About Us
Who We Are
We are an online retail bakery. Our Paleo Cakes are made with wheat, gluten, dairy free ingredients and are sweetened with honey and natural fruit. Enjoy our Baked Cakes as a breakfast bar, post-workout bar, or anytime snack. Keep a stash of our Raw Cakes to treat yourself after a long day. Snack better while maintaining your Paleo diet. We make your cakes fresh when you place your order, then ship them directly to you. Our products contain mixed tocopherols (Vitamin E), a natural preservative derived from vegetable oil. The shelf life of our Baked Cakes is about 6 days at room temperature or refrigerated. You can also freeze a bulk order and thaw as needed. The Raw Cakes keep for about a month at room temperature or in the refrigerator, longer if frozen.
Where We Are Located
We bake all of our products out of a commercial kitchen located in San Jose, CA. We do not have a retail store to visit. Please visit us:
Web — www.paleocakes.com
E-mail — contact@paleocakes.com
Facebook — www.facebook.com/PaleoCakesLLC
The Paleo Cakes Team
Charles and Ellen Gramness are the chefs and founders of Paleo Cakes, LLC. Both pastry chefs and crossfit enthusiasts, the couple first started experimenting with paleo-friendly snacks to share with friends at their local crossfit gym in 2010. They could relate to the challenge of finding tasty post-workout snacks not loaded with sugar, oats, dairy or wheat. In 2011, after being well-received by the crossfit community, and with support from good friends, the couple decided to form the company.
The Road to CrossFit and Paleo
Ellen Gramness I was reluctant to give Crossfit a try, and even more skeptical of paleo-anything. Chuck had just started seeing some results from joining Moxie, but had also begun talking non-stop about crazy things like WODS, snatches, and cleaning. He came home with blistered hands and black knees. After dinner, he spent hours watching crossfit videos about people doing the exact same thing he had just spent time doing himself. It seemed ridiculous and bit obsessive to me. But, it yielded visible results in his body, strength and state of mind. He was happier and healthier, and I wanted the same for myself.
I have always enjoyed being active, though would never describe myself as fit, flexible or coorindated. My workouts usually consisted of running, more running, and some ab work. But now, CrossFit is for me. My favorite movements include: power cleans, tire flips, deadlifts and kettlebell swings. I still have difficulty increasing my strength in shoulder to overhead movements due to an inherited muscle condition that greatly affects my flexibility. But I will keep chipping away at it, I will never give up. My current goals are to start getting my name on those HERO WOD boards, and to complete each workout Rx.
Starting the Paleo Diet was Chuck's idea, but I (being the one who prepares dinner at our house) was the one that made it happen. My grain and sugar intake used to be out of control. And I'd put sour cream on absolutely anything. Those were the two areas I had to change the most. However, eating/cooking Paleo is quite simple - and absolutely delicious. The first meal I made was bacon-wrapped chicken tenders with spicy pineapple-cilantro pico and grilled garlic asparagus... and it was crazy good! I've always enjoyed preparing meals for my family, but now that I'm cooking Paleo I feel like I'm truely caring for the people I love when I make them a meal.
How good I feel is a reflection of both the hard work I put into crossfit, and the care I put into fueling my body. If I slip, I feel it in my performance, my mood and my energy level. If I'm commited, I'm unstoppable.
Special Thanks To:
The owners, coaches and members of CrossFit Moxie for their support, ideas, and vital taste-testing!
Christen Smith for logo design www.christensmith.com
Tyler Coffin and Jon Leonhardt for fixing our previously lame website.
CrossFit Moxie, CrossFit Cadence, and Brethren CrossFit for hosting us at this year's CrossFit Open workouts.
All of our amazing customers, who make it possible for us to do what we love.
Charles & Joanne Erickson for their generous donations towards purchasing super-fantasic baking contraptions, as well as obtaining our logo trademark!
