My cousin made these for a baseball themed wedding shower, and I talked her through the ingredients... and to her amazement, there were several easily-available name brand cake mixes and frostings that were dairy free.
Many of the Duncan Hines mixes are dairy free (these were the Classic Yellow Cake mix) but they also make:
Deluxe Dark Chocolate Fudge
Moist Devil's Food
Angel Food
Deluxe Fudge Marble
Deluxe German Chocolate
Red Velvet
Swiss Chocolate
In general, the Vanilla and White cakes tend to have milk in them. These cake balls also had dairy free frosting and vegan chocolate on them. (The white "regular" baseball cake balls were not dairy free, due to the fact that she couldn't easily find a white chocolate substitute that was dairy free.) So we made do with dark chocolate baseballs. Very tasty.
Again, many of Duncan Hines frostings are dairy free, including:
(avoid the cream cheeses and butter frostings)
Caramel
Classic Chocolate
Classic Vanilla
Coconut Pecan
Dark Chocolate Fudge
Lemon Supreme
Strawberry Creme
Yes, I know, these all probably have processed ingredients that aren't the best for anyone, but really, it's cake. and frosting. and sometimes you just need either something easy or something you can easily recommend to a friend who is cooking and wants to make sure you can enjoy something at the party.
I'm very tempted to try the Red Velvet.
Wow, I'll remember this when needing dairy free cake balls! (They really do work better with cake & frosting from a mix rather than homemade) Red Velvet is the best.
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