Before you say “Going gluten-free (GF) is not for me, I just couldn’t do without dessert,” consider the growing array of GF sweets created by some of Calgary’s best cafés and bakeries.
Gluten-free baked goods are a big part of what this health-conscious bakery is known for. Its GF carrot cake topped with cream cheese icing is an outstanding favourite with regulars at its two locations.
Sister location to the original Lakeview Bakery, you can find Lakeview on 90th in the community of Oakridge at 90th Avenue and 24th Street Southwest. The shop is a completely gluten-free facility that carries fresh-baked breads, buns and pastries as well as imported European GF foodstuffs.
Not only are Yann Haute Patisserie macarons prepared by a Parisian expat chef, these delicate French cookies are gluten free. Romp your GF-lovin’ way through a giant list of flavours from mint-chocolate and lavender-apricot to salted caramel and strawberry-vanilla.
Your craving for a gluten-free strawberry-banana éclair can be handled with the utmost taste and delicacy at Ohh La La. If it isn’t available today, this temptress of a banana-custard-filled, strawberry-glazed dessert can be special ordered.
Delicate sandwich cookies made with almond-meringue biscuits and filled with ganache, buttercream or jam, Ollia maracon flavours include salted caramel, lavender honey and raspberry white chocolate cheesecake. They also happen to be 100 per cent gluten free.
For the gluten-sensitive sweet tooth, Epiphanie Chocolate has much to offer. Of the gourmet chocolate shop’s 34 available flavours, just one is not gluten-free. Bestselling sweets include the pyramid-shaped Tahitian blonde, which is filled with vanilla ganache and vanilla bean seeds. Also very popular, the rose chocolate is imprinted with an edible photo of a red rose.