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I don't bitch about my food choices with celiac disease that much, because living in New York and making decent money, I've got it pretty good. There are lots of things it's hard to have spontaneously -- everything, it seems, requires a special trip, but mostly, it is there to be had.

Of course, this isn't always true. I will never be able to eat Darrell Lea coconut ice shipped in from Australia again. Same goes for Anzac biscutts and any number of weird Italian specialties I grew up with. But I manage pizza and pasta and find approximations of most things I've loved.

Two of the particular indignities of celiac disease have been the lack of black & white cookies and the lack of "wedding cake."

To clarify "wedding cake" is to me, those garish, striped cakes with the layers separated by raspberry or apricot jam and then the whole thing wrapped in chocolate. My parents used to buy them at the Italian bakery when I was little. It was, they said, what the inside of their wedding cake looked like.

Well, today, I found "wedding cakes" and black& white cookies in a D'Agastino on the UWS. Gluten -free and kosher for passover. I know the odds are high that they are seasonal, that I won't managed to find them again next year, and at $10 a box, they aren't cheap. But right now, I am so pleased.

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Dude. Civilisation. Seriously.
This means we're winning.

The wedding cake type cookies (which I grew up calling rainbow cookies) are mostly marzipan, so you might be able to find a gluten free version somewhere (or a recipe, but I suspect from the recipes I've seen that they're tricky to make).

Yay for yummy treats! Enjoy!

I assumed that a black and white cookie was a generic Oreo type cookie. Would that be correct?

Sounds wonderful! Enjoy them.

Woo, lucky you!

(Was this the D'Ago's at 110th/Broadway by any chance? I know someone else who might appreciate the odd gluten-free sweetie.)

Wow! What a find! :-)

I haven't had Black and White Cookies in like...20 years. I wonder if I would love them now as much as I did then.

Go you!

There are a number of writers who attend a local con with celiac's, so I always make sure there are plenty of gluten-free foods in the Green Room just in case they haven't time to find anywhere to eat. I hate to see a starving writer...

Congratulations on your finds! We're gluten-free and dairy-free, so I understand how awesome it is to find something you thought you'd never be able to have again.

BTW, what are black & white cookies? It's making me think of Oreos, but that's probably not it since a GF version has been available for awhile.

What a find. =) Congrats! Does it taste like the real thing?

Have you ever eaten at Risotteria? They do wonderful gluten-free stuff, and I often take folks with that restriction there.

OH!

Congratulations!!! Black & Whites are my favorites too, and I would be bereft without them.

I totally identify with you on the missing stuff thing. Nomato sauce has saved my nightshade-intolerant guts, lemme tell you. It's a godsend.

Enjoy your delicious cakes and cookies :D

N.

I am dead jealous. Those sound very good.

Mmmm... yummy... (*drooling over things I'm not supposed to eat in a low-carb diet*)

Do you bake? I've been making these sort of cakes for Passover dinner for years and can give you a recipe (they're made with potato starch).

Then again, preparation, work, messy kitchen. Is it worth it?

OMG!!
I will send

stevefava on a mission to get me some if he goes to NY at the end of the month!!

Oi!

My hairdresser is, as she puts it, "Celiac by genetics and vegetarian by choice."

Thanksgiving is just no fun for her, poor thing...

I bought some Corn Chex yesterday, and the box said "Now Gluten Free!" Whether that means they changed them, or they always were, I don't know, but I thought of you.

This is a great time of year for celiacs. So many people don't use matzah meal or cake meal (matzah meal ground up very fine) that there needs to be a substantial amount of potato starch/almond paste based alternatives.

Try Schick's bakery if you can find their stuff - it freezes really well. My personal favorite are their bonbons, which consist of small almond cookies with a dollop of chocolate cream, all covered in chocolate.

The likelihood is that you actually will find them again next year, just look in any Passover section. NYC is good to Jews that way.

Risotteria's Black & Whites are pretty good.

You found what? :0

This is brilliantly made of win. Edible surprises FTW.

I've never heard them called "wedding cake"...they've always been "rainbow" or "7-layer" cookies.