It’s a classic: (gluten free) pumpkin bread! And yet I’d never actually made it until a few days ago when I had the autumnal urge to grab an armful of tins of pumpkin puree at the store and start baking everything fall-ish. I’d also seen dozens of photos of luscious, spiced, perfectly soft, pumpkin-y pumpkin bread all over Instagram and just wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I’d had pumpkin bread before, but had never baked up a loaf myself and didn’t have a go-to recipe for gluten free pumpkin bread. Enter the first ground-up recipe development I’d done in years! When I first started dipping my…
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Gluten Free Coconut Lime Cupcakes
These gluten free coconut lime cupcakes are an absolute delight – made with THE fluffiest coconut + lime cupcake cake (complete with fresh lime zest, juice, and toasted coconut), and dreamy coconut + lime buttercream (with all of the above plus of course butter, salt – to bring out the sweetness and round out the flavor, and icing sugar). This is the first recipe I’ve gotten to think through, draft, bake, decorate, film, AND shoot (food photography wise) in over 10 months, and it feels really nice to get back to things that allow me to be creative, in charge of every design and flavor decision, and use our new…
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Gluten Free Roasted Strawberry Rhubarb Cakde
This gluten free strawberry rhubarb cake is a whole mess of goodness, and it may look like an actual mess but it’s so worth making this spring/summer/whenever you happen to have fresh or frozen strawberries and rhubarb around. It’s made with a lightly sweet gluten free browned butter vanilla cake, layered with heaps of pillowy soft ricotta + whipped cream, and piles of roasted strawberries and rhubarb. It’s happiness in a bowl (or plate, though it’s a bit of a challenge with this one) and despite it’s aesthetic, it’s a brilliant and easy cake to make for guests or your favorite people (including yourself!). If you aren’t a fan of…
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Gluten Free Chocolate Mint Chip Cookies
If you love chocolate + mint, these gluten free chocolate mint chip cookies are for you. As a kid (pre-gluten free days) I loooooved Thin Mints (I was a Girl Scout for ~10 years!) and mint chocolate chip ice cream (still do). I’ve yet to translate this love into a towering gluten free mint chocolate chip layer cake (one day!), but I have made chocolate peppermint shortbread and have wanted to make a chewy bakery style chocolate mint cookie for a while now. Soooooo what better time to recipe test than the winter months right before the holidays! I ended up finding and using the Guittard gluten free mint baking…
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Gluten Free Ube White Chocolate Cookies
If you’re a fan of ube, or if you’re looking for something to try with ube in it, these gluten free ube white chocolate cookies are for you! Ube, or purple yam, is something I was introduced to via incredible Filipino treats that highlight the nutty, sultry flavor that this deep purple produce packs. It’s a bit trickier to find key ube ingredients over here in the UK, but I’ve managed to find ube extract, and have some options for sourcing ube powder and ube jam which are also awesome additions to so many bakes (plus, the jam is great on its own!). If you’re new to ube, I highly…
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Gluten Free White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies
These gluten free white chocolate macadamia cookies are a DREAM. Full stop. Background for this flavor: I never used to be a fan of white chocolate (Kendra, on the other hand, loved the stuff growing up!). When given the choice between milk, dark, and white, I would always opt for the bars that actually tasted like chocolate, and thus white chocolate got left by the wayside. The higher % the better, really – I had a phase when 90% dark chocolate was all I’d eat (and I still love it! It’s like eating chocolate dirt, in the best possible way you can imagine that). But this all changed when I…
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Gluten Free Chocolate Orange Cookies
Anyone else love chocolate oranges around the holidays? I used to not be the biggest fan but in the last year or so I’ve completely fallen fallen in love with the flavor combo, hence these gluten free chocolate orange cookies! They’re super indulgent, nearly brownie texture, and chock full of candied orange peel which is another favorite treat. I’ve been on a cookie recipe development adventure these past couple of months, and this one is a bit late to the game but ooooooh so worth making. Tips for the richest gluten free chocolate orange cookies! Cream the butter + sugars for at LEAST 3 minutes. It’s wild how important this…
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Gluten Free Caramel Cornflake Cookies
These gluten free caramel cornflake cookies were an EPIC experiment, and I’m SO excited to finally share the recipe because they’re insanely satisfying. Imagine a rich, chewy-centered, crispy-edged cookie, with crunchy cornflakes and sultry caramel and then make these and stop imagining and actually eat an entire batch. They’ve got all the desirable cookie textures in one perfect package, and are great gifts/party food too! They’ve got a couple more steps than the other cookies on the blog because they use browned butter and homemade caramel, but if you’re a bit nervous about homemade caramel (TOTALLY understandable), you can absolutely grab a store-bought caramel sauce and cut down the time…
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Gluten Free Banana Nut Cookies
Gluten free banana nut cookies!! These are a dream, and a blast of sweet nostalgia all wrapped up in the perfect cookie. For those of you who also grew up on banana nut muffins or bread or other classic banana nut bakes, these are the ultimate trip down memory lane. These aren’t just banana cookies or banana walnut cookies, there’s a secret ingredient that gives these that quintessential banana nut flavor (hint, it’s banana extract!! This is one of my favorite extracts and is so underrated – highly recommend giving it a try). These are a hit with adults and kids alike, and so far, everyone who’s tried them have…
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Gluten Free S’mores Cookies
All hail the most epic bake for the summer (so far): these gluten free s’mores cookies!! S’mores aren’t big in the UK, but they’re a huge nostalgic treat for those of us from the States, so baking anything s’mores related is always fun. For those of you new to s’mores, they’re essentially a sticky, sweet, super indulgent summer dessert composed of a sort of sandwich of graham crackers (sort of similar to digestive biscuits in the UK but better), filled with a piece of milk chocolate and a toasted marshmallow! The classic s’mores are made around a campfire while camping during the summer, and a s’mores session always ends with…
