Re: Wedding cake? GF/DairyFree/EggFree

[Guest guest]

Try asking the folks at Cafe Mariposa in Oakland.From: Rahel <smithrahel@...>Subject: [ ] Wedding cake? GF/DairyFree/EggFree Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 5:20 PM

A long shot...anyone know of a baker who could do a wedding cake that's gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free?

Rahel

[Guest guest]

Mariposa is working on one

Connie

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Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008

5:21 PM

Subject: [ ] Wedding

cake? GF/DairyFree/EggFree

A long shot...anyone know of a baker who could do a

wedding cake that's gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free?

Rahel

[Guest guest]

I imagine Mariposa will get them from Hannah at Kapcakes in Palo Alto:

http://www.kapcakes.com/

Also Cakeworks in SF does GF if requested:

http://www.cakework.com/

Diama

> Mariposa is working on one

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> A long shot...anyone know of a baker who could do a wedding

> cake that's

> gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free?

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> Rahel

[Guest guest]

Actually, the baker at Mariposa is working

on a GF/DF/EF spice cake. It is really hard to make an egg free large cake.

Connie

From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Dean

Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008

7:57 PM

Subject: RE: [ ]

Wedding cake? GF/DairyFree/EggFree

I imagine Mariposa will get them from Hannah at

Kapcakes in Palo Alto:

http://www.kapcakes.com/

Also Cakeworks in SF does GF if requested:

http://www.cakework.com/

Diama

> Mariposa is working on one

>

>

>

> A long shot...anyone know of a baker who could do a wedding

> cake that's

> gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free?

>

> Rahel

[Guest guest]

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> A long shot...anyone know of a baker who could do a wedding cake

that's gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free?

>

> Rahel

>

Not sure if she does dairy-free and egg-free or not, but I've heard

Diane Rinella does beautiful gluten-free wedding cakes. Her website is

http://bewitchingelegance.com/ She is in Burlingame. Under the

'questions' section of the website it states that she can do any of

the cakes gluten-free, and it lists the gluten-free flavors she offers

under the 'flavors' section.

Hope this helps!

[Guest guest]

Try kapcake.com in Palo Alto. http://www.kapcakes.com/kaphome.htmlSusiOn Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:30 PM, <allisonryan82@...> wrote:

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> A long shot...anyone know of a baker who could do a wedding cake

that's gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free?

>

> Rahel

>

Not sure if she does dairy-free and egg-free or not, but I've heard

Diane Rinella does beautiful gluten-free wedding cakes. Her website is

http://bewitchingelegance.com/ She is in Burlingame. Under the

'questions' section of the website it states that she can do any of

the cakes gluten-free, and it lists the gluten-free flavors she offers

under the 'flavors' section.

Hope this helps!

[Guest guest]

Hey, thanks for the suggestion of kapcakes. Already tried them...no luck...

Rahel

[Guest guest]

Hey all,

Yeah, I checked with Mariposa and their ginger cake isn't available

yet...not till the fall, though they may be abel to do something

custom for me. Not sure yet!

Keep those suggestions coming!

Rahel

--- In , " Connie Hampton " <connie@...>

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> Actually, the baker at Mariposa is working on a GF/DF/EF spice

cake. It is

> really hard to make an egg free large cake.

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> Connie

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[Guest guest]

I have a couple of ideas for you... for my wedding a few years back, I

had the baker (in rural Colorado) only make the very top tier GF. In

fact, since we wanted chocolate cake, I provided him with a GF mix that

I already knew I liked (Dutch Chocolate by Dowd & - made of

chestnut flour). Then he made the other tiers from scratch, and

frosted them all the same. With the top tier being pretty small, that

might make it more feasible? The only glitch here was that I forgot to

tell the waiters that not all the tiers were equal and they actually

gave out nearly all the top tier slices before I got one! (Luckily

everyone said it was great...)

Another idea is that having cupcake wedding cakes has been quite a

popular trend lately. For example, look at this beautiful cupcake

tree: http://www.westchester-weddings.com/images/Cakes/amys/cake4.jpg

Here you also have the option of making most of the

cupcakes " glutenous " and only a select few GF... but having matching

frosting could make them all look uniform...

Good luck!

-laura

--- In , Rahel <smithrahel@...>

wrote:

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> Hey, thanks for the suggestion of kapcakes. Already tried them...no

luck...

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> Rahel

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[Guest guest]

What we did for our wedding was have the whole thing made according to

a GF recipe (Carol Fenster) by our venue's pastry chef. I met with him

and he picked the recipe out of several, I brought him the flours and

GF ingredients, and then he made the whole thing gluten-free. It was

very important to me to have the entire meal gluten-free. Everyone

liked the cake- it's all about the frosting anyway, right? With more

dietary restrictions it is a bit trickier, but I bet one of the GF

masters (Hagman, Fenster, etc) has a good allergen-free recipe. I

think the chefs usually freeze the cake beforehand and use supports

etc. so it might not make that much of a difference, but then again,

it might depend on how huge of a cake you're having them make. You

could also do a bunch of little cakes, or, as one member suggested,

cupcakes. Hope this helps! I know it is far away, but Da Vinci GF

bakery in Seattle makes gorgeous cakes- you might call them and see if

they could either ship one or have any recipes. Not sure about the

allergens, but I bet they could work with you on it.

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> > Hey, thanks for the suggestion of kapcakes. Already tried them...no

> luck...

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> > Rahel

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[Guest guest]

We also used the Dowd & cake for our wedding cake. We had the

Vanilla cake and the bakery we used had no problem with us supplying the

cake mix for them and they were intrigued by the brand so much that they

now offer wheat free cakes. Because our wedding was small we only used

the gluten free cake but if you have a larger wedding I like 's

suggesting of having the top layer only the gluten free but make sure

the servers know about it.

Mark