Special Diet Recipes
Allergy Free!
I know that a lot of people who read my blog have specific dietary concerns, such as allergies. Therefore, I’ve been trying to remember to tag my recipe posts according to the specific dietary requirements they meet and the allergens they do not contain.
Here are links to posts that fall under the following categories:
Why no egg-free or milk-free categories? It’s because ALL my recipes are egg and dairy free! 
Search by Ingredient:
- Beans
- Bananas
- Chocolate (my favorite tag!)
- Coconut Butter
- Peanut Butter
- Oatmeal
- Tofu
- Gingerbread
- Carrot Cake
- Cake Decorating
(You can also search for any ingredient by typing a word or phrase into my search bar. It’s located at the top-right of the blog, under the first foodbuzz ad.)
And non-ingredient tags:
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Oh bless your heart darling!
Where’s the nut-free love?
PS – Peanut Butter Fudge Babies taste really good when made with soynut butter or peabutter. Yummy!
I decided against doing a nut-free tag because I don’t know about cross-contamination in products that say “processed in a factory where peanuts are produced” or something like that. I didn’t want to confuse anyone or mislead them. Also, I didn’t know if people would count coconut as a nut.
Good call on your part. It’s nice to know you are so allergy-aware. Coconut isn’t a nut, but the FDA includes it on their list. (Probably because most brands of coconut are processed in facilities with nuts.) Thanks for the update.
What a lovely thing to do
you are so sweet and thoughtful! thank you!
This is awesome! My best friend eats gluten-free, so I’ll have to make some of these yummy recipes for her
I’m on the most crazy elimination diet at the moment because of some illnesses and your website is a lifesaver! Being gluten, dairy, egg and sugar free is hard but not when you can have your amazing desserts! I often trick my family and friends that your desserts are “real” and they think they are better than the sugar laden foods.
I would love it if you could do a category with your single serving things, for us single ladies!
Way ahead of ya
http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/tag/single-serving/
I found your blog today and wanted to say THANK YOU!!! It seriously made me cry! I am so excited to try out your recipes! I am allergic to so so so many things and am excited to try some of your recipes to get some sweetness back in my life! I occasionally cook with Almond flourm but now even that is starting to affect me so this is wonderful! THANK YOU!!!
Aww thank YOU for such a sweet comment. I am so glad you found me
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A low carb category would be helpful too
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I LOVE your site. Now I don’t have to go on my detox diet without CHOCOLATE!!! =D I will definately be using this site more often.
Your most grateful and admiring chocolate loving reader,
aMandalin
I am so happy right now – I can’t even explain it. My son is allergic to milk, eggs, wheat, and tree nuts. It is so hard to feed him and I have found SO many recipes and ideas off of your site. I am SO extremely grateful. I have been stuck on what to give him and feeling so bad on him missing out on so many foods. These recipes are a blessing to me! Thank you!
Aww Christy, I am so glad you found my site! I hope your son likes the recipes… I can’t imagine how hard it must be to be a kid and not be able to eat what everyone around you is eating.
I just have to second this comment! I have a son allergic to milk and eggs and your recipes give him desserts that others eat but are safe for him. We’ve loved everything we have made and I actually have your cornbread in the oven now for the third time this month. Thank you so much for your dedication to this site…I’m very thankful for it!
Well, Chocolate Covered Katie, YOU ROCK MY SOCKS! I am so thankful that I found your sight. I’m on a diet called Paleo, which is gluten free/sugar free/dairy free, and it is SO hard to find desert items that are fulfilling as well as delicious. I have a whole list of items from your blog here that I just can’t wait to try. Thanks again, and keep all these amazing recipes coming
Awww you are so welcome!!
I LOVE YOU WEBSITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can’t wait to make some of these!! Thank you!
This is the most exciting website I’ve ever seen. Wow. I’m a primal baking-lover! Thank you!!!
Do you have any low sodium/no sodium recipes you could share? I am on a low sodium diet because I have heart failure.
Thanks!
Kelly
I’m sorry to say that I don’t know much at all about low-sodium diets
. I wish I could be more helpful!
I love your site – cant wait to try your recipes. I was wondering if the sun-maid dates have added sugar? THanks!!
Nope
YOU ARE MY HERO!!! <3
Could you add a dairy-free link? Just found your site and the recipes look great. Thank you!
