April 2010 Archives

This year for the holidays I packaged the ingredients for BabyCakes chocolate chip cookies in mason jars and sent them to family and friends so they could bake them fresh at home. Everyone freaked out once they baked them and then urged me to sell them in the shop. It made the whole process so easy for them (we all know by now these ingredients aren't always the easiest to track down) and they wanted more.

So! I'd like to introduce a new player on the BabyCakes NYC menu: The Chocolate Chip Cookie Kit. It's a quick and fool-proof way to get crispy, chewy, fresh out of the oven vegan, gluten-free cookies without scooting your booty down to the bakery! And you get these cool mason jars too! Each batch makes about 40 cookies and the kit is only $26 (you save $34 on cookies alone!). I'm not going to do the hard sell on these, I think the value speaks for itself. Kits are available May 4th out of our LA location and May 7th out of New York. Yep, we'll ship them too!

We are thrilled to have our Cookie Sandwiches showcased as a part of the New York Daily News' Mother's Day Gift Guide for 2010. If you'd like to place a Mother's Day order with us, please give either bakery a call at your earliest convenience. Our last shipment before Mother's Day will go out on Thursday, May 6th. We look forward to hearing from you!

I've opened up the blog to address concerns and questions about the BabyCakes Cookbook (What do you mean you don't have it!!! Get it here!)before and I thought it was a great success! Over the past year, we've tallied up the most frequently asked questions and that list plus helpful answers now lives on our website under the tab "Cookbook". If your question isn't answered there, you can twitter us your questions Monday-Friday from 10am-5pm EST, OR! email the bakery at cookbook@babycakesnyc.com. EZ!!! And for the sake of getting a speedy response to you and maintaining order, don't leave a question in the comment section below, k? No questions in the comment section? Thank youuuuuu!!

Just real quick: Kesté the beloved (albeit new) pizzeria in the West Village is now offering gluten-free, vegan pizza! Kesté usually has hour long waits even on the snowiest nights so I'm hoping it's going to be as good as the rest of the pies they serve up. I'm going to check it out after work tonight and report back!

Hey! I just want to let you all know that I've made these things called The Workout Cookie. Warning: this is not for the Ding-Dong, or Twinkie crowd. I created it to fill the low-fat high-fiber mega, mega, mega-healthy breakfast void some customers were feeling. It's the kind of thing you grab to eat on the subway on your way to work, or to munch after a bike ride. It's high-fiber, sweet and crunchy like a muffin but without all the extra fat and stuff. Now, if you know me at all you probably think I've lost my mind because I've made something low-fat. But wait. Let me explain.

Since the dawn of BabyCakes NYC, I have stood firm in my clogs against baking lowfat food. Most lowfat products are terrible, and frankly nowhere near healthy. And lowfat sounded so 80's Jane Fonda Workout style. I've always preached that fat is good for you, especially the kind I bake with and that your body needs it to be able digest fat,. I know it sounds backward but it's true. I've softened in my years, I suppose, and recently became open to the challenge to make something lowfat for those who cringe at the sight of oil. So here we are.

Now, about the cookie, right? It's made with coconut sugar (low glycemic!) gluten-free oat flour and oats, flax meal, fresh banana, and blueberries, pureed pear, and very minimal oil (they're about 3g of fat).The girls at the bakery really like them, and they are all pizza and french fry types so I think it's a good sign!

We're twittering when we have them so if you're in the neighborhood and curious, stop by!

Bye!

Hey LA! I just want to let you know that we deliver alllllll over LA now. Yes, it's true. You can just pick up the phone and get fresher than fresh BabyCakes driven straight to your doorstep. Our delivery service has different zones and charge accordingly but it's reasonable if you can swing it. Just call the bakery at 213.623.5555 and we'll take it from there.

Toodles!

I always feel bad when celiacs come into the bakery, spot the Skinny Bun (it's like a Cinnabon), then get all deflated when they see that it's not gluten-free. It breaks me heart, man! Those things are so good!

So I finally decided to make a change and began messing around with a gluten-free version of the Skinny Bun for the upcoming cookbook and after about 10 billion tries I finally got down a scrumptious cinnamon bun that is now known as the Wonder Bun. They are just as mouth friendly as the Skinny Bun and all of our Skinny Bun regulars like the Wonder Bun even better which is a major relief.

So get down here and munch, and wonder, and smile. Hooray!