is chocolate pudding okay for an allergic 12 month old?

[caedmyn]

I was thinking about making DD homemade chocolate pudding with frosting on it for a birthday "cake". The ingredients are:
coconut milk
coconut oil
stevia
unsweetened cocoa powder
vanilla
salt
gelatin

The recipe calls for egg yolks but I would leave those out. I would probably put about 2 T. of cocoa powder in it.

[wendy1221]

I've given ds3 things like that (he's the one w/ the allergies, he's just now 15 mos old.) I have another pudding recipe if you'd like that instead. It's like regular pudding. Just water, corn (or other) starch, sugar and cocoa. You could sub coconut milk for the water to make it richer/creamier, but then you wouldn't need the gelatin. It's kinda weird seeing pudding calling for gelatin. Actually, here's one that's close to the one I have:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1940,...244206,00.html

I just add cocoa to make chocolate.

[caedmyn]

Ahh, I'm a creative cook--the original recipe called for sugar and corn starch but I don't want her to have sugar (so substituted stevia) and I'm not so sure she doesn't react to corn so I used gelatin instead. Maybe I'll try it without the gelatin next time...but maybe I won't make it anymore since DD's arms are now covered with eczema which wasn't there this morning (which is when I ate the chocolate pudding I made).:

[Chinese Pistache]

Originally Posted by caedmyn

Ahh, I'm a creative cook--the original recipe called for sugar and corn starch but I don't want her to have sugar (so substituted stevia) and I'm not so sure she doesn't react to corn so I used gelatin instead. Maybe I'll try it without the gelatin next time...but maybe I won't make it anymore since DD's arms are now covered with eczema which wasn't there this morning (which is when I ate the chocolate pudding I made).:

If you're worried about corn, you could use arrowroot powder. That's what we've started using and it works fine.

[Jasmyn's Mum]

I've been using kudzu root to make it more gelatin-like. Works great! Nutritious too.

[wendy1221]

Yes, any recipe that calls for cornstarch you can subanother starch. I'm a creative cook, too. I use stevia all the time as well. Of all the things in that recipe, I have to say that cocoa is probably the most likely to cause problems. Cocoa is a more common allergy than coconut, although it definitely could be the coconut. Did you get my PM?

[caedmyn]

I did get your PM, thanks, Wendy...I'm still processing information right now.