A delicious and creamy cheesecake topped with beautiful organic strawberries and allergen-free chocolate | Chocolate Covered Strawberry Vanilla Bean Cheesecake Recipe 

My daughter has never enjoyed a bite of cheesecake.  She’s two years old!  Obviously, with all her new food passes, we had to take it slow and we had a bunch of hiccups.  Cream cheese caused us a ton of confusion with her FPIES (what is fpies?) food allergy.

For awhile she would have a chronic reaction whenever she had cream cheese, but she’s never experienced a chronic reaction with any other food.  We waited quite a few months to try cream cheese again.  Just recently we also found a graham cracker that has NO soy!  Plus they’re non-gmo and even organic!

Kay loves to snack on these honey grahams, and as soon as we found these we knew we had to try cream cheese again.  Thankfully it went well and she can now safely eat cream cheese!  Of course, we had to rush and make a cheesecake.  Not just any cheesecake.. but a vanilla bean cheesecake.  Kay loves chocolate and berries so we obviously had to top with chocolate covered strawberries.  We’re not a fan of cooked down fruit so we just left them as is.

Recently we went to the Gluten and Allergen Free Expo in Secaucus, NJ.  Kay had an absolute blast.  We went last year and found Enjoy Life Foods Chocolate to trial, and has been by far our favorite food trial.  Thankfully Enjoy Life is free of most allergens and of course it’s soy free too!  Due to Kay’s FPIES she still cannot eat soy, chicken, or oatmeal.  They had a new crunchy cookie this year that we hadn’t tried yet, and Kay fell in love right away!  As soon as I tasted the Crunchy Double Chocolate Cookie, I thought.. COOKIES AND CREAM!  

Finding a safe food for your child can be a challenge, finding a safe chocolate can be even more challenging for a child with food allergies.  Most chocolate contains soy, nuts, or processed around those allergens.  My daughter suffers from a food allergy called FPIES.

Food Protein Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome (FPIES) is not your typical food allergy where you would see hives, fast reaction, anaphylaxis, these are IgE-mediated.  FPIES is Non-IgE-mediated, meaning you can’t do skin/blood tests, it’s typically an internal manifestation however more people are saying their children also suffer some external symptoms like eczema.

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