The Dessert Detective

Gluten Free Desserts in the UK — 136 Places Mapped & Listed

136 places found

On the hunt for great gluten free desserts? We've tracked down 136 spots, from London to Northampton to Basingstoke, each independently verified. Here are the best places to find gluten free desserts right now.

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136 places
JT Scoops
Brownies
JT Scoops
London
🥗 gluten-free, nut-free, vegan
🥇 Signature Item
Filipino-inspired gluten-free brownies in flavours like Ube White Chocolate
Yolè
Ice Cream & Gelato
Yolè
London · Shoreditch
🥗 Dairy-free options
🥇 Signature Item
Zero-sugar pistachio frozen yogurt with fresh fruit — 4.8-star Shoreditch franchise of Spanish global brand; 973+ reviews; zero added sugar and zero dairy options; mango matcha latte praised; boba shakes and bubble waffles available
Heavenly Desserts Northampton
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts Northampton
Northampton · Wellingborough Road
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
White chocolate and raspberry cookie dough — gooey, warm and beautifully balanced; a dependable Northampton fixture for late-night desserts with consistently friendly service
Heavenly Desserts
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts
London · Tooting
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Waffles and sorbets until 1am — 4.5-star Tooting branch; 847+ reviews; late-night desserts open till 1am; sorbet praised as amazing; warm and attentive service
Heavenly Desserts Basingstoke
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts Basingstoke
Basingstoke · Festival Place
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Waffle — one of the better waffles across the Heavenly Desserts chain; crispy, freshly made and well presented; a solid late-night option in Festival Place shopping centre
Open Bakery
Bakeries & Pastries
Open Bakery
Brighton · Kemptown
🥗 Vegan options
🥇 Signature Item
Vegan tiramisu — decadent, creamy, rich yet light with perfect sweetness; described as the best bakery in the UK by multiple customers who have lived across the street and still think about it; Open Bakery is a Brighton institution across multiple sites
Doughnotts
Doughnuts
Doughnotts
Leicester · City Centre
🥗 Vegan options
🥇 Signature Item
Vegan doughnuts — same quality as the non-vegan versions; Doughnotts is one of the UK's best independent doughnut makers with rotating weekly flavours
Bird Brain Bakery
Bakeries & Pastries
Bird Brain Bakery
Manchester · Hazel Grove
🥗 Vegan options
🥇 Signature Item
Vegan dessert (no refined sugar)
Lallapolosa Baking Company
Bakeries & Pastries
Lallapolosa Baking Company
London · Kingston
🥗 Vegan options
🥇 Signature Item
Vegan chocolate cake — rich, moist, genuinely impressive plant-based baking from this independent Kingston bakery with a warm community atmosphere
Considerit
Bakeries & Pastries
Considerit
Edinburgh · Southside
🥗 Vegan options; Gluten-free options
🥇 Signature Item
Vegan & GF doughnuts — fluffy yeasted doughnuts with house fillings; 100% plant-based and gluten-free
Considerit
Bakeries & Pastries
Considerit
Edinburgh · Newington
🥗 Vegan options; Gluten-free options
🥇 Signature Item
Vegan & GF doughnuts — fluffy yeasted doughnuts with house fillings; 100% plant-based and gluten-free
Blondies Kitchen (Selfridges)
Cookies & Brownies
Blondies Kitchen (Selfridges)
London · Marylebone
🥗 Vegan options
🥇 Signature Item
UK's only milk-and-cookie bar — warm cookie paired with cold flavoured milk
Supermoon Bakehouse
Ice Cream & Gelato
Supermoon Bakehouse
New York · Lower East Side
🥗 Vegetarian
🥇 Signature Item
Ube eclair — vivid purple, filled with rich ube cream; one of NYC's most visually striking and delicious pastries
Levain Bakery
Bakeries & Pastries
Levain Bakery
New York · Upper West Side
🥗 Vegetarian
🥇 Signature Item
Thick, gooey chocolate chip walnut cookie — NYC institution since 1994; each cookie weighs nearly 6oz and is baked fresh throughout the day
Hey Little Cupcake!
Afternoon Tea
Hey Little Cupcake!
