Here’s to friends far away – and to reconnecting with folks you meet years later to collaborate on awesome projects that blend two perfectly-balanced passions: wine and dessert! This whole post starts back in the summer of 2019 (remember those days? no masks, hugs, handshakes, and seeing people’s smiles?) when we visited one of my best friends in Vienna, where she’s living her best life. She happens to have a marvelous rooftop terrace just above her apartment where we organized a late-summer dinner paired with incredible wine, and we met her downstairs neighbors, Iker and his boyfriend Felix. And Iker happens to be not only an incredible academic (just a…
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Healthy Gluten Free Banana Pancakes
Pancakes. I have a long history with these thinnest of cakes, the ultimate breakfast food (at least here in the west). When I was going through the entire rigamarole of tests and food allergies blood draws and biopsies back in 6th grade, we tried everything under the sun in terms of diets. No, I wasn’t trying to lose any weight as an already-under-average 11 year old, but heck if we weren’t trying to figure out why I wasn’t gaining weight, and food had a lot to do with it. One “diet” we tried on for size (I think only for a couple of months but it felt like a YEAR…
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Gluten Free Mango Panna Cotta
After making this dang-easy mango panna cotta, I realized that we (quite unintentionally) have NO OTHER mango recipes!! Which is something that I’m going to need to remedy pronto because we’re both big fans of the creamy, bright, sultry depth of this orange fruit. It happens to pair very well with custardy treats like this elegant and deceptively simple panna cotta too, so I’m at least glad we have this first stab at a mango creation. Props to Kendra for cutting all the mango halves into little hedgehogs (probably a better name for them but hey it’s cute) for the photo shoot – especially because it meant that I got…
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Gluten Free Buttermilk Panna Cotta with Italian Pine Bud Syrup
This may be one of the easiest, simplest, and most elegant desserts you ever make. Looking for a show-stopping, dressed-to-impress post-dinner treat you can wow your quarantine date with? Wanting to spice dinners up after nearly (exactly) a year in semi-lockdowns? This is for YOU. It’s the ever-classic, ever-indulgent Panna cotta, an Italian gift to the world (in addition to so many others), that needs only a handful of ingredients, as many minutes as you can count on two hands, and some lead time. Yes, the only down side is that it needs to set in the fridge for at least 8 hours…but that just means that you won’t have…
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Gluten Free Ultra Blueberry Muffins
For these gluten free ultra blueberry muffins 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 classic Vanilla Pudding boxed mix and if you’re into it, use our specific link here to go check out their products, and use our 10% discount code SSGPUDDING to get 10%…
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The Ultimate Gluten Free Funfetti Cake
This cake is the ULTIMATE celebration cake. Funfetti, brithday cake, anything and eVERYTHING with sprinkles, all wrapped into one ginormous, four-layer beauty complete with cream cheese buttercream, ube white chocolate whipped ganache, and strawberry whipped cream (because go big or go home). What’s the occasion? Not a birthday, as you might expect, but a massive milestone for us here at Sisters Sans Gluten. For anyone who follows us on Instagram, you’ll know we spend a TON of time on the platform and honestly, it’s become a go-to space for some of the best friendships, support, encouragement, and inspiration these past two years. When we first started, it involved a lot…
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The Best Chewy Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
Gluten free chocolate chip cookies have been my absolute baking nemesis for the last 17 years. I know, it’s a long time to be at-odds with quite possibly the most famous baked good on the face of the planet, but there’s really no where to hide in these miraculously-buttery, chewy, golden, chocolate-studded disks of glorious sugar-highs. And when there’s no where to hide, all of the gluten free troubles (crumbly, dry, that “gluten free flour taste” that just persists) are laid bare in a very un-appetizing way. You can’t just toss together flour, butter, sugar, eggs, and call it a day, you have to pull out all of the stops,…
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Gluten Free Black Sesame and White Chocolate Cake
Today is the Day of Remembrance, a day of observance of February 19th, 1942 when the crime against humanity that was the mass internment of over 120,000 Japanese Americans, two thirds of whom were native-born American Citizens, first started. Innocent families, children, grandparents, were forcefully relocated into concentration camps primarily on the west coast of the United States. This was all done out of blatant ignorance and cowardice of President Franklin D. Roosevelt shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, with the signing of Executive Order 9066, meant to solve the “Japanese Problem.” The irony of creating our very own concentration camps on US soil while fighting a war to…
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Gluten Free Tiramisu Layer Cake
This may be the weightiest cake I’ve ever made. It all started with a birthday cake request – always the best ones because it usually means something unique – since we all want something special for our special days – not a plain white or chocolate cake, no simple layers of simple buttercream, no repeat flavors or styles. That’s why I LOVE birthday cakes. This one was no exception. The one flavor note I got for the order was tiramisu, but of course we wanted to go in the classic layer cake direction so those perfect Italian flavors were spun into a four-layer, 9-inch cake with the most frostings, fillings,…
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Gluten Free Caramelized White Chocolate Blondies
White chocolate has always been one of those things that I never really got. Why take the chocolate out of chocolate? Why go with just the cocoa butter and a mild, dusty, warm sweetness that lacks the bold depth and bright bite of chocolate chocolate? I must admit, after splurging on some high-quality white chocolate for this and a few other baking projects, I now understand the appeal (though I still prefer a good milk or dark any day). The buttery closeness of a soft, hazy white chocolate is quite delicious. Now, when I started seeing trays of molten white chocolate deepening into rich, sultry caramel colors on so many…
