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 Caramel Cornflake Cookies
These gluten free caramel cornflake cookies were an EPIC experiment, and I’m SO excited to finally share the recipe because they’re insanely satisfying. Imagine a rich, chewy-centered, crispy-edged cookie, with crunchy cornflakes and sultry caramel and then make these and stop imagining and actually eat an entire batch. They’ve got all the desirable cookie textures in one perfect package, and are great gifts/party food too! They’ve got a couple more steps than the other cookies on the blog because they use browned butter and homemade caramel, but if you’re a bit nervous about homemade caramel (TOTALLY understandable), you can absolutely grab a store-bought caramel sauce and cut down the time…
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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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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Muffins
The saga continues!! For those of you just joining, we’ve been at this Costco-Copycat muffin thing for a while now, and have spun up five other delicious recipes that hit the SPOT for those of us who have been missing those quintessential Costco muffins ever since going gluten free. For me, it’s been a solid 17 years since I last got to snag a tray of those bigger-than-your-face and unbelievably fluffy muffins, but I can now rest easy knowing I can make them at home whenever I want! (perhaps more dangerous than having to make the trip to Costco to get them!). So far we’ve got: giant banana nut muffins,…
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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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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 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…
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Gluten Free Browned Butter Blueberry Cupcakes
Food can be a small, or a big, comfort. There’s something about warm bread or flavors of childhood favorites or family recipes that envelope us in something akin to a culinary hug – holding us in the realm of blurry nostalgia or in a space where no harm can befall us. There are so many families hurting right now – from the effects of police brutality or the unrelenting COVID or other loss, or just day to day struggles. To any and all of you who are hurting now, we send our support and love, and hope that tomorrow feels a little lighter, or holds you a bit tighter than…