Manchester · Spinningfields
🥗 Vegetarian
🥇 Signature Item
Themed afternoon tea cupcakes — a full set of freshly baked cupcakes styled around a chosen theme for parties or events, with hand-piped buttercream and custom sugar toppers
The Rhubarb Shed Cafe
Afternoon Tea
The Rhubarb Shed Cafe
Sheffield
🥗 Gluten-free options
🥇 Signature Item
The Rhubarb Shed Sheffield Manor Lodge vanilla slice and afternoon tea — a vanilla slice decorated with fresh cream and berries or an award-winning afternoon tea at Sheffield Manor Lodge S2, a beloved converted barn café within the Green Estate social enterprise with a 4.9 Google rating, 3,400+ reviews and a Good Food Award 2025/26 — strawberry scones, sticky toffee pudding and an outstanding gluten-free menu
The Glutenfree Pie Company Limited
Bakeries & Pastries
The Glutenfree Pie Company Limited
Liverpool
🥗 Gluten-free options
🥇 Signature Item
The Glutenfree Pie Company Liverpool gluten-free sweet pie — a quality gluten-free sweet pie or bake at Upper Hill Street L8, a quality Liverpool specialist for gluten-free baking serving the diverse Toxteth community
Floozie Cookies
Cookies & Brownies
Floozie Cookies
London · Covent Garden
🥗 Vegan options; Gluten-free options
🥇 Signature Item
Stuffed vegan cookies — fudge cookie stuffed with house compotes and ganaches; UK's first vegan stuffed cookie brand
La Dolce Vita
Ice Cream & Gelato
La Dolce Vita
London · Ruislip
🥗 Gluten-free options
🥇 Signature Item
Strawberry cheesecake and banana caramel gelato — family-run Italian gelateria on Ruislip High Street; seasonal rotating flavours; GF ice cream cones and cannoli available
Farmers Fayre at Charterhouse
Patisseries & Cakes
Farmers Fayre at Charterhouse
Coventry
🥇 Signature Item
Scones — a customer favourite
Aly's Bakery
Cheesecake
Aly's Bakery
York · Gillygate
🥗 Vegetarian
🥇 Signature Item
San Sebastian cheesecake — beautifully caramelised, super creamy, rich but not heavy; Ali and Bahar's York shop is the city's finest cheesecake destination, with whole cakes available to pre-order and consistently outstanding flavours
Heavenly Desserts
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts
Leicester · London Road
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Royal crepe — warm, crispy-edged crepe loaded with ice cream and your choice of toppings; from one of the UK's best-known dessert restaurant chains
The Village Cakery
Cookies & Brownies
The Village Cakery
Gloucester · Churchdown
🥗 Vegetarian
🥇 Signature Item
Rolo and Biscoff brownies — described as the best brownies ever tasted, with perfect texture and indulgent toppings; Noush at The Village Cakery is the most celebrated celebration cake maker in the Gloucester area
Little Blondie Bakehouse
Cookies & Brownies
Little Blondie Bakehouse
York · Walmgate
🥗 Vegetarian
🥇 Signature Item
Reese's peanut butter brookie — sooo fudgy, perfectly dense and deeply satisfying; Little Blondie is York's most celebrated sweet bakehouse with an extraordinary range of brownies, cookies, brookies and crookies all made in-house daily
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Chocolatiers
Truffle Hounds Chocolate
Exeter · Fore Street
🥗 Vegan options
🥇 Signature Item
Raspberry and chocolate custard danish — described as the best pastry ever eaten in the UK; Truffle Hounds is Exeter's most surprising destination — a vegan chocolatier and patisserie of exceptional quality
Heavenly Desserts
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts
London · Walthamstow
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Pistachio white chocolate waffle — 4.4-star Walthamstow Heavenly Desserts; 1,242+ reviews; recently reopened; pistachio white chocolate waffle described as the best dessert I've ever tasted
Heavenly Desserts
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts
London · Stratford
🥗 Vegan options; Gluten-free options
🥇 Signature Item
Pistachio vanilla milk cake and croffle — 4.6-star Stratford flagship; 3,305+ reviews; huge restaurant near Olympic Park; extensive gluten-free and vegan menus; pistachio milk cake and croffle (croissant-waffle) are top sellers
Nica Nica - Cannoli & More
Patisseries & Cakes
Nica Nica - Cannoli & More
Belfast
🥇 Signature Item
Pistachio spread — the most talked-about item in customer reviews
Heavenly Desserts
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts
Manchester · Cheetham Hill
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Pistachio crunch croffle — a croissant-waffle hybrid pressed until shatteringly crisp, filled with pistachio frangipane and topped with kunafa pastry, pistachio cream and honey
