Dairy-free goodies for Christmas

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Wow, just signed in and as usual am so pleased at the responses. I shall have a look for the HFW book in the works and maybe treat her to it for Christmas. She is such a sweet young lass, and adores my DGS Ben which makes her a pretty special young lady.

I shall sort out a few of the recipes as well as she will be coming to our Christmas Day evening family 'do' at my eldest DDs house.

She is flying off to South Africa on Boxing Night to visit her Grandpa and perhaps I'll be able to give her a cake to take with her perhaps as a present :):).

DGS Ben will be a lost soul while she is away bless him,perhaps I shall teach him a few recipes for him to cook for her when she comes home. You certainly have given me lots of really useful answers
Thank you chums
JackieO xxx

ThemeOne

Just to return to mince pies, many of the shop bought ones are dairy free, though don't make a feature of it, but it's easy to check now that items such as dairy are listed in bold by most manufacturers.

So far I've found non dairy mince pies in Waitrose, Asda and Morrisons. For some reason all the pies at Tesco and Sainsbury seem to include dairy this year. I haven't bothered looking in M&S as they seem to shove dairy and butter in almost everything!

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JACKIE I've just looked and Amaz*n have 49 new copies from £4.59p plus the postage, there are some on Fleabay but much more expensive than Ama..., Hope that helps, Lyn x.

meritaten

Jackie - my son was dairy allergic and I made him many goodies using soya margarine and soya milk as substitutes for butter and milk. it often works best with 'all in one' recipes using soft margarine, for sponge cakes its especially good. oh and just one funny anecdote

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I was telling my mum about making dairy free sponge cake and she asked what I used to substitute 'eggs'! when I stopped laughing, I asked why she thought eggs were 'dairy' - the answer - 'Because the milkman brings them'! rofl!
apart from that:
Turkish Delight is dairy free
check the label because they can change recipes - After Eight mints were dairy free as were Jaffa Cakes.
oh and as he couldn't eat ice cream - I substituted Sorbet. not too expensive and many supermarkets stock it and its dead simple to make anyway.

ThemeOne

If you do need to substitute eggs and dairy in a cake, something like half tsp of bicarbonate of soda, 2 tsp white vinegar, plus 1-2 tbsp soya milk would do the trick - that's for a cake using 170g of flour.

VfM4meplse

Just add to the mince pie intelligence file: have noted in previous years that the Lidl ones (that come in lacks of 6 and 12) are vegan. Didn't think to check the Aldi ES for butter last year because I was too busy scoffing them!

A teaspoon of crushed linseeds in a small quantity water can be used as an egg substitute (thickens after a few minutes to give the same texture). Crushing linseeds is hard work though, you have been warned!

MarianChubb

If you can do Facebook, have a look at the Vegan pages there - lots of ideas for dairy free goodies.

Or, you could try the Vegan Society vegansociety.com/resources/recipes - there is a large recipe index, or Animal Aid animalaid.org.uk under the Campaigns tab or Viva veganrecipeclub.org.uk/seasons/Christmas
I can't post links 'cos I'm a newbie
Hope you find something

AprilLady

A lot of recipes can just be altered by using dairy free milks or marg. You have to watch out for some margarines though as they often contain buttermilk. As others have said, Pure margarine or Vitalie work well in baking, and I often use coconut oil to bake with instead of butter.

I've found a few good recipes by searching Pinterest, and these are quite good:
Anzac biscuits (you don't have to make them gluten free) - http://www.theintolerantgourmet.com/journal/2012/5/10/anzac-biscuits-gluten-free-vegan-dairy-free-egg-free.html

Maple and Almond cookies (again, you don't need to make them gluten free and I've used a normal egg before) - http://www.theintolerantgourmet.com/journal/2011/1/16/maple-and-almond-cookies.html

and this Lemon Almond cake always works well for me - http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/lemon-almond-bread/

My friend made these for me once, you can adjust the spice as you like! http://www.theppk.com/2009/09/mexican-hot-chocolate-snickerdoodles/

Hope that helps! (I know these aren't particularly Christmassy recipes though!)

Maat

As well as Vitalite, you can find Pure margarines in supermarkets. Both brands are lovely. As well as soya milks, you can get oat, almond, hazelnut and rice milks. Oatly cream is gorgeous (find it in the ambient long life milks section usually along with the plant milks).

As well as Jus-Rol pastry (all but the butter one are dairy-free) their Bake-it-Fresh croissants, cinnamon swirls, apple danishes and even pain au chocolat are all vegan (totally delicious, too, and dead easy to cook).

If you're doing savoury stuff for a party, I can highly recommend the Jus-Rol vol au vent cases which you can use to make mushroom dainties. I use Oatly cream for this and very nice too. Linda McCartney's sausage rolls are dairy-free as well. Hummus is normally dairy-free and good with crudites. Tesco and Sainsburys both do potato wedges, although it's worth checking individual products to make sure which are the vegan ones.

Co-op identifies its vegan products on the label but Sainsburys and Tesco do the same for most of theirs too. If in doubt, both of the latter two shops do lists of their vegan products. Sainsburys can be found here:

http://picasso.media.s3.amazonaws.com/PDFs/Allergy-PDFs/Sainsbury%27s%20Own%20Brand%20Products%20for%20people%20avoiding%20Vegan%20Nov%202015.pdf

and you can obtain the latest version (should be dated December 2015 and they're brought out every three months) from Tesco by emailing:

customer.service@tesco.co.uk

Good luck

Maat

My apologies, I just tried the Sainsburys link and it didn't work. Try this instead:

http://www.sainsburys-live-well-for-less.co.uk/recipes-inspiration/healthier-eating/health-advice/product-guidance-lists/

It takes you to their guidance lists page and you can find the link to the vegan one near the foot of the list.