Is it possible to BUY a dairy free birthday cake? (cos I am sure as hell not making the bugger)

[oliveoil]

dd1 has a friend who has a dairy allergy and dd1 is most concerned that she does not get cake in her party bag "and that is not nice is it mummy?"

now putting to one side that I have THE most caring 4 year old on the planet , she has requested a dairy free birthday cake for her forthcoming party

anyone?

I have no idea, but would make one. Someone on here is bound to have a recipe. Then make it in a pudding basin not a tin, tip it out, cover it with roll-out icing (cut a circle out round a plate)and stick a princess doll (with legs ripped off) in the top. Then you have a princess cake. And your DD loves it, all the other Mums are v. impressed and you can bask in a superior glow while worrying vaguely about what you can come up with next year.

Of course, this is not the advice you wanted so you will probably ignore it.

Just a thought but can you not find a recipe for a cake that doesn't have eggs but where you can use Soya milk?

try this site

or

this one

Good luck

I have a recipe at home for a dairy free choc cake, which is light, fluffy and very easy peasy to make...can't post it til later toniught, though, if that would help?

The only place I have seen selling dairy free cakes is 'Fresh and Wild' - which i think only has branches in London....

oh please don't make me make one, I have a v long To Do List as it is and I may cry

I am sure some supermarkets do a 'free from' range

do eggs count as dairy???, I thought it was just milk

try here

have had a look at those but they don't scream small child's birthday party, thanks anyway

found these in Sainsburys, thought I could pop one in the party bag check out the ingredients!!!

oh it didn't work, grrrr

anyway, suffice to say, no dairy but full of shite

I would find out about the egg thing. A cake without eggs is much less common than one without dairy.

Bozza has just had a brainwave.

Get DH to make a dairy free cake.

I know you don't want to make one but if you have to ... the easiest way to make it dairyfree is to use the recipe you normally use and use Pure dairyfree spread in place of normal butter/margarine.

Some of the Free From ranges have cake bars of various kinds which are dairy free - you could always fit them all together and cover them with chocolate/icing!

Tesco does a chocolate cake mix in their free from range,you just have to add eggs,water and veg oil to the mix.
They're really yummy and if I'm making one for a birthday cake I just make up some chocolate buttercream icing (made with Pure dairy free marg)and then grate some dark(at least 70%) choc over the top.
My Dp has a severe milk allergy so whenever we have a birthday I usually end up doing 2 cakes so he doesnt feel left out,lol,although most people actually go for the dairy free one as it's so yummy.

Isn't a cake mix that you have to add eggs water and oil to called "flour"?

Well maybe "flour and sugar". But I agree with what you are saying.

Sainsbury's have a couple of really nice dutch style cakes which have no dairy and no egg either and they are low in fat too They are just in with the normal cakes as they are not specifically "free from" type products, that's just the way these cakes are normally made.

Oh and they even taste nice

Oliveoil - if you live in London, I will make you one. I made it for people at work and they ate it all within about 10 mins; it's a really good recipe.