Dessert Labs

Saturday Menu

We're open every Saturday from 12 pm to 4 pm. Check here every Friday to see the menu for this Saturday. We're also open by appointment the rest of the week, so feel free to place an order!

This Saturday's Menu

Cookies: Chocolate Chip, Ginger Molasses, Vanilla Bean Shortbread
$1 each

Rustic Bread
$9 each

Bagels: plain, sesame, and everything
$1.50 each

 

We'll also have samples of pumpkin bread available to taste. Everything is gluten free, made in our dedicated gluten free kitchen.

Come Visit!
1902 NW 24th Ave
between Thurman & Vaughn
Use the side entrance from the parking lot.

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving! Hope to see you tomorrow!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We've been working really hard all week making pies and bread and little goodies for your table tomorrow. Despite the long hours, we've been really happy. Busy, but happy. And it's all worth it when we're able to hand over delicious gluten free food to people that wouldn't have pie or bread otherwise.

We decided to close for Thanksgiving because we're sane. We need a day off and time to spend with friends and family. We're actually having a really quiet affair with a few friends. I've been calling all of us orphans because we're all without family for this holiday. In order to be sure that everything we make is 100% gluten free, we're cooking everything at our home, with the added treat that everyone is going to come over help with the cooking. Of course the only other difficulty is the fact that we're doing a Gluten Free and Vegan Thanksgiving so that everyone feels equally loved and full of good food.

I read an article on cooking for vegans for Thanksgiving that said "Vegan foods are inclusive, not exclusive". So that's what we're going for, an inclusive meal that everyone at the table can enjoy without worrying about whether it's safe for them to eat.

We will be open again Friday for pick ups, if you want to place an order. And please drop by on Saturday 12 - 4pm to see what kind of goodies (and samples) we'll have available.

Vegan & Gluten Free Pie Crust Recipe

In honor of Thanksgiving, we're sharing our pie crust recipe. We know how difficult it can be to find or make a gluten free pie for the holidays. So here's ours. You can of course fill it with whatever filling you desire. We recommend apple, but well we might be partial to it.

This is the same recipe we shared at a recent Demo at the People's Co-op here in Portland. So if you missed it, here's your chance!

Ingredients
1 cup brown rice flour
1 cup millet flour
½ cup sorghum flour
¼ cup tapioca starch
¼ cup potato starch
2 Tbp sugar
1 ½ tsp xanthan gum
1 tsp pectin
1 tsp salt
200 g (approx. ¾ cup)  butter substitute
½ cup water
¼ cup apple cider

Makes 3 9-inch pie crusts

 
1.    Mix flours, starches, sugar, xanthan gum, pectin, and salt together in bowl.
2.    Add butter substitute in ¼ inch pieces. (either cut in the butter substitute, or use a mixer.)
3.    Incorporate butter substitute until pieces are the size of peas.
4.    Add water and apple cider.  Mix until all dough sticks together
5.    If dough does not stick together, add more water in small increments until desired consistency is achieved.
6.    Chill for at lease 30 minutes before rolling dough.
7.    Mold dough to inside of pie tin.
8.    Fill with desired pie filling
9.    Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes, turning the pie at the 25 minute mark.

Fill and enjoy!

If making a pie is more than you can manage at the moment, our pies are currently available at Food Front (sorry not vegan!) or you can order them directly from us (vegan or not) and pick up at our kitchen!

[Edit: We are not accepting any more orders for Thanksgiving. We're full! However, we are dropping off another 20 pies to Food Front Tuesday. So go and eat gluten free pie!]

Now Open on Saturdays

Customers have been asking, and we're listening.

You want to come in and buy one cookie or a cupcake or just see what we have. So we're opening up our kitchen space every Saturday from 12pm - 4pm. We'll have limited supplies of yummies, but you can come in and buy one, the whole batch, or anything in between. And we'll have something yummy and delicious to sample.

This Saturday, we'll have free samples of our breads, both our Honey Loaf and the Rustic Bread.

This Saturday's Menu

Chocolate Chip Cookies
$1 each

[edit: We also made ginger molasses cookies.]

Apple Pie
$12 each

Bread: Honey & Rustic
$9 each

We're located in NW Portland at: 1902 NW 24th Ave (between Thurman & Vaughn). Use the side entrance from the parking lot and come on downstairs, follow the signs.

Pies for the Holidays

Really pie is great any day at any time. I will admit to you that I had the last piece of pumpkin pie in our fridge for breakfast. I may have to wait until Thanksgiving to have more pie. But that doesn't mean you have to!

We have gluten free pies available through Christmas. If you would like a pie for Thanksgiving, you should order it now as we already have a number of pie orders for next week and we want to make sure that we can fit you in.

Also, if you must have a pie right now, they're at Food Front. We're dropping off more today and tomorrow and then more next week too.

Pie flavors: pear, pumpkin, apple, and chocolate bavarian cream

And we have the cutest pie boxes we've ever seen. So you get a beautiful pie in an adorable pie box, what could be better? Eating leftover pie for breakfast, that's what better.

P.S. You know that we can do special orders of most of our products, including vegan, dairy free, or soy free?

Gluten Free Meet Up: Saturday 11/13 2pm

Come play with us on Saturday! If you have an interest in gluten free, we want to meet you. So we've started a meetup group to bring us all together. Our first gathering is this Saturday, November 13th at 2pm in our building.

We're asking for $5/person to cover the gluten free snacks that we're providing for the event. But they we will  be made in our dedicated gluten free kitchen and super yummy.

Address: 1902 NW 24th Ave, Portland, OR 97210 (btwn Thurman and Vaughn)
We heard yesterday that our building can be tricky to find. so here's a photo of it.

Free Cookies Sunday 9:00 am - Noon

Have you been following along, just waiting for your chance to snag a cookie so you can decide if it's worth buying that full dozen? Or maybe you just found us and can't wait to try our gluten free treats? Well here's your chance.

We'll be in the kitchen baking tomorrow morning. So while we're there, stop by for a free cookie.

1902 NW 24th Ave
Portland, OR 97210
Use the side enterance from the parking lot.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
9:00 am - Noon

In the News

We were interviewd by a reporter from the Oregonian not too long ago. And today it shows up in our google alert.

A really wonderful article. Thanks Leland!