Dairy, egg and nut free cake - does it exist?

[KayElleBee]

I'm part of the organising team for an event that involves feeding the children involved and I'm looking for cake of some sort that's free from dairy, eggs and nuts that we can ice to look as similar to the cakes the rest of the children will be eating as possible. Gluten is fine, but I'm fast discovering that most supermarket free-from ranges are gluten/milk free but still contain eggs, and lots say may contain nuts.

Does anyone know if such a thing exists?!

You can get a two pack of chocolate vegan cupcakes in asda and also in Morrison's (they do red velvet too).

Thank you - I can't find the ones you mentioned on the Morrisons site. The Asda ones unfortunately say 'Not suitable for Egg, Milk or Soya allergy sufferers. May also contain traces of Nuts and Peanuts'. So they potentially contain everything we need to avoid.

(Slightly concerning that something they're advertising as vegan isn't suitable for people allergic to milk or eggs, too - not quite sure how that works!)

That is very odd why it's advertised as vegan if it has that warning. My children are vegan, peta cupcake recipe is very good and you can make a buttercream from icing sugar vegan spread and coco powder.

It would be a little more of a faff to make than regular cupcakes but I think this recipe ticks all of your boxes - minimalistbaker.com/one-bowl-vegan-funfetti-cupcakes/

I haven’t made these (yet) but other recipes from that site have worked well for me (I have quite a bad dairy allergy so often find going vegan and baking whatever I want myself works well for me as I can control any cross contamination risk).

I think homemade might be the way to go! Those recipes both sound promising, thank you.

I made the funfetti recipe posted above last night. But I made aquafaba marshmallow fluff frosting which was very cheap and easy.

I make this egg free sponge often, you could use almond milk or oat milk:

noeggs.co.uk/eggless-victoria-sponge

I have children with allergies. Ask the parent. Not just about the cake but about the horror of being different. Mine were well aware from very young they had to have something "special".

One dislikes cake. It is so embarrassing when you know the organiser went to loads of trouble and expense only for the child to wrinkle their nose.

I found that something like a packet of fizzy strawberry laces or haribo as a substitute went down much better. The other children were slightly jealous, which made it even better for my DC.

I'm sure if you google 'vegan cake' you get an egg and dairy free recipe. I've certainly done them as cupcakes...

On the back of the Doves Farm Gluten Free self raising flour there’s a recipe for a free from Victoria sponge that uses oil instead of butter and chickpea flour instead of eggs. No nuts. I’ve made it for a party to cover all allergies in one cake and it was ok. You can buy it in most supermarkets.