Dairy free chocolate and butter

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I’d like to make a cake with above ingredients, Sainsbury’s has galaxy dairy free chocolate, I’ve tried flora dairy free butter but how is it in cakes? For a little girl with dairy allergy.

Just read whole thread. I ask her Mum tbh. My daughter can’t bear anything made with stork -she hates the taste. She’d not eat anything made with cooking chocolate or dark chocolate (dark chocolate is an acquired taste) either

a a lot of kids with dairy allergies can’t tolerate soya (mine can). Plus Mum might use oat milk for example, in which case kid is unlikely to like something made with soya

its a minefield! Mine also hates Tesco and Sainsburys own d/f choccy

Poor wee thing. I’m late to the milk protein avoidance and it’s tough.

Booja Booja raspberry clusters and their salted caramel truffles are gorgeous if she hasn’t tried them.

Most supermarket dark chocolate chips are dairy-free. Sainsbury's basic dark chocolate is, too, as mentioned by a PP, and works fine in baking. For eating, Aldi's Moser Roth all the way! They have two strengths of plain dark chocolate, hazelnut, orange & almond, sea salt and sometimes mint. All delicious.

I like the Galaxy vegan bars, but they don't taste like chocolate. A bit weird and very sugary.

Stork for baking. I've yet to find a decent butter replacement, so make do with Flora or just use olive oil.

Me and my son are dairy free and I use Stork for all my baking.
For chocolate brownies I use Lindt Excellence 70% Cocoa Dark Chocolate.

My daughter can’t bear anything made with stork -she hates the taste

Even if the cake is flavoured with chococlate/lemon/orange/other flavourings?

I always use Stork for baking and if I am doing a plain sponge I always add vanilla extract.

Boo is fabulous but so expensive so she gets it as gifts!

No she can taste it 🤷. I’ve tried as it’s one of the cheaper options and dairy free (plus celiac so a double whammy) is so blummin expensive ☹️

Vitalite is a reasonable alternative to stork block in baking.

I substitute oil for butter or marg when I make cakes. You need about 3/4 of the weight of butter for the oil. It works well.

I'm dairy intolerant. The galaxy df is grim.
Stork is df unless it's the stork with butter so the normal tub is fine.

You will be fine doing your usual recipe with dark choc (check the packaging) and stork or flora butter.

Really nice of you to make this effort.

My cats won't touch 'vegan food' (e.g. tempeh, vegan sausages) but will eat beans and lower-dairy butter.
DCat (the lovely one not the thieving one) absolutely loves dairy cheese. DThiefcat can open cupboards and has been known to pilfer pouches, Lik-e-lix being a favourite. DCat also loves pastry (she gets it because I don't like it particularly) but she wants all-butter not the vegan stuff.

The reason I don't like chocolate cake is that it tastes of flour and cocoa. My waistline is probably grateful.

I agree. That's why we use over priced dark lindt!! The cooking stuff is horrible!

I’m vegan and do lots of baking.

I normally use Vitalite spread or vegetable oil for the fat in cakes. Chocolate wise I usually get a dark chocolate so it’s milk free or the best dairy free chocolate out there I think is Nomo. I’ve made cookies with Nomo and they were good.

My cat eats cheese, cheese sauce, chicken and fish. I don’t think she’s tried to steal. My friend’s 5 year old Tonkinese brother and sister cats regularly steal toast out of the toaster, butter and her husband’s pasta meal recently. Cats keep getting yelled at but doesn’t seem to stop them.

If you want chocolate cake then this is the recipe I use to make the most amazing chocolate cake (everyone loves it!). It uses veg oil instead of butter.

https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/triple-chocolate-layer-cake/

I made it dairy free by using dairy free vanilla yoghurt (I used the alpro one) instead of buttermilk. I then made chocolate ganache using dairy free cream (alpro soya one) and dairy free chocolate.

I also have a tub of Tesco soft spread (suitable for baking) which is vegan and has worked really well in cakes before.

I’ve used Dr Oetker dark chocolate in brownies, it’s as good as anything else I’ve used.

Tesco‘s own baking block is vegan and usually cheaper than stork. I’ve also successfully used flora buttery dairy free in a tub for baking