The Happy Tart

"When life offers you lemons, make lemon curd!" is a saying we've all heard. When I found I was gluten intolerant while enrolled in L'Academie de Cuisine's Professional Pastry Arts program, I took this wise advice to heart (and tweaked it slightly). My first thoughts, like most people who discover they are gluten intolerant, were of all the pastries I would no longer be able to eat. This was made more difficult by the fact that I was in culinary school and had to prepare beautiful French pastries every day. After a day or two of self-pity, I resolved to make gluten-free replicas of the French pastries I had prepared at school. To create amazing gluten-free French pastries, I spent years researching, creating, tasting, and improving my recipes. When I first started culinary school, my ambition was to open a French bakery. As a result, I am ecstatic to be the proprietor of The Happy Tart, a gluten-free bakery. To create the cake of your dreams, schedule a cake tasting now. The cost of a cake tasting is $35, which includes cake samples and an hour of design time. We collaborate with each couple to create a cake that is unique to their wedding! “My husband and I absolutely loved working with Happy Tart. From the tasting to the final product, Emma was fantastic to work with the final result was AMAZING! I had an idea of what I wanted for the wedding cake, chatted about it with Emma, and she made it come to life in the most perfect way possible. The cake was absolutely delicious and our guests were wowed with how beautiful it was. I would whole-heartedly recommend Happy Tart to anyone who is interested in a great cake at a great price.” -Erin