Son allergic to corn, soy, nuts - need parve dessert ideas

Beginner Joined: Jan 08 2012 Posts: 24

My youngest son is allergic to: corn, soy, nuts, peanuts, sesame, and mustard.

For milchig, it's fine to bake whatever with butter. But for parve desserts, I'm getting super bored of the three cakes/brownies that I know that use liquid oil (canola or olive) instead of margarine (which always has corn/soy or else is yucky-tasting like cottonseed oil for Pesach).

I found Spectrum Organic OU solid palm oil shortening, and it was fine in brownies, but I already had a brownies that worked with the oil Smile

and the shortening made cookie-bars taste yucky.

So, aside from my go-to cakes (banana, pumpkin, brownies) - do you have any suggestions for parve desserts that use oil instead of margarine? Or, did I just do something wrong with the shortening that the cookies tasted blah? He can have other standard ingredients like wheat flour, eggs, etc. (We do buy special Pesachdik baking powder to avoid cornstarch and spray oil to avoid soy lecithin).

Thanks!!

--Unihockey

Posted: Sun, Jan 08 2012, 12:42 pm Post subject:

Most cakes call for oil and not margarine and cookies are easy to substitute. What do you want to make? I am sure we can help you substitute if you have recipes you want to convert.
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Can you get choc chips that are not made on nut machinery?

If so here is my most popular and easiest dessert.

Its basically a big choc chip cookie (made with canola oil) that I bake in a springform pan. I put it on the plata and serve it warm and gooey.

My recipe is
2 eggs
3/4 c white sugar
3/4 c brown sugar
3/4 c oil
2 1/4 c flour (I use ww)
3/4 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
1 T vanilla
pinch of salt
bag of choc chips

Put it greased springform pan. Bake 20 min. Serve warm (I put on the plata when I serve the main course)

Posted: Sun, Jan 08 2012, 12:57 pm Post subject:

I always substitute margarine with coconut oil in my baking. I've never had a problem with taste or texture.

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Does parve richs whip and coffee creamer have any problems??
if not I have some great recipes...
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Beginner Joined: Jan 08 2012 Posts: 24

Thanks so much!!

Ok, so yes, we can get the "Enjoy Life" chocolate chips, or Pesachdik (which aren't as good IME), and those are fine for him. As a side comment, we order the Enjoy Life chocolate chips in bulk, from a company called "Lucky Vitamin" - last month our delivery was stolen (!) from the porch and we figure someone saw the box and assumed it was drugs (?) and UPS investigated and the police found it ditched a few streets over, mostly intact. (Gee, couldn't they at least have returned it if they didn't want it...)

The cookie recipe sounds good, though I don't have a spring-form pan. I like the hot/gooey thing; (oops edit - I asked re shabbat and didn't notice you said to put it on the blech)

My mom also just sent me some other leads, like an apple cake and a Bourbon cake. I've never actually gotten Bourbon, and don't really know what it is (does it come from corn? is it hechshered?)

I like the idea of the coconut oil. I actually bought a jar of that, and it kind of sat around until it went bad, because I didn't really know what to do with it. But I like the taste of coconut, and no one's allergic to it in my family. I even searched out finding cocoa butter to buy as a shortening, but couldn't find it hechshered, pure, and for cooking, which is how I ended up finding the palm oil shortening. (I wonder if either the coconut oil or the palm oil would be hechshered for Pesach when the time comes; I don't see why they couldn't but I doubt there's enough market.)

Unfortunately, the Rich's and similar are all soy-based and many have corn derivatives as well. My mom also suggested moving toward less fat-based desserts e.g. in the summer, doing cold fruit soups, which naturally is healthier too. Smile

But maybe not as yummy as a brownie!

--Unihockey

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We make all kinds of cookies without margarine -- usually using 3/4 oil in place of 1 cup margarine.
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Posted: Sun, Jan 08 2012, 1:56 pm Post subject:

You want a good brownie recipe? Smile

That I can help with. I have never made brownies with anything but oil.

Fudgy Brownies
1 cup cocoa
1/2 tsp baking soda
2/3 cup canola oil
1/2 c boiling water
1 tsp vanilla
2 c sugar
2 eggs
1 1/3 flour
1/4 tsp salt

stir cocoa and baking soda in mixing bowl. Blend in oil. Add boiling water, stir until mixture thickens. Stir in eggs, sugar. Stir until smooth. Add flour, vanilla, and salt. Blend completely. Pout into parchment paper lined 9x13 pan. Bake at 350 for 40 minutes.

Platinum Member Joined: Nov 17 2008 Posts: 5050

Also, the Hershey's chocolate cake (best chocolate cake in my opinion) uses oil not margarine. It does called for a pareve milk of some sort, but you should be able to use rice dream or coconut milk.

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Beginner Joined: Jan 08 2012 Posts: 24

First, that's my same brownie recipe! And, I do love the Hershey's cake too. Smile

I usually use water or almond milk or rice milk as the liquid, if making parve. My grandmother z"l actually did some of the original research for General Foods about which liquid makes a cake taste most chocolatey, and she would always tell me it was water. But, for milchig, I like the texture and (ha ha) nutritional boost from milk.

Would you like recipes for pound cake, marble cake, honey cake, chocolate chip cookies, crinkle zebra cookies, sugar cookies, cinnamon swirl cake, etc?
We are also soy free. You can use cream of coconut to make whipped cream for strawberry shortcake or anything else.
Apple sauce, baked apples, poached pears, ice cream (made from raw eggs which are washed with soapy water and then dried before cracking), sorbet, apple betty pie, fruit crumbles.
I have a great pastry dough made with oil.
You can use cookie cutters to cut out pretty round portions of cake, drizzle plate with a berry coulis, and garnish the cake with fresh berries.
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Thank you!!!