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! 
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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.
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.
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?
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