ARISTA
Bakeries & Pastries
ARISTA
London · Brentford
🥗 Gluten-free options
🥇 Signature Item
Pistachio croissant and honey cake — specialty coffee house at Kew Bridge; 4.9-star gem with beautifully crafted pistachio croissants and exceptional specialty coffee
Proto Artisan Bakery
Bakeries & Pastries
Proto Artisan Bakery
St Albans · City Centre
🥗 Vegetarian
🥇 Signature Item
Pistachio cinnamon roll — gloriously laminated, stuffed with pistachio cream and glazed; the standout bake at St Albans' most exciting artisan bakery
Bonvivan
Patisseries & Cakes
Bonvivan
London · Teddington
🥇 Signature Item
Pistachio cake — a customer favourite
Parsnips in the Park
Cookies & Brownies
Parsnips in the Park
London · Twickenham
🥗 Gluten-free options
🥇 Signature Item
Pecan slices and cinnamon rolls — 4.8-star park café in Radnor Gardens; described as possibly the best cookie in London; freshly baked pecan slices and perfect cinnamon rolls
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Bakeries & Pastries
Ope
Plymouth · Barbican
🥗 Vegetarian
🥇 Signature Item
Pastel de nata — reportedly the best in Plymouth, with a perfectly caramelised top and silky custard interior; Ope is an inventive micro-bakery open just three days a week in the Barbican
Patisserie Sainte Anne
Patisseries & Cakes
Patisserie Sainte Anne
London · Hammersmith
🥗 Gluten-free options
🥇 Signature Item
Passion fruit & apricot tarts and almond croissants — French patisserie on Hammersmith King Street; 4.4 stars, 745+ reviews; gluten-free options; traditional French pastry craftsmanship
Sift Cakes and Cookies
Cookies & Brownies
Sift Cakes and Cookies
New York · Financial District
🥗 Vegetarian
🥇 Signature Item
Pandan chiffon cake — light, airy and perfectly balanced with real pandan; NYC's only Malaysian-style artisan bakery, in a charming FiDi spot with some of the best espresso in the neighbourhood
Flapjackery Bath New Bond St
Cheesecake
Flapjackery Bath New Bond St
Bath
🥗 Vegan options; Gluten-free options
🥇 Signature Item
Original flapjack — a thick, chewy slab of oat flapjack made with butter, golden syrup and a pinch of salt, the simple recipe that built this Bath institution's reputation
By Anna
Cookies & Brownies
By Anna
London · Cheam
🥗 Gluten-free options
🥇 Signature Item
NYC cinnamon bun cookie and celiac-safe GF bakes — 4.8-star Cheam cookie and cake boutique; NYC cinnamon bun cookie described as life-ruiningly good; celiac-safe GF range made in separate premises; iced matcha also praised
The Cakery
Bakeries & Pastries
The Cakery
London · Woolwich
🥗 Vegan options; Gluten-free options; Nu…
🥇 Signature Item
Nut-free gluten-free vegan cakes and custom birthday cakes — 4.3-star Woolwich cake shop; entirely nut-free and vegan-friendly; described as the best cake ever by a parent with a child who has nut allergies
Heavenly Desserts
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts
London · Beckton
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Mochi, macarons and rose latte — 4.4-star Beckton Gallions Reach branch; 1,170+ reviews; table-side digital ordering; cannoli and tarts praised; described as feeling like you're truly in heaven
Pastisseria Takashi Ochiai
Patisseries & Cakes
Pastisseria Takashi Ochiai
Barcelona · Eixample
🥗 Vegetarian
🥇 Signature Item
Matcha croissant — a perfectly laminated croissant filled with rich matcha cream; from Barcelona's pioneering Japanese-Catalan patisserie open since 1983, decades before the matcha craze hit Europe
Sakurado Japanese Patisserie
Patisseries & Cakes
Sakurado Japanese Patisserie
Epsom · Town Centre
🥗 Vegetarian
🥇 Signature Item
Matcha and tiramisu cakes — low-sugar, refined Japanese patisserie with London quality hidden inside Epsom's Spread Eagle shopping arcade
The English Rose Bakery
Bakeries & Pastries
The English Rose Bakery
Manchester · Urmston
🥗 Vegetarian
🥇 Signature Item
Macaron tower — a stacked display of French-style macarons in seasonal flavours, made to order as a centrepiece or sold individually from a rotating flavour menu
Heavenly Desserts Peterborough
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts Peterborough
Peterborough · City Centre
🥗 Vegan options
🥇 Signature Item
Lotus milk cake — divine, subtly spiced and perfectly portioned; this well-run Peterborough branch has built a devoted following with 3,000+ reviews and a notably attentive team
Humbledough
Cookies & Brownies
Humbledough
London · Victoria
🥗 Vegan options; Egg-free options
🥇 Signature Item
London's first plant-based cookie dough shop — egg-free raw dough safe to eat; freeze-dried fruit as sweetener
Heavenly Desserts Slough
