Generation GF Kids Magazine Winter/Spring 2026
Read the Generation GF Kids Magazine Winter/Spring 2026
I hope you enjoy this issue of Generation GF Magazine. For this issue, the first of the year, I wanted to talk about trying new things. I know that as someone with celiac disease, a strict gluten-free diet can feel limiting. Sometimes, we may feel like we’re stuck in a rut – doing the same thing over and over again, like going out to the same restaurant, baking the same things over and over again, or not being very adventurous with your food. But I hope this year you’ll take the time to learn something new, or develop a new skill. One thing I always wanted to learn was cake decorating.
I watch a lot of baking shows, and I’ve always been so impressed with how bakers can decorate a cake to look like a magazine or cookbook! This year, I ended up at the International Baking Show and signed up for a cake decorating class. Many in this class were professional bakers looking to improve their cake decorating skill. The instructor asked “everyone decorated a cake before, right?” I was so nervous, I didn’t have enough courage to raise my hand and be the only one that didn’t have experience. So I didn’t, and I had to fake it until I felt confident enough to just have fun and decorate the cake! I paid close attention to the instructor, but also wanted to have fun experimenting on my own. I ended up making a beautiful cake, but I can tell you that it had a lot of competition with all of the experienced bakers at the class. Even though my cake might not win any awards in class, I was so impressed by how much I learned in such a short amount of time.
Even if I never bake a cake and decorate it to look like this, it was a great time and I learned so much about the skill of cake decoration. This class showed me that I can have fun learning a new skill, even if it’s not perfect, even if it’s not the best in the class. Because learning something new isn’t about perfection, it’s about embracing how difficult it may be to learn a new skill, and the excitement that comes with learning something new. I hope you all get to try something new and develop a new skill that makes you feel just as good as I did learning how to pipe a fancy boarder on a cake!