Was surprised during a recent visit to Williams Sonoma to see Bouchon gourmet gluten-free cookie mix. Thomas Keller has partnered with Williams Sonoma exclusively to sell this gluten-free chocolate chunk cookie mix as well as a gluten-free brownie mix under his ad hoc restaurant label.
Unfortunately, both mixes have dairy ingredients, so I’m unable to try them, but I’ve ate at Bouchon, and the food is incredible. If anyone tries these, let me know how they are!
Those of us who have been eating gluten-free for awhile know there is an abundance of gluten-free baked goods available. The general public though is just catching on.
In today’s NY Times, the Dining section covers the gluten-free baked goods market, including a couple of recipes and book/website references.
I’ve tried several gluten-free store-bought cookies, and I have to say- Liz Lovely makes the best. Her chocolate fudge cookies are gluten free and vegan. They taste as good as the real thing. I’ve only found these at Jimbo’s in San Diego, but it looks like you can order these on their website.
Make GF red velvet cupcakes using your favorite gluten-free yellow or white cake mix!
Ingredients:
For the frosting (you can also buy this already prepared):
Directions for the cake:
Directions for frosting:
This recipe was modified from recipes found on allrecipes.com.
There’s nothing like starting a new year off with gluten-free desserts (not to mention vegan too). I stopped off at Babycakes NYC’s downtown LA bakery on New Year’s Eve to get some cupcakes to pair with the gallons of champagne my friends consumed.
Pictured here are pumpkin, banana, chocolate chip vanilla and mint chocolate chip. The two chocolate chip flavors were the fan favorites that night.
Babycakes LA: 130 East 6th Street, Los Angeles and certain items also available at M Cafe locations in LA.
chocolate and mocha, chocolate and banana
May is Celiac Awareness month (though some celebrate in October). To celebrate, I headed over to Babycakes LA and picked up a couple of their vegan, gluten-free cupcakes. I was in luck, they had a couple of special flavors. They had only one chocolate with banana frosting left, so I immediately chose that one. The second was one they had created for a custom cake – chocolate with mocha frosting. Both were great. I hope they’ll consider adding these to their cupcake rotation.
Babycakes LA is located in downtown Los Angeles. Check out my previous Babycakes reviews.
The ever-popular Sprinkles has answered the requests of its customers and introduced a gluten-free red velvet cupcake – designated with a big red “G”.
I’ve never been to a Sprinkles, but always see a long line out the door at the Beverly Hills location.
Unfortunately for me, I can’t eat these because I also avoid dairy, and the frosting is made from cream cheese. So, readers: please try one for me, and leave a comment with your reviews!
Here’s a link to their site with details on their gluten-free cupcake and all of their locations – sprinkles.com
Picked a couple of these mint chocolate brownie cupcakes up over the weekend from Babycakes LA. They are incredibly good. 
They don’t have them every day, so make sure to get them when they do!
Shaun
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