Just bought egg replacer for first time, any recipes please?

[BernieBear]

Hi, my ds is egg, dairy and nut free andfor the first time I have bought some egg replacer from the health food shop. Does anyone have any tried and tested recipes that I can tempt my fussy lo with????

Many thanks

[BernieBear]

By the way he is almost 3 (and acting like he is Kevin the Teenager!)

[BernieBear]

bump for the evening crowd? Anyone?

[Catilla]

I haven't got round to this yet, but am also interested.
Assuming egg replaced works fairly well for anything involving egg within a recipe (I'd guess it doesn't do omelette etc...) then how about cake for tempting?!

[iris66]

bumping for interest too.
I used it in a victoria sponge (all I've got round to making so far)and it came out ok, though a little crumbly.

I suspect it would work well in cake recipes containing oil I saw one on here the other day ......iris trundles off to hunt it down

[BernieBear]

I have a great cake recipe donated on here by I think "MyMama" (sorry if that is wrong) It is the best cake ever and I don't make anything else anymore. It is a chocolate cake, if you want the recipe I can pop it on - dairy free, nut free and egg free. Let me know.

I really want recipes like main courses i.e. quiche, can I make pastry???? That sort of thing.

x

[DrumMum]

Hi BernieBear, my son has the same allergies, and I was tempted by this egg replacer. I made some yorkshire puddings and I'm not kidding you I had to throw the pan away as they didn't rise and stuck to the bottom of the pan!
I may have got a bit confuse though as you need to use 20g of egg replacer to 55-65ml of water... and I don't have any measuring equipment to measure those amounts.
Any way I will be watching your thread with interest to get some ideas...
I don't think you can make quiche with the egg replacer and you can buy pastry with out dairy and eggs ready made....

[BernieBear]

Oh my, where do you get the pastry from DM?????

[DrumMum]

BernieBear... I shop at tesco's and its ready made in the chiller... Saxbys rings a bell... check they haven't changed the ingredient..
I did a lot last year with pastry but my 8 year old son didn't like it... I made dairy and egg free pancakes the other night as well and he didn't like them either... I always cook food that he can eat.. but I sometimes wonder why I bother... [tut]

how old is your son with the allergies

[Catilla]

Am v interested in a good cake recipe BernieBear, so please do post it if you can.

[BernieBear]

Back by popular demand (well one anyway!!! ) here is the egg free dairy free nut free choc cake - god it is amazing. I think this is all credit to myMama (or a similar name - massive massive apologies if I have that wrong) am sure Chandra can correct me as I am sure she took this up too.

Have added a few notes of my own certainly with regard to temp and time as this wasn't noted on the original recipe. Also a few other tips re freezer and child

Seriously try it, my ds loves it. I never thought I would be able to introduce him to the memories of "licking out the bowl" due to his allergies, but thanks to this I have!



Boiled Chocolate Cake

1 cup of water
1 ½ cups sugar (use castor)
40z dairy/soya free spread (Pure)
2 tbs cocoa (own brand usually pure cocoa powder)
2 eggs = egg replacer (I use 2 bananas mashed to a pulp)
1 ½ cups self raising flour
½ tsp baking soda.

Place sugar, water, butter, cocoa and baking soda (bicarb)on a low heat until it melts, then allow to cool . Mix in the beaten egg/bananas and flour (sieved). Turn into your usual ?Victoria Sponge tins?. I usually grease and also use baking paper for easy removal as it can have a tendency to stick easily.

Bake at around 170 -180 for around 40-45 mins (I have tried all sorts of temps and cooking times but this is the best ? although this might just be my oven). Usually it is ready when beginning to ?kind of burn? around the edges and knife comes out clean). Ice when cold.

I use a normal butter cream recipe using ?Pure? Marg and a little goats milk for the filling.

This is a very moist cake that doesn?t crumble at all. If you pop it in the fridge it becomes very firm , or if not refrigerated a little like a mud cake. Also it keeps for longer than most cakes I have known .

[BernieBear]

Oh DM, you mean it doesn't get better???? My ds is nearly 3 and fussy as anything. I heard this is quite common with children with allergies. It helps if I don't look at him I find! I would just love for him to eat with me all the time but I get really bored with having roast chicken, jacket potato and carrots EVERY day. Have tried all sorts of recipes and just wondered if possibly there is something out there which we could both eat AND enjoy or at least break the monotomy (sp??)!x

Will set off for Tesco's at first light!!!

Doesn't it feel like banging your head against a very large egg free yorkshire pudding??? xx

[Chandra]

Risotos? good way to hide the vegetables and you can vary the contents everytime you prepare them

As for the chocolate cake.... , we can't do it anymore as DS is now also allergic to wheat, so we are surviving in Dietary Specials Chocolate Cake ready made flour.... fortunately DS likes it but... not as good as the other one!

[iris66]

Chandra - have you tried Terence Stamp or Doves Farm wheat free flour (Tesco/Waitrose/Sainsbury) - it's not bad at all (DS can only tolerate small amounts of organic wheat so I try to avoid where I can)

Berniebear - I'm going to try your cake later - it sounds lovely.

If you get ENERG Egg replacer it's got a load of recipes on the box including a custard tart filling (which I suppose you could adjust to make savoury)..

Custard tart filling.

625ml milk/soya milk
44g Egg replacer
125g sugar
1/4 tsp salt (3g)
1 tsp vanilla (5g) optional
2 tsps fruit pectin (8g)

scald milk stir all dry ingredients together . Slowly add to hot milk whilst mixing & mix for 1 minute. pour into pie shell & refrigerate until firm.

[Chandra]

Iris, I did, my problem is that apart from egg he is allergic to dairy, soya, and nuts, so I'm finding it particularly difficult to bake anything that doesn't look and taste as a upholostery foam!

[iris66]

Chandra - it's a pig isn't it - I don't know what i'd have done without MN. - DS(13 mths) reacts to dairy, all meat/fish, wheat, soya, all fruit & the deadly nightshade group(full body hives) it's only since last week that he has tolerated tuna & yoghurt - the chocolate cake went down a storm tho & I'm hoping there'll be no reaction!

[Chandra]

Tuna and yoghurt.... the day DS could have them...

Last week I almost was reduced to tears trying to bake a birthday cake for DS that other children didn't hate. I started as soon as DS went to bed, tried to use banana and juice in addition to the egg replacer for the top layer of the cake... so, when it finally cooled down... it was past midnight, and then I realised it was as soft as biscotti, had to rush to ASDA at midnight trying to find more glutten free flour, spend a good time deciding whether I should send a "naked" cake to the nursery failing to find anything to cover it with. At the end I placed some toys at the top to decorate it (DS soooo wanted a Cars cake ). It looked quite nice but I have no idea about the flavour. DS reported the other children ate it, which was great... last time he gave a piece of Dietary Specials chocolate cake to his friend and it turned into an argument where the child repeatedly told him it was yucky while DS tried to convince him that it was really nice

[mymama]

I missed this thread. It is my recipe and is fab. Is really fab when made with "proper" ingredients for those without allergies too.

I also have some nice banana muffins that can be made with replacement ingredients. Turn out lovely too. Will post later.