Wheat/gluten free birthday cake

[lizzyliz77]

Help! My friend's birthday is this weekend and she is allergic to wheat/gluten... flourless cakes are good too.

[kellydeez]

The carrot cake at Mani's is my favorite carrot cake ever. It's non dairy too. You should sample a couple of their cakes, but I've never been disappointed and they have tons of flavors. They really do a good job making (semi) healthy sweets. If your friend is used to that, I don't think she'll be disappointed.

[will47]

I'm pretty sure the carrot cake at Manis (which is vegan) isn't wheat / gluten free, though. However I third the recommendation for Mani's (which is on Fairfax) - they are pretty good at accomodating various weird diets.

A lot of places have flourless chocolate cakes, which might be worth checking out. I know Urth has one, but not sure how good it is.

Maybe some sort of crumble type thing (apple crisp) might taste better than a flourless cake?

[Julefish]

manis on fairfax or la brea (my brain is broken). they have this one cake i've had at a few birthdays that is shockingly good considering what it doesn't have in it...

[brokergal]

Try Whole Foods - I've tried their vegan cakes and they're pretty decent.