We recently found out that my daughter is both diary and soy allergic. Next week is her birthday. I found a boiled icing recipe off of wilton's site but it doesn't sound too tasty. I need a cake recipe that will go well with a soy free dairy free (so no butter OR shortening) frosting. . . Please help. I've only ever used butter cream or MMF...

My first thought was a scratch angel food cake, or wacky chocolate cake, both are dairy and soy free. MMF doesn't have dairy or soy, does it? If you make it with milk, you could use water, rice, or almond milk.

Why no shortening? Isn't it all vegetable? Seems to me one could make all shortening buttercream. To help the flavoring, increase the vanilla - or whatever flavoring you are using - to at least 2 Tablespoons per recipe that uses 2#s of sugar.

I make a BC with all vegetable shortening. I add lots of vanilla and butter flavor. I left the butter flavor out a few times and it still tasted fine.

Just got my all-vegetable shortening out and the first ingredient is "Partially hydrogenated soybean oil." Scratch that idea! Sounds like you might have already know that though. I got out the regular shortening (you know the kind made from meat fats AND vegetable oils) and I don't see soy listed in that.

I am not vegan, but have tons of friends who are. I do have dairy issues, but so far i've been okay with the butter in the icing.

Get the book Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. It has Vegan cupcakes, and vegan buttercream. Soy milk is what it uses. I love the recipes. I've tried quite a few of them. You can easily use the recipes for a layer cake and frosting.


I intend to quickly switch to vegan, as soon as i learn all the techniques. But not do stritly vegan, but know how to do it. It'd be awesome to bring cakes to my vegan friends.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1569242739/?tag=cakecentral-20

If I use a MMF how do I get it to stick without a layer of frosting?? That's why I hadn't before because I was taught to do a thin layer of frosting or it won't stick. . .

I made a small cake with MMF only for a lactose free baby and yes it had some minor lumps but stayed on just fine with out the buttercream. If the cake is pretty moist it should hold fine. It's the small Elmo smash cake in my pics.

You could also brush the cake with some strained apricot preserves, slightly warmed, before applying fondant.

You could use fruit jelly under your fondant (not jam...this would make your fondant lumpy).

What about marzipan? I think only the cheaper marzipan has soy in it.

.............yes vegetable shortening is vegetable based but soy is a vegetable and it is made almost entirely from hydrogenated soybean oil generally vegetable oil is soybean oil..............

Oh of ocurse I wasn't really thinking htere. I guess it didn't accure to me because I don't have to worry about it.

.........Spectrum shortening,....is made with all palm oil. It is 100% gluten, vegan.......

Now, this I would have a problem w/as I'm allergic to coconut

Did you search a recipe for cake and icing here on CC?, I was asked to make a gluten-free cake and found a very good recipe here as well as an icing recipe. The ingredients were a bit expensive, but the customer was extremely happy. Good Luck!

I would think you could use the palm shortening and either fruit juice of some kind or almond milk to replace the ingredients that she can't have and it should turn out great. My daughter has food allergies, and its amazing how creating you have to get sometimes to make things work. Good luck to you!

check http://nondairynonsoy.blogspot.com/2010/05/icing.html
they say - Coconut fat is solid at room temperature. Hallelujah. Melt it in the microwave, stir in powdered sugar until it's as thick as you like, ice that cake and let it cool. This is not big, fluffy buttercream frosting but it is a way to coat a layer of sweet on something.

They also have Ana's Organic Dark Chocolate Whole Wheat Zucchini Cake