BabyCakes: Vegan, (Mostly) Gluten-Free, and (Mostly) by Erin McKenna

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By Erin McKenna

Forget every thing
you’ve heard approximately
health-conscious baking.

Simply, BabyCakes is your key to an enlightened, indulgent, sweets-filled destiny. this can be vital information not just for folks whose youngsters have bronchial asthma, for vegans, and for others who fight with nutrition sensitivities, but additionally for all you sugar-loving traditionalists. The recipes in those pages turn out that there is a fit replacement to recklessly made truffles, person who doesn't sacrifice flavor or texture.

Having experimented forever with substitute, health-conscious sweeteners, flours, and thickeners, Erin McKenna, the proprietress of liked bakery BabyCakes NYC, built those recipes–most are gluten-free, all are with out sophisticated sugar–in hopes of scuffling with her personal wheat, dairy, and sugar sensitivities. In BabyCakes, she stocks specified information regarding the elements she makes use of (coconut flour, xanthan gum, and agave nectar, for instance) and the way to alternative them appropriately for universal ones–all the whereas guiding you effectively via suggestions she’s spent years perfecting.

When BabyCakes NYC opened on Manhattan’s reduce East part in 2005, it helped propel the gluten-free and vegan baking circulation right into a new stratosphere. without warning there has been a vacation spot for people with wheat bronchial asthma and different nutritional restrictions–and, quickly adequate, celebrities and dessert enthusiasts of each kind–to indulge freely in delectable truffles and teacakes, truffles and cookies, pies and cobblers.

Enclosed inside those pages are all of the “secrets” you’ll have to carry the greatness of BabyCakes NYC into your home in addition to raves and suggestions from devotees resembling Natalie Portman, Jason Schwartzman, Mary-Louise Parker, Zooey Deschanel, and Pamela Anderson.

For confectionists of all types, scrumptious choices lie inside: crimson Velvet Cupcakes, Chocolate Shortbread Scones with Caramelized Bananas, Strawberry Shortcake, and BabyCakes NYC’s celebrated frosting (so scrumptious it has lovers tipping again frosting shots!), to call quite a few. eventually, Erin’s pleased muffins are yours for the baking!

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6. Serrated tracing wheel ($). If you thought something looked funny here, you’re right. This isn’t a standard kitchen tool; it’s one used for sewing. But, why split hairs, when it’s the perfect device for embossing stitch-like marks on ribbons made of modeling media! 6. 7. Silicone baking molds ($-$$$). These pans can be pricey depending on the size and brand, but they’re wonderful for baking brownie batters into perfectly smooth, individually sized hemispheres, ovals, and other shapes. 7. 8. Decorative stencils ($).

It’s also easier to get an even roll if you can feel the dough beneath the roller. For this reason, it’s best to roll directly from the roller rather than the handles (see below) or to use a rolling pin without handles, such as a nontapered French-style pin. Now you know why I covet my old broken rolling pin without any handles! 4. Rotating the dough while rolling. To ensure an even roll, some bakers also recommend rolling outward from the center of the dough and changing the direction of the pin as you roll.

Here, I discuss the 15 decorating techniques that I use most frequently, starting with those that are generally applied to cookies first, such as top-coating and flooding, and ending with those that are icing on top, such as stenciling, wafer-papering, and flocking. If you attempt to master my techniques in roughly the order presented, you’ll end up happier with your results. Having said that, I should point out that I rarely, if ever, apply a single decorating technique to a cookie. In my eye, the layering of two or more techniques usually leads to the greatest interest and beauty.

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