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Allergen Friendly Baking Guide

June 13, 2015 by Cara

It’s been 3 1/2 years since I first started this journey here at Fork & Beans. Learning how to bake without gluten, eggs, and dairy has been some of the most trying times. It’s one of the reasons why I started this site: To become educational with the allergen-friendly information I have been forced to learn (and since then learned to love). I’m constantly asked questions about substitutions and how to bake without certain ingredients on a daily basis. I found that the more I created “How To” guide posts for you, the more response I got and realized what a great need there really is in learning the basics.  So I worked really hard behind the scenes on this new ebook: Allergen Friendly Baking Guide with every intention to be a powerful resource and help YOU learn how to be an allergen-friendly Martha Stewart in your own home. 

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Buy The Guide to Allergen-Friendly Baking eBook now!

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I don’t come from a trained baking background. I’m just like you: Your typical, average girl who used to bake with packaged boxes and had no clue where to even begin baking without gluten, eggs, and dairy. To compensate, what I do have is drive (and at that time, desperation)  so I applied that to this area of my life and have grown tremendously in my knowledge. I have gone from someone who, after the first six months of learning, tried to make gluten free vegan soft pretzels and couldn’t figure it out for the life of me (as you can see in picture on the left hand side) to 2 1/2 years later, someone who not only mastered the darn things but even showed off a bit and made them without xanthan gum (an ingredient I always thought was imperative to a gluten free recipe) but also turned them into bunny shapes for Easter (as pictured on the right):

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Easy-to-Make gluten free soft pretzels (free of xanthan gum too!)

 

So how did I do it? How could I go from hot mess in the kitchen (tears and all) to allergen-friendly baking superstar?

Samoa Cookies

The tastiest (and easiest) allergen-friendly chocolate cupcakes!

Gluten-Free & Vegan Bread

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I’ll tell you how: Paired with persistence in experimenting in the kitchen and being an information sponge, I soaked up as much information that I could in those years to figure out some of the best ways to bake without gluten, eggs, and dairy.

And now I have written them all down in this eBook guide where I expose all of my secrets in this eBook to share with YOU.

I teach you how to:

    1. How to correctly assess what happened in a failed recipe and how to rectify it.
    2. What basic measurements are in your kitchen.
    3. How to substitute gluten, eggs, and dairy in a recipe.
    4. Which allergen-friendly substitutes work best in which type of recipe.
    5. How certain ingredients play a role in your baking.
    6. How to convert a recipe into something that is gluten, egg, and dairy free.
    7. Healthy substitutes and how to alter them.

Watch this fun promotional video that will show you what can happen to YOU if you buy the eBook:

This is not a recipe eBook (though you will find 15 Reader Favorite recipes attached to the guide) rather this is a Tell-All eBook, written to help you learn how to navigate within your own kitchen and become the one others come to with questions.

Get the book!

I’m also giving away a free copy to one lucky winner and the best news is that it’s available to any and everyone since it’s digital, hooray! You have until 12:00am on June 20th to submit your entry until a winner will be called. If that is you and you do not get back within that week, a new winner will be selected. Good luck! 

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A big heart-felt THANK YOU to the brands that I not only love and support but actually trust with all of my baking needs. These people believed in the Fork and Beans message and became sponsors of this incredible allergen-friendly guide:

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The Allergen-Friendly Baking Guide eBook sponsors: 

Earth Balance, Enjoy Life Foods, Dandies (Chicago Foods), Anti-Grain, Authentic Foods, So Delicious, Let’s Do Organic. 

Book design by Kat Marshello

 

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Filed Under: Baking 101, Dairy-Free, Egg Free, Fresh Out of the Oven, Gluten-Free, Vegan

About Cara

Based in Chicago with her husband and son, Cara is the creator behind the site Fork and Beans: A place where kids can have fun with their food.

