Kim and Jake’s

Had my first experience with this wonderful little bakery today! With Mardi Gras coming up on Tuesday, I decided to have a little party to celebrate and desperately needed a king cake at the last minute. Not only did they fill my order for a king cake in less than 48 hours, but they had it ready exactly when I needed it, nearly down to the minute! I have NEVER had a king cake (complete with baby inside) this delicious and the best part? It was gluten free! I was so happy I got to share this little tradition with many friends of mine here in Colorado who had never heard of king cake. I will definitely be buying more from Kim and Jake’s and recommending it to anyone who asks!

Never never have I had a gluten free cake this good. Made my daughter Beth’s birthday very special as this was a day she could «have cake and eat it too!»
I’ll be back for more delicious treats

I visited Boulder recently and was SO happy to randomly find gluten free AND yeast free AND vegan buns at Whole Foods! And they were delicious! The best gluten free bread I’ve ever had — perfect texture. I don’t remember the last time I actually ate bread due to celiac and food intolerances. These 3 things together are very difficult to find. THANK YOU for making this available! I hope you can expand to Texas soon!

Gluten-​free cuppers that peel off insane combinations you fear, but want to get cuds in the club with. Like that bad girl in high school. The one with, like, seven slap bracelets on her arm. The pain she endured to get that look…
The Hummingbird (a variety Baked in Cohasset turned me on to) is a moist, spiced sponge with niblets of banana, pineapple and pecans under cream cheese frosting. There’s a constant cupcake battle around the size/​price ratio, and being one who appreciates the nature of a delectable, gluten-​free baked good, I still found the two-​bite treat to be a bit hefty at $ 4. (Her vanilla/​vanilla rang in just under).
Plus, the frosting had a frozen center. We didn’t realize til’ we drove away, and the subsequent tooth shock killed my second bite. Kim & Jake have a vision, and the promise is oh so sweet. I’d have hoped for a better experience in their wee store front, especially with all these glowing reviews. Maybe it was just an off day (or an extra chilly display case?).

I could not be happier with the art that comes out of Kim & Jake’s. I absolutely adore this place. My wife and I have gotten every cake we’ve needed from here over the last 3 years. The owners and staff are great! very thorough when taking your order, and we’ve always been beyond impressed with not only the taste, but also the presentation of their work. I highly recommend Kim & Jake’s. Check them out! You can thank me later :)

Their presentation leaves much to be desired. We bought two dozen cupcakes (about $ 80) for a baby shower and are seriously underwhelmed with the result. Not only is the frosting lumped on in unattractive swirls, but they didn’t bother to cover the greasy cake wrappers they were baked in. We are doing a lot of last-​minute modifications to make them presentable. Disappointed.

Their store is really cute and small. There’s more to Kim & Jake’s than cake, though! I tried their chili verde popcorn. It was amazing! They had two other flavors as well. I ended up getting the red velvet and almond cupcakes. They were both wonderful! I will stop back in again when I’m on the South side of town!

I saw the cookies as I was checking out my groceries at Safeway. Good grief another GF cookie… Hm they look good from the package so I bought them. What the heck, I thought. Sat down in the afternoon with a cup of coffee and had one and then another. OMG I could have eaten the entire box! That is bad… Needs to say I am a fan and look forward to having a nice snack that does not taste like cardboard.

I got the brown sugar ginger cake this weekend for our wedding and it was delicious! The cake was soft and fluffy, great flavor and not too sweet. It was so different from the «standard wedding cake». Everyone loved it and no one could believe it was gluten free. The service was so easy which is great when planning a wedding.

Not only the best gluten-​free cake (the almond poppyseed) we’ve ever tasted, but one of the best of any kind. Beautifully decorated too, using their hand-​painting technique.

Since I had to go gluten free 7 months ago for medical reasons, I’ve heard people rave about this bakery — especially about it’s GF baguettes. I still really miss good bread, so I thought I’d give this place a try. Walking in I was hit by the most delicious bakery smells! I saw a pile of large baguettes and was very hopeful!
I bought a baguette, 2 cupcakes, a baby something-​or-​other (spice cake with lime glaze) and two boxes of cookies (chocolate chip and chocolate chip/​cranberry/​pecan) for the tune of $ 35. The spice cake was good, but the portion was tiny for the price.
The baguette was… bad. The only way it compares to a real baguette was the shape. It was soft instead of crusty on the outside, and the inside was still wet and uncooked in places. It tasted NOTHING like a real baguette, but more like so-​so wheat bread. Even toasting it didn’t make it better. Talk about disappointing!
The chocolate cupcake was a bit tasteless, but edible. The coconut one wasn’t. One bite and it went in the trash, it was so bad. The cookies had a nice texture, kind of like a corner brownie piece, but the taste was too salty. I like salty-​sweet things, but not SALTY-​sweet things. The ratio was completely off, making their cookies a disappointing mound of salty calories.
I wonder if all the people raving about this place have been gluten free for so long that they’ve forgotten what baked goods are supposed to taste like. Not one thing I purchased made me want to go back. The best thing about this place is the smell — but the taste of their food doesn’t come close to matching it. It’s typical for gluten free fare — pay three times the price for so-​so food that’s low on taste but high on calories.

