BakeBot, AI Recipes & Cupcakes with Apple Buttercream with Babette Pepaj

On this episode of Taste Buds with Deb, host Debra Eckerling speaks with Babette Pepaj, founder of BakeSpace.com and BakeBot.ai. The free AI-powered cooking assistant generates recipes, digitizes family favorites and suggests ingredient swaps.    “It helps you do everything from thinking about what foods you're going to buy to seeing what's in the fridge [and figuring] out what you can make with what you already have on hand,” Pepaj says. “AI … isn't just about making a new recipe, this is about actually helping someone at the most important moment of cooking.”   As the High Holidays approach, people start pulling out old recipe books - passed down through generations - or binders with cutouts of recipes. However, many of these recipes have faded or are missing ingredients or instructions.  If you are the person who has been making that recipe for years, it’s not a problem. But what about everyone else?   The magic of AI is it can look at a recipe, see if something's missing and then be able to modify it. It’s also great for adapting it for a different number of servings and substitutions.   “For example, you might have a recipe that's [been] in your family and all of a sudden your sister-in-law is gluten free [or] maybe you became vegan; you want to keep it within the same style, you want to make sure it has the same flavors,” she explains.  “When [you] are preparing … especially anything that's holiday related - anything that's truly memorable, anything that has history and tradition - you don't want to mess up.”   Babette Pepaj talks about BakeBot, ways to use AI for not just recipes, but confidence in the kitchen, and the evolution of recipe discovery. “Social media is like the cooking tool no one knew that they needed,” she says. Pepaj also shares her BakeBot.ai created recipe for Rosh Hashanah cupcakes with apple butter cream, which you can get at JewishJournal.com/podcasts Try out at Bakebot.ai and explore Bakespace.com.   For more from Taste Buds, subscribe on iTunes and YouTube, and follow @TheDEBMethod on social media.