Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Yes, but (need some help here from someone who actually bakes)

You can take a look at Duncan Hines. My Duncan Hines Angel Food Cake mixes do not contain dairy, but they're a few months old and Duncan Hines is re-engineering most of their mixes to contain dairy, so who knows at this point. The good news is that with the new FDA rules, after the list of ingredients packages must say "Contains: Dairy" if it does so.

If Duncan Hines has, in fact, screwed up a perfectly wonderful product by adding dairy, then things get interesting. Here's a recipe for making your own angel food cake - it was actually referenced in the original Pineapple Angel Food Cake thread. The problem is that with the DH mix, you dump the dry mix into the bowl and add the pineapple with juice. That is, you don't add any other liquid. In the from-scratch recipe, the only liquid is coming from the egg whites. It's easy to remove this liquid - just use dry egg whites. However, the from-scratch recipe requires you to whip the egg whites to increase their volume, then add in the sugar and flour. You can't whip dry egg whites - you have to have liquid. I'm not entirely sure how to get around this - I can only think of two possibilities:

1. Dump all the ingredients for the from-scratch recipe in the bowl, except substitute dry egg whites. Add the pineapple (juice and fruit), crank up the mixer and hope it poufs.

2. As described in the from-scratch recipe, put the egg whites, cream of tartar, salt, vanilla extract, and almond extract in the bowl, except substitute dry egg whites. Add just the juice from the pineapple, thereby rehydrating the eggs and proceed as the recipe directs. Once you get the sugar and flour in, add the solid pineapple.

I have no idea if either of these ideas would work, so I'll keep my fingers crossed Duncan Hines Angel Food cake mix doesn't have dairy.

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