Why Good Gluten-Free Desserts Are Worth Finding
Eating gluten-free shouldn't mean settling for dry, bland desserts. Maybe you eat keto, maybe you have celiac disease, maybe you're cutting back on sugar. Either way, a gluten-free cookie should still taste like a cookie. In Texas, where barbecue and sweet tea rule, a good gluten-free treat can be hard to find. We started ChipMonk to make one.
Most people who cut gluten do it for a real reason, whether that's celiac disease or a sensitivity. And plenty of people eating low-carb or keto are cutting sugar too, which takes most bakery items off the table.
Regular desserts are heavy on sugar and refined flour, so they tend to leave you hungry and wanting more a little later. Gluten-free desserts made for a low-carb diet use different sweeteners and flours, so you can have a treat without the sugar.
There's also the plain pleasure of it. When a gluten-free dessert actually tastes good, you stop feeling like you're missing out.
The Trouble With Traditional Bakeries
Texas bakeries are built on butter, sugar and wheat flour. Gluten-free items, if a bakery has them at all, are usually an afterthought: a short list, kept apart from everything else, and often still full of sugar.
Even when a bakery tries, gluten-free baking is hard to get right. Without the right recipe, the results come out gritty, dense or crumbly, and many bakers add more sugar to cover it. That doesn't help if you're keto or watching sugar.
There's also the logistics. Gluten-free items can sell out before you get there, and a shared kitchen raises the question of cross-contact if you have celiac disease.
Most of all, gluten-free isn't what a traditional bakery is built for. Their skill is elsewhere, and it shows.
What Makes a Gluten-Free Bakery Stand Out
A few things separate a good gluten-free bakery from the rest, wherever you buy.
The recipes come first. Good gluten-free baking means knowing how alternative flours behave and how to give a cookie structure without gluten. That takes practice.
Ingredients matter more than in regular baking. Sugar covers a lot of sins in a conventional cookie. Without it, real vanilla, good cocoa and the right sweetener make the difference.
Clear nutrition information matters too. If you count carbs, you need the facts and the ingredient list for every product.
A good bakery stands behind what it sells. If something isn't right, it's easy to get your money back.
And it should be easy to buy from: simple online ordering and clear shipping terms.
How We Do It
We built ChipMonk on a simple idea: a gluten-free dessert shouldn't feel like a compromise.
Every keto cookie and brownie we make is meant for people eating low-carb or keto. Everything is made with almond flour and coconut flour and sweetened with allulose and monk fruit. Our keto cookies have no sugar alcohols and no erythritol.
Everything is made in our own dedicated gluten-free bakery in Texas, where gluten-containing ingredients aren't allowed. So there's no shared kitchen with wheat to worry about.
We put the ingredients and nutrition for every product on our site, and we explain why we use the sweeteners we do. If you have a question, email us and we'll answer it.
We also back it up with a money-back guarantee, and orders over $60 ship free.
Our Keto Cookies and Brownies
Our keto cookies come in Chocolate Chip Pecan, White Chocolate Macadamia, Peanut Butter, Lemon Poppyseed, Snickerdoodle and Coconut, plus a vegan Chocolate Chip made with coconut oil, chia and flax instead of egg and butter. They run 1 to 4 g net carbs depending on the flavor.
We also make keto brownies. A regular brownie gets its richness from sugar. Without it, the work falls to the cocoa and the fat, and that balance is what we bake for.
Each flavor gets its own recipe, because a chocolate chip cookie needs different moisture and binding than a peanut butter one.
Baking Mixes for Your Own Kitchen
Some people would rather bake. Our home baking mixes are for you.
Our keto cookie mixes come in Chocolate ChipMonk, Cinnamon Snickerdoodle and Lemon Poppyseed. The dry ingredients are already measured. You add butter, an egg and extract (it varies by flavor), then bake for 10 to 15 minutes. Each bag makes 20 medium-sized cookies.
That means you don't need gluten-free baking experience to get a good batch. The ratios are already worked out.
For your own recipes, AlluMonk, our allulose and monk fruit sweetener, measures 1:1 for sugar.
Nutrition for a Low-Carb Diet
We bake with a keto diet in mind, because that's where the carbs get tight.
We count net carbs as total carbs minus fiber minus allulose. On that math, our cookies are 1 to 4 g net carbs depending on flavor.
Allulose is a rare sugar found in small amounts in figs, raisins and maple syrup. Your body doesn't metabolize it like table sugar, so it has an insignificant effect on blood sugar and insulin. Monk fruit sweetener has zero calories.
The full nutrition information for every product, including ingredients and allergens, is on our nutrition page. All our cookies are made with almond flour, most flavors contain egg and milk, and our facility also processes peanuts, tree nuts, milk, eggs and soy.
Our 100% Money-Back Guarantee
Specialty food costs more than the regular kind, and trying a brand you don't know is a risk.
Our 100% money-back guarantee takes that risk off you. If your order isn't right for any reason, email us at info@chipmonkbaking.com and we'll refund you.
Shipping, in Texas and Beyond
We bake in Texas and ship anywhere in the U.S. Shipping is free on orders over $60, and it applies automatically at checkout.
Our cookies keep 6 to 8 months in the package, and we recommend the fridge.
If You Have Celiac Disease
If you have celiac disease, the hard part of any bakery is cross-contact. That's why everything we make comes out of a dedicated gluten-free bakery where gluten-containing ingredients aren't allowed.
Being able to order gluten-free desserts online also means you don't have to search store shelves hoping something safe is there.
Getting Started
Browse our cookie and brownie collections and pick two or three things that sound good. If you're new to us, start with something ready-made before you try a baking mix.
Check our complete nutrition information to see how each product fits your carbs, and look at the allergen list. If it's not right for you, our money-back guarantee has you covered.
