Dairy-free baking

[mkvh]

I currently am off all dairy due to a sensitivity on my DD's part. But I still want to bake.

- Are there substitutions I can make?
- Do you have any favorite cookie/bar-type recipes that DON'T use milk/butter?

[littlemia]

I know from the food allergy threads that Sevilla uses coconut oil. If you're not also soy-free and can use shortening, I have a recipe for oatmeal cookies if you're interested.

[Renrel]

You might want to look at some Kosher cook books or recipe sites. Kosher Jews do not mix meat and milk products so any baked goods to be eatten at a meat meal are dairy free. Any product without any milk or meat products is called Parve.

[malala]

I have a friend who's on your same situation and she just replaces butter by vegetal shortening.
Also, Trader Joe's sells a chocolate brownie mix and a pumpkin bread mix that are dairy free.
And another tip is that Ghirardelli cocoa and chocolate chips are dairy free as well.

[mkvh]

Thanks, ladies! Renrel, there was some advice JUST like that on another site. Interesting!

[Asha]

its the cheating way of baking but namaste makes some pretty good baking mixes. they are dairy, soy, and nut free. you just add eggs, canola oil, and water. i just tried the brownie mix and they were reallly yummy, but very fattening. the fattening issue isn't usually an issue with our restricted diet, though, since we need that fat.

[Sevilla]

I use rice milk to sub for regular milk and it works great in everything except puddings (though rice pudding works fine). I use coconut oil in place of butter - about a 3:4 ratio (so if 1 cup of butter is called for, i usde 3/4 cup coconut oil). I use Nutive cold-pressed extra virgin coconut oil.

If you don't have soy sensitivities to deal with though, you can use shortening or Earth Balance margarine or something like that.

Namaste mixes are great. Cherrybrook Mixes are also great (they have soy but no dairy). And I lovr Trader Joe's pumpkin bread mix so much I have 6 boxes in my pantry right now.

[Taurus]

Here is one of my favorite recipes, and it happens to be dairy free. I don't know its origins; I stole it from a friend's mom. Your whole house will smell so good!

Apple Cake

4 cups peeled, cored and sliced Granny Smith apples (about 3 large or 4 small apples is good)
2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
½ t. baking soda
1 t. salt
2 t. cinnamon
2 beaten eggs
2 t. vanilla extract
¾ cup oil

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, combine sugar and apples. In another bowl,
sift the dry ingredients. Add to apples. Mix in eggs, vanilla and oil.
Pour into an ungreased 9x13-inch glass casserole dish. Bake for 40-45 minutes until golden brown.

[Ellyn]

DS is allergic to dairy and we've looked and looked at labels and products.

Most pillsbury frostings are dairy free...even the cream cheese! Go figure. :rolleyes: Many Duncan Hines cake mixes are dairy free. Look for Casein, non fat dry milk, whey, etc. on labels for dairy. Toffuiti makes soy cream cheese that is actually pretty good. Soy dream makes several varieties of ice cream that taste much like the real thing I think...vanilla, choc, ice cream sandwiches. We use soy milk in most recipes - works fine in muffins (although dairy free muffin mixes are hard to come by), pancakes, cakes, frostings, etc.

This website has "chocolate" chips and other chocolates and they taste great! We use them in DS's choc. chip cookies. We make the nestle recipe and substitute these chips and use Earth Balance "butter".

http://www.amandasown.com/index.html

[glensgirl]

As Ellyn stated most Duncan Hines cake mixes and frostings are dairy free now. My sister alerted me to that. DS also has an egg allergy so my sister substitutes a can of soda (coke for chocolate, sprite or club soda for yellow or white) for the egg and oil that the mix calls for. It comes out really moist. He actually LOVED his cake this year. Last year we used the Cherry Brook Kitchen mix and he was not a fan. I was not either. They taste kind of like bland pancakes. Their chocolate chip cookie mix isn't too bad though. I would also use rice milk and Earth's Best margarine. You have to be careful because some varieties of the Earth's Best do contain milk. The organic one does not.