Vegetarian Star

“I am a vegetarian but I have a sweet tooth, so I go to this wonderful bakery in New York called BabyCakes. It makes amazing vegan cakes, which are glutton free and often sugar free, egg free and dairy free. The vegan apple-pie is incredible—it is my favourite dish.”

–Anne Hathaway, on how she satisfies her cravings for all things sweet and animal free.

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Yankees fans with a vegan sweet tooth can now enjoy BabyCakes frozen cookie and brownie cream sandwiches at the Legends Suite, an exclusive area featuring 1,800 cushioned seats located close to the field and amenities like concierge services and private restrooms.

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Erin McKenna. Photo Credit: Clarke Tolton

The New York Daily News has featured an article on Erin McKenna, the owner and founder of the popular BabyCakes restaurants in New York and Los Angeles.

McKenna has wowed both celebrities and regular people with her vegan, gluten-free and sugar-free cookies, muffins, cupcakes and other desserts and has recently expanded her empire to Disney World and Rockaway Beach in New York.

So how was the name BabyCakes created?

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New York Times recently featured an article on gluten-free eating.

Erin McKenna, owner of BabyCakes vegan dessert restaurants in New York and Los Angeles is quoted. McKenna has multiple food sensitivities and was forced to give up wheat in 2002. Unfortunately, it also forced her to give up taste.

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Erin McKenna, the owner of BabyCakes bakeries that offer vegan, gluten-free desserts in New York and Los Angeles that have become popular among vegan and non-vegan celebrities, is set to release her 2nd cookbook, BabyCakes Covers the Classics.

Publishers Weekly‘s Dale Goldberg is giving the book, which McKenna promised to throw in recipes for vegan donuts, pancakes and even non-dessert items like mac and cheese, the thumbs up–when those thumbs aren’t busy holding snickerdoodle cookies.

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Downtown Disney, a shopping and dining area at Disneyworld Resorts in Florida, has severed its ties to the McDonald’s restaurant once located in the complex and replaced it with BabyCakes’ Bakery, the famous shop with headquarters in New York and Los Angeles offering vegan, gluten-free and often sugar-free cupcakes, cookies, brownies and other sweets.

According to Inside the Magic, the Disneyworld BabyCakes is located at West Side and Marketplace, near the LEGO Store and T-Rex restaurant.

BabyCakes became famous after several celebrities like Pamela Anderson gave their thumbs up to owner Erin McKenna‘s creations lacking butter, milk and eggs. McKenna has since published a cookbook with the restaurant’s most popular desserts and has appeared on television shows like Martha Stewart.

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Mark Bittman has posted some behind the scenes photographs from shooting his “The Minimalist” video series. If you can get past the lamb (remember, he’s vegan until 6 PM and promotes less meat), you’ll see a lovely photo of BabyCakes vegan cupcakes in the background. BabyCakes owner Erin McKenna blogged, “Yep, that’s totally a bunch of BabyCakes all scarfed up in those boxes. Cool, cool.” McKenna also took the opportunity to highlight the controversy among vegans about Bittman’s half veggie diet.

“Now, I know some vegans out there might be critical of this but he has made an outstanding impact on so many peoples lives and because of this more and more people are opening up to thoughtful eating that I think he should win a major huge trophy.”

Kudos to her comment and a congratulations is ultimately in order for McKenna and other cupcake bakers. As Inhabitat informed, while other consumer goods are taking a hit from the economy, cupcakes are experiencing a boom.

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Erin McKenna. Photo Credit: Clarke Tolton

Although Erin McKenna may run the very popular and successful BabyCakes Bakeries in New York and California, home to the vegan, gluten-free and mostly sugar free desserts, she didn’t always have the vegan dough to put out for buying all the ingredients when experimenting in the kitchen.

According to a recent story in LA Weekly, McKenna worked three jobs as a waitress, had no credit and no money to put down to purchase products while she formulating her recipes for the restaurant.

So if anyone is ever upset that a spelt or gluten free Red Velvet Cupcake costs $4.25, it’s not like she’s not feeling your pain.

The baker who’s treats were voted best by New York Magazine said, “People get upset because they think it’s really expensive,” adding that prices will come down once more people get on the healthy eating bandwagon.

Yes, we are all looking forward to the day when dairy-free, gluten-free muffins can be bought for $2 from the vending machine just like the ones that guy name Otis makes.

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