Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52195 in Books
• Published on: 2010-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

Customer Reviews

Great cakes, if you can get the ingredients
The one thing that cannot be denyed about Babycakes is the pictures and design of the book are so cute and charming you will want to rush out and buy all the relative ingredients and produce your own beautiful cupcakes. Therein lies the problem. Now, I must confess, I am not wheat or lactose intolerant but I have friends who are and friends who are vegans, and being a vegan you could try to adapt the recipes slightly (how they will taste though I have no idea, the ones I adapted were awful but the recipes containing spelt were yummy) but if you have allergies, there are perhaps only several recipes that contain no wheat or gluten.

I have hunted high and low in the shelves and aisles of many a well known supermarket and most of the ingredients are widely avaliable, from Xanthan Gum to Agave Necter, spelt flour and potato flour but I can't find Garbanzo fava bean flour anywhere! it is a shame because it makes the recipes in this book limited as to what you can make. However, I would never have discovered Agave Nectar without this book and it is very tasty indeed without the guilt of sugar.

My advice is to look on the Babycakes website before you purchase the book, the author/owner goes into more detail about the ingredients that are used and why, the biggest factor being that the book is published in America and supplies are varied and plentyful, but with supply and demand it could be that will have some of the ingredients in our shops soon, what with store like Whole Foods and the wonderful internet.

I do like this book tremendously and with the correct ingredients the cakes are amazing but it is the cooking equvalant of flat-pack furniture, if one part is missing, it all falls apart.

Misleading title
Don't be misled by the title, not all the recipes in this book are gluten-free - a large minority use spelt flour.

I suffer from Coeliac Disease and was very disappointed when the book arrived that many of the recipes were unavailable to me.

Yum
I do not suffer from any food intolerance or allergy but I love baking and the recipes from this book have made it possible for me to indulge in baking to my heart's content without feeling guilty. The ingredients are also quite easy to source, either on the internet or at the health food shelves in a large supermarket.