For those of you with an allergy to egg, peanut or dairy do you have any great recipes you would like to share? One of my long time customers found out her little one is allergic to egg, peanut and dairy. I'm thinking the icing will be the most challenging.

Anyone?

Hi,
I am not sure where you are located but a fellow student has a horrible lactose allergy and she uses nutriwhip for her icing. As to the egg and peanut, I will be trying out a cake for the weekend that is Egg free and I don't use nuts in my products...my family is fasting for a wedding so we are not allowed any meat this week. If you can PM me I will find the recipe and you can try it out as well...maybe even tell me if it is good...lol.
Good luck!!

Thanks for the recipe! Let me know how it turns out!

many posts on the allergy thing (recipes included)... just get the mum to sign off that she is aware you use those allergens in your kitchen, that although you have cleaned everything, trace may be present on ur equipment/ in the kitchen, and so in the final product, and that you are not liable for any subsequent reaction (although should that footnote be done by lawyers so it holds up.?)
xx

My day job boss's two daughters have severe peanut allergies. The youngest also has allergies to dairy and eggs (she has just now outgrown the egg allergy), so needless to say baking for the youngest child has been tough. My goal was to make a cake and frosting that she could have and the rest of the family would enjoy as well.

I found a book by accident when browsing my library book shelves one day and found this book: Allergen-Free Baker's Handbook by Cybele Pascal. Here is a link to the book on Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1587613484/?tag=cakecentral-20.

It took some shopping and reading lots of labels before I rounded up all the ingredients, and made my first allergy free cake and frosting. I made the Classic Yellow Cake and Vanilla Frosting. It was a huge hit. Finally the youngest daughter could have a "real" cake and "real" frosting. Since she could have eggs, I substituted them instead of using the egg substitute. They don't have gluten allergies, so I was able to use real flour as well.

I prepared an ingredient list for her Mom and Dad to read as well. I'll attach it so you can see what was used and what the products contained.

I took the precaution of taking out all my utensils and mixing bowls, cake pans, everything I was going to use and washed them in a mixture of soapy water with a little clorox mixed in to make sure that there were no traces of anything she is allergic to.

I am going to buy this book and add it to my library. It's the best one I've found yet and has a real variety of baking recipes for people with allergies. I ended up renewing the library book 3 times because I read it and read it to become familiar with the terms and ingredient substitutions and I researched the product availabity online. I ended up buying everything at a natural food/health food store. A little pricey, but I knew I was getting exactly what the recipe called for. Now I've done it once, I know that some items are available at some local grocery stores and I will be able to purchase them at a better price.

Hope this helps

There is one margarine product that contains NO dairy, and it's Fleischman's Unsalted. I've used that with shortening, etc. to make a dairy-free "buttercream" icing and it worked out well. HTH!

Hi! I use this recipe it is fantastic:

http://www.marthastewart.com/photogallery/cupcake-recipes-from-the-martha-stewart-show?lpgStart=1¤tslide=5¤tChapter=1#ms-global-breadcrumbs

Thanks everyone for all of the information/recipes!! Can't wait to start experimenting.