To not bring a Nut free birthday cake to soft play party?

[Georgieblue]

My child has a party in a local soft play tomorrow and the venue sent through some confirmation things via email today and on there it says the cake we bring has to be Nut free! We've bought one from Tesco and just checked and there's no nuts in the ingredients but doesn't specify its nut free on the box, is this ok? Like how strict will they be on the cake? I know people have brought some bakery ones before etc

Personally I think it's fine as long as it has no nuts as ingredients. I wouldn't worry about the "may contain", unless any of the party kids have an actual nut allergy. Because pretty much everything says "may contain". I wouldn't bring a cake with nuts as ingredients though.

It's fine. My daughter has a nut allergy, and as long as nuts aren't listed as an allergen, she was absolutely fine

Ah I think that will be fine.
I saw your title and was reminded of the woman that made a snickers cake which my daughter ate and then had a reaction (thankfully mild) but honestly, who does that?!

It's fine. There's no nuts in the ingredients, that's enough
(Parent of children with nut allergies)

In this case the venue is asking for adherence to a generic no nut policy and so I would expect no nuts to mean no nut ingredients not a ‘nut free’ specially labelled cake, May contain is fine in this scenario.

If I was catering specifically for a child with a nut allergy I would get a ‘nut free’ cake.

Unless you specifically said about the nut allergy, how would she know?

If your child has an allergy surely you don't let them eat anything unless you know all the ingredients.

I taught mine never to take food from people before they were out of nappies

Nut allergy mum here. Wouldn't be bothered by a cake with no nuts but don't actually say nut free
I appreciate the soft play are considerate though 😊

May contain traces is fine. Some stuff though even if it doesn't list nuts as an ingredient sometimes has a warning om saying "not suitable for people with a nut allergy". So just look for that on the warnings

Agree that as long as there are no nuts as an actual ingredient it will be fine - almost anything with chocolate will say ‘may contain traces’ just to cover themselves legally. I would still let my DS (epi-pen carrier, previous anaphylactic shock, allergic to hazelnuts, pecans and walnuts) eat them.

I’m careful in cafes where cakes are baked in house and there is a high proportion of nuts (would never feed DS in Gail’s for example) because of cross contamination but a supermarket chocolate cake is absolutely fine.

That sounds fine. DH has an anaphylactic allergy to peanuts and tree nuts, but he doesn’t need things to specifically say “nut free” on them. He’ll check the ingredients. Plenty of things are safe for him to eat but don’t use the wording “nut free”.

In fact I think almost everything he eats doesn’t specifically said nut free. It might just be Easter eggs and a few chocolate things that label it.