Egg allergy

Discovered today that my son is allergic to eggs. Seeing the Dr later today
to see what this means to us.

Does anyone know of a good cook book that contains egg-free recipes for
kids? I know that cakes are particularly difficult. I can cope with normal
everyday food and will need to learn what products contain the egg proteins,
but his 1st birthday is next month and I wanted him to try his first cake.
Any suggestions for a good book containing egg-free cake recipes?

kiticat...

Its probably fairly obvious to others but it took me a little while to
twig ;-) vegan websites are great for egg free recipes.

Rebecca Jo...

I've gone egg free for years & I LOVE Wacky Cake.

The recipe I use is at the bottom of this page

but also if you search for Wacky Cake it comes up all over the place. I
don't mix it in the pan. I just use another bowl and then transfer it to the
pan. It is very delicious with just powdered sugar on top or a frosting of
your choice. It's my favourite cake.

Also, I have a book called "Food Allergy Survival Guide" by Vesanto Melina,
Dina Aronson, & Jo Stepaniak that has good recipes. It isn't just for
cooking things without eggs though.

I found it wasn't really that hard to cut eggs out of my diet (I did it when
I became a Vegetarian at age 15). Just have to read the ingredients on
everything

PattyMomVA...

There are egg replacers that you can use in regular recipes. I found one
here in the U.S. that comes in a large container or you can mix your own,
depending on why egg is in the particular recipe (to hold ingredients
together or to rise). Here's a article that I found with egg substitutes:

Here's more:

The last two have a list you can print out to keep with you when shopping
that tells you what ingredients to avoid in prepared products.

-Patty, mom of 1+2

enigma...

actually, cake without eggs is easy. look for recipes for
Wacky cake or Depression cake. if you can't find one, let me
know & i'll post one (mine is chocolate, but i've seen vanilla
& spice ones too)
as for cookbooks, look in the vegan section for egg-free
cookbooks.
lee

xkatx...

Found this site... I haven't actually looked through each recipe, but it
says that these are cakes with no eggs...

Actually, it's got a variety of cakes with no eggs, and some of the
descriptions say no butter or whatever...
Might be worth browsing through?