Bake safely and deliciously for every allergy at your table
Master the art of allergen-free baking so everyone at your table can eat safely and deliciously. Learn to substitute, adapt, and create baked goods free from gluten, dairy, eggs, nuts, and more — without sacrificing taste or texture.

"Every person at your table deserves something delicious — and once you understand the science behind the swap, you'll have the confidence to make that happen every single time."— Charles Johnson

What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Confidently substitute gluten, dairy, eggs, and nuts in any standard baking recipe without texture disasters
- Understand the food science behind each allergen's role so you can troubleshoot failures on your own
- Build a reliable allergen-free pantry stocked with the right flours, binders, and fats for every bake
- Produce crowd-pleasing breads, cakes, cookies, and pastries that non-allergic guests won't identify as 'free-from'
- Read and adapt packaged recipes and restaurant menus to spot hidden allergens and cross-contamination risks
- Design your own original allergen-free recipes from scratch using a repeatable formula-based method
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 19 lessons

The Allergen-Free Baker's Foundation
Establishes the essential conceptual and practical groundwork before any baking begins. Students learn why allergens matter structurally, how to keep their kitchen safe, and how to stock a pantry that sets every future bake up for success. This module is deliberately first — without this knowledge, substitution choices later in the course lack scientific grounding.
- 1.1What Allergens Actually Do in BakingIncluded
- 1.2Cross-Contamination and Kitchen SafetyIncluded
- 1.3Building Your Allergen-Free PantryIncluded
Mastering the Core Substitutions
The technical engine of the course. Each lesson isolates one allergen category and systematically replaces it across multiple contexts. Students develop a substitution toolkit grounded in food science, so they can choose the right swap for the right bake rather than memorising a single universal fix. This module is sequenced after the Foundation so students already understand what they are replacing and why.
- 2.1Gluten-Free Flour BlendingIncluded
- 2.2Dairy-Free Fats and MilksIncluded
- 2.3Egg Replacers for Every PurposeIncluded
- 2.4Nut-Free and Seed AlternativesIncluded
Bread and Yeasted Bakes
Applies Module 2's substitution knowledge to one of the hardest allergen-free categories: bread. GF bread behaves fundamentally differently from wheat bread — the absence of gluten means no elastic network, so students must learn new mixing techniques, hydration management, and proofing cues. Sequenced after core substitutions so students understand why bread dough looks and handles differently.
- 3.1How GF Bread Dough Behaves DifferentlyIncluded
- 3.2Everyday Loaves and RollsIncluded
- 3.3Flatbreads, Wraps, and Quick BreadsIncluded
Cakes, Cupcakes, and Cookies
Moves into the highest-volume allergen-free baking category for home and professional use. Students apply multi-allergen substitution under varying mixing methods (creaming, one-bowl, melted fat) across texturally diverse products. A key learning outcome here is understanding how GF flours interact differently with sugar and fat compared to wheat — producing both the characteristic pitfalls (gritty crumb, rapid staling) and the solutions.
- 4.1Allergen-Free Cakes That Actually RiseIncluded
- 4.2Cookies — Crisp, Chewy, and FudgyIncluded
- 4.3Brownies, Bars, and No-Bake TreatsIncluded
Pastry and Special-Occasion Bakes
The most technically demanding module, reserved for after students have mastered core substitutions and high-volume everyday bakes. Pastry is unforgiving — small errors in fat temperature, hydration, or gluten (or its absence) are immediately visible in final texture. Students tackle shortcrust, choux, and celebration cake decorating, culminating in bakes that could be served at any professional or social occasion without being identified as allergen-free.
- 5.1GF and Dairy-Free Shortcrust PastryIncluded
- 5.2Choux Pastry and Eclairs Without Dairy or GlutenIncluded
- 5.3Celebration Cakes and Decorating for Allergen-Free TablesIncluded
Recipe Adaptation and Original Formula Design
The capstone module that transforms students from competent followers of allergen-free recipes into independent recipe creators and adapters. Every outcome from the course converges here. Students gain a systematic, formula-based method for reading any standard recipe, stripping out allergens intelligently, and designing original bakes from a blank page. The module closes with the real-world skills of baking for others — communication, labelling, confidence, and professional responsibility.
- 6.1Decoding and Adapting Any Standard RecipeIncluded
- 6.2Designing Original Allergen-Free Recipes from ScratchIncluded
- 6.3Baking for Others — Communication, Labelling, and ConfidenceIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
Parents of allergic kids
You want your child to have the same birthday cake, school-bake-sale cookie, and holiday treat as everyone else — without the anxiety.
Newly diagnosed celiacs
You've just been told gluten is off the table and you're determined not to give up the baking you love.
Hosts with dietary-diverse guests
Your dinner table regularly includes people with a mix of restrictions, and you want one gorgeous bake that genuinely works for everyone.
Home bakers hitting a wall
You've tried allergen-free recipes from blogs and kept getting flat, gummy, or crumbly results — and you want to finally understand why.
Adults with multiple intolerances
You're navigating a combination of gluten, dairy, and egg restrictions at once and need a method, not just more one-off recipes.
Bakers who love to create
You don't just want to follow substitution charts — you want to design your own original allergen-free recipes from scratch with real confidence.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Charles Johnson
I know what it feels like to stand in a kitchen, staring at a recipe that calls for three things your family can't eat, trying to figure out if the substitution you found on a blog will actually work — or whether you'll end up with a flat, gummy disappointment that no one wants to eat but everyone politely finishes. That moment of uncertainty, that low-level dread before a birthday cake or a holiday bake, is exactly what this course was built to eliminate.
The problem isn't that allergen-free baking is impossibly hard. The problem is that most of us learned to bake around the allergen rather than understanding what it was doing in the first place. When you know that gluten is providing structure, that eggs are doing three different jobs at once depending on the recipe, that dairy fat contributes to both tenderness and flavour — you stop guessing and start solving. That's the shift I want to give you.
Free Table Baking takes you through every layer of this, step by step. We start with the foundations — the pantry, the safety habits, the flour blending — and work all the way through to a place where you're designing your own recipes from scratch using a method that's genuinely repeatable. In between, we bake everything: breads, celebration cakes, cookies in all their textures, brownies, shortcrust, and yes — choux pastry and éclairs, because people with allergies deserve something a little showstopping too.
I won't pretend every single bake will be perfect first time. But I will promise you this: by the time you've worked through this course, you'll understand what went wrong and exactly how to fix it. That's worth more than any single recipe, because it means you're never stuck again.
If you're tired of the mental load, the label-reading anxiety, the apologetic 'I made yours separately' moment at the table — this is your way through. I'm so glad you're here. Let's bake something everyone can eat.
— Charles Johnson
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