Gluten/Wheat Free Bakery Coming Soon to East Arlington

The bakery will also be 95 percent dairy free, and its goods will contain no tree nuts, except coconut.

  A gluten/wheat free bakery is moving into the old Barismo spot in East Arlington. Something Sweet Without Wheat could open at 169 Mass. Ave. as soon as Saturday, Dec. 1, according to Teresa Fiore, who will manage the shop. “That’s our goal,” she said recently. “We’d like to be a part of East Arlington First Lights.” The family owned and operated specialty bakery, which was started by two Stoneham sisters just over two years ago, is based out of a commercial kitchen on 6th Road in Woburn. Up until now, the bakery mostly wholesaled its goods to local markets and food stores or sold them by phone or online. The East Arlington location will be the bakery's first retail-only operation. “We’re super excited,” Fiore said. “Arlington just seems …

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Customers, Stores Sweet on 'Something Sweet Without Wheat' Treats

Specialty bakery in Woburn selling to Woburn, Reading Market Basket stores.

Chocolate-chip cookies. Chocolate-dipped macaroons. Brownies. Lemon drops. Anise cookies. Breads:  rosemary onion, cinnamon raisin and white. Even birthday cakes and wedding cakes. Yes, you can bake something sweet without wheat. Christine Penney and Sandy Federico are the proof.  The sisters started to bake without wheat and gluten to resolve family members’ health issues. As of Thursday, their chocolate chip cookies and lemon drop cookies are being sold on a test basis at the Market Basket stores in Woburn and Reading. They also sell their products to 17 other food markets.   One day after they delivered their first order to the Market Basket in Reading, the store called, Penney said Friday afternoon, to order more. The business will …

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