Picture courtesy of The Gluten-Free Lab




Oh, goodness. When there’s a new kid on the gluten-free block, you KNOW we’ve gotta get up in there and test out some sweets. Right?

The Lilajay’s Baked Goods menu is extensive, with little nibbles (literally “little”! The sizes of these cute sweets are just a couple of inches around, with the exception of the LJ Thins, pictured above with a dot of chopped Guittard chocolate in the center) that are sweet to look at, fun to unwrap, and a delight to munch. These high-quality treats are made from real ingredients, real grain flours and limited amounts of starch. The care that goes into the selection of ingredients shows.

Depending on our mood and the intensity of our very demanding sweet tooth, we reached most readily for either the Original Chocolate Brownies — moist, delicious and loaded with Guittard chocolate — or the Sugar Mamaz, soft buttery cookies covered in a nearly-crackly coating of powdered sugar icing. But it’s not entirely about our opinion, here. Lilajay’s Baked Goods was born when a pint-size member of Lila’s family was diagnosed with Celiac disease and suffered the loss of regular sweets. The horror! And even though Lila has lived as a gluten-free Celiac for over a decade, that was exactly the impetus she and her partner Jay needed to get their business off the ground. They would develop sweet treats using whole grain flours and quality ingredients that would appeal first and foremost to the little ones in the family, who wouldn’t miss a single sugary thing. And if the grownups liked them too? All the better.

The grownups here at The Lab most certainly liked them. That craving for one more cookie might just be our inner kid speaking up.