Everything in the case is gluten‑free.
Our whole kitchen is celiac-safe, with vegan options every day, and almost any custom cake options you can imagine.
Tuesday – Sunday, 8am – 4pm
Why we bake this way
For everyone who’s used to asking first.
Ridgway trained in kitchens and hospitality long before she thought about opening a bakery. What tipped it was closer to home. Her youngest can’t eat dairy or egg, and finding a bakery that could just say yes turned out to be almost impossible.
So we built this one back to front. The whole kitchen is gluten-free, which means no shared fryer, no dusted bench and none of that “it should be fine” hedging. Vegan and dairy-free sit right there in the case with everything else, and plenty of it is Alpha-Gal safe too.
As for the name: “Blue Bear” was her stepdaughter’s safe word when she was small. It stuck as a nickname, and eventually it went up above the door.
Signatures
The ones people keep coming back for.
Crumb Cake
Her mother’s recipe, and the thing we are best known for. The base never changes; what goes on top does — a different one is the daily special most mornings.
Cannolis
Three mini or one large, depending on what the day allows. Filled so the shell stays crisp, and finished differently depending on what we are in the mood for.
Cupcakes
Carrot, cookie dough, triple chocolate, chocolate peanut butter — and, when someone asks for it, decorated into something that is not a cupcake at all.
Mini Cream Pies
One person, one pie. Lemon and chocolate peanut butter cup are the constants, with a rotating special alongside them.
How we keep it safe
The important part, minus the jargon.
If you’ve got celiac disease or a serious allergy, you already know what to ask. So here are the answers before you have to.
Dedicated kitchen
The whole place is gluten-free. There’s no wheat flour on the premises at all, so there’s no shared equipment and no cross-contact to manage in the first place.
Vegan & dairy-free
They’re baked in the same gluten-free kitchen and sit in the same case as everything else. Ask at the counter and we’ll tell you exactly what you’re looking at.
Alpha-Gal safe options
We keep items that are safe for Alpha-Gal syndrome. Hardly any bakeries stock for it, so please do ask — we’re glad when people do.
Custom cakes
Birthdays, weddings and everything in between, built to the same standard and around whatever combination of restrictions your table actually has.
“I love accommodating people’s needs — and seeing them so excited to find things they can enjoy.”
From the case
Lately, out of the oven.
Kind words