Comments on: Cherrybrook Kitchen’s Gluten-free Dreams Chocolate Cupcakes http://healthy-family.org/caryn/1208/cherrybrook-kitchens-gluten-free-dreams-chocolate-cupcakes-a-yummy-treat Staying healthy in our modern world Sun, 06 May 2012 08:03:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Caryn Talty http://healthy-family.org/caryn/1208/cherrybrook-kitchens-gluten-free-dreams-chocolate-cupcakes-a-yummy-treat#comment-1198 Caryn Talty Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:17:27 +0000 http://healthy-family.org/?p=1208#comment-1198 Kelly, Try the palm shortening. I've never used coconut oil. I know that when it gets warm coconut oil can get liquid at room temperature. You want the frosting to hold it's shape. If it isn't firm enough tapioca flour can help that, just only add a tiny, tiny smidgen at a time. Hope it turns out! Kelly,
Try the palm shortening. I’ve never used coconut oil. I know that when it gets warm coconut oil can get liquid at room temperature. You want the frosting to hold it’s shape. If it isn’t firm enough tapioca flour can help that, just only add a tiny, tiny smidgen at a time. Hope it turns out!

]]> By: Kelly Smith http://healthy-family.org/caryn/1208/cherrybrook-kitchens-gluten-free-dreams-chocolate-cupcakes-a-yummy-treat#comment-1197 Kelly Smith Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:53:09 +0000 http://healthy-family.org/?p=1208#comment-1197 I do not have palm oil. I have palm shortening or coconut oil. Which do you think would work best in your frosting recipe?? Thanks! I do not have palm oil. I have palm shortening or coconut oil. Which do you think would work best in your frosting recipe??

Thanks!

]]> By: Caryn Talty http://healthy-family.org/caryn/1208/cherrybrook-kitchens-gluten-free-dreams-chocolate-cupcakes-a-yummy-treat#comment-846 Caryn Talty Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:58:43 +0000 http://healthy-family.org/?p=1208#comment-846 Bethany, We only use Cherrybrook Kitchen's Chocolate Cake Mix. <em>The ingredients are: Potato Starch, evaporated cane juice, natural cocoa powder, white rice flour, tapioca starch, granulated brown sugar, baking soda, xanthan gum, sea salt. </em> Some folks with corn sensitivities have issues with xanthan gum because it is *often* grown on corn (not always). My son can tolerate it no problem. I'm with you on the baking powder and natural vanilla flavoring. I wouldn't trust it. I inquired so many times on vanilla flavoring from so many companies and even through a flavor chemical company. Any artificial or natural extract is going to be made with a corn byproduct, especially alcohol based ones. There may be one brand out there but I have yet to find it. And glycerin is also corn derived, so non-alcohol vanilla is also bad. I just buy vanilla in bulk (found some in Costco) and use the beans when I bake. You can make your own extract too. (I have never done it, but there is a potato vodka that many with corn allergies use to make vanilla and they 'brew' it for about 6 weeks. So my hunch is that Cherrybrook Kitchen is using a vanilla flavoring that has some sort of corn byproduct in its making. I also inquired and did not get a response. But we personally have had the chocolate cake mix w/o a reaction on a handful of occasions. It makes a bitter chocolate cake and the kids do love it. It is quite rich, so a little bit goes a long way. My favorite recipe involves mixing it with Namaste's brownie recipe and doing a 'swirl' cake. Although it is technically a plop cake. I just mixed them separately and then plopped spoons of each batter into two round cake pans. Turned out really good. Bethany,
We only use Cherrybrook Kitchen’s Chocolate Cake Mix. The ingredients are: Potato Starch, evaporated cane juice, natural cocoa powder, white rice flour, tapioca starch, granulated brown sugar, baking soda, xanthan gum, sea salt.
Some folks with corn sensitivities have issues with xanthan gum because it is *often* grown on corn (not always). My son can tolerate it no problem. I’m with you on the baking powder and natural vanilla flavoring. I wouldn’t trust it. I inquired so many times on vanilla flavoring from so many companies and even through a flavor chemical company. Any artificial or natural extract is going to be made with a corn byproduct, especially alcohol based ones. There may be one brand out there but I have yet to find it. And glycerin is also corn derived, so non-alcohol vanilla is also bad. I just buy vanilla in bulk (found some in Costco) and use the beans when I bake. You can make your own extract too. (I have never done it, but there is a potato vodka that many with corn allergies use to make vanilla and they ‘brew’ it for about 6 weeks. So my hunch is that Cherrybrook Kitchen is using a vanilla flavoring that has some sort of corn byproduct in its making. I also inquired and did not get a response. But we personally have had the chocolate cake mix w/o a reaction on a handful of occasions. It makes a bitter chocolate cake and the kids do love it. It is quite rich, so a little bit goes a long way. My favorite recipe involves mixing it with Namaste’s brownie recipe and doing a ‘swirl’ cake. Although it is technically a plop cake. I just mixed them separately and then plopped spoons of each batter into two round cake pans. Turned out really good.

]]> By: Bethany Myers http://healthy-family.org/caryn/1208/cherrybrook-kitchens-gluten-free-dreams-chocolate-cupcakes-a-yummy-treat#comment-845 Bethany Myers Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:50:06 +0000 http://healthy-family.org/?p=1208#comment-845 We are allergic to gluten, corn and casein. Some of the Cherrybrook Kitchen Gluten Free Dreams mixes that we have from before the corn diagnosis have baking powder and natural vanilla flavoring. Has your son had problems with these ingredients in their mixes? The web site suggests that the only corn or corn derivatives in their products is the corn starch in their frosting mixes, but I am suspicious of both the ingredients I mentioned. The company has not responded to my inquiry, and I am not confident that they would know as much about corn sources as we would, having family members with the sensitivities. Thanks, Bethany Myers We are allergic to gluten, corn and casein. Some of the Cherrybrook Kitchen Gluten Free Dreams mixes that we have from before the corn diagnosis have baking powder and natural vanilla flavoring. Has your son had problems with these ingredients in their mixes?

The web site suggests that the only corn or corn derivatives in their products is the corn starch in their frosting mixes, but I am suspicious of both the ingredients I mentioned. The company has not responded to my inquiry, and I am not confident that they would know as much about corn sources as we would, having family members with the sensitivities.

Thanks,

Bethany Myers

]]> By: Maureen "Hold The Gluten" http://healthy-family.org/caryn/1208/cherrybrook-kitchens-gluten-free-dreams-chocolate-cupcakes-a-yummy-treat#comment-644 Maureen "Hold The Gluten" Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:16:25 +0000 http://healthy-family.org/?p=1208#comment-644 These look delicious! I have not tried Cherrybrook Kitchen's mix yet, but when a craving for chocolate cupcakes hit, I will definitely check this brand out! Thanks for sharing :) These look delicious! I have not tried Cherrybrook Kitchen’s mix yet, but when a craving for chocolate cupcakes hit, I will definitely check this brand out! Thanks for sharing :)

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