Wheat and dairy free birthday cake recipe?

[mamasunshine]

Does anyone have one? My ds's 1st birthday on the weekend and just realised I hadn't thought about the cake!

My DS can't eat dairy products and I have found good recipes on this site:

www.ifood.tv/network/dairy_wheat_free_cake/recipes

Hope it helps!

Get Doves Farm gluten free flour from the free from aisle at Tesco/Waitrose. Make sure your baking powder is wheat free. Tesco bp is fine.

Dairy free baking margarines are available - I usually use Tomor from the kosher aisle, but Tesco no longer stocks it.

Stick with a regular 8/8/8/4 recipe but add a little extra liquid (I add lemon juice and zest from 1 lemon) and get as much air in it as possible. I use an electric whisk to mix everything together and whisk until the batter is like a smooth, silky (but heavy) mousse. The batter will be thicker than a regular cake batter but works in exactly the same way.

Always add vanilla to the cake in addition to any other flavouring.

If you're making chocolate cake, make sure you replace flour with cocoa, rather than in addition to the flour.

The results will be the same as with a regular cake and no-one will be able to tell the difference!

With 8oz flour/sugar/marg and 4 eggs, you will make enough for 2 sandwich tins or about 24 fairy cakes.

Good luck!

Thank you both! Will give that a go pecanpie, will try a chocolate one and see if anyone says anything! I need all the luck, not a baker! Do you know what gas mark and approx times for 8/8/8/4 recipe? Also how much cocoa powder would you suggest swopping for flour? Sorry hopeless! Many thanks

my daugter also can't eat dairy of wheat a friend recommended this book. She hasn't had time to try it yet but she says the pictures look very good has vegetables in it as well can't wait for her to lend it to us. We have made a sponge from the doves farm flower with soya marg or vitalite and that turned out ok.

Replace 1oz of flour for cocoa powder.
Bake at 180 degrees celsius - don't know what the gas mark equivalent is.
Fairy cakes take 20 minutes in my oven, sandwich cake takes slightly longer - about 30 mins but all ovens are different so keep an eye on it!

You can use a normal cake recipe just change from the normal flour they got on the list to gluten free and use dairy free spread instead of butter, my 2 girls birthdays are coming up very soon and both are sharing a cake my DD1 is wheat intolerant and has a soya allergy and my DD2 has a dairy allergy so I'm using the gluten free flour and pure dairy free spread as that is dairy and soya free and just folloing a normal cake recipe i will be changing the ingredients if there is plain flour in the recipe so I will use baking poweder gluten free instead.