Kokova Magazine

Britain's National Cupcake Champion 2011 has been announced - and the winning professional craft baker, who has been baking for less than a year, comes from Wales.

The Cake Crusader, based in Reading, is a Theo Paphitis Small Business Sunday winner for 3rd July 2011. The company focus is on special occasion cakes and cupcakes for people who suffer a variety of food intolerances and allergies that include gluten, wheat, dairy, egg and sugar. Allergy UK estimates that up to 45 per cent of the population in the UK suffer some form of food intolerance while around eight per cent of children under the age of three suffer from a food allergy as well.

Attend for free!
The Allergy & Gluten Free Show (taking place at London's Olympia from 6th - 8th May 2011

Most of us are used to a sprinkling of garden cress on top of our egg mayonnaise roll or the familiar Chinese bean sprouts, but what about all the other baby sprouts available; alfalfa, broccoli, radish, lentil, sunflower, chickpea, snowpea, aduki bean… the list goes on and on.

If you suffer, or have a child who suffers from a food allergy, you will know that what seem like simple choices to most people can amount to a very difficult task. If you are one of the growing number of people living with food allergies, Steph’s Free From Cakes may help you to make those tricky decisions more easily.

The Cake Crusader was founded by Liz Allan who discovered back in 2001 that she was wheat intolerant and found it very difficult to transition from a life with wheat to one without. At that time the only places where you could purchase “intolerance friendly” products were health food shops where the products were very expensive.