Zucchini has been my ultimate veggie staple since sixth grade. Weird? Maybe. Sixth grade was a bumpy year: I was homeschooled that year because it was the *YEAR OF THE TESTS* – ie tons of medical stuff going on to figure out what the heck was wrong with me, why I had stopped growing, couldn’t gain weight, and had stomach issues constantly. Cue Celiac Diagnosis *enters stage right* – and that solved it! But before the diagnosis my mom was doing TONS of research to try and track down tests or diets or other dietary ideas that might alleviate my symptoms. We did a few months with no sugar or…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Orange Marmalade Muffins
Orange you glad we have yet ANOTHER giant muffin recipe for you to keep your weekday breakfasts (or weekend brunches) lively and fun? These gluten free orange marmalade muffins are stunners and packed with vitamin C. They’ve got orange juice, orange zest, AND orange marmalade, and a touch of orange extract for an extra kick. I’d heard a few folks ask if we were going to do marmalade or orange muffins so drafting this recipe and trying them out was a no brainer. If you’re an orange fan, or generally down with citrus, these are the giant muffins for you! They also look splendid on a summer brunch table when…
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Gluten Free Red White & Blue Cupcakes
Tis the season for ALL of the red, white, and blue items you own to make their annual appearance, including these brand new gluten free red white and blue CUPCAKES! Thank goodness my friend Natalia asked if I could make a 4th of July treat this year because I realized I had absolutely no “patriotic” bakes on here – although I do consider lots of my bakes to embody the values and goodness of this nation. For example, these Black Lives Matter shortbread cookies, this rainbow pride cake, this trans pride cake, this BLM Swiss roll, these Juneteenth strawberry hibiscus cupcakes, or this black sesame cake commemorating Day of Remembrance…
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Gluten Free Chocolate Vanilla Bean Layer Cake
This chocolate vanilla bean cake was epic to make: four layers of one of my favorite chocolate cake recipes, layered with silky, gorgeously-easy and indulgent vanilla bean pastry cream (with a touch of bourbon because why the heck not), rich chocolate buttercream (also with a touch of bourbon), and a ganache drip. And tons of flowers! Sometimes the classic combos like vanilla and chocolate are the absolute winners, and that certainly is the case with this cake. For those of you who haven’t tried making pastry cream yet, let me be the first to welcome you to the world of SUCH easy and mind-blowing-amazingness. Pastry cream comes together in under…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Pistachio Apricot Muffins
Welcome back to another GIANT MUFFIN MONDAY!! We’re here again with all your giant muffin content to satisfy all of your giant muffin cravings! This time with giant gluten free pistachio muffins studded with fresh summer apricots!! For those of you thinking, “what the heck is all this hullabaloo about giant muffins?” Glad you asked! In lieu of being able to buy and eat those gloriously-huge Costco muffins we loved so much as kids, we decided to start making heaps of giant muffins at home. And when we say giant, we mean GIANT. Those “jumbo” muffin pans you’ve maybe seen before? Nope, not even close. We make the ACTUAL Costco…
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Giant Costco-Copycat Gluten Free Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
These muffins are DAMN good. They disappear nearly as fast as they come together, so making a second batch is highly recommended. My boyfriend absolutely adores banana chocolate chip bread, so these GIANT gluten free banana chocolate chip muffins are (I believe) his favorite of our giant muffins so far. Plus, they’re ridiculously-easy to make and they freeze really well, making these perfect weekday breakfast treats or emergency tough-day snacks that you simply pop in the microwave for instant, fluffy, studded-with-melty-chocolate-chips muffins! Plus, potassium! So there you go, they’re “healthy” too! For those of you just joining the giant muffin train, welcome aboard! This series of breakfasty/snacky treats started a…
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Gluten Free Rainbow Pride Cake
We are very very pleased to FINALLY present our very first actual rainbow pride cake!! It’s been a long time coming – mostly due to the fact that I was wildly intimidated to make a multi-layer, multi-colored cake and kept worrying that the colors would turn brown or not look great. But here we are, nearly the end of June with this fan-freaking-tastic EIGHT-layer gluten free Pride Cake, which not only boasts eight stunning colors, but eight stunning flavors as well. YES, you heard that right – to further embody the glorious array of everyone who celebrates who they are in all of our various colors, we wanted to add…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Blackberry Nectarine Streusel Muffins
Welcome to summer at it’s best: thick with sweet summer fruit and perfect for those dusty July mornings when you want something a bit more breakfasty than an entire berry crisp or crumble: these GIANT gluten free blackberry nectarine streusel muffins. They’re packed with gluten free rolled oats, brown sugar, and heaps of that good fresh summer fruit, so essentially, a blackberry nectarine crisp in muffin form. These might, MIGHT, be my favorite giant muffin yet. For those of you wondering – “yet? what are these giant muffins? what’s the hype?” let me let you in on a giant secret: we recently became obsessed with recreating those glorious Costco muffins…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Coffee Walnut Muffins
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…
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Gluten Free Browned Butter Apricot and Vanilla Bean Cake Featuring Isigny Butter
This has probably been one of the most exciting partnerships we’ve done thus far: Isigny Butter! For those of us who’ve been following along with Sisters Sans Gluten for a while, you know that we LOVE butter. We buy it by the pounds for everything from cakes to cookies to brownies to buttercream and everything in between. Our freezers and fridges are constantly stocked with various butters for various projects. So when we pitched a partnership to Isigny Butter and they accepted, it was a DREAM come true. Isigny Sainte Mère is a dairy cooperative in Normandy in northern France where the dairy’s cows roam on gorgeous green pastures along…
