🧁 Gluten-Free Bakeries in Austin

Bakeries are the one category where "we have gluten-free options" isn't good enough. Wheat flour goes airborne the moment it's scooped, sifted or mixed, and the fine particles stay suspended long enough to settle on every counter, cooling rack and cardboard box in the room. A restaurant can keep a dedicated fryer and a clean prep station. A bakery working with flour cannot fully contain it.

So this guide covers dedicated gluten-free bakeries in Austin: places where no wheat flour has ever been on the premises, and where you don't have to open a conversation before you order. There are seven of them. We've also listed the ones that have closed, because two of them still show up near the top of most "best gluten-free bakery in Austin" lists.

🏆 Fully Dedicated Gluten-Free Bakeries

Nothing in these kitchens contains wheat. You can order anything on the menu without asking a single question.

Zucchini Kill Bakery

701 E 53rd St, Suite C · North-central Austin

Dedicated gluten-free, vegan and soy-free, which is a combination almost nobody else in the city offers. Scratch-made cupcakes, cookies, donuts, cookie cakes and their much-loved homemade Twinkies, all with a punk-rock streak that makes the place feel nothing like a health-food bakery. If you're managing more than one restriction, start here — it's the shortest conversation you'll have anywhere in Austin.

Also takes custom cake orders. Give them notice; the popular weekends fill up.

Bougie's Donuts & Coffee

5400 Brodie Ln, Suite 930, Sunset Valley · South Austin

A 100% gluten-free donut shop with a proper coffee program attached. Every donut, every pastry, every crumb in the building is gluten-free. If you have spent years watching other people pick from the case, the whole thing being available to you is a strange feeling the first time.

OMG Squee

4607 Bolm Rd, Suite A · East Austin · (512) 435-9113

Asian and Asian-American desserts, entirely gluten-free, in a kitchen that is also free of peanuts and cashews. Mochi donuts, taiyaki sundaes, macarons, cheesecake and bubble tea. The nut-free element matters if you're managing allergies alongside celiac, and there aren't many dessert shops anywhere that can say both.

Hours: Closed Mondays · Tuesday–Thursday 10am–6pm · Friday–Sunday 10am–10pm

Maaribu Cafe

1413 S 1st St · South Austin

A dedicated gluten-free cafe attached to a home and gift shop, which sounds like it shouldn't work and does. Everything is scratch-made from organic ingredients in a private kitchen on site, and there are no gluten-containing items anywhere in the building. They also run a mobile bakery, so the truck turns up at events around town.

Takes special orders.

Gati Cafe

1512 Holly St · East Austin · Open daily 8am–10pm

The bakery here is 100% gluten-free and mostly vegan, and it's attached to a coffee shop pulling shots with beans from local roaster Greater Goods, plus a case of coconut-milk ice cream in rotating flavors like tamarind candy, Thai tea and pandan leaf. Coffee cakes, brownies and cookies on the bakery side. The long daily hours make it the most reliable late option on this list.

Bom Bakeshop — popup only

Fridays and Saturdays inside Dia's Market, 812 Justin Ln · Crestview

Austin's first mochi donuts, made in a dedicated gluten-free kitchen by a celiac owner and her chef husband. Flavors rotate monthly and run to over a hundred a year, so what you find is rarely what you found last time.

Read this bit before you drive over: Bom has no storefront. They are a popup, currently set up Fridays and Saturdays inside Dia's Market in Crestview, with a brick-and-mortar space in the works. Older listings — including some still live elsewhere — give an Airport Boulevard address that will take you nowhere. Check their Instagram for the current schedule.

🍜 Dedicated Bakery Inside a Restaurant

Thai Fresh

909 W Mary St · South Austin (Bouldin Creek)

Thai Fresh runs a separate gluten-free bakery inside the restaurant, so you can eat dinner and take dessert home from the same building. The restaurant itself is unusually careful about cross-contact, which is why it turns up on so many celiac recommendations in Austin. The bakery case is the part most people don't know about.

⚠️ Closed — Don't Trust the Old Lists

These come up constantly in search results, aggregator directories and articles that were accurate when they were written. They are not accurate now.

• Wild Wood Bakehouse — the Guadalupe Street bakery, founded in 1996 and gluten-free for its entire life, closed in 2019.
• Wilder Wood — the successor restaurant and bar at 1300 E 7th Street has also closed.
• Dream Bakery — the Anderson Mill storefront is gone. The gluten-free baking continues through online orders and a rotating popup schedule, so it isn't a place you can walk into.

