Dairy Free Cakes

[beanebabe]

My 6 year old son has recently been put on a dairy free diet by his doctor. I have one cake recipe that uses sunflower oil instead of butter. Does anyone have any other recipes we can try?

[Pigletion]

If you Google "vegan cake recipes" you will get loads. They often use oil and an egg replacer, either commercially bought (like Ener-G), unsweetened applesauce/puree or ground flaxseeds mixed with water (not sure if he is allowed eggs). Often recipe web sites have a rating system and people comment so you can see if the recipe actually works, produces a good result, tastes good, is hard ot make etc.

[pastafreak]

You should be able to replace the butter/margerine in almost any cake recipe with oil. I have been doing it for years. Also-a lot of American recipes will use oil instead.

[lorri24601]

if he is ok with eggs google "red velvet chocolate heartache" by harry eastwood. its a cook book with loads and loads of cake recipies that have the fat replaced by vegtables or nuts, sounds weird, but the recipes i have tried out (for my dad who says he can taste the fat in things and hates the taste )seem to work,

[EllyD]

Vitalite spreading margarine is dairy free and workes well in baking and cooking. Substitute for the same amount of butter. Tastes awful by itself, but ok when cooked/baked/roasted etc. Tesco sells it.