If you’re looking for a perfect gift for a chocolate lover on a gluten-free diet, you can find it at Wooden Table Baking Co.
Wooden Table Baking Co. offers a wide variety of cookies, barks, and confections influenced by Argentinian recipes and raised to an art form.
Some are minimally sweet while others are more traditionally sweet.
While I sampled many of their offerings, I would encourage you to look at the website as you will be tantalized by their innovative products.
This cornucopia of delights is created by owner and head baker Andrés Ozzuna, who grew up outside of Buenos Aires and learned to cook from their grandmother.
Let’s start with four varieties of their gluten free, low sugar (3 grams per cookie), chocolate-dipped cookies. Each attractive window box houses seven cookies. They feature mostly non-GMO ingredients, real flavorings from essential oils and spices, and no fake sugars.
The four varieties I tried were: lavendervchocolate, mint chocolate, orange chocolate, and chai chocolate.
Each delicious, crunchy, fresh cookie is coated in 64% dark chocolate and full of flavor. I was partial to the Chai and Orange ones.
These would make a great gift for someone on a gluten free diet.
Wooden Table Baking Co. makes a number of chocolate barks. I tried the Ginger Walnut with dark chocolate and the Peppermint with white and dark chocolate.
A thick slab of 64% dark chocolate Ginger Walnut bark had crunchy nuts both inside and on top. Here, the ginger was a supporting actor, not the main character. There was just enough ginger to amp up the flavor without taking center stage.
The Peppermint bark is your classic confection: a base of dark chocolate topped with a layer of white chocolate and adorned with with crushed peppermint candy.
If you like hot chocolate and want it ASAP, try their Hot Chocolate Stirrers. They come in a variety of flavors: cinnamon, peppermint, and cayenne. Just stir into hot milk and voilà!
I had never had a confection like their Conitos, large mounds of dark chocolate housing a handmade chocolate shortbread cookie, topped with creamy Dulce de Leche. An amazing combination of textures and flavors.
I had heard of Alfajores, but had never tried them. Apparently, they originated in Moorish Spain and later migrated to South America. Each alfajor starts with two buttery shortbread cookies joined together with soft, creamy Dulce de Leche, and covered in dark chocolate. Decadent and satisfying, one cookie is a complete desert.
All products from Wooden Table Baking Co. would make wonderful gifts for yourself or someone else. You can find the full menu here: http://www.woodentablebaking.com
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