ALL my recipes are dairy-free
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Here’s a super challenge for you… Low-fat (under 7ish grams per serving) AND low-sugar (even agave, etc), due to severe medical restrictions. (Dairy-free and gluten-free are ideal, but seem to be impossible!) I am pretty decent in the kitchen, but this has pushed me to my limits. Would love any suggestions
I don’t know of any specific ones offhand, but I bet if you browse my list under the “sugar-free” category, you’ll find a lot of them are low-fat as well
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For Eli: I read on some fancy-scmancy cooking site that you could cut back on the sugar in a recipe by increasing the vanilla (assuming it calls for vanilla) because the vanilla fools your tastebuds. They claimed as much as half of the sugar could be cut but you’d have to test it yourself. Also, I have been told that in a traditional recipe using sugar, it is actually counted as a liquid so if you try to cut too much of it, you will need to take that into consideration. And you need to understand the effects of alternate sweeteners too, just switching out refined sugar doesn’t make it a total freebie.
One of my flavor-enhancing tricks for cooking with chocolate is to add a tiny amount of almond extract, and I mean a tiny amount – unless you want it to have that ‘cherry’ flavor – for a 9 inch cheesecake, I add less than 1/4 of a teaspoon.
Thanks Katie and Renae! I have actually been using things like butter flavor (also in minute amounts), almond, cinnamon, etc – as well as things like mesquite flour, powdered espresso, etc. Great trick on the vanilla. I have been using some fancy vanilla paste as well so that the flavor profile is deeper. I am also experimenting with using stevia and agave – both in very small amounts to try to get a flavor that is not dominated by the taste of the stevia. I totally love the cookie dough recipe. Mesquite flour worked really well to add depth. I think that next time I might try including some ground cacao nibs and a bit of powder too.
Yay! Your blog is amazing and delicious
I’m on a very restricted diet. No cane sugar, no honey, no agave, no maple sugar, plus a lot of other no’s. I’m using Stevia in the raw, since erythritol is on my list of no’s as well. All dairy products are out of the question for me as well. Coconut is also on my list of no items. I really, really, really, really want to try the Sugar-Free Chocolate Fudge recipe, but it calls for coconut butter. What else can I use in place of coconut butter? All dairy products are out of the question for me as well. I hope you will help me with this! Thanks so much!
Sorry, I have no clue. That’s the basic ingredient for that recipe
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Sarah – Can you use Earth Balance? (And I empathize with your restrictions – my best friend has many of the same restrictions and I know how hard it is).
Eli, What is Earth Balance? I’ve never heard of it. I’ll do a search for it, but if you could give me any information I would greatly appreciate it.
Never mind, I found it. I can’t use it. Everything I’ve looked at either contains soybean, canola, or olive oil, all 3 are things I can’t have. The only oils I can use are sunflower oil or corn oil. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Do some research on the sunflower oil and see if it can be whipped into a cream of some sort.
Sarah, I did a quick search for sunflower shortening and found this: http://coasun.com/2009/10/29/coasunsa-made-with-nusun-mid-oleic-sunflower-oil/ Not sure where you can get it, but maybe contact the company and ask?
Hi, can you do a low-calorie category?
Too many of the recipes can be low-calorie. I’d have to go back and re-categorize hundreds. But if you just search for one that sounds good, the odds are it’ll have a low-cal option.
go back and re-categorize hundreds please.
lol jk.
okay, ty
Your site is going to save my life! Thank you so much! Like many others who have left comments, I am on a special diet for my health. I am so grateful to find something fun and yummy to make the no. no. no. diet not such a dreadful thing.
This is a wonderful site….my daughter has to have a dairy free diet, which is tough for a 6 year old. This site is great…thanks!!!! Cant wait to try out these recipes for her!!!
I was so excited to tell my mom about this
. I went sugar-free and am trying to avoid refined foods, which is what led me here–but my mom and stepdad have been avoiding gluten and dairy for a few years now, and not enjoying it all that much! I quietly made a few recipes, taste-testing the site, if you will. The deep dish cookie pie was the one that absolutely tipped the scales. I texted my mom immediately. Dairy, soy, egg AND gluten free, BUT IT TASTES JUST LIKE THE REAL THING. HOLY COOKIE HEAVEN, IT’S A MIRACLE!!!! And today, I gave a piece to my mother in law….she literally begged for the recipe!!!
Aw lol this made me so happy! I’m so glad they all liked the pie!
Hey Katie – I thought you might be interested in this: http://bellplantation.com/ I used the powdered peanut butter in your cookie dough mix today, and it took the flavor to a whole different level.
You are amazing, Katie! My daughter is diabetic, so having those sugar-free recipes all in one spot comes in handy! In fact, I was just sitting here making out my grocery list for the week and realized I had 7 CCK tabs open at once! It all looks so good I want to try them ALL!
