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I have a confession to make. This year, I did not bake Scott's birthday cake from scratch. It's the fourth birthday confection I've baked for him in the years we've known each other, and it's the first time I didn't start with raw ingredients and a recipe. Instead, I used two boxes of Naturally Nora's cake mix and saved myself a whole lot of prep time. No one at his party had any idea that I hadn't slaved over the cake, measuring flour, beating egg whites and creaming butter. I got a million compliments and as I received each one, I just smiled and said thanks (as I write this, I'm beginning to feel like a 1950's housewife), mentally forwarding them to Nora herself.

The thing is, I don't feel bad about passing off that cake as my own. I did bake it up in the big aluminum pan I inherited from my great-aunt and I sweated over the frosting. It's just not always possible to bake a cake from scratch, and it's awfully nice to know that there's a dependable, natural cake mix out there among all those chemical-laden ones that is just as easy and tastes really good.

So next time you have to make cupcakes for a school party and you find yourself running short on time, grab one of Nora's mixes (they come in five flavors) and let yourself off the hook.

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For all of you out there concerned about food allergies I would like to tell you about Cherrybrook Kitchen. They make natural baking mixes; frosting, cookie, cake, and pancake mixes that are wheat-based and gluten-free. They are also vegan, kosher, and peanut, dairy, egg, and nut free.

Patsy Rosenberg was addicted to chocolate cake. Hey, that's not something that bad is it? Well is wasn't, until she developed food allergies. She started reacting first to chocolate, then seafood, nuts, and any dairy and egg products. Doctors told Rosenberg that she could no longer eat any of these foods or else risk a life threatening allergic response.

She tried to stay away from all the foods that she reacted to and finally got fed up. She started playing around in her kitchen trying to create cakes without eggs and dairy products and after many failures came up with a few good recipes. She took cakes to parties and got such a good response that she decided to start Cherrybrook Kitchen.

The mixes have gotten some good press from Parents and Family Circle magazine, as well as some of the specialy mags. Now their mixes can be now be found in national chains, such as Whole Foods, Wild Oats, Kroger, Super Target, and Giant Eagle, for a total of around 3.500 stores nationwide.

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