Mack on Some Cupcakes
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I sadly need to avoid most dessert establishments due to my nut allergy. I can’t have any food that might contain any cross-contamination with nuts, and tragically chocolate usually falls into this category.
So I had never visited Magnolia Bakery. I just thought it would only make me sad to see all the delicious cupcakes and then find out that they “may contain traces of nuts”. Then my fiancé went to the Magnolia in the Upper West Side and asked them about this nutty problem. The woman behind the counter knew all about nut allergies and explained in detail how they made nut-free cupcakes with no cross-contamination whatsoever, making it clear that she understood the severity of this problem and that Magnolia took a lot of care to make sure no anaphylactic shock occurred.
When my wonderful fiancé came home from work with a box full of cupcakes with all the bomb frostings and told me about their careful arrangements to avoid cross-contamination, I happily decided to mack on those cupcakes. I’m actually thinking I might need some more soon…
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You should also check out BabyCakes (www.babycakesnyc.com) on the Lower East Side. They make all their cupcakes vegan and I bet you in a blindfolded taste test, they’d win over Magnolia 9 times out of 10.
Wow Tracey, I would think having an allergy to nuts would be a big problem in terms of eating out anywhwere. I imagine you have to make the server aware of it from the start.