Shabtai Gourmet Gluten Free Review

Last week I received a package from Shabtai Gourmet, a gluten free bakery, containing several of their baked goods to review. Unfortunately these products all contained tree nuts. However, all of Shabtai's products are peanut free, gluten free, dairy free, soy free, corn free, and certified kosher. Their Florentine Lace Cookies and Bon Bons are egg free and kosher as well, both of which I had the opportunity to try. All of their products ingredients and nutrition information are available on their website at www.shabtai-gourmet.com

 

Because my son is allergic to nuts my husband and I waited till the kids went to bed before we dug in. Let me tell you, my husband was not the least bit disappointed that he didn't have to share with the kids, as desserts are his weakness!

The first night we tried the Florentine Lace Cookies, which ended up being my favorite out of all the goodies we tried. I love almond roca and this is the closest thing Ive had to it since we became a nut free home when my son was diagnosed with his allergy over two years ago. Gluten free, dairy free, peanut free, soy free, corn free, and awesome! Oh, and my husband enjoyed them too, but then he enjoys anything with the word cookie in it so he's a bit biased. Haha!

The following night we tried the Bon Bons. When I hear Bon Bon I think chocolate covered ice cream, but these where different. I would describe them as a thin chocolate cake like cookie, topped with creme and covered in chocolate. My husband, with his sweet tooth, liked them, but I on the other hand thought they where too sweet. They reminded me of these chocolate covered marshmallow cookies I used to get as a special treat when I was younger. And let me just warn you, the packaging is less then ideal on these ones and they are very messy!

Finally my husband and I tried the Swiss Chocolate Roll, a chocolate sponge cake rolled up with creme and covered in dark chocolate. This is also gluten free, dairy free, peanut free, soy free, corn free, and certified kosher. Again this was a little on the sweet side for me, but though a little dry my husband liked this as well. I think he hit the nail on the head when he said, "they taste like a Ding Dong".

I also received their Raspberry Roll, a sponge cake rolled up with raspberry jam and covered in coconut. This looked so good, but I unfortunately can't stand coconut so my husband, who works part time with a catering company, brought this in for the owner and another chef to try. Apparently I missed out on this one, they all agreed that the raspberry roll was awesome!

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