Who doesn’t love cake? It’s an American tradition to have cake for birthdays or other special occasions, and many people also enjoy it with ice cream on top. Most cakes, whether store-bought or homemade, contain milk. How do you come up with great tasting dairy free cake recipes when you have a dairy sensitivity? The solution is quite simple. Finding great dairy-free cake recipes from an informed source will make it possible to enjoy a delicious dessert.
Dairy-free cake recipes were unknown growing up. We had plenty of fresh whole milk in our spare time, as my dad owned dairy cows. We’d milk them and then get a jug full of milk. Then, we would flip it over and use it in all of our recipes. So when it came to cakes on our birthday, they were full of milk. It was in the frosting and in the cake.
After I left home and started having children of my own, they began to have serious health problems. My oldest son suffered from dairy allergies for two years before I realized that was the cause of all his congestion (it took me a long time to figure it out as I was in denial due to my upbringing and I am also married with a dairy farmer). The next three children after that were put on a dairy-free diet at a younger age. I always had trouble making dessert recipes for them since everything had milk in it. He was so stumped about making a cake that would meet his dietary needs. Then one day I finally figured out how to change cake recipes and make them dairy free cake recipes.
It wasn’t as difficult as I had imagined and I wondered why I was so hell-bent on having milk in all my cakes. A cake can be deliciously tasty without milk. Learning that concept made me excited to bake a homemade birthday cake. Now, I could give my children the American tradition every year on their special day.
There were two concepts that I learned. If I wanted to replace milk, I simply found an alternative that was edible. I found that coconut milk was my favorite and rice and almond didn’t even compare (that’s just personal preference). Next, I found a natural butter spread that could replace any recipe that called for butter. These two simple ideas revealed led me to a myriad of baking opportunities.
Two of my favorite dairy-free cake recipes are the yellow cake and the chocolate cake. The chocolate cake requires whole wheat pastry flour, evaporated cane juice crystals, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, eggs, water, olive oil, and vanilla. Combine all these ingredients and bake for 25 minutes and you will have a delicious dessert. The yellow cake calls for whole wheat pastry flour, baking powder, evaporated cane juice crystals, natural butter spread, eggs, water, and natural vanilla. Combine all ingredients and bake. When it’s done baking, there will be another great tasting dessert recipe to add to your favorites.
Discouragement need not prevail when someone has to switch to a dairy-free diet. It only requires experimentation and a bit of knowledge to get fabulous results. To make great-tasting cakes, a few proven dairy-free cake recipes are all it takes.
