by Karlynn

Said the endless Facebooking, Tweets and emails.

No worries, my groupies. ( <—-I still think that’s hilarious)

My daughter was having her 6th birthday party this last weekend and her best bud happens to be allergic to gluten, dairy, nuts, etc. I talked to her mom at school about her allergies and told her that I bake a lot- understatement of the year methinks -and would love to tackle a gluten-free, dairy free chocolate cake as my next project. I belong to a gluten-free/dairy/corn/everything private board on Facebook but mostly just watch the recipes and comment, seeing what creations people are coming up with.

I do think that everyone these days needs one good allergy safe chocolate cake recipe in their back pocket. What I loved about this cake recipe is that not only is it gluten-free, but by using Rice milk I was able to make it dairy free as well.  You can also make it egg free – I’ve heard- by using egg replacers such as chia eggs, I won’t commit to my version of this recipe being the same with those replacements as I didn’t experiment with it firsthand.  My friend Melissa who suggested this recipe has used egg replacements with quite the success, so don’t be afraid to try!...

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by nomnomnom

La Favorite has changed hands a few times since it opened back in 1985. It was put on the map as the cake shop to bake and ice Wayne Gretzsky's wedding cake, and has a special place in my heart, because they made my parent's wedding cake as well. Though I've tried almost everything on their cake menu over the years, we go back again and again for their raspberry white chocolate moouse cake. With one caveat - we only go to the main bakery on 95th street. We're not sure if its because of management changes, but over the years, we've learned to only go to the main store, as the location on High Street 12431 - 102 Avenue tends to be a crapshoot. The secondary location doesn't rotate out their cakes as often, so there's been several times where we were horribly disappointed with dry cracked glaze and powdery dry cake. Despite letting management know a few times, things haven't changed, so, we only head to their head office on 95th street, tucked in a little run down neighbourhood for fresh...

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