The 2025 Edition of NJ’s Best Allergen-Free Bakeries is written by Vinny Parisi.
New Jersey is home to many amazing bakeries offering delicious cakes, pies, cookies, and pastries. But for those with a serious allergy or dietary restriction, it’s tough finding a safe place to purchase baked goods. That’s why Best of New Jersey curates an annual list of NJ’s Best Allergen-Free Bakeries. Keep reading to find our 15 favorite spots for 2025.
These locations feature lots of yummy options that both kids and adults will love. But the best part is all of these spots specialize in at least one type of allergen-free baking. So families looking to avoid peanuts, tree nuts, soy, gluten, dairy, and other common allergens can find safe treats.
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North Jersey
Featured from Morris County:
Defying Gravitea
Safe For: Gluten-Free / Dairy Free
Where: 211 Newark Pompton Turnpike, Pequannock
Details: At Defying Gravitea, every visit celebrates flavor, community, and inclusivity. Founded by Gina Cassese, this welcoming café and bakery serves as a haven for guests with diverse dietary needs. Known for its gluten-free, dairy-free, and vegan options, Defying Gravitea offers an inventive menu using naturally-unprocessed ingredients. This includes six staple scone flavors alongside rotating seasonal varieties, plus a selection of brownies, cupcakes, wedding cookies, and cannoli. Complementing these treats are the café’s proprietary organic tea blends and espresso beverages, thoughtfully designed to enhance each handcrafted pastry. Gina’s vision is to balance culinary tradition and modern creativity, ensuring customers can enjoy indulgent, lifestyle-friendly dining without compromise. The cafe and take-home destination offers something for every occasion; from dining in with a fresh pastry and tea to brunch with friends, to bringing home baked treats to share around the family table.
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Bradley Bake Shop
Safe For: Gluten-Free
Where: Bogota
Details: Bradley Bake Shop is a one-stop-shop for allergen-free cakes. As she says, Owner Eleanor Bradley doesn’t make gluten-free treats, she makes treats that happen to be gluten-free. Her assortment of 6″ cakes and cupcakes include dairy-free, vegan, keto, sugar-free, and gluten-free options. Besides cakes, she sells banana pudding, brownies, butter milk biscuits, cheesecakes, cookies, corn muffins, empanadas, pies, ice cream, and more. Eleanor ships nationwide, and offers pickup from her shop as well.
Isaura Bakery
Safe For: Gluten-Free + Peanut-Free
Where: Hawthorne
Details: Isaura Bakery is gluten-, peanut-, and nut-free. They also have a number of dairy-free products to round out the menu. The bakery uses the highest-quality natural and organic ingredients to create gourmet treats in small batches. In particular, their fan-favorite breads — most of which are gluten-free and vegan — are delicious. This includes french and sourdough rolls, as well as blueberry, everything, and cinnamon raisin bagels. Of course, their selection of custom specialty cakes (including Death by Chocolate) are equally popular.
Mo’Pweeze Bakery
Safe For: No Cross Contamination of Top 10 Allergens
Where: Rockaway
Details: This small, family-owned bakery makes kosher, vegan concoctions free of animal products and the top ten main allergens. They can even craft custom treats to accommodate additional dietary preferences. The name comes from the owner’s child, Maddox. After tasting his first allergen-free treat, he said “Mo, pweeze!” (meaning “More please!”) Mo’Pweeze has cupcakes, cakes, cookies, brookies (our favorite!), breads, muffins, pies, and more. Guests can stop in for a treat or order online and take advantage of nationwide shipping.
Starseed Bakery
Safe For: Gluten-Free / Dairy Free / Soy Free
Where: Rockaway
Details: In addition to being gluten-, dairy-, soy-, and GMO-free, Starseed Bakery is a peanut-free facility. They also offer a selection of vegan, paleo, and sugar-free treats. As a result, Starseed can basically handle any food allergy. Their menu includes breads, bagels, muffins, cakes, cupcakes, pies, cookies, brownies, brookies, and seasonal and holiday options. (This includes custom Gluten-Free cakes for special occasions.) They offer online ordering for pickup or shipping, and are always stocked with plenty of treats for walk-ins.