If a list still recommends driving to Wild Wood or Wilder Wood, it hasn't been checked in years. Treat everything else on that list with the same suspicion.

🎂 Gluten-Free Custom Cakes in Austin

Birthdays and weddings are where gluten-free gets genuinely difficult, because the usual answer is a supermarket cake of uncertain provenance. Three of the bakeries above take custom orders from dedicated kitchens:

• Zucchini Kill — custom cakes and cookie cakes, dedicated gluten-free, vegan and soy-free. The right call when the guest list includes several different restrictions.
• Maaribu — scratch-made special orders from the on-site private kitchen, organic ingredients. Catering by the dozen needs 48 hours' notice.
• Gati Cafe — cakes, cupcakes and celebration items from its dedicated production bakery, and vegan as well as gluten-free.

Order well ahead. Small dedicated kitchens have limited capacity, and the popular dates go first.

📋 Why "Gluten-Free Options" Means Less at a Bakery

This is the part worth understanding, because it changes how you read every other bakery list you'll find.

When a restaurant says it has gluten-free options, the practical risks are a shared fryer, a shared grill surface and shared utensils. Those are containable. A kitchen that cares can keep a separate fryer, change gloves, and use clean pans.

A bakery has a different problem. Flour is a powder, and working with it puts it in the air — scooping, sifting, tipping a bag, running a mixer. Airborne flour doesn't stay where it started. It drifts, and it settles, on cooling racks and countertops and the outside of packaging, long after the baking has finished. A gluten-free cupcake iced on a counter where someone shaped bread that morning is not reliably gluten-free, however carefully it was made.

That's the reason this guide draws the line where it does. A conventional bakery selling a gluten-free item is doing something genuinely kind, and for someone avoiding gluten by choice it's often fine. For a celiac, a dedicated kitchen is a different category of safe, and it's worth driving further for.

💡 Practical Notes

• Small bakeries change fast. Two of the best-known names in this category have closed and one has given up its storefront. Check hours before a long drive, particularly for popups.
• Dedicated doesn't mean allergen-free. Only OMG Squee is explicitly nut-free. If you're managing allergies beyond gluten, ask.
• Oats are worth asking about. Certified gluten-free oats are safe for most celiacs, but a small percentage react to avenin, the oat protein itself. If that's you, ask specifically — oats are common in gluten-free baking and won't be flagged as an allergen.
• Vegan and gluten-free overlap heavily here. Zucchini Kill, Gati and Conscious Kitchen are all both, which is convenient if you're feeding a mixed group.

Free: our printable gluten-free dining card in English and Spanish, four to a sheet. Useful anywhere the person baking isn't the person serving. No email required.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Which gluten-free bakeries in Austin are safe for celiacs?

Zucchini Kill, Bougie's Donuts, OMG Squee, Maaribu, Gati Cafe and Bom Bakeshop all bake in dedicated gluten-free kitchens with no wheat flour on the premises. Thai Fresh runs a separate gluten-free bakery inside its restaurant. All seven are safe to order from without a conversation.

Why does a dedicated kitchen matter more at a bakery than a restaurant?

Because flour is airborne. A restaurant's cross-contact risks — shared fryers, shared surfaces — can be managed with separate equipment and clean gloves. Flour dust cannot be managed the same way; it drifts and settles across the whole room. A gluten-free item from a conventional bakery carries more risk than a gluten-free dish from a conventional restaurant.

Where can I order a gluten-free custom cake in Austin?

Zucchini Kill, Maaribu and Gati Cafe all take custom orders from dedicated gluten-free kitchens. Zucchini Kill is also vegan and soy-free, which helps when the guest list has several restrictions. Both need advance notice.

Is Wild Wood Bakehouse still open?

No. Wild Wood Bakehouse closed in 2019 and its successor Wilder Wood has since closed too. Both still appear on aggregator lists and in older articles.

Are there gluten-free donuts in Austin?

Yes, and more than you'd expect. Bougie's Donuts is a 100% gluten-free donut shop in Sunset Valley. Bom Bakeshop makes mochi donuts at its Crestview popup, and OMG Squee makes them in East Austin. Zucchini Kill makes vegan gluten-free donuts as well.

Is anywhere in Austin both gluten-free and vegan?

Zucchini Kill is dedicated gluten-free, vegan and soy-free. Gati Cafe's bakery is 100% gluten-free and mostly vegan, with coconut-milk ice cream. Conscious Kitchen in West Lake Hills is organic, raw, plant-based and gluten-free.

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Last Updated: September 5, 2026
Small bakeries open, move and close faster than most directories keep up with. This page is checked and corrected as things change.