Food Allergy & Baking

[moonietunes]

Hi,

I was hoping some of you might be able to help me. My 11 month old has been tested and is allergic to Milk, Wheat, Egg, Peanut, Sesame, Chickpea (& Dogs). As she is approaching her first birthday i want to make her a cake.. any ideas for recipes or websites i could look at ?

Many Thanks.

Pig in the Kitchen is a great site for cakes & munchies. I did my boys Bears Carrot cake for their first bday cakes (I do them in mini-muffin trays as well, a lovely snack that freezes well too!)

Crickey, poor lamb!

Try this? glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/gluten-free-casein-free-recipe-index.html

That's a bit of a so-and-so. Hopefully she will grow out of some of those soon. Gluten-free is often eggy/nutty which is frustrating.

At 1, cakes are more about the parents than the kids, you just want something that you can stick candles into. Think outside the box.

Something like dark chocolate rice crispy cakes (if rice crispies are gluten-free) - Kinnertons Dark chocolate (Sainsburys, Asda) meets all of those needs.

Something fruity. Strawberry sorbet (eggfree sorbet) decorated with fruit.

PM me if you'd like recipe/book suggestions, have lived with egg and nut allergy for years and have some good cookbooks I can suggest xx

You van substitute for egg, wheat flour and milk. I use oatly or soya milk in baking. You can get gluten free flour to experiment with, Doves farm do them. You might not get quite the same results as using conventional ingredients but I think you'd get something pretty close.

Thanks everyone ill have a look at all these links in the week. Its not Gluten that is the problem but Wheat protein. Meaning that gluten free wheat is no good and also oats are a problem as they are largely contaminated with wheat (fields next to each other, same machinery used to harvest, same factory equipment used to process). You can buy wheat free oats but not wheat free oat products (or i havent found any yet) so anything oaty has to be made by me. Flours need to be rice flour/buckwheat (which actually isnt wheat) or the like and ive no experience cooking with those, all i know is that you need to use more water that you do with wheat flour & i cant find any recipes that dont have egg in them! Its really tough. I like the rice krispie cake idea a lot!

www.yummly.com/recipe/Gluten-Free-Vegan-Carrot-Cake-Food_com-114816?columns=1&position=45%2F63&columns=1&position=45%2F63&columns=1&position=45%2F63

www.yummly.com/recipe/Easy-5-Minute-Allergy-Friendly-Fruit-Cake-Food_com-85663?columns=1&position=60%2F63

Apple cakes often don't use egg so worth a google. This one might work:-

www.veganricha.com/2013/04/spiced-apple-cake-vegan-recipe.html?m=1