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Forget everything you've heard about health-conscious baking.
Simply, BabyCakes is your key to an enlightened, indulgent, sweets-filled future. This is important news not only for parents whose children have allergies, for vegans, and for others who struggle with food sensitivities, but also for all you sugar-loving traditionalists. The recipes in these pages prove that there is a healthy alternative to recklessly made desserts, one that doesn't sacrifice taste or texture.
Having experimented endlessly with alternative, health-conscious sweeteners, flours, and thickeners, Erin McKenna, the proprietress of beloved bakery BabyCakes NYC, developed these recipes-most are gluten-free, all are without refined sugar-in hopes of combating her own wheat, dairy, and sugar sensitivities. In BabyCakes, she shares detailed information about the ingredients she uses (coconut flour, xanthan gum, and agave nectar, for example) and how to substitute them properly for common ones all the while guiding you safely through techniques she's spent years perfecting.
When BabyCakes NYC opened on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 2005, it helped propel the gluten-free and vegan baking movement into a new stratosphere. Suddenly there was a destination for those with wheat allergies and other dietary restrictions and, soon enough, celebrities and dessert lovers of every kind to indulge freely in delectable muffins and teacakes, brownies and cookies, pies and cobblers.
Enclosed within these pages are all the secrets you'll need to bring the greatness of BabyCakes NYC into your own home as well as raves and recommendations from devotees such as Natalie Portman, Jason Schwartzman, Mary-Louise Parker, Zooey Deschanel, and Pamela Anderson.
For confectionists of all kinds, delicious alternatives lie within: Red Velvet Cupcakes, Chocolate Shortbread Scones with Caramelized Bananas, Strawberry Shortcake, and BabyCakes NYC's celebrated frosting (so delicious it has fans tipping back frosting shots ), to name just a few. Finally, Erin's blissful desserts are yours for the baking.
"In this book, Erin has finally shared her trade secrets the ingredients and techniques that lend BabyCakes' desserts the flavors, textures, and happiness-factor you'd find in the best patisserie. The highest praise I can offer is this: follow her recipes to the letter and you'll fool them every time."
Tom Colicchio (from the foreword)
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"I have multiple food sensitivities and I'd pretty much given up on the idea that I might be able to have a worthy treat ever again. I was so excited to discover BabyCakes NYC, because not only can I eat everything they bake, it's all delicious!"Zooey Deschanel
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"At BabyCakes NYC, I can eat what I crave without harming my lovely animal friends or myself. Ever since that first fateful day, I've been waiting for this cookbook."Natalie Portman
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"The BabyCakes NYC banana bread is the best I've ever had and something I simply can't live without."Mary Louise Parker
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"Thank all that is holy for BabyCakes NYC!"Pamela Anderson
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McKenna reveals the secrets of her groundbreaking recipes for cupcakes, cookies, biscuits, and brownies -- all whipped together without the use of ingredients that have caused millions to swear off baked goods, like eggs, dairy, and gluten. Fifty full-color photos.
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Diagnosed with sensitivities to dairy and wheat products, avowed snacker McKenna whisked off to work on allergy-friendly recipes made with intelligent ingredient substitutions. Her delicious, innovative recipes are a godsend for anyone looking for alternatives to traditional baking.
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You can have your cake and eat it too with celebrity baker Gesine Bullock-Pradoandrsquo;s latest cookbook. Featuring more than eighty delicious, indulgent cookies, pies, cakes, and more with proven swap-outs that give the option of making each dessert healthy, gluten-free, and vegan.
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In her second cookbook, Blackbird Bakeryandrsquo;s Karen Morgan tackles the fundamental secrets to gluten-free delicious recipes: the six flour blends and getting them right. The Everyday Art of Gluten-Freeand#160;is divided by flour blendsandmdash;Biscuit, Donut and Fritter, Pie and Pasta, Bread and Pizza, Cake and Muffin, and Cookie Jarandmdash;with each chapter offering easy-to-follow recipes that demonstrate the versatility of blends and debunk the notion of an andldquo;all-purposeandrdquo; flour. Morgan transforms more than 100 favorite comfort foods into gluten-free delights, including jelly donuts, chicken and dumplings, red velvet cupcakes, challah, and more. These treats boast the same taste, texture, and appearance as their gluten-based inspiration, and someandmdash;like the lemon-raspberry pop tartandmdash;are even better than the original. Packed with more than 100 photographs, The Everyday Art of Gluten-Free empowers its readers to make virtually any recipe into a delicious, gluten-free version.
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The must-have guide to cooking and eating gluten-free.
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It can be upsettingand#160;and overwhelming to learnand#160;that you canand#8217;t eat gluten, or that you need to cook for someone who canand#8217;t.and#160;Gluten-Free 101 is the guide to help make the transition a simple and positive change. Itand#160;explains how to select and work with the best g-free foods from a now extensive (and sometimes confusing) product shelf, how to continue eating healthfully, and how to master basic gluten-free cooking techniques, such as cooking g-free pasta and rolling g-free dough. There are 175 simple recipes for everyday favorites like pancakes, pizza, fried chicken, sandwich bread, and cupcakes,and#160;with more thanand#160;twenty-five beautiful recipe photos. Going gluten-free can be fun and delicious!
About the Author
Gesine Bullock-Prado is a pastry chef based out of Vermont and has written a memoir and three previous cookbooks (Sugar Baby, Pie It Forward, and Bake It Like You Mean It). She has been featured on the TODAY show, Fox and Friends, The Chew, The Talk, NPR, the Food Network, and the Cooking Channel. She is a regular contributor to Better Homes and Gardens and a contributing editor at Food and Wine.