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Santa Fe, NM · Est. in Shadow
The Gallows Humor
Baking Company
Sweetness beyond reason. Cookies baked with a wicked grin.
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The Legend
Cookies from the Crypt
A small kitchen on the high desert with the lights on too late and the radio on too loud.
Born in a back-alley kitchen and tempered in the embers of midnight ovens, the Gallows Humor Baking Company is a traveling pop-up of small-batch cookies, dark wit, and louder-than-life flavor.
We started baking for the kind of nights that don't ask for dessert — supper clubs after the dishes are stacked, art openings as the wine runs low, the long drive home with the box on the passenger seat. The cookies turned out to be the easy part. The hard part was finding people who wanted them this dark, this rich, this much.
Turns out, you're everywhere.
"Thick. Gooey. Unforgettable. Made for the brave of palate."
House Rules
Small batches, big swings
Every flavor is hand-rolled in counts you can hold in two hands. If a batch isn't worth the swing, it doesn't leave the kitchen.
Real ingredients, no apologies
Browned butter. Heavy cream. Single-origin chocolate. Local blue corn when we can get it. The pantry reads like a love letter; the labels read like a confession.
Dark wit, kind hands
The skull is the joke. The cookie is the kindness. We bake for funerals, weddings, late-shift line cooks, and anyone who needs a sugar-coated reason to keep going.
Made for the brave of palate
We chase contrast — salt against caramel, smoke against cream, blue corn against butter. If the bite makes you pause, we did the job.
The Ledger
- 2023
A kitchen, a stand mixer, and one very mean chocolate chip recipe. Friends called it 'the gallows cookie' before we did.
- 2024
First pop-up under string lights behind a record store. Sold out in 47 minutes. Stayed for the conversation.
- 2025
Took the show on the road — supper clubs, after-dark bars, an art exhibit or two. Started rolling cookies by candlelight.
- 2026
Santa Fe storefront in the works. Until then: the van, the marquee, and the Mourners' List.
Come hungry. Stay strange.