baking

This book is fantastic. I use it all the time. I have 2 sons that are egg and nut allergic and its wonderful to have recipes at my fingertips that actaully come out tasting and looking great! I have tried a lot of the recipes in the book and my non-allergic friends and family ask me for the recipes. There are a ton of recipies to chose from, I have not made anything yet that I have been disapointed in. I dont even bother looking anywhere else now when I want a recipe.

The choclate chip is great! This Christmas I made cookie press ones from the butter cookie recipe, I used imitation almond extract and it was JUST like the ones my mom made when I was a kid! I was so happy to be able to carry on the tradition. The sugar cookie one also works great. I have a hard time keeping up with my familys demand for the pumpkin and banana breads. I keep a stash of frozen chocolate cupcakes in the freezer at all times so if we go to a birthday party or other special event then my boys dont have to skip desert.

Many of the recipes have nuts in them, I just omit them. This book and sunbutter have helped my family lead a more normal life. Sunbutter is a alternative to peanutbutter made from sunflower seeds that actaully tastes great. You can get check it out at www.sunbutter.com

For 4 long years, we've struggled with a daughter with egg allergies. Dessert was always hard without eggs, and Christmas cookies, snacks at school and pancakes with egg substitutes were never really close to the real thing.
Then I read about this book at the allergist's office. It changed everything. Now we can all have GREAT CHOCOLATE CHIP cookies, great cakes that taste like a regular cake(not something that sort of looks like a cake) or tremendous muffins that will actually separate into two rather than crumble apart like the egg substitutes. Buy this book for a better life with an egg allergic child.

Thank you, thank you Rosemarie Emro!! I can't believe I hadn't discovered this cookbook of yours sooner but better late than never! All the "allergy" cookbooks I've seen also assume that someone allergic to eggs is also allergic to wheat, dairy products and nuts - which I am not! It's soooo nice to see recipies that are JUST eggless! And don't have any odd ingredients that you have to get at a health food store. Unlike yourself or other reviewers of this book, it is not my child who is allergic to eggs, it is ME! (I have 2 children and neither have any food allergies). I am 44 years old and my mother and I have spent many many frustrating years trying to bake without eggs - believe me, it's not easy. I am DEATHLY allergic to eggs, can't eat 'em, can't touch 'em, can't even smell them cooking!! So many birthday parties when I was a little girl when I felt like a freak because I couldn't eat the birthday cake . . . so many buffets and dinner parties as an adult where there was maybe 1 or 2 things on the table that I could eat. I absolutely cannot wait to try every single recipe in this book! If you want any advice on growing up with an egg allergy, let me know! Thanks again for this great cookbook.