Who doesn't love a boxed cake mix??!!!

So when it came time for Matthew's 3rd birthday, I was determined to let him eat the SAME cake that everyone else had. All I can say is "THANK YOU DUNCAN HINES AND PILLSBURY!!!"

This will not work for a severe wheat allergy--but great for those who are allergic to dairy and eggs. Although Matthew does have a wheat allergy, he does well with wheat items--so it works for us.

Take a box of DUNCAN HINES BOXED CAKE MIX.... and (wait for it.....)
ADD a can of soda. You can even use diet, although we stay away from artificial sweeteners. Use a light colored soda for light colored cakes, dark for dark colors like chocolate. Mix well and then pour in to a cake pan or cupcake containers.

FROSTING:
Pillbury makes a shelf stable spray can of frosting that is out of this world!!! What I love the best is that:
a) it doesn't have any wheat, egg or dairy

b) doesn't have to be refrigerated--so use what you need then throw it back in the pantry. This is especially useful at daycare centers since they can use it and add to thawed cupcakes that you've provided for special celebrations (using the cake mix idea from this post).

We served these cupcakes (and frosting) at his birthday party and no one knew....well, until now. Surprise! Hey--who needs the extra fat and calories anyways, right?!???

Were the tests wrong???

It's been a while since I posted--sorry about that. Back in April while getting some other blood tests done for Matthew, I asked his pediatrician to get blood drawn so we could check on his allergies--they gladly did.

We were ecstatic to find out that according to the tests he was no longer allergic to eggs and peanuts! And his wheat and dairy allergy were extremely low on the charts. How amazing, we thought--- in just over a year it had changed so much!

Well, after giving him eggs for the first time we definitely saw quite a rash around his mouth--just as he'd gotten before. Whenever he would consume dairy he would get hives and the one time he had a peanut it appeared that he was starting to become anaphylactic--started coughing and vomited quite a bit (doc is assuming his throat was beginning to close).

Luckily for us, Benadryl came to the rescue for all of the above. But it got me wondering--could the tests have been wrong??? When I asked his pediatrician she said that they were probably right but that allergies can also be on a cellular level, which wouldn't necessarily show up on a test. I obviously have A LOT more to learn.....