Black sesame is one of the most sultry, smooth, indulgent flavors out there, and is so fun to bake with. I’m so thankful that I’ve been able to try so many incredible black sesame treats, from black sesame mochi and ice cream, to this black sesame and white chocolate cake, to these black sesame rice krispie treats (a fancy grown up version of your childhood favorite), and there are SO many other incredible black sesame bakes out there if you just do a quick google search. So, with all that, I knew I had to make a gluten free black sesame muffin to add to the giant muffin series –…
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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 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…
