Cake without cows milk and soya - possible?

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DS will be 1 this month and I'm feeling a bit sad that I don't know how to make him a cake.

He is Cows milk protein intolerant and soya intolerant (so this includes butter, milk, yoghurt, etc).

Is there a cake I can easily make for his birthday?

You could do a normal recipe with Pure sunflower spread (or whatever you normally use) and his normal milk/almond milk/coconut milk.

DD is dairy intolerant. I made a cake using this recipe. It was absolutely delicious.

Just use his usual milk rather than the soya milk, and Pure sunflower spread as CMOT said.

I use stork margarine, no milk in Victoria sponge:

6oz SR flour
6oz caster sugar
6oz margarine
3 eggs

Makes two layers, which I sandwich together with jam.

You can increase or decrease the quantity of ingredients, staying in proportion, according to the size of your tins (eg 8/8/8/4 or 4/4/4/2).

We use a lot of koko milk at home, even though no probs with cows' milk. We just prefer the taste.

There are plenty of cake recipes which use sunflower oil or veg oil instead of butter too. I can't remember any off by heart, but you'll find them if you google.

You can substitute any milk for cows' milk - rice, almond, hazlenut...

He has oat or rice milk. Will those work ok in a cake?

Thanks for the recipe MissHC

Yes, my DD has the same intolerance. I made her this for her 1st birthday cake, very easy and tasted delicious.
I replaced the normal milk with rice milk and used stork in place of normal butter. I find that dd actually handles normal butter well in small amounts and doesn't react at all to stork. I can't see any reason not to use a milk free marg if your DS can't have stork either though?

We're still so early into the trial I'm not risking stork just yet. I have some of the pure sunflower so could use that.

Time to get test baking

This is good- I made it for my sons birthday 2 years ago and people are still talking about it!

www.theppk.com/2008/08/just-chocolate-cake/

This Nigella one is lovely - I've made it three times in the last three weeks! I use normal oranges, or a mix of oranges and lemons. I tried limes, but that wasn't as sucessful (too bitter). You could stir some chocolate into it to make it a bit more child friendly.