Help: New to SCD & need cake for child with various restrictions

[Guest guest]

I need help and would appreciate a recipe for a birthday cake. My

child has been invited to a birthday party for another child. Both

are on the autistic spectrum and on special diets. I offered to make

the cake for the birthday child. The other mom and our family are

starting our children on the SCD diet and want the cake to comply

with the SCD requirements.

I just recently found out about the SCD diet. We are

doing GFCF and Feingold. Our child definitely reacts

to salicylates, which are prohibited on the Feingold

diet, such as apples, oranges, peaches, apricot, bananas, grapes,

cherries, and others.

The difficulty I am having with the SCD diet is that I can't even use

amaranth flour. I spent WEEKS trying to find a flour that I could

use to bake some snacks and a birthday cake or at least birhday

cupcakes, and now I found out that the SCD diet doesn't allow

amaranth, even though it does not contain gluten.

How am I going to make a birthday cake without even a

gluten-free flour or a sweetener?! I need help. The poor little

thing is all excited about the birthday party and asking about the

cake. Thanks in advance.

[Guest guest]

Welcome A. Capair,

There are a number of cake recipes at http://pecanbread.com/recipes.html Some

have great pictures.

The peanut butter cake could probably be made with just about any nut butter.

So if pecans are okay you could use pecan butter. If you can't use honey you

might be able to sweeten it with pearsauce. Ditto for the icing. Who says it

has to be " frosting " . You could put pearsauce or whatever your children can

tolerate on top and decorate it with colorful candles, plastic cars or other

decorations to make it festive. Bright colorful party plates.

Hope this helps, if not let me know and I'll see what else I can think of.

Sheila, SCD 36 mos UC 20 yrs

mom of SCD 21 mos

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I need help and would appreciate a recipe for a birthday cake. My

child has been invited to a birthday party for another child. Both

are on the autistic spectrum and on special diets. I offered to make

the cake for the birthday child. The other mom and our family are

starting our children on the SCD diet and want the cake to comply

with the SCD requirements.

I just recently found out about the SCD diet. We are

doing GFCF and Feingold. Our child definitely reacts

to salicylates, which are prohibited on the Feingold

diet, such as apples, oranges, peaches, apricot, bananas, grapes,

cherries, and others.

The difficulty I am having with the SCD diet is that I can't even use

amaranth flour. I spent WEEKS trying to find a flour that I could

use to bake some snacks and a birthday cake or at least birhday

cupcakes, and now I found out that the SCD diet doesn't allow

amaranth, even though it does not contain gluten.

How am I going to make a birthday cake without even a

gluten-free flour or a sweetener?! I need help. The poor little

thing is all excited about the birthday party and asking about the

cake. Thanks in advance.

For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

_Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

websites:

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

and

http://www.pecanbread.com

[Guest guest]

Hi,

We are just starting out but have been experimenting with coconut " flour " .

Buy unsweetened, unsulphered shredded coconut and freeze it. Once frozen,

use a clean coffee grinder to grind the shreds into a fine powder. Use this

instead of nut flour in some of the SCD recipes.

Suzanne

mother to Calida, age 7 yrs, ASD and Olivia, age 17 months, NT

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> Message: 8

> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 05:08:01 -0000

> From: acapir

> Subject: Help: New to SCD & need cake for child with various restrictions

>

> I need help and would appreciate a recipe for a birthday cake. My

> child has been invited to a birthday party for another child. Both

> are on the autistic spectrum and on special diets. I offered to make

> the cake for the birthday child. The other mom and our family are

> starting our children on the SCD diet and want the cake to comply

> with the SCD requirements.

>

> I just recently found out about the SCD diet. We are

> doing GFCF and Feingold. Our child definitely reacts

> to salicylates, which are prohibited on the Feingold

> diet, such as apples, oranges, peaches, apricot, bananas, grapes,

> cherries, and others.

>

> The difficulty I am having with the SCD diet is that I can't even use

> amaranth flour. I spent WEEKS trying to find a flour that I could

> use to bake some snacks and a birthday cake or at least birhday

> cupcakes, and now I found out that the SCD diet doesn't allow

> amaranth, even though it does not contain gluten.

>

> How am I going to make a birthday cake without even a

> gluten-free flour or a sweetener?! I need help. The poor little

> thing is all excited about the birthday party and asking about the

> cake. Thanks in advance.

>

>

>

> ________________________________________________________________________

[Guest guest]

Coconut flour is legal, but is not for SCD beginners....... too fibrous.

Patti, mom to Katera, SCD 10 months

----- Original Message -----

We are just starting out but have been experimenting with coconut " flour " .

Buy unsweetened, unsulphered shredded coconut and freeze it. Once frozen,

use a clean coffee grinder to grind the shreds into a fine powder. Use this

instead of nut flour in some of the SCD recipes.

Suzanne

mother to Calida, age 7 yrs, ASD and Olivia, age 17 months, NT

[Guest guest]

Coconut flour is very fibrous and is not recommended early in

the diet.

After nut flour is well tolerated, you could try adding coconut flour

and see how it is tolerated.

It's not illegal, just not all that easy to digest.

Start with the easy stuff and work your way up as the gut heals.

Jody

mom to -5 and -7

SCD 13 months