Just one dairy-free fairy cake

[gastrognome]

Hello,

I am going to make some fairy cakes to take to DD's creche tomorrow as it is her birthday this weekend and they are going to have a little birthday party to celebrate. However, they have asked me to provide something without lactose for one little boy who is intolerant to it.

All the fairy cake/cupcake recipes I have include butter and milk.

I'd rather use a tried and tested recipe for the majority of the cakes so don't want to make them all dairy free.

So is there any clever, quick way that I could do just a couple of wee cakes without dairy? I don't mind buying a tub of soya marg or something if that would work well, but I don't want to have to substitute a whole load of ingredients if possible.

Anybody got any good ideas?
TIA

Just use a vegan margarine instead of butter and ice with glace icing. I never put milk in a basic sponge recipe, so I can't see what the difficulty would be. I assume the child is OK with eggs?

Use vitalite instead of butter. I could never tell the difference. No one else will either. And top a couple of them with glace icing rather than butter cream.

Just make them all dairy free - tis really easy. I make mine with Trex anyway, and have some mini cartons of rice milk in the cupboard for when I need them dairy free.

Recipe is 3 eggs, weight of the eggs in their shells of sugar and sr flour, weight of eggs -20% of trex (roughly - its not critical), 2 tsp of vanilla, 1 tsp baking powder, and then enough rice/soy milk to make the end mixture a soft dropping consistency. I blend trex and sugar together, beat 1 egg in at a time, then flour then the soy/rice milk as needed.

Lovely light and fluffy - people never know that mine are gf and df and always ask for the recipe

I make all ours dairy free and no one ever knows .

Pure is a good substitute and as I add milk to the buttercream I just put a little soya milk in instead.

I have never seen a more elaborate sponge recipe, CMO

Really ? Its very simple as you can scale to any size of cake or eggs and I don't need to remember anything. And it works with any fat (you just need less trex as there is no water) as you adjust the wetness with the milk

But we have the 2,4,4 rule
Then the 3,6,6
Then 4,8,8

No weighing of eggs and percentages

Thanks everybody! Will try with vegan marg then, as not sure I can get Trex here (Belgium). Have good veggie/organic shop nearby though so you never know!

Quick update: Made the fairy cakes using the hummingbird chocolate cupcake recipe, but replaced butter with soya marg and milk with rice milk. Result was utterly delicious, and probably better than the original recipe.
Only problem was, when I got to the creche with the cakes for the party, it turned out the lactose-intolerant boy wasn't there as there had been some emergency at home! So it was all for nothing. Ho hum.

Though actually I like the lactose-free version so much I'll probably make them again regardless!

Just want to add, I spent a day trying various dairy free recipes and none worked. I was searching again and found CMOTs suggestion and it worked and tastes great.

Thanks