Goodie Girl

When she was a few years old, we found out my niece has a gluten allergy.  This was a first for the family, particularly one with a diet soooo based in gluten-full carbs and grandma (my mom) an avid baker.  My mother has embraced the challenge of finding her every available safe snack, breakfast item, baked good, brand of mac and cheese, etc, which is no simple feat in a small town in NH, and is slowy learning to bake with gluten-free flours too.

Her journeys into the gluten-free world have meant that I've of course gotten to try lots of snack foods that I'd never normally seek out, such as products from Goodie Girl, and entirely gluten-free and kosher brand.

Goodie Girl has a number of product lines, all packaged items, such as many styles of cookies and some breakfast bars.

Breakfast biscuits are available in just two flavors: blueberry or cinnamon brown sugar.  These are essentially the same as BelVita breakfast biscuits, which I've reviewed before, but, the gluten-free version obviously.  I found it amusing that they even take the same large oval shape.  Their other breakfast bar product line, softer breakfast bars, come in 4 varieties (blueberry and cinnamon brown sugar again, or strawberry or chocolate/banana/almond), again much like BelVita's soft baked line.  I tried only the biscuits.

Blueberry Breakfast Biscuits.

"Start your day with some blues! Goodie Girl Blueberry Breakfast Biscuits are sweet, crunchy morning snacks made with blueberries and whole grain gluten-free oats to help provide nutritious energy for your morning routine."

My package contained 3 of the biscuits.

Again, just like BelVita, they are crispy biscuits, akin to graham crackers almost but thicker, loaded with a bit more grains/oats to deem them breakfast worthy, and flavored. I found them very sweet after a few bites.  They are also pretty dry to just eat straight from the package, but they do soften nicely when you dunk them in coffee like biscotti, and I also like dunking them in yogurt.  The blueberry was minimal, but I did taste the little dried blueberries if I really tried.

So on their own, too sweet, too dry, but, dunked in coffee or tangy yogurt and they aren't bad if in the mood for a biscuit for breakfast (or perhaps a mid-morning coffee snack).  3/5.

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Black Jet Bakery

Update Review, 2026

I can't say I've ever been all that impressed with Blackjet Bakery items in the past, but when someone had a bunch of extra at my office, of course I still gave them a try.

Homemade Oreo. $3.75.

"Indulge in the perfect marriage of rich dark chocolate and smooth salted vanilla cream with our take on the timeless cookie."

I don't like Oreos.  I don't really think Blackjet is a good bakery.  So I certainly didn't take one of these.  But when I leaving, hours later, and there was still a tray of them ... I grabbed one, for "research".  And I hoped it would be a worthy experiment.

The cookie had a deep, not very sweet, cocoa flavor.  It was a soft but crisp cookie, not really the texture you think of for an Oreo. The cream filling was sweet, cloying style, as I guess it should be for an Oreo, but definitely far more creamy than a regular Oreo.  I didn't really taste the salt.

I didn't really care for this, and I'm not sure an Oreo lover would either, as the flavors and textures were pretty different. 2/5.

Sprinkledoodle. $4.

"Delightfully buttery sugar cookie rolled in rainbow sprinkles! So happy, fun and festive for any occasion."

I love sprinkles.  So even though this is a very simple sounding cookie, there is something about a sprinkle cookie that still excites me.

It was ... a very basic cookie.  Yes, it was soft, and it was large, and it was absolutely covered in sprinkles, but the actual flavor was no different from generic slice and bake sugar cookies.  Like you'd get at any bake sale.  Nothing really bakery quality quality about it, besides perhaps that it was evenly baked?  Eh.  2.5/5.

Update Review, 2024

I didn't seek out Black Jet Bakery, but, when someone in my office had extra cake to share, of course I went to try it, as its 10 years (!) since I last had their goods.

Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake.

"Moist devil's food cake layered with our old fashioned chocolate cream cheese frosting and topped with sprinkles."

I'll admit the variety of cake the person who ordered this picked wasn't really one I'd generally go for - devil's food.  Chocolate frosting in particular is rarely what I'm interested in, and I mostly only like chocolate cake when it is warm, and served with ice cream.

But still, cake.  And I wanted to try it.

It was about as I expected.  Deep, dark devil's food cake, which is fine, but not exciting to me.  It was reasonably moist and not dry.  Reasonable chocolate flavor.

And then the frosting. I like chocolate.  I like cream cheese frosting.  I like cheesecake.  I don't like chocolate cheesecake.  Turns out, the same is true for chocolate cream cheese frosting.  Something about the chocolate and cream cheese combo just doesn't do it for me.  There was plenty of this frosting, and it was true to both the cream cheese and chocolate flavors, both fairly pronounced, but, alas, not my favorite.

Overall, I think a fine cake, good ratios of frosting to cake, fresh enough, but, not one I really enjoyed. **.

Available as 8 inch for $50, 10 inch or 1/4 sheet for $100, or 1/2 sheet for $200.

Original Review, January 2015

I remember when Black Jet Bakery opened in the Ferry Building.  I was so excited to have another bakery close by. You know me and my love of baked goods!  Plus, they had all sorts of interesting sounding items, like "German Shepherds", aka, homemade Devil Dogs with german choc cake filling!  And homemade "Nuttah Buttahs"!  And of course, homemade pop tarts with a variety of fillings, and absolutely adorable mini pies.

I tried many items over the years, but didn't take notes, as it was before my food blogging days.  A few years ago, as I mentioned last week, I wanted both pumpkin and pecan pies for Thanksgiving, so I decided to purchase mini versions of each, and Black Jet was where I immediately went for one of them, since I'd been eyeing their mini pies for years, even though I was never all that impressed with anything else I'd tried there.

They have since closed their Ferry Building location, but have a shop in the Mission, and are available around town through Good Eggs.  But I don't see any reason to seek them out.

Lil Pumpkin Pie. $5.

"This little 3.5 inch beauty is quite the treat for 1 or 2.  Excellent crust to filling ratio, to boot."

The pumpkin filling was not particularly interesting, not very spiced, just kinda there.  The crust on the bottom and where the pumpkin filling touched it was ok, but otherwise it was pretty dry.  It was also buttery, but not in a good way. There was no real flavor to the crust.  Meh, meh, meh

If you want a tasty pie, get it from Flour & Co.

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• Cookies
• Chocolate Chip Cookie with Sea Salt: "Classic chocolate chip cookies filled with milk and dark chocolate and topped with Maldon Sea Salt Flakes."  Tasting notes: Meh. (wow, that memorable huh?  Sorry, this is literally all my notes say!)
• Sugar Cookie: Soft, but no flavor complexity, just buttery, meh [ Slight lemon flavor, moist, bad mouthfeel, too much butter]
• Boozy Oatmeal Raisin Cookie: Tum!  Nice and moist, good flavor in cookie itself.
• Cakes
• Sour Cream Coffee Cake: "Classic Sour Cream Coffee cake. Delicious for breakfast or as an afternoon snack with coffee!"  Tasting notes: Nothing special, not bad but not good.
• Bars
• Salty Nutty Brownie: Nice rich chocolate flavor, moist, pretty good.
• Lemon Square: Way too sweet.  Very lemony.  Not my thing at all.
• Brown Butter Blondie: Not good.  Really plain, very little chocolate, no nuts.

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