Egg allergy: special treat for little boy

[Carnival]

My daughter's birthday falls on the same day as the Christmas party at our local playgroup. My daughter attends on the same day as a little boy with an egg allergy.

I duly looked up a load of egg-free cake recipes and had settled on a chocolatey one, which I was then going to ice with a daisy as that's her name. I tried it out and it was reasonably good and I thought the kids would be happy with it...

The new piece of news is that they won't accept home baking, but will allow me to supply a shop bought cake which they will take away and slice for the kids who don't have an allergy. This isn't what I wanted, because I didn't want the wee boy to feel that he was different, but I doubt I'd be able to get a shop bought egg-free cake at this late stage.

The crux of this is, I now want to get something special for the wee boy, so he doesn't feel left out and I wondered if anyone could make any suggestions..

Sorry this is so longwinded

A lot of big supermarkets have "free from" ranges - you may well find a cake for him there.

Carnival,

That's doesn't sound fun at all. Your approach is absolutely spot on - GOOD FOR YOU.

Can you talk to/do you know the boys parents?
Can you get them to lobby the playgroup manager? Their approach is - well - unhelpful.

Thanks, will have a go, have tried a Asda & Tesco already though, without success. Will give Sainsbury's a go and see how I get on.

Thanks

I had something similar at DD's nursery, and I bought some (quite disgusting, if you ask me, but they liked it) almond /jam slices from the free-from section (Waitrose) but I think it was a brand that you find everywhere. There were also some cupcake things.

It might be worth finding out about the allergy - lots of egg allergies are fine if the egg is in a cake. But I would ask first!

Santagitta,

True, but...

It's probably better to be clearly egg free if you're up against a mildly intransigent/box-ticking playgroup manager.

Very true

The box was definitely having to be ticked over the home-baking, which I presume is a health & hygiene thing. What I don't understand is how it is ok to bring in home-made soup to the group, which I didn't bother to point out..? I'm more than happy for my child to eat the soup and won't be picky about it, but surely it should come under the same health & hygiene scrutiny??

Sorry, LBG, missed yours.

I do know the boy's mum and spoke to her about the egg-free cake idea and asked her whether her wee boy was ok with Orgran and as I'm a rookie at this egg-free stuff and hadn't yet settled on the chocolate cake idea, I was hoping she might give me some tips about its use.

Her response was, what's Orgran? If it doesn't have egg in it, it'll be fine [with a look that made me feel a little foolish]. I can only assume she doesn't bake and therefore doesn't know that it can be a little hit and miss, particularly if you're using something new.

Anyway, I will still try to find something suitable for everyone, rather than have him singled out. But, if I do have to go for the with egg option, I'll try and make sure that they just put the cakes in a bag and that he gets a separate especially nice thing stowed in his and just hope he doesn't notice that that particular cake isn't there

I'm sure Sainsbury's free from section have egg free cakes.

And by the by: I've got a really simple adaptation for making egg free cakes. Apple puree or custard work fine to bind the mixture. See here:
edinburghnews.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1525542007

TMM - definitely will try Sainsbury's

LBG - thanks for your support

This is probably a bit late but Carnival you are LOVELY! Wish I had people as supportive as you around- my DS has severe allergy and even my MIL thinks it ok to have everyone else eating cake etc at party's and leave my DS out .