Baking!!!
A New Journey
I have always loved baking 👩🏻🍳. It is so soothing and relaxing. Whenever
I needed a break, I would bake. Even when I would be overwhelmed with
work or with many things to do, I would always squeeze in some baking.
No time for laundry but always time for baking 🤣. Baking is
like a way for me to turn all the things on my mind into new creations
in the oven. I love experimenting with new tastes and ingredients,
especially healthy organic ingredients.
Three years ago, baking took on a whole new challenge. At six months of
age, my baby was diagnosed with multiple severe allergies, where dairy
🥛, egg 🥚 and gluten 🌾 were the principal allergens along with many
others. Cooking his first baby meals were a big challenge because he was
basically allergic to “normal” foods! Then, came the thought of “What
can he have for his first birthday if he's allergic to everything?!”
That's when my new Baking journey began…
On a mission to find the perfect recipe for his birthday cake that would
be safe for him to enjoy and not-so-complicated to do!
At first, I was feeling discouraged. Every recipe that I was looking at
had always something that he was allergic to. I browsed through so many
recipes and yet, couldn't find any recipe that was suitable. A recipe
without dairy, eggs, or flour was indeed very hard to find! And put it
frankly, most recipes without those ingredients don't actually taste
good or the textures were off 🥴. A few months before his birthday, we
did another allergen testing. This time, the reaction to egg was gone!
Yay 💕! That was good news but yet, still
very challenging for me! So I continued my quest for the perfect recipe.
After many trials and wasted batches, I finally came up with a recipe
that was perfect for my baby. Since then, it has became a motivation for
me to always make delicious
dairy-free & gluten-free healthy recipes for him 🧁.
Note: That was supposed to be a volcano 😂