Springtime SPECIALS

Our spring-time desserts include Vegan Strawberry Cupcakes, made with strawberry cake, bright strawberry jam filling, and a pink strawberry frosting. We are also making a beautiful Vanilla Raspberry Mascarpone cake filled with light and creamy raspberry mascarpone and decorated in silky vanilla buttercream. In addition, we're happy to fill just about any special cake order, including carrot cake, rich chocolate ganache cake, and more! Visit our desserts page for more information about special order flavors. Call the bakery to place your order today!

retail shop hours

Our retail shop is now open 7 days a week! Our new springtime hours are Sunday - Thursday 7am - 4pm, Friday & Saturday 7am - 5pm.

Our bright and airy shop is a great place to try our pastries and desserts along with a cup of Water Avenue Coffee or Jasmine Pearl Tea. We always have a variety of cakes, donuts, cookies, pretzels, quiche, and more in our case!

We are happy to accommodate most special order requests -- even when our retail shop is closed! Visit our Contact page to find out how to place a special order, ask us question, or discover where you can find our pastries around town.

About GEM

Gluten Free Gem is an independent, family run bakery located in Portland’s Lloyd District. Owners Anne and Mike Miller started baking gluten free at CCP Gluten Free Bakeshop in 2006 when their daughter was diagnosed with Celiac Disease. By April of 2011, the bakery had outgrown its SW Corbett location and moved to N. Hancock St. With this move came a name change, to celebrate the original Gems: Anne and Mike’s daughters Greta and Emma Miller.

In 2017 the bakery moved again, to 140 NE Broadway St., to make room for a larger production facility and a retail shop. Stop by the shop to sample our tasty treats, made for everyone!

The bakery is a GFCO Certified bakery, to eliminate any risk of cross-contamination. As part of this certification we do extensive ingredient research to ensure that everything we use, as well as our facility, is clean of gluten. In addition to our gluten awareness, we also train all our employees about the risk of cross-contamination from other allergens. We are continually educating ourselves on new research and information regarding Celiac Disease, gluten-intolerance, and gluten-free baking. We take the potential health risks of gluten contamination as seriously as the need for our pastries to taste delicious.

Over the last ten years, our understanding of eating and baking gluten-free has grown immensely, and so has our menu. We plan on continuing to develop new gluten-free products that help to change the perception of what gluten-free baking can be, all the while maintaining our 100% gluten-free facility, where everything is delicious and safe to eat.

Pastries

Our bakery is a dedicated and certified GFCO facility, which eliminates any risk of cross-contamination. We have researched ingredients to ensure that they are gluten free and continue to educate ourselves on new research and information regarding celiac disease and gluten intolerance. We take the potential health risks of cross contamination as seriously as the need for our pastries and desserts to taste delicious.

Our items below rotate seasonally; here is our current menu. The pastries in our shop rotate daily, please call in advance to see if we have what you are looking for. All special orders need to be placed two days in advance by noon. To place your order please call the bakery directly during normal business hours.

For product nutritional information click here.

Select items are available fresh at our bakery location. Click here for a complete list of other locations that are currently selling our products.

Desserts

All special orders must be placed two days in advance by noon. Custom decorations are available for cakes, cupcakes, and cheesecakes. Please call the bakery during normal business hours to place an order.

We offer a wide variety of filling and frosting flavors for our cakes and cupcakes. Flavors can be mixed and matched to create the perfect cake for your event.

Popular Cake and Cupcake Flavors:

Vanilla Raspberry Mascarpone: A three layer vanilla cake filled with creamy raspberry mascarpone mousse, decorated in silky vanilla buttercream.

Tiramisu Cake: Three layers of vanilla cake are soaked in cold brew coffee, filled with sweet mascarpone, and dusted with a traditional cocoa powder. This cake is extra moist and decadent!

Vegan Chocolate & Coconut Caramel Cake: Vegan chocolate cake filled with creamy coconut caramel and rich chocolate ganache, decorated with fudgy chocolate frosting.

Build Your Own

Choose your own cake, fillings, and frosting to make a cake or cupcakes unique to your event.

Cake Flavors: Banana*, Carrot*, Chocolate*, Chocolate Espresso*, Coconut*, Hummingbird, Lemon*, Red Velvet*, Spice Cake*, White Chocolate, and Vanilla*

Cake Fillings: Apple Spice*, Blueberry Jam*, Chocolate Ganache, Coconut Caramel*, Coconut Ganache*, Cream Cheese Mousse, German Chocolate Custard*, Lemon Curd, Raspberry Jam*, Raspberry Mascarpone Mousse, Strawberry Jam* or a Buttercream of your choice.

Cake Frostings: Chocolate*, Chocolate Ganache, Coconut Ganache*, Cream Cheese*, Coconut*, Lemon*, Salted Caramel, Vanilla*, and White Chocolate

*Vegan option available

All orders must be placed two days in advance by noon.

We also make wedding and special occasion cakes, visit our Weddings page for more details.

Wedding Cakes

Our decorators love working with couples to make cakes that fit any wedding celebration, large and small. We are more than happy to accommodate most flavor and allergen requests. For a complete list of cake flavor options, please visit our desserts page.

We are well versed in a wide range of decorating styles and techniques in buttercream and fondant. Our decorators will work with you to create a cake that fits your personal story or theme to make your day extra special.

Prices vary depending on the level of detail and flavor combinations. Please contact the bakery for more information and pricing. 

Delivery
Delivery and set up within 5 miles of the bakery is $50. Add $1 for each additional mile.

Payment
A 50% non-refundable deposit is due upon placing your order.
The remaining 50% and delivery fee are due 2 weeks before the event.

Tastings
Tastings are $25 to sample three flavor combinations of your choice. The tasting fee will be applied to your order of $150 or more.

Placing an Order
Fill out the form below or contact the bakery to speak with a wedding cake decorator regarding the details of your order.

Weddings