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Comments

  1. Kat

    July 10, 2015 at 4:16 pm

    Yay! Such an awesome book & incredible resource for vegan & gluten free baking. Seriously, this one’s a #gamechanger 😉 I’m so happy I was able to contribute to this amazing book!

  2. Crissie

    June 17, 2015 at 5:08 pm

    Just a quick question – when you say allergy free, do you also mean nut free? While we are vegan, our family is nut free due to life threatening allergies. I’m always on the lookout for nut free vegan baked recipes!

    • Cara

      June 18, 2015 at 9:07 am

      Hi Crissie! The crux of this book is on how to bake without gluten, eggs, and dairy however it is much simpler to bake without nuts (the majority of my baked recipes use my flour blend which is nut free). You should be safe!

  3. Cassie

    June 16, 2015 at 8:39 am

    It’s come to my attention recently that gluten is now a front and center issue for me, along with dairy and sugar (next stop: completely liquid diet?), so obviously it’ll be personally helpful. In the past ten years, however, my mom has been extremely supportive of my vegetarian- and veganism as well as my relapses into omnivoreism. My list of issues has become a list of issues she’s had to put up with, and she’s done it in such a wonderful way, I am ever so grateful to her. And as she gets older, we’re realizing some of my issues actually come from her – so this is not only a selfish request, because, mom. But anything I can do to make her transition (personally and just in dealing with me) easier, I will. (Do I get extra credit for writing an essay? :))

  4. Chris

    June 16, 2015 at 3:34 am

    I could benefit the most from learning about allergen-fee cooking because then it would tricky down to my family members!

  5. GrammyKathy

    June 15, 2015 at 8:35 pm

    My grandbabies would benefit if I won this book. They have eczema, skin issues, and tummy troubles that I suspect are allergy related. Thank you Cara!

  6. chatelaine

    June 15, 2015 at 1:44 pm

    my mom and sister would definitely benefit!

  7. Joana from My Gut Feeling

    June 15, 2015 at 9:48 am

    The low FODMAP community will love this book! Not only do we have to bake gluten free but also lactose free and low FODMAP. The book is quite welcome 🙂

  8. William

    June 15, 2015 at 8:57 am

    What do you do if you can’t have Dairy, gluten or Soy?

  9. Corrine

    June 14, 2015 at 6:50 pm

    The whole family. My daughter, son-in-law and I are vegan and my other daughter is dairy and gluten intolerant.

  10. IR

    June 14, 2015 at 6:46 pm

    I love your allergy free recipes! I have celiac disease, so this blog is extremely helpful. God bless!

  11. Lydia Claire

    June 14, 2015 at 6:31 pm

    Both my mom and I since we’re vegan.

  12. Bianca

    June 14, 2015 at 12:53 pm

    my best friend and I are both dairy-free! and we LOVE baking together!

  13. Bethany

    June 14, 2015 at 5:45 am

    I would benefit from this book because I am gluten free, dairy free, nut free and egg free, so it is hard to find foods that I can make.

  14. Amy Ayers

    June 14, 2015 at 4:07 am

    I can definitely benefit from allergy-friendly baking. However, sometimes it crosses my mind that my children can as well. My older son has had allergy testing done (all came back negative), while my younger son hasn’t. They don’t outwardly show/share any signs that they have food intollerances, but occassionally I wonder about it……especially when they tell me several days in a row if their belly hurts. Something in me always wonders if they may have picked up a food intollerance/sensitivity from me.

  15. Natalie @ Feasting on Fruit

    June 13, 2015 at 6:31 pm

    Me, myself, and my allergy friendly baking dreams 🙂

  16. Donna Lobel

    June 13, 2015 at 6:12 pm

    Love to bake but with so many allergies and sensitivities it is difficult. I could benefit from having this guide.

  17. Sarah

    June 13, 2015 at 3:14 pm

    Me of course! With a little one who is allergic to all kinds of things, plus our own vegan diet, this book would be awesome! And I bet my SIL who is gluten free would love it too! Love all of your posts Cara!

