It’s a classic: (gluten free) pumpkin bread! And yet I’d never actually made it until a few days ago when I had the autumnal urge to grab an armful of tins of pumpkin puree at the store and start baking everything fall-ish. I’d also seen dozens of photos of luscious, spiced, perfectly soft, pumpkin-y pumpkin bread all over Instagram and just wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I’d had pumpkin bread before, but had never baked up a loaf myself and didn’t have a go-to recipe for gluten free pumpkin bread. Enter the first ground-up recipe development I’d done in years! When I first started dipping my…
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Gluten Free Roasted Strawberry Rhubarb Cakde
This gluten free strawberry rhubarb cake is a whole mess of goodness, and it may look like an actual mess but it’s so worth making this spring/summer/whenever you happen to have fresh or frozen strawberries and rhubarb around. It’s made with a lightly sweet gluten free browned butter vanilla cake, layered with heaps of pillowy soft ricotta + whipped cream, and piles of roasted strawberries and rhubarb. It’s happiness in a bowl (or plate, though it’s a bit of a challenge with this one) and despite it’s aesthetic, it’s a brilliant and easy cake to make for guests or your favorite people (including yourself!). If you aren’t a fan of…
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Gluten Free Chocolate Orange Cookies
Anyone else love chocolate oranges around the holidays? I used to not be the biggest fan but in the last year or so I’ve completely fallen fallen in love with the flavor combo, hence these gluten free chocolate orange cookies! They’re super indulgent, nearly brownie texture, and chock full of candied orange peel which is another favorite treat. I’ve been on a cookie recipe development adventure these past couple of months, and this one is a bit late to the game but ooooooh so worth making. Tips for the richest gluten free chocolate orange cookies! Cream the butter + sugars for at LEAST 3 minutes. It’s wild how important this…
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Gluten Free Banana Nut Cookies
Gluten free banana nut cookies!! These are a dream, and a blast of sweet nostalgia all wrapped up in the perfect cookie. For those of you who also grew up on banana nut muffins or bread or other classic banana nut bakes, these are the ultimate trip down memory lane. These aren’t just banana cookies or banana walnut cookies, there’s a secret ingredient that gives these that quintessential banana nut flavor (hint, it’s banana extract!! This is one of my favorite extracts and is so underrated – highly recommend giving it a try). These are a hit with adults and kids alike, and so far, everyone who’s tried them have…
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Gluten Free S’mores Cookies
All hail the most epic bake for the summer (so far): these gluten free s’mores cookies!! S’mores aren’t big in the UK, but they’re a huge nostalgic treat for those of us from the States, so baking anything s’mores related is always fun. For those of you new to s’mores, they’re essentially a sticky, sweet, super indulgent summer dessert composed of a sort of sandwich of graham crackers (sort of similar to digestive biscuits in the UK but better), filled with a piece of milk chocolate and a toasted marshmallow! The classic s’mores are made around a campfire while camping during the summer, and a s’mores session always ends with…
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Gluten Free Triple Chocolate Cookies
All hail the most EPICally indulgent treat I’ve made in ages: these gluten free triple chocolate cookies!! They’re big, they’re bold, they’re packed with my favorite cocoa powder, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and have a secret ingredient that just shifts all of that good stuff up to an unbelievable level of YUM. These cookies were an unexpectedly successful baking adventure that was prompted by me realizing that I didn’t have any baked goods to give a friend I was meeting for drinks this week (looking at you, Matt!) and hastily drafting a recipe that would be fast, easy, delicious, and kid-friendly (chocolate always seems like a safe bet)! So thank…
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Gluten Free Dark Chocolate Ginger Cookies
These are INSANE. I was in shock after the first bite and utterly astounded that I had found my dream cookie y’all. These gluten free dark chocolate ginger cookies are a case study in indulgence, packed with dutched cocoa powder and chopped dark chocolate for double the chewy, gooey, chocolately goodness, and studded with sultry, rich candied ginger. The ultimate dark chocolate cookie with all of the elegance and spice of crystalized ginger gems. I cannot believe I haven’t tried this combo in cookie form before!! (I did try it in muffin form with these giant chocolate ginger muffins, but I’m now going to be trying it in all recipes…
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Gluten Free Mini Eggs Blondies
These gluten free mini eggs blondies are a revelation – not only are they the FIRST ever baked good I’ve made using Cadbury mini eggs, they’re also ridiculously easy, filled with indulgent browned butter, and are the perfect treat for Easter morning or for any sweet gifts you want to share with friends and family this weekend. They’re also the first thing I’ve baked back in my house in Oxford in over a month and it feels so incredibly good to get to be creative in the kitchen again. It’s certainly been a bit of a bizarre last 5 weeks with some really challenging and emotional experiences and decisions, so…
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Gluten Free Ube Coconut Cake
This gluten free ube coconut cake was dreamt up as a very special birthday cake for a very special person in our lives: our mom Lynn! If you’ve read through our other recipes or follow along with our gluten free baking adventures on our Instagram, you’ll know that our mom has been one of the most constant sources of inspiration, and knowledge, for our baking hobby. And after the recent unexpected and scary events that led me to need to come back to Oregon in order to get distance from Oxford, I happen to be home around her birthday – so I finally get to make her a cake! In…
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Gluten Free Filled Strawberry Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Buttercream
New recipe alert! Gluten free filled strawberry cupcakes with my favorite cream cheese frosting! It’s been a minute since I posted a new recipe here – it’s been a wild (and VERY positive) term here at Oxford and I haven’t been doing much recipe development! The past 8 weeks have been an absolutely whirl wind: falling in love, getting Covid (and isolating with the person I fell in love with), baking lots of stuff but mostly things I’d baked before (“comfort bakes”), working more on my PhD here at Oxford as I prepare for future field work, exploring more of the UK countryside with housemates, and now at the end…
