BabyCakes Covers the Classics: Gluten-Free Vegan Recipes from Donuts to Snickerdoodles: A Baking Book

Erin McKenna

Apr 2011 · Sold by Clarkson Potter

About this ebook

For those with food sensitivities, these desserts have remained a distant dream—until now.

Following her widely adored debut cookbook with this delectable and extensive new collection, Erin McKenna, celebrated baker and proprietress of BabyCakes NYC in New York and Los Angeles, satisfies all your food fantasies with fifty recipes for perennial favorites—all created without gluten, dairy, eggs, or refined sugar.

In addition to its important primer on key ingredients and easy substitutions, BabyCakes Covers the Classics includes a section filled with Erin’s insightful solutions to frequently asked questions, which will lead you to newfound baking glory. As for the goods themselves, prepare for untold hours of refreshingly simple and undeniably delicious recipes adapted from the ones that sprinkled our collective childhoods. They include:

Thin Mints
Madeleines
Chocolate Chip Waffles
Snickerdoodles 
S’mores
Hamentaschen
Square-Pan Tomato Pizza
Six-Layer Chocolate Cake with Raspberry Preserves
Banana Royale 
Five variations of BabyCakes NYC’s famous donuts
& many more . . .

BabyCakes Covers the Classics is filled with timeless sweet and savory temptations that vegans, celiacs, and the health-minded can safely indulge in. Erin shows people of all stripes how to take control of a vegan, gluten-free pantry, and she proves that once you do, there are no limitations to what you can bake.

Ratings and reviews

I have loved making these recipes. I agree that some of the ingredients are unusual, but I have been able to find them at my local health food store or Trader Joe's. The all-time favorites for us have been the graham crackers and the granola. I love baking, but when I stopped eating wheat it was hard to find a decent recipe for any treats. This book has brought some fun back to my kitchen.

About the author

Erin McKenna is the chef and owner of BabyCakes NYC, a bakery with outposts in New York City and Los Angeles. Erin and her bakery have been featured in hundreds of print and online media outlets, including the New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Food & Wine; Harper’s Bazaar; Elle; Lucky; and InStyle. She has also been a featured guest on Today, Good Morning America, Cooking Channel, Food Network, and Martha Stewart Television.