On the Pink Bakery website, there's an image of family around a cake. At right is Pink Bakery owner Nubian Simmons, at about 10 or so and cute as a button in her pigtails. She is staring so intently at the cake it calls to mind one of those "Get you a man" memes. Get you a man who looks at you like Nubian looks at that cake.
Simmons doesn't recall whether or not she ate that cake. But if she had, she most likely would have broken out in hives, her throat closing and her tongue swelling.
"Not the best time, you know?" Simmons says.
Simmons' bakery is Tennessee's first big-eight allergen-free bakery. Those allergens are fish, wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, milk, eggs, shellfish, and soy. "Those allergens cause 90 percent of food reactions," she says.
The Pink Bakery sells brownie, cookie, and cupcake mixes, as well as ready-to-eat brownies, cookies (choco-chip, sugar cookies with lemon frosting), donuts (pumpkin spice, chocolate sprinkle among them), and cupcakes (chocolate with white chocolate peppermint frosting, vanilla bean with strawberry frosting, etc.). The products are available at thepinkbakery.com and at the Collierville Farmers Market Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Simmons is actively looking for a retail space right now, which is a far cry from what she thought she would be doing.
As a child, she always had health problems, but no doctor, despite her growing file, ever considered food allergies. After her allergies (milk and wheat) were figured out, Simmons set about recreating...
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