Have Your Cake And Eat It

OH MY GOODNESS!

For someone who loves baking, it was a nightmare for Ramya Ragupathi, when some years ago, she started developing a reaction to wheat and dairy products. She would feel bloated, break out in rashes and her hair started falling out. A test confirmed that she had an allergy to wheat and dairy. "For someone who bakes, it was a misery being in this state," says Ms Ragupathi, founder of Oh My Goodness!, a home-grown food manufacturing company that makes gluten-free, dairy-free and refined sugar-free food.

Not happy with the gluten-free range that is available on the market - often dry and tasteless - she decided to make her own. Oh My Goodness! started with two cakes: Golly, its signature dark chocolate cake, made of almonds, cocoa, honey and olive oil, and the Golly Gee, the same chocolate cake but with a raspberry coulis layer in the middle.