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.
The Vegan, Sugar-Free Recipes
After endlessly experimenting with alternative and health-conscious sweeteners, flours, and thickeners, Erin McKenna, owner of beloved BabyCakes NYC bakery, developed these recipes - most gluten-free, all free of refined sugar - hoping to fight his own wheat. , dairy products, and sugar sensitivities.
Simply, BabyCakes is the key to an enlightened, indulgent, candy-filled future. This is important news not only for parents whose children have allergies, for vegans, and for others with food sensitivities but also for all traditionalists who love sugar.
The recipes on these pages prove that there is a healthy alternative to carelessly prepared desserts, one that doesn't sacrifice taste or texture.
In BabyCakes, she shares detailed information about the ingredients she uses (coconut flour, xanthan gum, and agave nectar, for example) and how to properly replace them with common ingredients, while guiding you through safety through techniques she has perfected over the years.
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 people with wheat allergies and other dietary restrictions - and, soon enough, celebrities and dessert lovers of all kinds - to freely indulge in delicious muffins and tea cakes, brownies, cookies, pies, and cobbles.
Enclosed within these pages are all the "secrets" you'll need to bring BabyCakes NYC greatness into your own home plus praise and recommendations from enthusiasts such as Natalie Portman, Jason Schwartzman, Mary-Louise Parker, Zooey Deschanel, and Pamela Anderson.
For bakers of all kinds, delicious alternatives can be found in Red Velvet Cupcakes, Chocolate Shortbread Scones with Caramelized Bananas, Strawberry Shortcake, and BabyCakes NYC's famous frosting (so delicious it has fans spilling frosting shots!), to name a few. Finally, Erin's delicious desserts are yours to bake!
