Cake and Frosting

Who knew how hard it would be to find a cake and frosting recipe that is soy, dairy, egg, msg, and nut free?

It literally took me hours of comparing cake and frosting recipes to decide on two specific ones.  The recipe for the yellow cake I got from here, but I used olive oil instead of canola:

http://foodallergies.about.com/od/multiallergenfreerecipes/r/Lemon-Vanilla-Cake.htm

I tweaked a recipe for chocolate butter frosting from my Betty Crocker cookbook:

2 cups of powder sugar
1/3 cup of cocoa
1/3 cup of coconut oil (I used Spectrum which has no coconut smell or flavor)
1 1/2 tsp of vanilla
2-3 tbsp of rice milk

Sift together sugar and cocoa.  Mix with the coconut oil.  Beat in vanilla and enough milk to make it spreadable.


We'll see how it goes tomorrow.  My eldest is coming over with her family to celebrate both our birthdays.  She can't have dairy during this pregnancy.  I can't have MSG or Soy.  My youngest daughter can't have soy.  My 1 yo grandson can't have nuts, soy, egg, dairy and certain fruits.

It definitely makes meal planning interesting. :)