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Swirlz Cupcakes In Chicago - Incredible

sloant

By sloant
in Gluten-Free Restaurants

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sloant Newbie
sloant
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This is my first post on celiac.com. I felt compelled to register and post after experiencing the red velvet gluten-free cupcakes at Swirlz in Chicago yesterday.

I was diagnosed with DH back in October and have been more or less gluten-free since then. I now make my own bread, drink RedBridge beer, take my Tamari when I get sushi, etc. However, the one thing I really, really missed from the gluten world was cupcakes.

Yesterday I happened to hear that Swirlz in Chicago makes gluten-free cupcakes. I went by to try it out and found they were offering red velvet gluten-free cupcakes for the first time. I took my first bite of their gluten-free RV cake and almost cried. It is so good I asked the person behind the counter TWICE if she hadn't given me a normal RV cake by mistake. No, she assured me, the cupcake I was eating was gluten-free. Oh wow. Just incredible. In fact, I'm almost tearing up as I type this. They are that good.

Anyway, just wanted to get the word out for any other cupcake lovers out there that you have to get to Swirlz at Belden and Lincoln in Chicago. Just incredible.

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hlm34 Apprentice
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I actually tried the gluten-free cupcakes at Swirlz last summer. They were horrible - i ended up throwing them away. However, i just had one again (someone at work got me one) it was the grasshopper and it was delicious. I also tried another chocolate flavor which was great. i think they must have changed their recipe or something since last summer because it was great. I will definitely stop by there again sometime.

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Please keep the Chicago gluten-free places coming! My family wants to go to "The Taste" as usual this July so, I have been writing down some new restaurants that my be represented.

steveindenver Contributor
steveindenver
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I was there in December, and while the cake itself was good, the icing was bad. Too much crisco, not enough sugar. They needed to make them with true buttercream frosting. And the cake itself wasn't flavored, it was the icing. So the lemon cupcake was yellow cake with lemon icing. A drop of lemon oil in the batter would have been best.

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GlutenFree-Amy Newbie
GlutenFree-Amy
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I certainly plan on trying them when we're up in a few weeks!

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Katester Enthusiast
Katester
Posted

I'm going downtown tomorrow and definitely plan on stopping in. Thanks for posting!!! Any other great gluten-free places to eat in Chicago?

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