New Meetup: Cake Wrecks Book Signing at Barnes and Nobles

Announcing a new Meetup for The New York City Celiac Disease Meetup Group!

What: Cake Wrecks Book Signing at Barnes and Nobles

When: November 3, 2009 7:30 PM

Where:
Barnes & Noble Booksellers
396 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10011
(212) 674-8780

CAKEWRECKS
When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong

Cakewrecks.com is a hilarious blog that's become a book now & it has a huge following. Next Tuesday at the Barnes and Nobles on 8th Street the authors will be signing their new books. As a special treat to those of us who usually cannot eat cake, Cathy Olate and Josh Whitney of Jacy Cakes LLC will be providing us with gluten-free cake after the signing! Cathy and Josh are big fans of Cakewrecks so they offered up a cake to the authors and convinced them that since they already have someone bringing a regular cake Jacy Cakes LLC could make a cake gluten free for anyone that might be a fan of the site, but cant take part in eating the cakes there because of Celiac disease.

Come early, the gluten-free cake only feeds 100!

Barnes & Noble
396 Ave of the Americas at 8th Str.
New York, NY 10011

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The New York City Celiac Disease Meetup Group

Kelly, from Celiac Chicks, did her homework about Jacy Cakes and here is what she learned:

Hi Kelly,

Thank you so much for getting back to me! Well the precautions we take are these: we arrange our baking schedule so that gluten-free cakes and regular cakes are never baked on the same day. Also, we have a bin that has a separate mixer, tools & pans that are for gluten free food only. Before we work on anything, we clean counters, tools & pans & then wipe everything down with vinegar. Then after we are done working with the cake, everything gets washed & wiped down with vinegar again before going back into the gluten-free bin. We are very serious about avoiding cross contamination!

The story behind us making gluten-free cakes really begins with the fact that my partner, Josh, used to be vegetarian and tried being vegan for a while. Because of that, he became very familiar with the difficulties that come from having an alternative diet. He went to the Culinary Institute of America, where he took a course in gluten free baking and he identified with the plight of someone with celiac disease to find a truly delicious pastry, and not just something that is "good... for vegan or gluten-free".

We've been friends for a few years so I've gone on a few adventures in the city to find good vegan food & pastries, and a lot of places have come up short. So, when we decided to start this business together, we wanted to experiment with recipes until we landed on some that we think are really good, not just "good for" gluten free. We are a new business and we don't have pictures of gluten free cakes yet, but we have had several tastings and the response is overwhelmingly positive and we have subsequently booked several orders that are coming up in the next few months. But, any gluten-free cake we make would look just like any other cake on our site. We specifically didn't want to have any restrictions for decorating these cakes because well, we don't think it's very fair! Why can't someone have a crazy sweet sixteen cake, or an elegant wedding cake, just because it's gluten-free? So, I hope this information was helpful, and thanks for spreading the word!

Cathy

THANKS KELLY!
http://www.celiacchic...