Half Baked Co.

I had a friends birthday coming up and thought this would be the perfect time to try ordering some gluten free cupcakes for her. It's a bit of a hunt for an exclusive place that specializes only in gluten free baked goods in the valley area. Was feeling pretty excited as I did see on the website they only use non-gmo ingredients and that's a good base. So they also offered a lot of different flavor combinations for the cupcakes. The staff at Half Baked are nice and they were happy to answer all my questions about the gluten free products. I remembered my husband had picked up some of the their gluten free cookies that we shared with the same friends when we had them over for a weekend lunch and to be honest, I couldn't taste any difference in the gluten free choc chip cookies and regular cookies. Their cookies were delicious and as a test run we thought there was no issues with the gluten free cookies so this was the perfect place to try the gluten free cupcakes for my friends birthday. I ordered a mix of different flavored cupcakes and everyone seemed to enjoy them for dessert. In fact, when I shared with a few people at the birthday dinner they were gluten free cupcakes everyone was impressed as they were fluffy in texture and not like some they had tasted before that were dense. I think we've all had those kind of gluten free cupcakes. These cupcakes were rich in flavor and not too heavy, but of course sweet as all cupcakes are. The next day I got a call from my friends husband that the cupcakes must have been gluten and not gluten free as she had a lot of stomach distress during the night and couldn't sleep. I was beside my self as I thought they would be alright as we had done a test run with the gluten free chocolate chip cookies before. Was it possible the bakery made a mistake and gave us gluten cupcakes instead? Maybe we will never know. Mistakes can happen it's understandable. It's just disappointing when it's a friends birthday. So would I go back to Half Baked, absolutely. It was last year when this happened and this year I baked the gluten free cupcakes instead of buying them and was very careful with all the ingredients. It all went well the next few days after her birthday so I was able to create gluten free cupcakes and keep it at a high quality in taste and flavor she mentioned. They do bake regular non gluten free pastries and other baked goods we've tried and all have been delicious. But thought it might be helpful to others to share our experience with the gluten free side of things. We don't know 100% if there was the cupcakes and it's hard to know.....

Absolutely the best vegan gluten-free cupcakes around! Owner Christina is super friendly and we love coming here!