Sweet Avenue Bake Shop
Safe For: Dairy-Free / Vegan
Where: Rutherford
Details: Though Sweet Avenue avoids using nuts, they cannot claim to be 100% nut-free. This is because some of their raw ingredients are processed in a facility that also processes nuts. But they can guarantee their products are vegan and dairy-free. They also offer gluten-free and soy-free treats, all made with separate bowls and spatulas to avoid cross contamination. Cakes, cupcakes, cake truffles, and cookies are their most popular specialty items, and they offer a wide array of flavors. We also recommend their custom candies and chocolates.
Taste Buddy
Safe For: Gluten-Free
Where: Short Hills
Details: Taste Buddy is a 100% gluten-free store with everything baked freshly in-house. Their drink options include juices, smoothies, coffee, and tea. Owners Angie and Alexa delight patrons with Celiac disease thanks to their assortment of breads and pastries. The menu features focaccia, baguettes, scones, pies, cake pops, cupcakes, cake, cookies, brownies, and bars. They offer vegan baked goods as well. Their fresh and hot-out-of-the-oven breads are a big hit with patrons. Our favorite item? The Challah Bread Pudding.
The Little Daisy Bake Shop
Safe For: Peanut- and Tree Nut-Free
Where: Montclair
Details: Everything at The Little Daisy is baked from scratch. The menu features a mix of year-round and seasonal cupcakes, cookies, bars, and Daisy Dips (cake pops). Seasonal cupcakes include lemon, funfetti, and peppermint, while limited time cookies range from Ginger Molasses to Triple Chocolate. Their scones are also a big hit, baked fresh daily in flavors like butterscotch, chocolate chip, lemon poppy, and more. It’s impossible to recommend just one thing, so we’re picking two: The Oreo Bars and Snickerdoodle cookies.
Central Jersey
Featured from Union County:
Two Fields Bakeshop
Safe For: Gluten-Free / Nut-Free / Dairy-Free / Sesame-Free
Where: 528 Springfield Ave, Berkeley Heights
Details: Customers count on Two Fields Bakeshop for custom cakes, wholesale baked goods, and online ordering for allergen-free treats. As a second generation French-trained pastry chef and previous NYC Paramedic, Chef Nick Nikolopoulos knows the dangers of anaphylaxis. His children also have food allergies, which inspired him to combine his two passions. His goal is to offer a normal bakery experience to consumers with food allergies. In fact, the motto at Two Fields Bakeshop is “Peace of Mind is Always Baked Here!” They are gluten-free, peanut-free, tree nut-free, and sesame-free, with dairy-free and egg-free options too. Two Fields is even a school-safe bakeshop, perfect for birthdays. Popular items include Butter Cookies, Linzer Cookies, Lemon Bars, crumb cake, Tiramisu, Cannolis, Cannoli cake, and NY-style cheesecake. The bakery also offers a large selection of allergen-friendly cakes. This includes custom cakes for any occasion, making Two Fields perfect for parties and corporate events.
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Jersey Shore
Fable Creamery
Safe For: Gluten-Free / Vegan
Where: Red Bank
Details: This one-of-a-kind haven of sweets is New Jersey’s dedicated vegan ice cream shop and bakery. They specialize in ice cream cakes, chocolate confections, and cookies. Everything Fable Creamery makes is completely gluten-free and vegan. On top of that, they avoid using soy, gums, and artificial colors and flavors in any of their products. Standout cookies include the white chocolate macadamia nut and double chocolate sea salt. Likewise, we’re big fans of the peanut butter brownies and Maple Butter Pecan ice cream (sweetened with maple syrup).
Kizbee’s Kitchen
Safe For: Gluten-Free
Where: Egg Harbor City | Ocean City
Details: Kizbee’s is all about raising expectations for what’s possible with allergen-friendly baking. They are always 100% gluten-free, with a number of soy-free and vegan options as well. Their ultimate goal is to develop pastries that taste just as good — if not better — than their traditional counterparts. The menu changes regularly, but there is always an assortment of cupcakes, cookies, muffins, quiches, and cakes. Rotating items include cinnamon rolls, cheesecake bars, homemade pop tarts, donuts, pies, and a cake of the month.
