Egg-free birthday cake alternatives... without an oven

[fivetriangulartrees]

I'm an average baker (at most) but I make an effort with my kids' birthday cakes. I've made cakes that look fairly convincingly like cartoon characters or with scenes made from fondant.

DC2 is allergic to eggs and nuts. Last year I came on here asking for tips on making fondant safe for him. Unfortunately there was a heatwave and all the icing turned to mush. It looked shit. I'm giving up on fondant this year.

This year I have the added challenge that we are having our kitchen replaced, so I might not even have an oven! We should have a microwave and a fridge-freezer.

I wondered about pre-baking a lot of shortbread or gingerbread, freezing it, and then sticking it together with icing to build a model train. But I think there's too much to go wrong. Perhaps bake and freeze a vegan cake now then decorate it with buttercream icing and cardboard shapes on the day?

What would you do to make it special without giving yourself a nervous breakdown?

Hi fellow allergy mum with ds1 allergic to egg and ds2 allergic to dairy. If you have a freezer can you do some kind of ice cream cake then keep it in the freezer until needed?

https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/eggless-chocolate-cake-moist-and-soft/

try this one, see no reason why it can’t be frozen then buttercreamed on the day.
mid buy some sprinkles and train toppers to keep it as stress free as poss with no kitchen

I've never made (or eaten) an ice cream cake. But I like the idea of it being able to stay in the freezer until it's eaten, so it doesn't get covered in dust from the building works! I'll look up some recipes...

Sprinkles make anything look special, it's true! I hadn't thought of that.

I’d make your cake ahead, and freeze if needed. Then on the day ice in plain buttercream in grass green, get a tube of the piping icing in black/grey, make a train track shape then use One of these for the candles. You can sometimes get little trees etc that people use on Christmas cakes you could add too.

Is it for a party? I find cupcakes a lot easier as no faffing with cutting etc. Make and freeze a batch of egg free cupcakes before the oven is taken and then defrost and do a quick swirl of buttercream on the day. You can even do a couple of flavours or colour if you are feeling fancy. Then buy some little toppers in whatever he is interested in.

Crispy cake. Melt choc ( we use vegan nomo) in microwave or hob, add rice crispsies and set into whatever shape you need in the fridge

Rocky road? Regrigerator cake? Both easy and no oven required.

Malteser Cheesecake.
https://www.janespatisserie.com/2015/05/29/no-bake-chocolate-malteser-cheesecake/

I made an ice cream cake for DS when he was allergic to eggs (outgrown it now- maybe that gives you some hope?)

I can’t even really remember how it was made, but it was very simple, biscuits with ice cream between the layers and the kids covered it in chocolate sauce and various sweeties. beautiful it was not, tasty and fun for small children -absolutely yes!

First thought was an ice cream cake too. I remember an Annabel Karmel one that was techinically for little ones - was good - think it was a raspberry half and a vanilla frozen yoghurt half. I then put blueberries on the top. Or can you see if you can borrow a friend's oven for something for half an hour or so - I'd be really happy if a friend asked me that.

Chocolate tiffin

Perhaps bake and freeze a vegan cake now then decorate it with buttercream icing and cardboard shapes on the day?

I have a cracking vegan chocolate cake recipe if you want it. You wouldn't know it was vegan. Buttercream iced cakes freeze beautifully. Also, covering the cake with buttercream now will ensure it stays fresher. Just open freeze it until it is completely frozen then wrap it in foil.

I am a veteran of freezing cakes - iced and uniced.

Plenty of cheesecake no bake recipes around. Crush biscuits of choice for base mix with butter, topping is cream cheese, whipped double cream and flavours of choice basically. I've seen a great crushed Malteser one recently

No bake cheesecake with berries (or whatever) on top. You could even do mini cupcake sized ones.

Chocolate biscuit cake.