I gotta say, getting a good, chewy, gluten free cookie is a science. Definitely a science worth studying and perfecting, but who has that kind of time? I certainly didn’t until this three-day weekend and a full day of recipe research, development, taste-testing, and finally, resulting trays upon trays of what I’m now calling a scientific breakthrough: the perfectly chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookie. We’ve done it, ladies, gentlemen, and persons of the gluten free world, you can all go home and make yourself a batch and be thoroughly glad that you did. These cookies are BIG, BOLD, and BETTER than anything you’ll spend $7/cookie on in stores. They’re studded…
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Gluten Free Jammy Strawberry Brownies for Valentines Day
Food is a love language. And in the full spirit of Valentines Day, here is a pan full of the most decadent love language gluten free brownies around: jammy (with actual cherry and raspberry jam), bright with fresh strawberries, and deeply, darkly chocolate with, well, chocolate. Lots of it. I usually just toss together a quick pan of plan brownies (which are, by themselves, pretty darn wonderful too, so no need to add the topping here), and serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, but this week felt like it needed a bit of extra love, berry-style. It just so happened that I had two jars of my new…
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Gluten Free Raspberry Glazed Shortbread Cookies
That special day is right around the corner, and no matter who or what you spend it with (a partner, a puppy, a good book, or just yourself!), you most certainly deserve something packed with punchy raspberry notes and crumbling with browned butter and sugar. And in that spirit, here are probably the cutest cookies I’ve made thus far. I’ve never been a big sugar cookie person, and definitely not a glazed sugar cookie person, though I’ll admire the handiwork of a good glazer any day. Despite what I deemed a lackluster appeal of these simple cookies, they’re absolutely worth having in your repertoire and are sometimes the perfect pick…
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Gluten Free Browned Butter Millionaire Shortbread
If you’ve never heard of millionaire shortbread (or gluten free millionaire shortbread, for that matter), you’re in for a real treat. The fanciest, most indulgent treatiest treat out there (maybe not but they’re not called millionaire’s for nothing). The theme of these decked out shortbread bars is: why not? Why not slather half an inch of perfectly squidgy caramel over the perfect slab of shortbread, and why not, on top of that, smear the most luxurious dark chocolate you’ll ever snap into? Why not, as a millionaire would say. So why not be a millionaire for a day and make these incredibly rich, melt-in-your-mouth squares to complement your lavish post-college…
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Gluten Fre Peanut Butter & Jelly Bars
These gluten free peanut butter & jelly bars are close to my heart. Quite literally, at the moment, they’re in my stomach. But more poetically, too – pb&j was my absolute favorite sandwich type in elementary school, so much so that I frequently made, brought, and ate TWO of them for lunch. It was always a thrill, crackling open the velcro lid of my 3rd grade lunch box to see a hefty tupperware squished full of whole grain seeded bread with thick layers of peanut butter and marionberry jam. Word to the wise, eating two pb&j sandwiches for lunch every day in 3rd grade can cause you to go off…
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15 Essential Baking Tools Every Baker Needs
Honestly, you can do quite a bit of damage with a fork and a cereal bowl when it comes to baking – the cake will still be a cake, just maybe one you wouldn’t laud on the British Baking Show anytime soon. You also have hands, which, as it turns out, are awesome tools not just for typing up that next blog post or grabbing handfuls of the free cookies at the company happy hour before the office manager notices; they work extremely well with bowls of batter and kneading butter into flour and all of that fun baking-related stuff. Never underestimate what you already have. So, if it’s imperative…
