Dairy-free frosting recipe??

[Anonymous]

My little Nathan will be turning 1 in the next couple of weeks, and I’m planning to make a separate cake for him. I’ve got a cake recipe that my first son loved, but the frosting I made for him contained cream cheese (didn’t know he had a milk allergy at the time!)

I’m about 99% sure that Nathan has a milk allergy also, so I need to avoid all dairy in the cake and frosting. If possible, I’d like to find a frosting recipe that uses concentrated fruit juice as a sweetener instead of sugar, but I’m willing to bend on that.

Any frosting recipe ideas? Or anything store bought dairy-free that you’ve used with your little ones? Thought I’d check here first before searching elsewhere.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Paula for Cooper’s b-day I made dairy/soy/egg free cupcakes and used store bought white icing… It had a much of stuff in it but no dairy/soy/eggs. i think I bought pillsbury. Cooper did fine and I didn’t have to make anything from scratch. I figured with the small amount that he got the amount of sugar and other mess wasn’t that big a deal. HTH. Not sure if this is the way you want to go or not.

[Anonymous]

It’s not a low sugar recipe, but I usually just adapt the classic butter icing to be dairy free:

Cream 1/2 cup dairy-free margarine with 2 cups icing sugar.

Add 2 teaspoons vanilla, 2 tablespoons milk substitute, and 1 cup additional icing sugar. (For chocolate icing, add 1/3 cup cocoa powder)

Add an additional 1-2 tablespoons milk substitute if needed to get desired consistancy.

This will ice and fill a round layer cake, or a 9×13 cake. For a smaller cake, you can cut the recipe in half.

[Anonymous]

I use the Cherrybrook Farms white icing. Since Kaelyn’s dairy free “butter” makes it really yellow, I replace most of it with shortening.

For cake decorating, I use the typical recipe and just replace the dairy ingredients with soy ones.

[hellbennt]

look for pareve- this mens no milk no meat

it’s a little mark- its a ‘P’

(if you see a UD that’s d for dairy)

here’s a chocolate icing recipe:

http://kosherfood.about.com/od/desserts/r/icing_choc_p.htm

here’s a vanilla one:

http://kosherfood.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=kosherfood&cdn=food&tm=15&gps=284_7_878_579&f=00&su=p284.8.150.ip_&tt=14&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.manischewitz.com/recipes/index.php%3Frecipe%3Dsf_parevevanillafrosting%26ref%3Dsfrecipes

[Anonymous]

Thanks everyone, for the feedback. I’m still not sure if I’ll go the store-bought or the homemade route, but quick question….which margarines/”butters” are dairy-free? I know I’ve seen it discussed on here, but I don’t remember.

Thanks again for your help!

[Anonymous]

There are a couple dairy-free margarine options. I’ve heard Earth Balance is quite good (I can’t find it here) and I believe it comes in both tub (spreadable) and stick. There is also Fleischmann’s unsalted. I use the PC brand Celeb lactose-free (dairy free too) from Superstore/Extra Foods/Loblaws – don’t know if you have those stores in the U.S.

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