Looking for an allergy-friendly cake recipe

[staranise]

Hi there!

I'm trying to find a cake recipe for my nephew's first birthday--his mom really wants to make him one and take pictures. However, he's allergic to wheat (not gluten or other grains), milk, peanuts, and eggs. We do have egg replacer, milk replacer, and rice and arrowroot flour, but none of us know anything about cooking with them.

Any help, please? His birthday's on August 18.

Comments

[minxy]

If he's not allergic to almond flour, how about a flourless cake? I've seen some magnificent chocolate flourless cakes, but they can be very rich. Maybe a non-chocolate one?

[holyschist]

I would guess one would have to be careful of potential milk products in anything containing chocolate.

[devilc]

there are vegan chocolate chips, and cocoa powder (not hot chocolate mix) contains no dairy as it's just the ground up roasted beans and a little alkali for processing.

[holyschist]

Yeah, I know dairy-free chocolate exists, it would just be something to be sure to remember.

(I don't know whether butter qualifies as dairy for this allergy, either. I think there may be a point where if you're substituting essentially all of the ingredients, it might be better to make a fruit compote or something instead. Baking is chemistry, and too many substitutions often leads to a not-so-great product.)

[acelightning]

Almost every recipe I know of for flourless chocolate cake (the ones based on nut flours, anyway) contain three basic ingredients: semi-sweet chocolate (which contains vanilla and sugar, but no dairy), butter, and eggs. I know of one that uses walnut oil instead of butter... but the entire structure of the cake comes from the eggs, and I don't think egg substitutes will work for this.