be:

1 1/2 cups plain flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
6 tbsp vegetable oil / sunflower oil
1 tbsp white vinegar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup cool water

Also, I've used white wine vinegar or cider vinegar - the vanilla generally disguises the taste of the vinegar enough. I have wondered if you could use orange juice instead, for the acidity. And when you mix it at the end, really mix thoroughly to avoid little pockets of flour in the corner (especially in a square tin).

[Dorisday13]

Thanks omiqueen! How do we sticky?

The alcohol was on my quest for the perfect soft scoop (I'm DFSF too) I really should make some without for dd...

[Blatherskite]

I was about to recommend Trex frosting but I see I've been beaten to it. It is tooth achingly sweet and definitely needs some vanilla extract or similar to take the edge off but children generally love it.

I made it again for DS's cake even though he's not allergic as he wanted a ski slope and it is very, very white :)

[MadMonkeys]

I'm a bit confused. I mentioned earlier in this thread that we got caught out with Pure olive spread - DD2 reacted to it and I couldn't work out why until the dietician said it contains soya (listed as vegetable oils in the ingredients). So today I gave her Pure sunflower spread as it says soya free on the tub. That prompted me to check the olive spread tub, and that also says soya free... So is the dietician wrong? Or is there a derivative of soya in the olive spread, and the phrase 'soya free' is misleading? And if that's the case is the sunflower spread really free from soya?

[redwellybluewelly]

madmonkeys I've only ever seen the Pure sunflower or the Pure soya spreads. We ensure that we use the sunflower one ans all seems well. I wasn't aware that they did an olive one?

Struggling to find Oatly cream, thought Sainsburys did it but it seems not.

[CouthyMow]

I found that DS3 reacted to the olive oil Pure. I decided to switch to Vitalite and Block Stork, and he's been fine ever since.

[CouthyMow]

Oatly cream isn't in a chiller - it comes in a rectangular box on the shelf with the rice milk and Oatly milk usually.

Small supermarkets tend not to stock it, but most larger ones will.

[CouthyMow]

This is what Oatly cream looks like :

This is what the packaging looks like

[MadMonkeys]

That's interesting couthy, looks like I've got a tub of olive pure to eat then, its not a patch on lurpak! Got some stork today, so that should expand dd2's repertoire a bit. Does anyone know if oatly cream comes in bigger boxes? I've only seen the tiny ones. This thread is great, and perfectly timed for us! Thanks everyone.

[CouthyMow]

I've done a bit of research, and no, unfortunately it only comes in the tiny 250ml boxes.

Which is a PITA!

DS3 loved his 'macaroni cheese' with bacon.

White sauce as detailed upthread, with Cheezly soy free grated into it.

I'm attempting rice pudding tonight.

[CouthyMow]

I'm going to have a chat with Oatly peeps at the Allergy Show in London, and say that there are people that would like to be able to buy Oatly cream in larger boxes.

I have found that the small boxes are fine for making a single portion of sauce for DS3 at the moment, but his portions are quite small as he is only 2y4mo!

Dreading to think about that when hrs older...