Cakes For The Severely Lactose Intolerant
Decorating By mrsright41401 Updated 8 May 2006 , 7:55pm by AgentCakeBaker
I want to have my grandparents and my mother over for MOther's day and make a cake, but my grandfather can have NO milk products. My buttercream is fine cuz it's all shortening, but what do I do about a cake?
Rachel
Rachel,
I'm in the same boat. But look in the recipe section here there are a lot of great dairy free recipes for all kinds of cakes. I just made the vegan chocolate cake with BC frosting (all crisco). I really didn't like the frosting that much. It was very sweet tasting and I could definately taste the crisco. But on the other hand the cake was very moist and had a great fudge flavor. Good luck and if you know what I could do to improve the taste of the BC please let me know.
Lisa
I had to make 2 cakes like this, one for a child that was lactose intolerant and the other was severely allergic. Since then I have learned a lot, and this is not something to play around with at all.
Vegan is one way to go however the ingredients can be difficult to find as well as costly. There are alternatives......
Most cake mixes have dairy in them. Look for a 'U' in a circle on the packaging and right next to it you will probably see a 'D' signifying there is dairy in the product. There are some mixes out there that use no dairy. In Canada the 'no name' yellow boxes from No Frills/Loblaws/Zehrs/Fortinos/Great Canadian Superstore chains are dairy free as are the President's Choice Organics cake mixes. Take a close look at the ingredients. Anything containing casein or any derivitive from dairy is a no-no for sure.
You could also make an old-fashioned sponge cake. It does use butter at the end however you could substitute Fleischman's Lactose free margarine. That is another thing to watch for, almost every margarine on the market has some kind of dairy in it, so be careful. Exceptions would be vegan margarines as well as the one I just mentioned.
I have to thank projectqueen as well, she helped me learn a lot about milk allergies and what to look for.
Good luck, happy baking and tell us what you come up with!
You can use soy milk in your cake batter. Soy milk is lactose free and it also makes the cakes extra moist. This weekend I used soy milk in my daughter's birthday cake and it was delicious.
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