Strawberry Rhubarb Coffee Cake Without Milk

This easy cake recipe uses the perfect combination of strawberries and rhubarb to create a delicious cake for spring and summer.

Recently one of our daughters was diagnosed with a severe intolerance to milk protein. She's also supposed to avoid nuts that come from trees for now.

So for the past twelve weeks, we've been vigilant about checking all the labels on all the food we buy. As always, we're trying to make more of our meals from scratch.

I've been baking at home for a long time, and we have a whole binder full of "family-approved" favorite recipes. Now my task is to go through all of these recipes to change them up and remove the dairy and/or replace the non-dairy milk. No milk, no butter, no sour cream, no margarine.

Depending on the original recipe, I'm replacing dairy ingredients with the following:

• coconut milk
• oatmeal milk
• applesauce
• coconut oil
• canola oil (may try grapeseed oil too)
• crushed flax seeds
• banana

Easy Strawberry Rhubarb Cake Recipe Without Milk

This dairy-free strawberry rhubarb coffee cake recipe evolved with some trial and error. It uses oat milk instead of regular milk.

We're lucky to have fresh rhubarb through the summer months. Our backyard garden includes tart rhubarb plants at each corner. So I've been making lots of rhubarb jam and preserves.

We also grow strawberries in pots and planters. So I've been experimenting with various new strawberry recipes too! I really like this old-fashioned strawberry syrup recipe.

During rhubarb season (which starts in June here) we harvest rhubarb stalks a couple of times each week. So this time of year we're always on the lookout for rhubarb desserts like strawberry rhubarb pie, strawberry rhubarb jam, and strawberry rhubarb bundt cake.

Since rhubarb can have a bit of a sour taste, many rhubarb recipes call for at least one cup sugar or more. We reduce the sugar because I prefer a less sweet flavor.

Baking with oat milk works well in our recipes because we love that oat flavor. However, oat milk is also denser than the 1% dairy milk I normally use. So I add a little oil to lighten it up.

Dairy-Free Strawberry Rhubarb Coffee Cake Recipe

This easy, moist cake recipe includes sweet strawberries. The sweetness of the strawberries helps reduce the need for sugar. (And by the way, if you love strawberries, check out my Homemade Strawberry Syrup Recipe!)

We love quickbreads because they're quick to make, they use up leftover fruit, and they're inexpensive.

We often freeze them for later as well. And they're easy to double to triple when we're feeding a crowd. And as a homeschooling family, it's so easy to slice up a coffee cake or loaf for a healthy, fast snack during a busy day.

How do you adapt traditional recipes to make them dairy-free? Let us know in the comments below.