Tips for Delightful Baked Pumpkin Donuts: Use a piping bag to get the batter into your donut pans! This will streamline the whole process (it’s definitely tricky with a spoon), and will ensure that you have an even top and bottom to each donut instead of air bubbles or a wonky top/bottom. If you don’t have a piping bag, get a gallon-sized freezer zip top bag, scoop your batter into it, and then cut a 1/2 inch hole in one of the bottom corners of the bag! Don’t over-mix your batter! You can mix the wet ingredients more, but once you add the dry ingredients, take it easy. Mix slowly so that…
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Giant Gluten Free Carrot Cake Muffins
Carrot cake is one of those cultural favorites that never fails to impress a crowd. So these giant gluten free carrot cake muffins, smothered in silky cream cheese buttercream, are certainly going to be the star of your next brunch or weekday breakfast (or afternoon snack!). These muffins are incredibly easy to make, packed with carrots, spices, golden raisins (inarguably better than ‘regular’ raisins), and a bit of shredded coconut for an extra incredible flavor and texture. I’ve got a go-to carrot cake that’s quite different than the traditional: no spices, dense, heavy on almond flour and vanilla, and with very finely grated carrots for a smooth texture, but I…
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Gluten Free Pumpkin Donuts with Maple Glaze
Homemade donuts always intimidated me and honestly, they’re some of the easiest, most fun desserts you can make for friends and family! These gluten free pumpkin donuts, smothered in an insanely delicious maple cinnamon glaze and sprinkled with chopped toasted pecans, are no exception. Now, they may not be the floofy fried donuts we all know and love (there’s a donut shop just down the street where I used to live in San Francisco and booooy was it a struggle walking past it nearly every day, although none were gluten free so it wasn’t thaaaat big of a struggle), but they’re perfectly just-sweet, cakey, tinged with delicate glaze and crunchy…
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Giant Gluten Free Black Sesame and White Chocolate Chip Muffins
Black sesame is one of the most sultry, smooth, indulgent flavors out there, and is so fun to bake with. I’m so thankful that I’ve been able to try so many incredible black sesame treats, from black sesame mochi and ice cream, to this black sesame and white chocolate cake, to these black sesame rice krispie treats (a fancy grown up version of your childhood favorite), and there are SO many other incredible black sesame bakes out there if you just do a quick google search. So, with all that, I knew I had to make a gluten free black sesame muffin to add to the giant muffin series –…
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Giant Gluten Free Toasted Coconut Muffins
I have a vivid memory of tasting my first coconut ice cream bar as a kid from the neighborhood ice cream truck: one of the dreamiest flavors I’d ever encountered and probably ever will. That revelation has lead me to try and recreate various different coconut treats through the years, and these giant gluten free coconut muffins are the most recent one. They’re fluffy, packed with heavenly coconut flavor, tons of toasted desiccated coconut, and absolutely covered in the most incredible coconut glaze. If you’re a coconut fan, these are the muffins you need to make this week (plus, they’re wildly easy to make!). If you’re looking for more coconut…
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Giant Gluten Free Pumpkin Coffee Cake Muffins
Pumpkin season is in full swing and I’m just scrambling to find cans of pumpkin puree here in the UK so that I can make these GIANT gluten free pumpkin coffee cake muffins again for my new roommates! These muffins are an utter dream: they’re fluffy, sooooo pumpkiny, topped with a melt-in-your-mouth pecan streusel AND a maple glaze. Because just pumpkin alone is good, pumpkin and streusel is great, and pumpkin, streusel, and glaze is WOW. They’re actually gosh-darn easy to make too, so don’t let the three sets of ingredients put you off. It’s worth it to get all of these out of the giant muffin pans and show…
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Giant Gluten Free Toasted Almond Muffins
Almond is a flavor I’ve fallen in love with in the last five or so years. With the discovery of marzipan on trips to Austria and Germany, I discovered a whole world of ethereal flavor that I had been missing for ages, and now I’m a fan of it in nearly everything. These giant gluten free toasted almond muffins are no exception: they’re fluffy, filled with that incredible almond flavor, and packed with toasted sliced almonds for extra almondy goodness and an added crunch. I highly recommend making a batch or two of these for your morning routine or afternoon snacks, and freezing a few for a rainy day (it’s…
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Gluten Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
Chocolate + peanut butter, the love of a lifetime. This is, perhaps, my oldest and fondest flavor favorites. There’s something about the cozy, ultra-indulgent pairing of salty, crunchy (or creamy), nutty peanut butter with the richness of chocolate. So this gluten free chocolate peanut butter cake has been a dream for a looooong time. I’d had plans to make some extravagant layer cake celebrating my forever favorite, and just never got around to doing it. So, when a friend requested two small anniversary cakes, one for her (pineapple coconut) and one for her husband (chocolate peanut butter), I ran with it, made extra cake batter, and ended up finally making…
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Giant Gluten Free Yuzu Muffins
Yuzu is an incredible citrus – with a flavor that tiptoes between meyer lemon and tangerine, with an indescribable floral note that makes this one of the most luxurious citruses to bake with. It’s a Japanese citrus, with a bumpy, round exterior and a lemony color. It’s gosh darn hard to find here in the states but you can certainly find things like yuzu juice, jams, and other products that make great additions to baking. These giant gluten free yuzu muffins are a celebration of the citrus, with a bit of extra help from lemons and tangerines in place of actual yuzu juice. We actually have one other yuzu bake…
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Giant Gluten Free Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
These are some of the most EPIC muffins you’ll ever make, all thanks to our mother! This is one of her first ever gluten free recipes, created years ago when there was really nothing edible on the gluten free grocery store shelves. These gluten free pumpkin chocolate chip muffins, now giantized because why not, have stood the test of time and are still one of my favorite recipes of all time. If you’re a pumpkin fan to begin with, then these muffins are an absolute must-add to your fall baking repertoire (and here’s to saving a few cans for the off-season so that you can indulge in these ridiculously-easy treats…
