Since I can’t eat wheat, I don’t always have a lot of patience for baking wheat-filled things from scratch. It’s hard to labor over baking something yummy that I won’t be able to eat, so for my husband’s birthday I decided to bake him a cake from a mix. I read almost every label in the baking section of the grocery store and was appalled by every one, so I went to the natural foods section and discovered Dr. Oetker’s Organics Vanilla Cake Mix.

The ingredients aren’t the least bit scary:

Organic wheat flour, organic brown sugar, baking soda, cream of tartar, salt, organic locust bean gum, organic vanilla flavour (contains gum arabic), natural flavor.

It made two layers that browned nicely and were firm, moist, and spongy. And while I couldn’t eat any of it, my husband really enjoyed it. I froze half of the cake for him to snack on later, and he said even good after defrosting.

Cake is never health food, but this is about as close as you can get.

Dr. Oetker Organics Vanilla Cake Mixes deliver pure, unaltered flavour in every bite. Our organic ingredients are grown without man-made pesticides, synthetic fertilizers or GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and are free of chemical processing. Dr. Oetker Organics, your helping hand in delicious organic baking.

It was so easy to make, and I felt good about serving it.

Here’s what the layers looked like before frosting.