frosting without dairy or soy

[mmom]

My LO is on a diet free of wheat, dairy, soy, and eggs.  He turns 1 this week and we are having a party for him tomorrow.  I managed to find a cake recipe free of these things are there is a frosting mix at the store free of them, but it says to add margarine.  Does anyone know what I could use in place of this or does anyone have a recipe? 

[Spectra]

There are dairy free and soy free margarines, if you can find them.  All the recipes I looked at asked for this, but I could never find it, then again I am in a smaller city in Canada.  Or you can use shortening, and find one soy free, that's what I did.  Keep in mind that he's only turning one, if the cake doesn't have icing he won't notice.  I worked real hard making him a cake and he didn't even touch it ahahahaha!!!  Thankfully we had a back-up cake for the guests, because the rice flour cake with shortening icing wasn't a HUGE hit with the adults... lol

Here is the ingredients I used::

4  cups  powdered sugar (1 pound)
2  Tbsp  water, or rice milk
1  cup  shortening
1  tsp  clear vanilla extract
1/2  tsp  butter flavoring (optional)
    paste food coloring (optional)

[hjrmom01]

mmom, do you mind sharing your cake recipe?  I know Vikki, Dylan's mom is looking for a dairy free one and so am I.  H turns 1 in 2 weeks...EEK!

[~ Vik ~]

Birthdays are coming up so fast!! If you could post the cake recipe mmom, that would be fantastic!  Thanks

[mmom]

Wow, I didn't realize the site was back up!! 

I have to find it.  But I will look and post it as soon as I do!

[mmom]

Chocolate cake:
3 cups flour  (I used a brown rice flour combo)
    2 cups sugar
    6 tablespoons cocoa
    2 teaspoons baking soda
    1 teaspoon salt
    2 cups water
    3/4 cup vegetable oil ( I used canola)
    2 tablespoons vinegar
    2 teaspoons vanilla

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix dry ingredients first.  Once the mixture is even, mix in wet ingredients.  Continue mixing until you obtain an even batter (no lumps).  Pour into a cake pan and bake for approximately 40 minutes.  I recommend topping the cake with Chocolate Frosting by Sarah (on the vegweb).

[hjrmom01]

can you omit the chocolate?

[LizzieN]

Hey lovelies,
One mum over on the other post also suggested coconut oil (which is solid at room temp) rather than shortening.  I use nuttelex instead of butter (in Australia), it's dairy and soy free.

Oh hjrmom I posted on other thread too, but don't see why you couldn't leave out the cocoa, just add a little more flour to make up for the difference and more vanilla or whatever flavour you want (adjust for the difference in liquid if you add juice or something as a flavouring)...I would do a tester first and see how it goes, just make them into cupcakes instead so everyone can share

xx Lizzie

xxLizzie

[scarlettsmom]

My sweet girl just turned 1 last week.  She has tons of allergies.  For her frosting we did a choc mousse using avocado instead of milk.  It was avocado, cane sugar, and unsweetened cocoa powder.  keeping it in the fridge for a while really helped and it was pretty tasty!!  If you can't do chocolate you can add vanilla extract I'm sure.  we have to be careful w/that because of a corn allergy as there are corn byproducts in vanilla extract..

Good luck and happy birthday to your LO!

[Mashi]

You could make a glaze icing out of icing sugar and water - just slowly add a few spoonfuls of water to a bowl of icing sugar, and a small drop of vanilla.  Keep mixing until it is smooth, and then use it to glaze the cake when it is still warm.

In the UK there is a dairy free, soy free spread made by "sure" - it's what we used and DS really liked it. It does seem like it's really just a solidified vegetable oil, but it functions well in place of butter wherever needed!

[Peek-a-boo]

Check out this recipe.  I saw it on the food network and it looks yummy, but I haven't made it.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/avocado-buttercream-frosting-recipe/index.html

It's avocado frosting and it's green like an avacado, lol. 

[mmom]

I have heard of pudding with avocado, but never frosting.  That is a good idea - kind of makes it healthier.  My SIL has the book "Deceptively Delicious" because her son won't eat anything other than PB&J for meals.  One of the recipes has avocado as the base in the pudding.

[Peek-a-boo]

I made the frosting and it was on the runny side, but very tasty.