No Whey Bake Shop
Safe For: No Cross-Contamination of Top 10 Allergens
Where: Howell
Details: No Whey avoids so many allergens, it’s a miracle they are able to bake anything at all. Specifically, their popular treats are made without using milk, gluten, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, soy, fish, eggs, shellfish, or sesame. The shop is also vegan and kosher, and avoids using any artificial colors or flavors. Besides baked goods, No Whey creates signature candies that are equally allergen-free. This includes their own, original takes on M&Ms (No No’s) and Twix Bars. We also love their tasty take on Hostess-style cupcakes with cream filling.
Papa Ganache
Safe For: Gluten-Free / Vegan
Where: Matawan
Details: If this bakery sounds familiar, their claim to fame dates back to 2013. That’s when the bakery won $10,000 by claiming the top prize in The Food Network’s popular Cupcake Wars competition. Nowadays, the small batch shop is a go-to source for gluten-free, egg-free, plant-based desserts and specialties. This includes cake pops, cheesecakes, baby mason jars, pies, tarts, specialty cakes, and of course, their signature cupcakes. They have over 15 cupcake flavors to choose from, but our favorite is the chocolate chip cookie dough.
South Jersey
GF Sweeties
Safe For: Gluten-Free / Dairy-Free / Peanut-Free / Vegan
Where: Haddon Township
Details: A dedicated gluten-free bakery, GF Sweetie’s also offers vegan, peanut-free, and dairy-free options as well. This micro bakery makes everything in small batches using premium ingredients. They offer pickup and nationwide shipping, plus a selection of sweets through their retail store inside the SoHa Arts Building. Their menu includes cakes, cinnamon rolls, cookies, cupcakes, muffins, vegan cinnamon sugar donuts, pies, mini apple cakes, and more. Cookie lovers simply have to try the Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Chip cookies.
Nola B’s Gluten Free
Safe For: Gluten-Free
Where: Bordentown
Details: The name says it all at Nola B’s, a trusted South Jersey source of gluten-free goodies. Daily menu items include assorted muffins, bars, scones, cake slices, cupcakes, biscotti, and cheesecake. On top of that, the bakery typically has daily specials ranging from cream puffs to angel food cake. Their gluten-free dinner rolls are a popular choice to take home. They also have a selection of pantry and gift items they curate from local gluten-free bakers. Our favorite seasonal special is far and away the apple cider donuts available every fall.
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NJ’s Best Allergen-Free Bakeries FAQs
An “allergen‑friendly” bakery will not directly incorporate common allergens like gluten, dairy, eggs, nuts, or soy in its products. But they may share the same equipment and production areas where allergens are present. “Allergen-Free” bakeries, however, ensure there is no cross-contamination and are completely safe for those with serious allergies.
Mo’Pweeze Bakery in Rockaway and No Whey Bake Shop in Howell guarantee no cross‑contamination of the top 10 allergens. Meanwhile, Starseed Bakery in Rockaway avoids gluten, dairy, soy, and peanuts (and offers vegan, paleo, and sugar‑free treats).
Taste Buddy in Short Hills is 100% gluten‑free and bakes breads, focaccia, cupcakes, and pies fresh daily. Kizbee’s Kitchen in Egg Harbor City and Ocean City is also fully gluten‑free. Their menu features cupcakes, muffins, homemade pop tarts, and donuts that rival traditional pastries.
Yes! Bradley Bake Shop in Bogota specializes in custom gluten‑free cakes. (They also offer dairy‑free, vegan, keto, and sugar‑free options.) Similarly, Two Fields Bakeshop in Berkeley Heights is known for wedding and corporate cakes that meet strict allergy standards.
Isaura Bakery in Hawthorne makes gluten‑, peanut‑, and nut‑free breads such as sourdough rolls and blueberry bagels. Starseed Bakery also keeps a steady stock of bagels and loaves for walk‑in customers.
Top Photo: Defying Gravitea / Website
