Paris France has a new gluten free bakery: Welcome Helmut Newcake!

It turns out the exact day I arrived in Paris for a 3 days mini vacation on the 27th of December, Helmut Newcake, a gluten free pastry shop opened!! I am SO sad I didn’t find this out sooner, but now I have another reason to go back to the city of lights! In other news Des Si et Des Mets and Biosphare both have shut their gluten free doors to business. My best wishes to this new Bakery/Cafe located at:

36 Rue Bichat
75010 Paris
Neighborhood: 10ème arrondissement

Open Tuesday to Saturday 12pm to 9pm, Sunday 10am to 6pm.

Price range is from € 1.40 for pastries and from € 7.50 for the daily specials.

There is no website as of yet, but they do have a facebook (in French) :

http://www.facebook.com/pages/helmut-newcake/255981944449043

here is another link to a gluten free restaurant guide in French with more info.

http://www.sortirsansgluten.com/?page=etablissement.php&eta=168

If you need this or any other site translated I suggest going to translate.google.com, where you can copy/paste the URL link in the box on the left and it will create a link in the box on the right hand side to the translated webpage you want into your chosen language!

Konditorei (Pastry) Internship at Cafe Lobenstein and finding gluten free Stollen! – Erfurt, Germany

For next 9 months I live in Erfurt, Germany. Such a beautiful city where I have started my Konditorei (pastry) internship at Cafe Lobenstein which is not gluten free, but on the plus side uses organic flour. In Germany you specialize in either pastries/sweets/cake decorating ect which is called Konditorei or bread baking/Bäckerei. The system here is that you work as an intern for a few weeks then go to a vocational school (Berufschule) for a week; mine is for you guessed it, Baking and Pastry, then you rinse, rebake, and errr repeat. This is done over a period of three years. I learn German Konditorei techniques and make them gluten free at home. It is AWESOME and I have done so much already! The other workers are always bringing me tasty treats they’ve made that don’t have flour like chocolate truffles, meringue soufflés with raspberry cream filling, or dark chocolate dipped cherry florentine cookies. Here is a video I made over the technique for Truffle Torte:

My boss is great and the hilarious master Konditorin I am working under has a diamond in her tooth. You can see her in the article here as the Stollen Queen at www.Kochrebellion.com Yep she’s the one wearing the “Stollen Köningen” dress in this article about the upcoming Culinary Olympics to be hosted here in October!

Now Köningen means Queen, and Stollen is referring the the rich yeasted German Christmas cake like bread that is filled with candied fruits, spices, a hint ‘o rum and a dusting of powdered sugar on top. Yesterday I had the pleasure of finding GLUTEN FREE STOLLEN baked by 3 Pauly an allergen friendly bakery that ships food to retailers all over Germany

A little bit dry but super tasty; I’m officially an addict!

The place I bought it from is

Reformhaus
http://www.reformhaus-fischer.de/4.html
Schlösserstraße 34
Erfurt
Telephone: +49 0361 6464783

Well I need to go fatten up for the cold winter and eat another slice of Stollen, take care and schonen Abend! (good night!)