My daughter is anaphylactic to dairy. She is also allergic to eggs and peanuts. Obviously, special occasions such as Christmas can be challenging with all the delicious cream, butter and dairy-filled treats floating around!
This year, I decided to challenge myself to concoct some dairy-free recipes so that my daughter can partake in the Christmas goodies as well!
Over the next few weeks, I will be sharing our recipe feats with you. So please, curl up by the fireplace (or light a candle), pour yourself a dairy-free beverage and join us on our journey of creating a dairy-free Christmas.
Dairy-Free Christmas: Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
This recipe has been adapted from the Chocolate Crinkle Cookie recipe I found on allrecipes.com.
The Ingredients
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 cup + 2 Tbsp white sugar
1/4 cup vegetable oil
Egg replacer (enough for two eggs)
1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup icing sugar
The Process
- Combine cocoa, white sugar and vegetable oil in a medium bowl.
- Add egg replacer and applesauce. Beat well. Stir in the vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Mix well.
- Add flour mixture to the cocoa mixture.
- Cover the dough and chill for a minimum of 4 hours.
- Cover cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Roll a TBSP of dough into balls and coat each ball in icing sugar before placing it on the prepared cookie sheets.
- Don’t flatten the ball.
- Bake in the oven for 12 minutes.
- Let stand on the cookie sheet for a few minutes.
- Remove to wire racks to cool.
- Enjoy!
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Anaphylactic to dairy! Wow, I have never heard of anyone having such a serious dairy allergy. My brother is anaphylactic to avocado. Very rare apparently, but he doesn’t have much trouble avoiding avocados.
Thanks for posting these! I will be reading them all. My son is also anaphylactic to dairy, eggs, and peanuts (plus tree nuts) so I hope I’ll find some good recipes. I have a lot of trouble baking treats for him. I think maybe I use the egg replacer wrong? It never seems to work properly.
Claire, when I use egg replacer, I usually use my own recipe as opposed to the commercial, store-bought brands.
The recipe is 1 Tbsp of flour, 1 Tbsp baking powder, 1 tsp baking soda and 1 Tbsp water. Mix together right before adding to the recipe. Also, if the recipe looks a little “dry”, I add some unsweetened applesauce as well.
I know what you mean though… I’ve done a lot of experimentation with my recipes so that they turn out just as tasty (or better) than their non-vegan counterparts.
I hope these recipes serve to delight your family this Christmas!