Meet Gabi H. | Allergy Friendly Baker

We had the good fortune of connecting with Gabi H. and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Gabi, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?
In Oct 2020, I was renting a room and my landlord Tracy was gluten free. She informed me that she missed all the pleasures and good things that came from eating gluten but could not due to allergies.

She had told me that she wished she could have things that normal people could have but without the guilt that if she ate it, that she would be stuck in the bathroom very ill and in discomfort.

So I started dabbling with anything I could get my hands on baking wise. I started by getting cup to cup gluten free flour and I started baking so much to experience many different type of gluten free recipes, I could either come up with or find a base recipe and modify them to make them custom to me. I also cooked various gluten free dishes and she soon realized being gluten free wasn’t a curse if you knew the right people.

During that time, her parents were my first client, that bought banana bread and I had a crushing experience that if you make banana bread they must be brown and better if almost black for the perfect banana bread. Do not make banana bread if you they are not from ripe bananas.

This experience has definitely been a curve ball for me. Then in 2021, I moved to Northern Colorado. The neighbors I had where vegan so I decided to dabble in vegan baking. I soon began baking and modifying recipes to make them allergy friendly. So if a person was allergic to something, I would modify the recipe so they could still have something in which could be enjoyed but they would not have a deadly reaction.

I do bake under Colorado Cottage Laws and my baking business is Bridlepath Bakery. All my clients are word of mouth or people I have met through finding they have allergies or that they deal with gluten intolerant and is simply unable to enjoy.

I soon realized that there was a need for this type of baking and so that is how Bridlepath Bakery came about. I specialize in pound cakes, muffins, cookies, and quick breads.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
I am a self taught baker. I only have gluten free and vegan flours in my home kitchen. I work directly with clients and I am different from others as I bake in small batches and often specific to the client. I work with each client to bake them something they can have and take out the ingredients they cant have.

I would like the world to know that my kids are my animals. I have two dogs and a horse. I have autism and a service dog.

Lessons are do not have unlimited orders per week, I now limit myself to 5 orders per week, otherwise I get overwhelmed.

I am a cash only business..

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
The Farmers Market in Fort Collins, there is also the Winters Market that is located at Foothills Mall and another place I would love to take them would be mishawaka cafe up in the poudre canyon. They must go for the drive, stay for the friendly staff and delicious food. Old town Fort Collins

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
A huge shout-out would be to https://www.vindeketfoods.org/, I try every week to find something within there location and then turn it into a baked good that is then donated to someone in need or given to service workers or someone who needs a little pick me up..

Website: https://www.instagram.com/Bridlepathbakery/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Bridlepathbakery/

Image Credits
All taken by me, no photo credits