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts Slough
Slough · High Street
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Loaded waffle — crispy, airy and generously topped; Slough's Heavenly Desserts has impressed with its tablet ordering system, clean interior and consistent quality
Heavenly Desserts
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts
Leeds · Headingley
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Loaded Belgian waffles with gelato — premium dessert café chain; white choc cookie dough is a bestseller
Heavenly Desserts
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts
London · Ealing
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Loaded Belgian waffles with gelato — premium dessert café chain; white choc cookie dough is a bestseller
Heavenly Desserts
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts
Birmingham · City Centre
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Loaded Belgian waffles with gelato — premium dessert café chain; white choc cookie dough is a bestseller
Heavenly Desserts
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts
Liverpool · Liverpool ONE
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Loaded Belgian waffles with gelato — premium dessert café chain; white choc cookie dough is a bestseller
Heavenly Desserts Manchester
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts Manchester
Manchester · Rusholme
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Loaded Belgian waffle with ice cream — Heavenly Desserts is a Rusholme Curry Mile institution, one of Manchester's most popular dessert destinations
Science Cream
Ice Cream & Gelato
Science Cream
Cardiff · Castle Arcade
🥗 Vegan options
🥇 Signature Item
Liquid nitrogen ice cream — Wales' first nitro ice cream lab; smoothest possible texture, theatrical nitrogen cloud
N2 Sweet Lab
Chocolatiers
N2 Sweet Lab
Maidstone · King Street
🥗 Vegetarian
🥇 Signature Item
Honey cake — described as the best in the area, with deeply rich flavour and flawless execution; N2 is also celebrated for hands-on chocolate tasting and truffle-making workshops
Heavenly Desserts Walthamstow
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts Walthamstow
London
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Heavenly Desserts Walthamstow cookie dough skillet — a warm bubbling cookie dough skillet at Hoe Street E17 Walthamstow, a theatrical sweet experience for East London's vibrant Walthamstow community
Heavenly Desserts Walsall
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts Walsall
Walsall
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Heavenly Desserts Walsall cookie dough skillet — a warm bubbling cookie dough skillet at Pleck Road WS2 Walsall, a theatrical dessert experience for West Midlands' vibrant Walsall community
Heavenly Desserts Sutton Coldfield
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts Sutton Coldfield
Birmingham
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Heavenly Desserts Sutton Coldfield cookie dough skillet — a warm bubbling cookie dough skillet at Birmingham Road B72 Sutton Coldfield, Heavenly Desserts' theatrical experience for this affluent North Birmingham town
Heavenly Desserts Stratford
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts Stratford
London
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Heavenly Desserts Stratford cookie dough skillet — a warm bubbling cookie dough skillet at Endeavour Square Stratford Cross E20, a theatrical sweet destination for the Olympic Park and East Village community
Heavenly Desserts Shirley
Ice Cream & Gelato
Heavenly Desserts Shirley
Solihull
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Heavenly Desserts Shirley Solihull cookie dough skillet — a warm bubbling cookie dough skillet at Parkgate Stratford Road B90 Shirley Solihull, Heavenly Desserts' theatrical experience for this affluent Birmingham suburb
Heavenly Desserts
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts
Sheffield
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Heavenly Desserts Sheffield Division Street cookie dough skillet — a warm bubbling cookie dough skillet at Division Street S1, Heavenly Desserts' theatrical experience in the heart of Sheffield city centre
Heavenly Desserts
Dessert Bars
Heavenly Desserts
Oxford
🥗 Vegetarian; Vegan options; Gluten-free…
🥇 Signature Item
Heavenly Desserts Oxford Headington London Road cookie dough skillet — a warm bubbling cookie dough skillet at London Road OX3 Headington, Heavenly Desserts' Oxford experience for the Headington and student community