Dairy free food for DD's 2nd birthday

[klov]

Does anyone have any ideas for fun toddler food which is dairy free? Meringues are a big hit, but any other recommendations, particularly for cakes, would be welcome!

When you say dairy free - do you mean free of milk or eggs or both?

Milk / cream / cheese / butter / yog...eggs are good though!

You can make pretty much any kind of sponge cake using dairy free spread instead of butter. I have a vegan recipe book with lots of cakes but if you just need to avoid dairy it isn't worth the faff.

For my Ds1's 3rd birthday I made a 'cucumber crocodile' from an Annabel Karmel party food recipe book and a jelly in rabbit shape mould with green jelly grass around (child of the 70s, I am!). Plus pinwheel sandwiched of houmous, marmite, peanut butter.

I make muffins with soya milk, with bananas and raisins in, with apple and cinnamon, blueberries, you can put anything in them, and could make mini ones as party food. Find a recipe and it's easy to adapt.

You can make cakes that are exactly the same as an ordinary cake with Pure sunflower spread. Ditto pastry. Ditto biscuits. Ditto pretty much anything.
You can get swedish glace ice cream to have with jelly.
You can make chocolate cake if you use plain - and ditto chocolate crispy cakes.

It is not difficult at all.

DS2 has done pretty much every cooking lesson at school this year just by taking in some pure.

And if not just about every single supermarket has dairy free ranges.

We make cakes with margarine (Vitalite is quite good) and soya/goat milk. Butter icing is nowhere near as nice with marg' though.

Swedish glace ice cream is pretty good and is sold is most supermarkets (made with soya milk). If wanting a choc flavour, you can still use cocoa, plain chocolate or carob chocolate.

For chocolate, buttons and bars are made by a company called Dairy Free and are sold by most supermarkets (about 40-50p a bag). www.billygoatstuff.co.uk are a fab company I use a LOT as they make chocolate for kids who are dairy and soya intolerant. They started doing party favours this year. DD adores their chocolate coins at Christmas. Not cheap, but well-worth it.

Milkshakes can be made with goat/soya milk & icecream. I make home-made jelly, add tinned fruit, and pour in into small cups - DD has to fight DH for them!

Home-made biscuits are easy to do with marg' (DD loves using the cutters). Also we make home-made pizza with buffalo mozzerella (dairy-free) and goat's cheddar (Tesco's own).

Thanks for all that! I've tried pure but it didn't taste as nice...but I'll try again! )

Thanks for the tips re Buffallo Mozz etc!