Recipe for dairy free cake icing?

[hazeyjane]

That doesn't taste as rank as the one I have just made!

I used to use pure sunflower spread but add more icing sugar as it seemed like it needed it. You need to flavour it to make it taste better - vanilla essence, cocoa, orange water, rose water etc.

I baked dairy free for years and most people couldn't tell.

I've used 75% Trex, 25% soft dairy free marg, and with flavouring it was really nice with a good texture

There are some cake and icing recipes on the pure margarine website. I can't vouch for them as i've never made them, but i was planning on making a chocolate cake with 'butter' icing once... I seem to recall there was very little margarine in it ie they realise it's not butter too.

I have made butter icing with goat butter, if that's an option. It was okay while eating it, but i felt a bit goaty afterwards...

Or try a cream cheese icing, either with lactofree cream cheese, or soft goats cheese of some kind (sainsburys do one, but i can't seem to link to it, NOT the abergavenny one is the one i mean!)

Jam in the middle and a standard glace or Royal Icing on top?

1oz cocoa
1oz dairy free marge
2-3 tablespoons hot water

Mix to smooth paste.
Add 4oz sieved icing sugar and beat well. Yummy!

Thankyou!
I am doing our annual cake sale on Friday for Jeans For Genes, and thought it would be nice to make something a bit more exciting than flapjacks for kids who are dairy free and gluten free. I think i will make gf mini Victoria sponges as they are pretty easy. The icing I just tried was chocolate, using vitalite, cocoa, soya milk and icing sugar - it tasted of brown plastic.

I have it on good authority that pure is nicer then vitalite...

Melted dairy free chocolate on top.
Chocolate icing made with cocoa powder, icing sugar and water.
Normal white icing (icing sugar + water).

betty crocker fudge icing is dairy free and tastes really nice.

lactofree and goats butter/cheese ARE NOT DAIRY FREE

Can't you just do icing sugar, water and vanilla essence to a thick icing? .,

All dairy free all the time here with my baking and I do loads of icing sugar with vanilla essence and enough drops of water to make a dough/paste texture then add bits of Pure beating it in as I go along until it's a creamy texture. Also works with cocoa or whatever flavouring you'd use in place of the vanilla.
Happy baking :)

I've found that melted dairy free dark chocolate (70%ish) is really the only thing that masks the plastic flavour you get with DF. Coconut oil works a treat instead of butter though, if you don't mind the taste of it.

I know that one of the children is definitely allergic to dairy rather than lactose intolerant, so I will avoid the lactofree stuff.

Stupidly I hadn't thought about just a water icing - doh!

betty crocker fudge icing is dairy free WHAT!!! This changes everything!

The chocolate icing is lovely I may have just eaten some out if the tub with a spoon, however the Betty Crocker vanilla buttercream and cream cheese style icing is absolutely vile.