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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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…
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Mini Gluten Free Banana Nut Loaves
When I was little, I remember trailing our shopping cart through Costco, delighted every time we passed (and stopped at) a sample table – getting to savor a bite of sausage or a cracker or a tiny cup of smoothie made with an on-sale blender. But the best part of those shopping trips were the muffins. If you’ve ever had a Costco muffin, you most likely have a similar nostalgia around these larger-than-life bakery flats. Because they were huge! At the time of first eating them, they may even have been bigger than my face – a muffin that, when cut into quarters, would more resemble a normal, homemade-sized muffin.…
