Sixteen-year-old Janni Vanderheul has achieved a life-long dream after opening her own gluten-free bakery Yummy Bunny.

The bakery is the result of years spent baking for her family, including two siblings that have coeliac disease.

Speaking with Glam Adelaide Janni said she had adapted her baking early on to accommodate those with the autoimmune disease.

“Opening a bakery has always been  my dream, because I’ve been baking since I was so young and it’s just a passion of mine,” she said.

“When it came around to it, I thought, I do so much better with gluten-free foods because I’ve been baking with it for so long.”

Yummy Bunny is the first bakery of its kind in the area, with no other gluten-free bakeries to be found from Mount Gambier through to Adelaide and Mount Gambier to Melbourne.

“There are no other manor gluten-free bakeries on the way, so people have to drive five-plus hours to get a homemade loaf, and it’s not very sound.”

The doors to Yummy Bunny officially opened on May 9, with the entire product range selling out quickly that morning.

Janna said they’d had plenty of people come in and be astonished by the baked goods.

“We’ve had lots of people try it and say, ‘wow, this is the beset scroll I’ve ever had’, because it’s made so it would be as fluffy as a regular one,” she said.

Comforting classics from sausage rolls, pasties and slow-cooked beef pies as well as cupcakes, breads, scrolls and cookies all line the shelves at Yummy Bunny.

Janni said the bakery had been the result of months of hard work, and she had dedicated a lot of her time to testing recipes, refining the flour blends and building the menu.

“We’ve been working on the blends for a very long time, because we have our own flour blends,” she said.

“We use a mix of corn starches, potato starches, tapioca starches, rice flours and buckwheat flours.”