The wonderful thing about flavor is that there is so much of it in the world. Growing up in rural southern Oregon, I never once had guava, but years later, thanks to friends and travel and happy strangers, I’ve now fallen in love with it. The first time I actually had guava was when I was living in the Galapagos, conducting my undergraduate thesis research with a load of astonishingly patient teachers, principals, and 8th graders on three of the islands (yes, there are over 30,000 people who live in the Ecuadorian Archipelago!). One of the best restaurants on the main street in Puerto Ayora, the town on Santa Cruz…
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Gluten Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Bars with Meli’s Monster Cookies
Happy Celiac Awareness Month!! For those of you who don’t have Celiac or don’t have friends or family who have Celiac – happy month of becoming aware of this awesome (read: sarcasm) disease!! This month, we were thrilled to partner with an awesome women-run company called Meli’s Monster Cookies, to develop a recipe using their awesome gluten free boxed cookie mixes! So we give you: these DECADENT and super easy gluten free cookie bars, packed with peanut butter and chocolate (because wowsers), using the Meli’s Monster Cookies Choco-Lot Cookie mix! I haven’t used a cookie mix in ages and man aLIVE was it easy – I forgot the absolute breeze…
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Gluten Free Triple Chocolate Raspberry Cake
Sometimes you just need triple the chocolate. Because when you’re in the mood for chocolate, why not go ALL the way and triple it (is this technically quadrupling it? triple is a little easier to say so we’re going with that). AND, this cake happens to be the down right easiest layer cake on the blog (maybe giving this super simple and decadent Mexican Hot Chocolate layer cake with cinnamon and chile). If you’re new to layer cakes, or, like me, until quite recently (read: last June) had never fully decorated an actual layer cake before, this is for you. Huge props to the other half of Sisters Sans Gluten,…
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Gluten Free Maple Glazed Donuts
For these gluten free maple glazed donuts we are giving a huge shout out to Simply Delish for this recipe inspiration! Full disclosure – we joined the Simply Delish affiliate program which essentially entails them sending us a box of their gluten/dairy-free pudding and jel boxed mixes every few months, and us coming up with recipes that involve those boxed mixes as an ingredient every month, so you’ll see a few other Simply Delish-inspired recipes on here once in a while! This one uses their vanilla pudding boxed mix (a good staple to have in the pantry!) and if you’re into it, use our specific link here to go check out their products, and…
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Gluten Free Black Forest Cake
Black forest cake has always looked and seemed to me like one of the most fantastic cakes you could make. Maybe it’s all in the name: black forest at once sounds mysterious and other-worldly – almost like you’ll happen upon Galadriel taking a perfectly-delicate bite of a slice of this dark chocolate, whipped cream, and cherry creation. The elegance of that combination of flavors lends itself to a sophisticated, gorgeous cake fit for an elfin queen. Perhaps it’s more up Elrond’s alley, but even so, this has been on my list for ages and I’m thrilled that a special request from a friend finally got me to make it! So…
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Gluten Free Black Sesame Rice Krispie Treats
Rice Krispie treats were one of those glorious childhood treats that always seemed safe – blue metalic wrapper krinkling as you unwrapped the marshmallow and crispy rice rectangle and bit into the impossibly soft, squishy, buttery, crispy mix of all those perfect ingredients. Until you were diagnosed with Celiac and realized that Kellogs, for some BIZARRE reason, just HAS to (still to this day) include malt flavor. Which happens to be made from barley, which happens to be one of the THREE grains you absolutely must avoid if you have Celiac. Now, apparently Kellogs released a gluten free version of their classic crispy rice cereal at some point in the…
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Gluten Free Poached Pineapple Upside Down Cake with Hungarian Sweet Wine
Pineapple upside down cake has been a life-long love. One of those loves that you don’t often cherish because for some reason it always seems too tricky to make. Well, I’m here to tell you that it’s absolutely not and you should absolutely make this gluten free pineapple upside down cake the very next chance you get. This one was a labor of love, because the lead up to this final recipe was LONG. We’ve been planning our third Wind & Desserts pairing with our friend Iker (check out his awesome knowledge on wine here!), who’s training to be a sommalier in Austria, for weeks now, and we had landed…
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Gluten Free Roasted Strawberry Rhubarb Tart
Strawberry rhubarb is one of those perfect pairs. Sultry summer evenings with slices of strawberry rhubarb pie, thick sweet juices dripping out of latticed crusts, or strawberry rhubarb crumbles and slab pies laid out on potluck tables just waiting for seconds and thirds on flower-lined paper plates. It just feels quintessentially summer. Which, perhaps, makes this dessert a bit pre-mature, maybe just hopeful that summer might grace us a little sooner than expected this year after the year we’ve all had so far. There will always be struggles we have to work through but we are facing the final battle of so many life-or-death issues like police brutality and the…
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Gluten Free Passion Fruit Tart
Passion fruit was one of those mysterious, enticing fruits that I never saw in the grocery store in tiny, semi-rural Eagle Point, Oregon as a kid. The first time I got up close and personal, and proceeded to eat an abundance of the strange, wrinkly, impossibly satisfying tangy fruit was when I got to travel to Australia at age 13. I’d applied for and gotten into a People to People Student Ambassador Program in 7th grade, and spent the year raising money for the program cost and studying the various peculiarities and fascinations of the great southern island. When we finally got there, all 20-something of us 13 year olds…
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Gluten Free Vegan Pistachio Raspberry Rose Donuts
Alright y’all, I’ve done something that I’ve been terrified of for a very long time: vegan baking!! It’s been a long time coming, and something I’ve subconsciously avoided due to years of well-meaning waiters, acquaintances, and online folks recommending restaurants and dishes that are vegan because in a lot of peoples’ minds, vegan and gluten free are exactly the same thing (all of you with food allergies or who are actually vegan may have similar experiences). It takes ages of built-up patience to explain, yet again, that problematic gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley, and vegan means you don’t eat animal products….LITERALLY not even close to…
