Gluten Free Biscuits & Cakes

Gluten-free biscuits and cakes from Nairn's, Mrs Crimbles, Schar, Doves Farm and The Beginnings.

The everyday replacements are here – from digestives to rich tea, custard creams, chocolate fingers and jaffa cakes – alongside bakery favourites: macaroons, bakewell slices, coconut rings and madeleines.

Many oat-based biscuits in this category are made with dedicated gluten-free oats. While oats are naturally free from gluten, standard commercial varieties are milled alongside wheat, so only separately milled oats can carry the allergy label.

Gluten-free baking behaves differently to standard baking. Without gluten there's no elastic structure, so recipes lean on rice flour, maize, buckwheat, xanthan gum and eggs to hold everything together. That's why gluten-free biscuits and cakes often have a lighter, crumblier bite.

Gluten-free status is as declared by each brand.