Egg free birthday cake or cupcakes

[jos1]

Anyone got any good recipes for egg-free birthday cakes or cupcakes, etc for serving at a party that more than one egg-allergy child are attending? Cheers.

i have an egg free carrot cake recipe, its very nice

Sorry only an egg-free fruit cake.

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Me, me! I have one but I can't get to it yet so will post it later tonight or tomorrow. Made loads of fairy cakes the other day and tried the mix for two large cakes to for victoria sandwich cake but to be honest, it tasted yuck. I would suggest making a load of fairy cakes, taking them out of their cases and piling them up and perhaps pouring melted chocolate cake over them or just stick to leaving them in their cases and serve as individual fairy cakes.

Try "Eggless Everyday Cake"

12oz plain flour
half teaspoon salt
1 teaspn mixedspice
6oz marg/butter
6oz caster sugar
12oz sultanas
half pint of milk/water
2 tablespoons vinegar
2 level teaspoons bicarbonate of soda

7and a half inch cake tin

Siftflour salt and spice into bowl. Rub in fat. Stir in sugar and sultanas. Mix milk, bicarb, and vinegar.Add loquid gradually to mix. fold in well. Bake at 170 degrees "C" for approx 1 hr.45mins.

This is a recipe from my own hand writtten Home Ec. book!! Definitely made it successfully in the past - don't see why it wouldn't work for cup cakes.
Still use another recipe for date and walnut that has no egg, and uses bicarb as raising agent - its very nice!
Good Luck!

Thank you, thank you, one and all! All recipes gratefully received. Carrot and fruit would be lovely if not too much hassle. I've still to locate egg-substitute. Clearly not many egg-allergy sufferers where I live. Any clues for other everyday cooking as well? Ds has healthy but rather plain diet and would like to be a little bit more adventurous now, but all yummy stuff seems to require egg. TIA. JOS1

Egg-free Carrot cake

8oz (200g) wholemeal flour (although i use white!)
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon baking Powder
8oz (200g)carrots, peeld and grated
4oz (100g) Marg
4oz(100g) Golden syrup
4oz (100g) brown sugar (normal sugar works fine too!)

i also throw in some raisins not sure how many.

Preheat oven to 170C gas mark 3. Grease Tin.
Mix the flour spices baking powder raisins and carrots together.
In saucepan melt together the marg, syrup and sugar.
Add to carrot mixture and mix well.
Place into tin
Cook for 1h until firm to the touch or a skewer comes out clean. (I start checking thsi from 45mins and some times it takes nearly 1h 30mins)
Remove from oven and leave to cool in tin for 15-20mins.

For the topping i found a reciepe online

200g of cream cheese (philadelphia)
50g marg
few drops of vanilla escence
icing sugar enough to make it go thick! ~300g

mix together and put on top of cooled cake

katzguk, u are a star! Thank you - sounds delicious. Rgds

its nice, its not from an egg free book but my student cookery book grub on a grant!

Try this link for banana muffins - they are really easy and make lovely mini muffins in those little cases which are great for parties. Also freeze really well so can be made in advance. They are best made with overripe bananas.
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Sorry for taking so long but here is the recipe for eggless fairy cakes further apologies of the mix of measurements in metric and imperial!:

250g butter
1lb self raising flour
3teaspoons baking powder
pinch of sodium bicarbonate
12oz sugar
13 fluid ounces hot milk
(I also add some chocolate chips just because I am a chocolate fiend!)
1-2 teaspoons of yellow food colouring

Preheat oven to 230C

Cream butter and sugar. Add hot milk and stir. mix sodium bicarbonate and baking bowder to flour and sieve the mix into the butter,sugar, milk mix and beat. Add food colour and chocolate chips if using either of these and mix. enough mix into each case to half (or just under half) fill it and bake in middle of oven for 10-15 minutes. Once the cakes are in the oven, turn the temp down to 200C.

This recipe makes loads - I have never counted but definately enough for a childrens party.

Thank you one and all - baking can commence! Rgds.