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…
-
-
Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Cherry Chocolate Chip Muffins
Chocolate cherry is one of my favorite fruit + chocolate combos (check out this chocolate cherry cake for more). I used to really dislike that artificial cherry flavor – the one that’s packed into those cherry-filled chocolate truffles or just maraschino cherries on or in anything, but my taste buds seemed to have welcomed the flavor with open arms in the past few years especially. I’m now a HUGE maraschino cherry fan (these spumponi cupcakes were an absolute DREAM), and I just found out about cherry chip cake, which is apparently a popular flavor in the midwest? So I’ll be making that soon in cake or cupcake form. But cherries…
-
Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins
Strawberry rhubarb is one of those classic combos that reminds me of summer potlucks, with bowls of pasta salad and cornbread and hot dogs and hamburgers and flimsy paper plates and plastic cups. Hot, southern Oregon summers (for those of you not from the Pacific Northwest, southern Oregon is not the same as Portland/Seattle – those two cities perpetually washed in grey and rain – it’s actually darn hot, sunny, and dry from May-September). So here I am, wishing for a hot southern Oregon summer, making these MASSIVE gluten free strawberry rhubarb muffins because that’s as close as we’re gonna get for now. And for those of you new to…
-
Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Lemon Raspberry Muffins
The giant muffin saga continues!! Not to worry, friends, this is going to be a regular installment series for us. With so much going on in the world that seems shakeable or unsteady, we’ve set a strong enough foundation to continue serving you giant muffin recipes for a long time to come (we may be reaching out to you all on Instagram and other platforms to help us come up with new flavors when our idea well runs dry). These ones were a top-voted flavor from our Instagram stories a week or so back, so we knew we had to make them pronto. They’re also a new (maybe? maybe they’ve…
-
Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Muffins
The saga continues!! For those of you just joining, we’ve been at this Costco-Copycat muffin thing for a while now, and have spun up five other delicious recipes that hit the SPOT for those of us who have been missing those quintessential Costco muffins ever since going gluten free. For me, it’s been a solid 17 years since I last got to snag a tray of those bigger-than-your-face and unbelievably fluffy muffins, but I can now rest easy knowing I can make them at home whenever I want! (perhaps more dangerous than having to make the trip to Costco to get them!). So far we’ve got: giant banana nut muffins,…
-
Giant Gluten Free Costco Copycat Apple Streusel Muffins
For those of you who’ve remained invested in this epic saga of the gluten free Costco copycat muffins, this is your post! The fifth installment in our adventure, heaped with apples and buttery crumb topping and vanilla glaze: these GIANT gluten free apple streusel muffins, à la our favorite bulk grocery store chain. I remember that, as a kid facing the trays of massive muffins in the Costco bakery section, these apple streusel creations seemed very “adult.” Something about the elegance of the crumb topping and the criss-crosses of white glaze just had the air of “posh adult breakfast.” Now, as an adult, I’m not sure where I got that…
-
Giant Gluten Free Costco Copycat Blueberry Muffins
Installment four in our celebratory nostalgic saga featuring Costco muffin lookalikes!! We give you, GIANT, fluffy, gorgeously simple and perfect gluten free blueberry muffins. Once again, we’ve used the trick for producing giant muffins (truly giant, not the “giant” muffin pans you can find on Amazon, those aren’t actually that giant), which is a set of six 4-inch round cake pans (affiliate link) – with fairly tall sides – that are the perfect vehicle for these floofy massive creations. Highly recommend snagging yourself a set of those pans and using them to make these and ALL of the other Costco copycat muffins we have here on the blog – and…
-
Giant Gluten Free Double Chocolate Muffins
For all of you waiting with baited breath for the next installment in the “Gluten Free Costco Muffin” saga, the time is now. I give you: the giant gluten free Costco copycat double chocolate muffin in all its chocolatey glory. It’s HUGE, it’s DOUBLE the chocolate, it’s fluffy and moist, and it’s dang easy to make which makes these the most dangerous chonky muffins out there. Each giant muffin is the equivalent of four regular-sized muffins, so be wary of the “I’ll just have two” urge that will wash over you once these come out of the oven. I finished making the first test batch of these just after 10pm…
-
Giant Gluten Free Poppyseed Muffins
The saga continues: for those of you who’ve followed along with recent posts, you’ll be very familiar with our Costco muffin obsession and nostalgia and be eagerly awaiting the follow up to the first (and AMAZING) gluten free Costco banana nut muffin recipe. Well, here it is in all its glory: a MASSIVE, 4-inch-in-diameter (topping the banana nut by a whole 3/4 of an inch!) gluten free almond poppyseed muffin fo all of your breakfasting/snacking/desserting needs. I know I raved about the banana nut muffins (and always will), but these may actually be my favorite. There’s something so perfectly comforting about a giant, fluffy, poppyseed muffin with just enough almond…
-
Giant Gluten Free Banana Nut Muffins
Anyone else have those fond childhood memories of staring wide-eyed at tray upon tray of muffins bigger than your FACE at Costco? Well, even if not, I’m sure you could conjure up images of unimaginably large muffins, in varying flavors (the chocolate chocolate ones were always the biggest pull as a kid, though it was only for a special treat that we got those ones), usually sliced into quarters to mix and match or to actually be a reasonable sized-snack. Our mom used to run two separate girl scout troops for each of us growing up (still unclear how she managed both, plus working, plus finances, plus just being a…
