This chocolate vanilla bean cake was epic to make: four layers of one of my favorite chocolate cake recipes, layered with silky, gorgeously-easy and indulgent vanilla bean pastry cream (with a touch of bourbon because why the heck not), rich chocolate buttercream (also with a touch of bourbon), and a ganache drip. And tons of flowers! Sometimes the classic combos like vanilla and chocolate are the absolute winners, and that certainly is the case with this cake. For those of you who haven’t tried making pastry cream yet, let me be the first to welcome you to the world of SUCH easy and mind-blowing-amazingness. Pastry cream comes together in under…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Pistachio Apricot Muffins
Welcome back to another GIANT MUFFIN MONDAY!! We’re here again with all your giant muffin content to satisfy all of your giant muffin cravings! This time with giant gluten free pistachio muffins studded with fresh summer apricots!! For those of you thinking, “what the heck is all this hullabaloo about giant muffins?” Glad you asked! In lieu of being able to buy and eat those gloriously-huge Costco muffins we loved so much as kids, we decided to start making heaps of giant muffins at home. And when we say giant, we mean GIANT. Those “jumbo” muffin pans you’ve maybe seen before? Nope, not even close. We make the ACTUAL Costco…
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Giant Costco-Copycat Gluten Free Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
These muffins are DAMN good. They disappear nearly as fast as they come together, so making a second batch is highly recommended. My boyfriend absolutely adores banana chocolate chip bread, so these GIANT gluten free banana chocolate chip muffins are (I believe) his favorite of our giant muffins so far. Plus, they’re ridiculously-easy to make and they freeze really well, making these perfect weekday breakfast treats or emergency tough-day snacks that you simply pop in the microwave for instant, fluffy, studded-with-melty-chocolate-chips muffins! Plus, potassium! So there you go, they’re “healthy” too! For those of you just joining the giant muffin train, welcome aboard! This series of breakfasty/snacky treats started a…
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Gluten Free Rainbow Pride Cake
We are very very pleased to FINALLY present our very first actual rainbow pride cake!! It’s been a long time coming – mostly due to the fact that I was wildly intimidated to make a multi-layer, multi-colored cake and kept worrying that the colors would turn brown or not look great. But here we are, nearly the end of June with this fan-freaking-tastic EIGHT-layer gluten free Pride Cake, which not only boasts eight stunning colors, but eight stunning flavors as well. YES, you heard that right – to further embody the glorious array of everyone who celebrates who they are in all of our various colors, we wanted to add…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Blackberry Nectarine Streusel Muffins
Welcome to summer at it’s best: thick with sweet summer fruit and perfect for those dusty July mornings when you want something a bit more breakfasty than an entire berry crisp or crumble: these GIANT gluten free blackberry nectarine streusel muffins. They’re packed with gluten free rolled oats, brown sugar, and heaps of that good fresh summer fruit, so essentially, a blackberry nectarine crisp in muffin form. These might, MIGHT, be my favorite giant muffin yet. For those of you wondering – “yet? what are these giant muffins? what’s the hype?” let me let you in on a giant secret: we recently became obsessed with recreating those glorious Costco muffins…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Coffee Walnut Muffins
Happy Monday folks! I’m definitely one of those people who love a good, buttery, crumble-top, cinnamon-filled coffee cake, but I also LOVE coffee-flavored baked goods (ie actual coffee cake). And these giant gluten free coffee walnut muffins are exactly that. I’ve tried the coffee + walnut combo once before when making this glorious coffee walnut layer cake filled with toasted walnuts, ganache, and coffee buttercream (it’s the ULTIMATE Monday cake), but really wanted a breakfast muffin that mimicked the flavor. These are super easy, making them perfect as a WHAT-should-I-make-to-get-me-through-Monday bake – even the coffee glaze is super easy! For those of you just joining the GIANT muffin craze over…
