Gluten-Free: Bittersweet Shop & Birthday Cake!

Liberty turned two yesterday. Her birthday party was on Sunday the 19th; incidentally, my mother's actual birthday.  All the specialness made it imperative to get the absolute best gluten-free cake I could find.  A possibly excessive amount of research narrowed this down to two options from an initial shortlist of five.  Bittersweet, located conveniently inside an office park in Woburn, utterly blew away the competition in the finals.

Oh yes.

Of primary importance was to have a truly gluten-free cake.  Although Bittersweet does serve glutenous food, they have a regular gluten-free menu consisting of pastries, scones, pies, cupcakes, cookies, tarts, signature cakes, lunch specials that can all be made gf and of course custom-designed special order cupcakes & cakes.  It was explained to me in detail how the store has separate regular & gf kitchens with equipment exclusive to that kitchen, exactly like a kosher kitchen would have.  Gluten-free foods are created first in the morning for extra steps to avoid cross-contamination.  As an added bonus, no artificial flavors or preservatives are used in any of their products.  Leftover cake does need to go into the freezer, not in the fridge!

I know gluten-free food extremely well... but other than making simple wheatless ones at home, I'm a cake idiot.