Holiday Baking Company

I don’t care what hours they are open and how much they charge… This is the BEST gluten free bakery in the city. Call ahead and make sure that they have a GF Red velvet cupcake with your name on it. You won’t believe your taste buds! My family prefers their red velvet cupcakes over any non-​GF ones. Yummmmmoooo!

This «dedicated Gluten-​Free facility» is a bakery of uniquity. The reason I say this is due to it getting some mixed reviews based on such. Here’s what I mean:
* They’re only open three days a week, as of July 2014 (my first visit)
* They take summer hiatuses that can last a couple weeks
* Their goods are expensive (typical of gluten-​free fare). A loaf of bread averages around $ 8.
* They have a «first come first serve» policy and don’t make everything on their menu everyday.
…the majority of bakeries have just the opposite of all the above. This confuses some.
With that said, they specialize in 100% Gluten free, including dairy free breads, rolls, buns, cookies, cupcakes, decorated cakes, dessert bars, mini muffins, quick breads, pasta/​pasta dishes and pizza crust, which they supply to a couple local pizza restaurants. Their storefront will have some of these items for sale, but not all. If you DEFINITELY want something you’ll need to call and let them know. They seem to always have cupcakes though. Something I’m sure lasts several days in the case.
I stopped in a little after 9 AM on a Thursday and they were just pulling fresh bread and buns out of the oven-​heavenly smell. Lucky me… maybe. Meaning, I got a loaf of white bread and some hamburger buns and after I brought them home the paper bags they were saturated in oil. The buns remained very oily; the bread wasn’t as bad. Was this because they were straight out of the oven or because gluten free usually has a little more sugar/​oil in them to compensate? Not sure. The bread held up well and lasted for a week, slicing great for sandwiches. The buns, not so much, getting close to rock hard after a week. The carrot cake cupcakes had the same oily issue but I’ve had my fair share of oily carrot cake. Regardless, they were good. Moist with plump raisins.
For those suffering from celiac this is your destination. For the majority of the population without such restrictions it’s probably not a place to frequent. When you think about it, those uniquities start making sense…

Their bar cookies are good. Their mini muffins are good. I was disappointed in their white bread. After 3 chews, it is like sawdust consistency in my mouth. Will go back soon.

This was one of the last bakeries left on my list to need to try in Columbus and I would have made it months earlier would they not constantly change their opening times.
First, instead of just being closed the usual sundays and mondays, they also are closed tuesdays. Then they switched to pick up order only except for saturdays 10−2pm.
Really, do you have such great business that you are only open to the public for 4 hours a week?
I guess so, and with that I finally made it yesterday after a fabulous lunch at the Worthington Inn.
Shortly before 2pm they still had the full selection left and even brought our warm turtle brownies right when I came.
Naturally, that was the first thing I asked for.
$ 2.90 for a tiny bar is steep, ikt was good but too fudgly and with that almost tasting like a raw batter.
The coconut dream bar, alsways good, but again $ 2.60 is reason enough to got get it again, serve bigger slices or lower your prices.
I got a loaf of what she called raspberry coffee cake and covered in streusels she had me sold even at $ 6.
It tasted nothing like a coffee cake and while streusels always make everything better, it was yeasty and not sweet enough.
Dissapointing at that price.
The peanut butter chocolate chip cookie tiny and not anything special and for $ 1.1.0 also a rip off.
The best deal is 6 mini muffins for $ 2, the lemon poppy were hard and had no lemon taste, also a dissapointment.
What was good was the apple raisen mini muffins, these were fresh, soft and yummy.
The clear winner, 6 mini cupcakes for $ 5, actually better than most non gluten free cupcakes, soft, moist and chocolatey.
In all, $ 20 for those couple goodies that I dusted off pretty quick was way too much money spent and for the fact that only 2 of the things were great, not worth going back to.

Awesome. My number one pick for gluten free baked goods. The GF red velvet cupcakes are even better than the type with gluten. How did that happen?
I send everyone who’s gluten-​free here. And I heard they recently expanded to making more gluten free items! Yay!

I am disappointed in this bakery. I placed a yeast free/​gluten free cupcake order (a large order). The owner she said this would be ready in 10 days. She had my cell phone number and did not call. I stopped in 1 week after the order was supposed to be done and she had not started on it! 18 days after I placed the order. She did not offer any apology or fix to the situation so I will take my business elsewhere!

After doing many searches over the internet on gluten-​free items, I finally found a bakery in Columbus that makes GF items on a regular basis. My wife is Gluten intolerant so I try and surprise from time to time with freshly baked GF products, which in Columbus can be hard to come by.
Not anymore though because this place was wonderful! The GF baked goods tasted amazing, I could not tell the difference between regular baked goods and the GF ones. The prices are reasonable and they focus on GF products every Tuesday, with some GF available other days but it is best to call ahead if not a Tuesday. I highly suggest the banana bread!
I wish I could comment on the regular baked goods, but I was good and only purchased GF items, next I will purchase some regularly baked items and provide an update, but I am sure if the GF was this good, the non-​GF must be wonderful too!