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decorate a chocolate cake for person with nut allergy???

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satinshoes · 06/03/2007 14:40

making dd's birthday cake tomorrow. will be a chocolate cake in shape of a treasure chest. i planned to decorate with dairy milk chocolate and white chocolate but just realise they 'may contain nuts' and one of the guests has a nut allergy. any ideas?

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wurlywurly · 06/03/2007 14:41

choc sprinkles??

PandaG · 06/03/2007 14:42

kinnertons choc is ok, as is some from M and S. hth

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satinshoes · 06/03/2007 15:02

thanks. never heard of kinnertons but will send dh out to supermarket later. if i cant find any then other ideas gratefully received

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tealady · 06/03/2007 15:10

My son is peanut allergic but ok with other nuts. Green and Blacks milk choc is ok for peanuts (says made on a peanut free site)- but not all other tree nuts. Do you know if your guest is allergic to all nuts?

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satinshoes · 06/03/2007 15:13

i think it is the nuts in pesto - walnuts, pine nuts? however the parents have never given her peanuts and i dont want to be the first only to find she has a reaction

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Berrie · 06/03/2007 15:17

DS has a peanut allergy and chocolate buttons don't have a warning on which doesn't really help you as it would be a very expensive way of doing it but I just wanted to say how nice it was of you to be taking it into account!

tealady · 06/03/2007 15:18

If she is allergic to tree nuts then the only ones I know are safe are Kinnertons or some M & S stuff. The M & S stuff is clearly labeled nut free.

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satinshoes · 06/03/2007 15:24

ok, i dont really have an accessible M&S so will try and look for the kinnertons stuff. never heard of it before today.

berrie - lol@ the choc buttons. might take some time if only i'd thought of it last week i wouldnt have 2 x 1kg bars of dairy milk in the cupboard that i will now have to eat myself

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Berrie · 06/03/2007 15:28

The things we have to do
You could of course bake TWO cakes, one without the topping

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satinshoes · 06/03/2007 15:32

lol. this is the 2nd cake i will have baked in my life thanks to mamaG's easy recipe

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tealady · 06/03/2007 15:35

You could do chocolate buttercream - (using cocoa, icing sugar and butter) for the covering and then use nut free sweets to decorate. I am impressed that you are being so considerate - its very kind of you!

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satinshoes · 06/03/2007 15:38

aw, i shall dust of my halo later

actually tealady and berry you are geniuses. i am making a treasure chest so have to cut part of the 'lid'. i'm going to use the spare bit and decorate with buttercream and sweets (treasure?)

it means i dont have to go out and buy more chocolate. kids are happy. and i dont eat 2kg of choloate next week

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satinshoes · 06/03/2007 15:38

berrie even

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Berrie · 06/03/2007 15:40

Ah but what about the cocoa? The stuff in my cupboard is not nut free

Berrie · 06/03/2007 15:41

And I couldn't find a substitute in our local supermarket the other day either...

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satinshoes · 06/03/2007 15:42

oh sh*t. i checked the packet and it didnt say 'may contain nuts' but it didnt say 'nut free' either.

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Berrie · 06/03/2007 15:44

That's ok then I would think...I'd use it. Who is it by?

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satinshoes · 06/03/2007 15:47

It is Tesco own brand cocoa powder.

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satinshoes · 06/03/2007 15:56

just called tesco customer care and they assure me the one i have bought is nut free

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Twiglett · 06/03/2007 16:01

but pine nuts aren't nuts they're a seed

Berrie · 06/03/2007 16:01

I love the TESCO warnings:

Recipe: nut free

Ingredients: Cannot guarentee nut free

Factory: Made in a nut free area but nuts used elsewhere

Employees: Bob Jones had a packet of dry roast in the pub last night

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satinshoes · 06/03/2007 16:05

aaaargh, cant help laugh though. i've given up trying and i've left a message with mum to find out what i can / cant use.

if it all gets too difficult, what i might do is make the original cake as planned and then get an alternative edible treat for said child's party bag. would that be an acceptable solution do you think?

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Twiglett · 06/03/2007 16:09

do you know something and this might sound harsh .. but its your kid's birthday and HER cake .. so if another child has a nut allergy I would just not serve nuts in anything or use obvious ingredients that have nuts ..

but I wouldn't mess around with her cake for it ..not to the extent of "Bob might have had a packet of salted peanuts in the pub last night" I'd just tell the mother what you've put in it and ask her to watch what her kid eats

Berrie · 06/03/2007 16:12

TBH unless you were a very close friend or family, I wouldn't want you to go to all that trouble just for my ds! I know what a pain it is and so hard to remember everything. I can't tell you the times I've had to check indredients going into things and found warnings on! I usually have to eat cake from party bags myself just in case! An alternative would be absolutly fine with me.

Berrie · 06/03/2007 16:13

The Bob and the peanuts was A JOKE!