Allergic Chocolate Lovers Rejoice In Chocolate Icing Product Alternatives

Allergies don’t mean giving up the taste of favorite foods like chocolate icing. Here’s how you can have your chocolate cake/chocolate icing and eat it, too!

More favorite foods that might be restricted in a diet due to allergies exist in allergy food product lines. Allergy food product producers recognize that just because you can’t eat a food doesn’t make you not want to. So the really smart chemists and bakers at these companies have put their heads together and come up with ways to still deliver the taste of favorite foods without the reaction causing allergens in traditional recipes.

The good thing about perceived allergies to chocolate items is that the allergy itself is only to the actual cocoa in extremely rare cases. What people are usually allergic to is a byproduct or ingredient, or even a trace food left by something else manufactured at the same plant as the chocolate. So what this means in real-world terms is that it can be nearly impossible to buy a chocolate icing product right off the shelf at the local grocery store. Those products almost always contain dairy products, and usually a laundry list of other allergenic ingredients.

Allergy food product companies, however, know what foods are common allergens, and formulate a variety of products with ingredients that are not likely to bother. They are careful to label even the tiniest trace of a food in every product, too, because they know how important thorough labels are to people with allergies.

So how do they do it?

Allergy food product manufacturers simply replace things like dairy with something else that can provide the same texture. In chocolate icing products that is often peanut butter, but recognizing that peanut butter is also highly allergenic for many people, there are other chocolate icings with other ingredients to serve these people’s needs, too. Just be sure you read product descriptions or ask someone within the company what products are safe for you.

Now for the good stuff. Here’s a list of chocolate icing products available - allergen free - from allergy food product companies:

chocolate cream cheese icing
chocolate butter cream icing
chocolate ganache icing
dark chocolate icing
German chocolate icing
chocolate fudge icing

And for your own personal twist, you can use these products and the chocolate icing base offered in the following recipes:

easy chocolate icing
German chocolate cake icing
chocolate cake - peanut butter icing
yellow cake with chocolate icing

As you can see, a food allergy doesn’t mean you can’t still buy excellent tasting food products and enjoy the chocolate foods you like. It simply means you need a safer way to shop for those products. Lucky for you, now you have it.