Dairy-free Sour Cream Coffee Cake - Making Childhood Favs OUR Food Allergy Family FAV

As a kid, my dad made the following recipe regularly and we DEVOURED it.  As my kids get older, I LOVE having them help to figure out how we can recreate my family recipes into 
OUR allergy-friendly recipes.  

I can honestly say that as of today, this is currently our FAVORITE dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free dessert.  It doesn't last much longer than on hour.. if that!  

I have included our substitutions.

Dairy-Free Sour Cream Coffee Cake - Smart Allergy Friendly Education

How to Make Your Own Allergy~Friendly Chocolates for any Celebration

Don't let allergies such as dairy, soy, peanuts and tree nuts hold you back from enjoying homemade chocolates during ANY holiday season!  Making your own couldn't be simpler!!

Smart Allergy~Friendly Education - Chocolate Candy Making Tips

Get Your Supplies Together

Allergy~friendly chocolate chips, Shortening/Coconut oil

Melter, Molds and Foil Wrappers

Additional ideas:  

*Peppermint oil, **Peanut/Tree Nut Free 'peanut butter' alternative

Smart Allergy~Friendly Education - Basic Chocolate Candy Supplies

Melt 1 C of chocolate chips with 1 tsp of coconut oil/shortening.  

Add *oil during melting, if using. 

Pour into your favorite mold and freeze for 20 to 30 minutes.  

Smart Allergy~Friendly Education - Basic Chocolates

Making 'Peanut Butter' Cups?

Fill 1/3 of mold with melted chocolate.  Freeze.  

Add **'peanut butter' alternative.  Freeze.

Top off mold with melted chocolate.

Smart Allergy~Friendly Education - SunButter Cups (OUR FAV!!)

Wrap individually in foil wrappers. 

Handle as lightly as possible because your hand warmth will begin to melt them.

ENJOY!!

Great gifts for ANYONE!  

Friends, family and teachers! 

Happy Holidays!

Chocolate SunButter Rice Krispies - Nut-free, Dairy-free, Egg-free and Gluten-free

If you are already a fan of SunButter , you may have already seen this recipe as it was posted this past week on August 24, 2016.  On my personal page here, you will find the specific products I used in making this recipe allergy-friendly for my family's needs.  

Chocolate SunButter Rice Krispies 

How to Make Dairy-free, Egg-free, Nut-free Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream!

Our July 4th cul-de-sac party arrived and it was time to make another batch of homemade, allergy~friendly ice cream!!

This year I decided to make a DOUBLE BATCH of dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free MINT CHOCOLATE CHIP ICE CREAM !  

You provide the ice cream maker... I'll provide the recipe!   DOUBLE the ingredients below if you also want to double your recipe.

Dairy-free Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Homemade Ice Cream Recipe

Dairy-free, Allergy~Friendly Homemade Oreo Ice Cream

Absolutely LOVE making our own homemade ice-cream!   It tastes great, we have more and NO worries about our dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free needs!  

You make sure you have the ice-cream maker... I'll share our altered recipe!! 

Oreos 'N Cream  Recipe from Smart Allergy~Friendly Education 

Oreos 'N Cream Ice Cream
dairy-free, egg-free, peanut-free, nut-free

Spider Cupcakes for Any Celebrations - Egg-free, Dairy-free & Nut-free

Today is my son's 8th birthday and I almost forgot!  We have been celebrating his special day in one form or another since Friday afternoon!!  You can imagine my HORROR this morning when I realized I had forgotten to make his birthday cupcakes for school! 

Egg-free, Nut-free, Dairy-free cupcakes from Smart Allergy Friendly Education

Thanks to my standby Zebra Cupcakes recipe, and a few tweeks, I was able to throw together these awesome Spider Cupcakes for his special day!!

Zebra Cupcakes - Our GO-TO Allergy Friendly Cupcakes Everyone ENJOYS!!

Just had our last baseball game last night, and this allergy~friendly recipe was a hit AGAIN!  Thank you to Amy Quilici for making these so that ALL the kids could enjoy a cupcakes in celebration!!  They are dairy-free, egg-free, soy-free, peanut-free, tree-nut free and DELICIOUS! She even used our favorite Cream Cheese Pillsbury Icing Pillsbury Icing!  

Smart Allergy~Friendly Education Zebra Cupcakes

EF, DF, NF Holiday Cookies - Thinking Valentines Day!

Just pulled up this recipe to make 4 dozen Valentines Day cookies and realized it wasn't complete!  Must have been one of THOSE days!!  Let me try this again, and I'll share all of the steps this time:-)

EASY! and tastes delicious!!  

Best of all, it's egg-free, milk-free and nut-free. It could be made soy-free with the right margarine~

Easy Holiday Cookie Dough

1 C softened margarine (Earth Balance)
1 C sugar
1 egg (*1/4 C flax seed replacement)
1 1/2 t vanilla
3 C flour
1/2 t baking soda
1/2 t salt

Allergy~Friendly Rhubarb Muffins

The following is a recipe for one of my kids' favorite breakfast muffins.  As a matter of fact, they just ate two each!  They are dairy/egg/peanut/tree-nut free.  They could easily be made wheat/gluten-free by using your own alternative flour.

Smart Allergy~Friendly Education Recipe

Yummy Rhubarb Muffins - free of dairy/eggs/nuts

1 1/3 C flour

1 C rhubarb chopped

2/3 C brown sugar
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt

1/2 C Tofutti's Sour Supreme
1/4 C vegetable oil
1 egg substitute = 2 T warm water + 1 package of *gelatin (OR 1/4 C of flax substitute)

Topping
1/2 C brown sugar
1/2 C oatmeal (you could substitute nuts, if you can)
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp dairy-free margarine (Nucoa, Earth Balance)