Bless you and the amazing things you do!
you had a sugar free cookie dough dip recipe i pinned off pinterest but alas the pin (http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2011/09/27/new-recipe-sugar-free-cookie-dough-dip/) is not there. would you be so kind as to share this recipe again. i am a diabetic and i do well having no sugar except when it comes to chocolate chip cookies. i miss them! thank you. and i cant wait to try out some of your other sugar free recipes!!!
never mind somehow after i added it to the comment and clicked on the link in my comment it worked. who knows, crazy internet. sorry and thanks for all the great recipes.
We love the deep dish chocolate chip pie !!
We are not vegan, but to narrow food allergy possibilities for my 5yo we have to cut dairy out of my son’s diet, (this has been a difficult transition) HOWEVER, looking at your blog and some other vegan bloggers, I know it is within reach! I am learning what I can substitute where and have had great inspiration! Thank you!!!
I would like the breakfast cobbler recipe appreciate your blog. Keep up the good work.
Any low-carb recipes, or hcg friendly recipes?
Most of my newer recipes (as of around January of this year) include the carb counts. To be honest, I have no idea how many carbs something must have to be deemed “low carb” but at least I provide the numbers so people who DO know can easily see if a recipe fits in his/her desired diet.
You must know, you are killing me. I am stuck at work and will not have time to play in my kitchen until Sunday. I just found your website and I am now STARVING!!!! I have repinned so much stuff I think I’m going to overload pinterest.
Thanks so much for all this awesomeness!! I’M SO EXCITED!!!!
Just wanted to ask, is there is actually a dairy-free variety of chocolate chips out there? We eat anything, and have had a great time trying out some of your recipes! But I’m preparing to cook for some relatives this weekend with some very particular diet needs, and as I read labels in the grocery store tonight I couldn’t find any chocolate chips that were actually vegan.
Yes! Ghirardelli semi-sweet (gold package), Whole Foods brand, Sunspire grain-sweteened, and Enjoy Life brand are some of the ones I’ve used. And if nothing else you can always chop up pieces of vegan chocolate bars!
Thanks! I picked up some baking bars of chocolate in the meantime to melt. I’m hoping that’s about the equivalent of the vegan chocolate bars you use. I’m guessing the baking chocolate just has less sugar.
Katie,
What an amazing collection you have here! I can’t wait to try several of the recipies I’ve come across today and to continue exploring deeper and deeper into your blog.
I’m wondering if you have a suggestion for replacing the banana in your recipies that have it listed. Like so many here they are out due to a food sentitivity and while I’ve used apple sauce when bananas are to be used as a wet ingredient – muffins, cookies, etc. – but I have never tried freezing the apple sauce or using it in things like your milk shakes or ice creams which are the recipies that have my mouth watering right now. I know it might change the flavor somewhat, but do you think it would work or does anyone have a better suggestion?
Hi Lex,
It depends on the particular recipe!
Katie,
I am not a vegan, but I just LOVE LOVE LOVE your recipes!!! I do have food allergies, though…I was wondering what you think of subbing almond butter for peanut butter? Is there any reason that wouldn’t work?
Thanks so much for sharing your creativeness
Jeanne
PS…I am fixin’ to go make your raw choc cake…can’t wait to try it!
I think you definitely can in most of my recipes, if not all… In fact, I usually say pb “or other nut butter of choice” when I write a recipe
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The only thing is that I use pb with salt, so if your ab doesn’t have any, you might want to add a tiny bit to taste.
I am a very old vegan who is enjoying your site. I use avacados instead of eggs and no dairy products. This lifestyle has enhanced my life in a big way. Have tried some of your recipes and am very impressed by your expertise.
Keep up the good work.
Russ
Katie,
Thank you so much for doing your blog. I’ve been trying to get my family healthier and you just made that a lot easier. My son is in the process of being diagnosed with ADHD-I and he loves your snacks and power balls. I cut out all sugar last year, and most processed foods, but my husband felt bad that I wouldn’t let our son have any treats b/c of the sugar. Within 10 minutes of eating sugar he is a wild-child! But, now when he gets home from school he’ll ask for one of your healthy snacks. I am a 2x survivor of breast cancer, so it is also vital for me to eat healthy too! You have made my life, and so many of your fans lives easier. thank you!
~Eileen
Why is all of your recipes egg and dairy free ? My personal opinion is that eggs are so healthy and protein packed and non fattening, so I think eggs is a wonderful ingredient and dairy can give that smooth creamy taste and adds calcium ? Where is the egg and dairy containing but still low carb recipes ? Please
If you are not a vegan feel free to have eggs and dairy. Dairy does not give you a thing as cows milk is for cows. Eggs are also an animal product .
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