  18. Jen E

    June 13, 2015 at 2:33 pm

    Looks fantastic! Me personally could benefit because I’m sensitive to many things. Thanks for the giveaway!

  19. PJ Chesney

    June 13, 2015 at 1:56 pm

    Thank you, Cara, for sharing all your recipes on your blog. Both my husband and I would benefit from recipes minus the gluten, dairy and egg. I have two pages (two columns each) of foods I can’t eat, so I guess maybe I’d benefit a bit more than he would. 😎

  20. kelli

    June 13, 2015 at 12:24 pm

    i could learn a lot. it’s always fun to bake for my kid’s classes, but there are warnings everywhere about pear allergies or peanut allergies, eggs, dairy, what have you. i would love to make sure i am not contributing to any harm.

  21. Dana

    June 13, 2015 at 12:11 pm

    I am vegan and the rest of my family is vegetarian. I also try to not consume a lot of gluten, so gluten-free recipes would be helpful for me in the kitchen.

  22. Katie

    June 13, 2015 at 11:27 am

    So excited for this book!

  23. KimG

    June 13, 2015 at 10:30 am

    Wow, I am so looking forward to this.
    Thanks

  24. Beth

    June 13, 2015 at 9:56 am

    Hubby and I are both gluten intolerant, and I recently figured out that dairy is not my friend either. I would love to receive your guide to allergy friendly baking!

  25. Cathi Crismon

    June 13, 2015 at 9:47 am

    I’m a gluten-free vegan living with a family of gluten eating carnivores. 😉 I need all the help I can get!

  26. Emily

    June 13, 2015 at 8:28 am

    As someone with many, many food allergies, your recipes have quickly become a go-to! Recently, I have decided (with a little trepidation) to venture into more gluten-free, dairy-free, and egg-free baked goods, because my allergist has recommended it. Admittedly, breads are my biggest weakness and I just can’t seem to get them quite right! Looking forward to seeing what your suggestions are in the eBook!

  27. Jenn

    June 13, 2015 at 7:54 am

    I already cook and bake without dairy and eggs, but I’m just now starting to experiment with gluten free as well. There are no allergies in my family, thank goodness, but I get so many reader questions about substitutions that I really feel I need to up my game! This looks like the perfect learning tool!

  28. Alyssa @ Renaissancerunnergirl

    June 13, 2015 at 7:54 am

    I love how you make all the allergy-free food look so FUN!

  29. June

    June 13, 2015 at 7:30 am

    Would love to learn how to turn dairy recipes into vegan ones!

  30. Rita

    June 13, 2015 at 7:11 am

    I would benefit most. I have a lot of food sensitivities and I am always looking for substitutions for the classic version of recipes ie. cakes and cookies

  31. Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine

    June 13, 2015 at 7:11 am

    Haha, my mom! I’m too impatient to teach her!

  32. Katelyn

    June 13, 2015 at 6:58 am

    I love to bake and am gluten free myself. Now that my son has a dairy and egg allergy I love to learn more recipes amd tricks to yummy baking!

  33. Pam

    June 13, 2015 at 6:51 am

    I could benefit the most from this book and way of cooking. I recently developed a dairy allergy and I had already been trying to give up gluten. My husband will also benefit from eating healthy food.

  34. Briana b

    June 13, 2015 at 6:49 am

    I have to say, you’ve turned me into a believer of Otto’s! Tortillas again!! Still haven’t experimented with pancakes yet; their listed recipes all include egg and I wouldn’t want to waste the flour on a failed batch of pancakes!

  35. Laurel

    June 13, 2015 at 6:45 am

    Who in my life could benefit the most? Many of my relatives who have ears that do not hear but I would be passing this onto in eternal hope. I keep thinking though that I should just grab it, get into my Time Machine and give myself a copy 7 years ago and all will be well. Gotta go, I’ve got a meeting with H.G. Wells.

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