Let's begin by admitting that there is a reason people bake with sugar and wheat and butter: they make things taste yummy.
If you are *not* prepared to admit this, then you are probably the kind of hard-core wheat-free, sugar-free and/or vegan partisan who loves nothing more than a maple syrup-sweetened spelt-and-oat cookie. You will likely consider Edible Flours to be your personal version of heaven, because they do quite a good job of making decent-tasting baked goods for restricted diets. Whether you're wheat-free, nut-free, gluten-free, soy-free, vegan or some combination of the above, the odds are good that something on the menu will fit your particular needs. And when you try it, you'll probably feel deeply grateful that somebody has made a snack or dessert that fits your dietary requirements without making you feel like you've just eaten sawdust.
If you're not on a restricted diet, I'm not sure why you'd eat or shop here. Admittedly, the four items we tried (the lemon cookie, the banana loaf, the oatmeal raisin cookie and the thumbprint cookie) were all wheat-free AND sugar-free: it's hard to make a baked good that tastes truly delicious under both constraints, and it may well be that the sugar- and/or wheat-bearing treats they sell are a lot yummier. (Both the vegan cupcakes and the spelt donuts looked good.)
None of the treats we tried were yucky, which is saying something: a lot of the wheat-free, sugar-free products I've tried are inedible or even soul-scarring. Our 5-year-old really enjoyed all 4 of them, which is enough to turn us into regular customers: I'm delighted to have a source of baked goods that I can feel good about feeding him, and will likely keep their products in the house as lunch treats and after-school snacks. (If you have a child with a nut allergy or other food sensitivity you will be THRILLED to find this place.) Our 8-year-old, on the other hand, tried them but refused to eat them.
As for us grown-ups: my husband (who eats a totally unrestricted diet) says he would eat the thumbprint cookie again, though wouldn't go out of his way for it. I personally thought the lemon cookie was the tastiest, though it had a kind of oily aftertaste. And while I generally try to avoid wheat and sugar, and therefore should be right in the target market here, I didn't like any of the products enough to eat them again: even these relatively healthy baked goods aren't exactly spinach or broccoli, so it's not like they fill some nutritional hole in my life. I'd rather have an apple than a "gosh I wish this had butter and sugar" cookie.
We will be back for kid supplies, however, and maybe next time I won't have the strength to resist the sugar-bearing (and quite tasty-looking) treats. At least they'd still be wheat-free! read more