Bakin' Without Eggs cookbook

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My new cookbook just arrived from amazon and I can't wait to try it. It is for egg and peanut allergies, and supposedly has some really good cake recipes. DD's 2nd birthday is in a couple of weeks and I intend to do a trial run before then. I will let everybody know how it went. It got so many rave reviews on amazon.

Oooh please let me know what it's like. Ds1 is egg and nut allergic and I really struggle with cakes etc. to the point where I just don't bother now.

Just for reference, in case it's of help. You can substitute eggs in cake recipes with Orgran No Egg (egg replacer available from health shops) or with bananas and a bit of orange juice.

Best of luck, and congratulations to your DD

Can anyone tell me how I would recognise an egg allergy? 9 month DS has now been very sick (whole day's undigested food) on 2 occasions, both times after having cooked egg for lunch. Confusingly he has had egg at other times without any reaction. GP dismissed 1st time as 'a baby thing' but both incidents are so similar they strike me as a reaction.

My DS is so allergic to eggs and nuts that he was getting an eczema reaction to whatever was coming through in the breast milk. He is apparently twice as allergice to eggs than to nuts. One way to find out for sure is to take your baby for a blood test. We were initially not keen, but could not figure out why he was breaking out into such a bad rash and the itching was keeping him awake at night. I think you should definitely take a test as at one stroke it will tell you whether the baby is allergic to dairy, wheat, soya, and a host of other things (inc eggs and tree nuts) and that will put your mind at rest.

Would be very interested to learn the name of the cookbook on Amazon if you don't mind! How many bananas and how much orange juice to substitute for how many eggs?

The cookbook has arrived and I have made one fab cake! It is called Bakin' Without Eggs by Rosemarie Emro. Most of the ingredients are available from the supermarket but some of the american ingredients may be difficult to find here, e.g., frozen orange and apple juice concentrate.

NOTE that the measurements are American too

Yogurt Bismark Cake - really moist

1/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup yogurt
1 2/3 cup superfine plain flour
2 t baking powder
1 1/2 t baking soda
2 1/2 t vanilla extract

Preheat overn to 350 degrees. Lightly grease and dust with flour a 9" x 5" loaf pan. (I used a 6 1/2" x 8 1/2" glass baking dish.) Tap out excess flour.

In a large bowl with a handheld electric mixer set on med. speed, cream butter, sugar and yogurt together until light and fluffy. Slowly add flour, baking powder, baking soda and vanilla. Beat on high speed for 3 minutes until batter is creamy.

Pour batter into the prepared pan and bake for 30-40 minutes until a toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean.

Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 20 minutes then turn out onto a plate.