A celebratory experience shouldn’t go unrewarded with cake. Birthdays are known for the sweet confections, but a food allergy can come in between a child and his or her birthday plans. Making a birthday cake that is free of common allergens is possible; keeping the birthday spirit alive and well.

You could take the easy route at this point and buy an allergen free cake mix, or you could make it yourself. It’s more rewarding to make the mix yourself, but time doesn’t always permit such luxury. Ingredients you will need would be potato starch, xanthan gum, sugar and salt, canola oil, and others. The majority of the list will be ingredients you should already have, and if not, then your grocer should stock them.

You will start the process much like you would bake a normal cake. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and get a mixing bowl for mixing the ingredients in. The rice flour, starch, sugar, cocoa powder, salt, and baking soda will all go in at this point to be mixed. The water and vanilla extract will be added as well to give the cake consistency and flavor.

Once the batter is created you can go ahead and pour it into a regular cake pan. Bake the batter for half an hour at least. A trick of the trade is to put in a toothpick. Once the cake batter is properly developed you would be able to pull out the toothpick without any batter clinging to it. Once that happens, the cake is officially done baking and we can get started on decorating.

The icing for the cake can be made with non-dairy whipping cream and vanilla flavoring. You can, at this point, buy frosting that claims to be free of allergens. You can easily make a vanilla frosting yourself but exotic flavors will be harder to achieve. Adding a puree to the mix or using a light flavoring extract and food coloring is possible if you want extra flavor.

Allergen free cake can taste every bit as delightful as your average birthday cake. Consider getting crafty in how you create the cake, decorate it, and present it to the lucky person who received it. Allergen free birthday cakes will take time in learning to make, so don’t give up if the first few aren’t up to your expectations in birthday cakes.

In Conclusion

Food allergies won’t stop anyone from having their cake and eating it too. Remember that practice makes perfect, and the ultimate test is having test subjects try the cake and comparing it. If you can pass the taste palette of a young child, then you are doing just fine indeed.

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