Posts Tagged ‘gluten-free’

leave no crust behind! a pancetta and pineapple pizza

Posted on February 2nd, 2012, by charissa luke

If you’ve been following our blog, or our social media accounts (twitter, facebook, instagram), you might have noticed a fair amount lot of pizza talk. Talk about sauce, talk about ingredients, talk about crust… texture, taste, and consistency… All things pizza. Tonight was no exception. To complete the take and bake pizza experience, we were [...]

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cocoa cabernet popovers with almond syrup

Posted on February 1st, 2012, by charissa luke

For this month’s gluten-free ratio rally which focuses on popovers, I bring you two posts. Two is better than one, yes? The reason that I am delivering two posts is… well it’s because I was indecisive. It took me a while to decide what flavor of gluten-free popovers to make. And true to my nature, I couldn’t [...]

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lemon vanilla popovers with minnesota raspberries

Posted on January 31st, 2012, by charissa luke

It’s another episode of the gluten-free ratio rally and this month’s theme is gluten-free popovers! Have you had a popover before? Most of the texture for these popovers came from the eggs. The insides are light and fluffy and full of air pockets. The outsides are golden brown and slightly crispy. And best of all? You can [...]

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lazy cioppino, a san francisco seafood stew

Posted on January 30th, 2012, by charissa luke

This has been an interesting winter (with only a handful of rainy days, can we legally even call it winter?).  The days are full of sunshine, but the nights are cool and crisp. The chill of the night makes it almost too cool to enjoy anything but being curled up with a good book, a lap blanket, [...]

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valentine’s day menu 2012

Posted on January 27th, 2012, by charissa luke

Valentine’s day is almost here. Make sure your sweetie is taken care of with gluten-free treats! You can pre-order the following gluten-free Valentine’s treats: Valentine’s day sugar cookies, 1 dozen Chocolate chip cookies, 1 dozen (DF) Red velvet cupcakes (DF) Red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting Raspberry brownies (DF, EF) Chocolate noire tart Vanilla [...]

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a silver ribboned wedding cake, gluten-free

Posted on January 25th, 2012, by charissa luke

Love is definitely in the air. Valentine’s day is right around the corner and we have been busy planning and making gluten-free wedding cakes. On the start of the Lunar New Year, we had the wonderful pleasure of making this gorgeous wedding cake for newlyweds Kristen and Roger. Cake info: Flavor: coconut cream Filling: raspberry [...]

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a gluten-free cake for dave and gale’s seaside wedding

Posted on August 13th, 2011, by charissa luke

Today we delivered a seaside-themed gluten-free cake for Dave and Gale. This cake had layers of almond cake, raspberry jam, and pastry cream and was covered in white fondant and handmade white chocolate sea shells. We also made an edible fondant ribbon to wrap around each tier. Gale actually brought in a sample of their wedding [...]

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our first wedding cake for chelsea and coleman

Posted on August 6th, 2011, by charissa luke

Today was a monumental day for Zest Bakery! We made our first full wedding cake! To prepare, we made 9 layers of cake (3 layers per tier), and spent a full couple of days baking and prepping for the cakes. Early on the happy couple, decided the bottom 2 tiers would be almond cake with [...]

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our gluten-free wedding

Posted on October 9th, 2010, by charissa luke

We’ve been married a little over a month now, and I’m finally getting around to posting about the wedding. More importantly (hehe), about the food at our wedding! Our goal was to cater the wedding ourselves and to make it entirely gluten-free. We succeeded in the later, but had to enlist the help of Anticupcake [...]

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