Our owner and head pastry chef, Angela Garbacz, started Goldenrod in 2013 as a blog. Intended to chronicle her journey through dairy-free baking, the blog quickly created a community of people in need of dairy-free, gluten-free, and vegan pastries. Angela began taking orders and baking for people in the Lincoln area, soon realizing that the space for a diet-inclusive bakery needed to be filled.
Angela opened our first and only brick and mortar location in May 2015, on a picturesque corner in Lincoln’s beloved Prescott neighborhood. Our opening night was an indication of our future: a steady line around the corner and a bustling kitchen the whole time.
Throughout the years, Goldenrod has grown to dozens of employees, earning national praise in publications like Martha Stewart Living, Food & Wine, Cherry Bombe, and Forbes. We’ve been busy making well over 6,000 pies, 10,000 birthday cakes, 100,000 cookies, and folding a dizzying amount of perfect pink boxes for all those pastries.
We love it here.
Perfectly Golden
Adaptable Recipes for Sweet and Simple Treats
By Angela Garbacz
Angela Garbacz learned at her mother’s and grandmothers’ elbows, mixing up cookies and rolling sweet buns. Her training continued in New York City before she returned home and opened her dream shop.
Released in 2020, Perfectly Golden contains recipes from her grandma’s famous peach coffee cake to caramel-covered pecan rolls, lemon meringue pie and frosted brownies to fluffernutter buns and confetti cookies, Garbacz’s pastries come out of the oven perfectly golden and regularly sell out. At her bakery, she creates delicious treats without dairy or gluten, but every recipe in this book can be made with butter and all-purpose flour just as easily as any alternative. With her positive attitude and confident voice, Garbacz makes it easy and fun to bake a perfect dessert that everyone can eat. This beautiful cookbook—the photography, the philosophy, and the desserts! It’s an instant classic.