I love Kim & Jake’s Cakes! Their flavors are phenomenal (I highly endorse their pumpkin spice cake with maple frosting). On top of that, their ability to accommodate their clients’ needs is outstanding.
I’m also psyched to see what they’re doing beyond cake. Their cookies, «cake in a jar», beet truffle popcorn (!), and breads are stunning. Not only that, but the fact that they happily do everything gluten free is mind boggling. These guys rock. Thanks for being part of the community Kim and Jake!

Would not miss this place, only problem is we drive from north boulder to get our treats… Worth the drive, nice people as well.
Dave n Annie morton.

Our office recently had a serious discussion about inventing several new employees, so that we could have more birthday celebrations for the sole purpose of enjoying more Kim and Jakes Cakes!
Extraordinarily moist, but not gummy or chewy (I hate when places tout their cakes as moist but they’re really just slightly underdone), I (and my colleagues!) would strongly recommend their alcoholic specialty cakes… my personal fave is the Sidecar, but other standouts include the Herbes de Provence, the Dark & Stormy, the Strawberry Margarita, and the White Russian. That’s right, we’ve admittedly tried and loved them all! Worth every penny.

Every year I make my husband a cake for his birthday, but this year everything got out of hand and I ran out of time. The morning of his birthday, I surrendered and called Kim and Jake’s Cakes in hopes that I could get something half-​decent on such late notice. Amazingly, they had an extra yellow cake in the size I wanted and were willing to do raspberry filling and chocolate frosting for me at a very reasonable price! It was a beautiful cake, and everyone loved it! The frosting was delicious, and the cake was moist. Thank you, Kim and Jakes, for saving the day!

I’m not sure what spurned hubby into a visit to Kim and Jake’s today… but whatever! I’m glad he took the extra few minutes to swing in and buy us some cupcakes.
Red Velvet, poppy seed with a hint of amaretto… and,
.god, chocolate chocolate espresso! Yep. All were delicious and well worth the extra calories. Moist cake, deliciously textured and flavored frosting, and exactly the right size for the price.
I’ve always prided myself on making every birthday cake in our family, but this little taste of cupcake heaven has convinced me that the next time I am pressed for time, I might just partake in a little outsourcing… to Kim and Jake.

Some of the best cakes I have ever had! So moist, so flavourful, so high quality — Kim and Jake’s has become a dangerous addiction for me! Also, they have seriously good gluten-​free cakes. We had a party with a lot of GF attendees and we ordered the coconut and also the chocolate and people went crazy for them. Not a piece left at the end and we even ordered extra! So, yes, I love this place and I love that it is a family business and that they really care about what they’re doing. A huge plus on the Boulder baked scene.

I’ve had a few of their cakes and really like them. I first found some at Whole Foods but this time I ordered my own birthday cake (my husband does not bake) at their store. It was nice to meet them and smell the baking in the back.
The cake is just what I wanted, outside the ordinary without being weird, and oh so fresh.

I ordered a cake for my son’s first birthday (see photo) and it turned out super-​cute! We had the Paul Frank monkey as the theme and they got it spot-​on! While I was there I also ordered a couple of their gluten-​free cupcakes for my sister-​in-​law and father-​in-​law and heard they were delicious.
As you would expect, pricier than a cake from King Soopers or Target, but better in terms of quality, flavor, and service! In fact, they originally told me they would need a couple of days for a special order, but turned it around in less than a day.
I would definitely order from here again if I needed a cake for a special occasion.

I saw the raving reviews, and thought I’d treat myself to a cupcake. When I walked in, there was no one there, but boy did it smell good at least. I was really surprised, though, because the selection was teeny weeny. There was a plate of 8 cupcakes, on the counter, and a plate of 8 or so whoopie pies in the case. Both plates were full, there was no room for other plates, and they had only been open for a couple of hours so all indicators pointed towards these being the only cupcakes they had made for public sale that day. There was one flavor of whoopie pie, and three flavors of cupcakes available: chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting, white cake with chocolate frosting, and red velvet.
I ordered two cupcakes– a chocolate for me, and a white cake for my husband. They were $ 2 a piece, which I thought was fair, though be advised these are normally sized cupcakes, not the gigantic things you see most places. When I went to pay, though, I saw they had a $ 5 minimum. I truly hate minimums, being illegal and all, but decided to just go along with it, and ordered a «lemon and raspberry» petit four. I paid my $ 5.5 and went out to the car.
I have to say, I don’t actually think chocolate cake and cream cheese frosting are a very good pair, but even with that fact discounted, I just was not fond of these cupcakes. The crumb was uneven, big, and the cake was dry. Although the color was very dark and «chocolatey» looking, it did not have a very good depth of chocolate flavor. The cream cheese frosting was fine, it had a good texture, but cream cheese frosting is pretty much always «fine», being that it’s fat, fat, and sugar.
My husband never even ate his cupcake, actually, and before finally throwing it out, I took a bite and was equally unsatisfied. A really dry, uneven cake, though the chocolate frosting was better. The petit four honestly tasted nothing like lemon or raspberry to me. My first thought when eating it was «peanut butter and jelly!» and then it just tasted generically sweet to me. I do want to return to try the strawberry margarita cake, but I will definitely pass on the smaller offerings.