These gluten free coconut lime cupcakes are an absolute delight – made with THE fluffiest coconut + lime cupcake cake (complete with fresh lime zest, juice, and toasted coconut), and dreamy coconut + lime buttercream (with all of the above plus of course butter, salt – to bring out the sweetness and round out the flavor, and icing sugar). This is the first recipe I’ve gotten to think through, draft, bake, decorate, film, AND shoot (food photography wise) in over 10 months, and it feels really nice to get back to things that allow me to be creative, in charge of every design and flavor decision, and use our new…
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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…
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Gluten Free Lemon Ricotta Cake
If you love lemon, this cake is for you! It’s the ULTIMATE gluten free lemon ricotta cake, composed of moist, not-too-sweet lemon ricotta cake layers (inspired by Kendra’s lemon ricotta cupcakes), filled with whipped ricotta + cream, lemon glaze, and heaps of tart lemon buttercream. It’s got every form of lemon you can think of and makes for a sunny, cheerful cake for any occasion. In this case, one of my roommates, Verity, requested a non-chocolate cake for her recent 30th birthday, and after learning from her brother that one of her favorite cakes is lemon drizzle, I knew that turning Kendra’s lemon ricotta cupcakes into an actual layer cake…
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Gluten Free Pineapple Coconut Cake
Coconut is one of my all time favorite flavors – and paired with pineapple it’s brought to whole new levels, so this gluten free pineapple coconut cake is a DREAM. It’s made of four incredibly delicate, perfumed pineapple cake layers, filled with the silkiest pineapple coconut buttercream, the floofiest coconut whipped cream, and sprinkles of buttery, toasted coconut! Sound good? Read on. This cake was actually a happy mistake: I had committed to make a mini celebratory pineapple coconut cake for a friend in the Bay Area for her anniversary, and to make the recipe a bit easier, I just made triple what I would have needed for that tiny…
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Gluten Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
Chocolate + peanut butter, the love of a lifetime. This is, perhaps, my oldest and fondest flavor favorites. There’s something about the cozy, ultra-indulgent pairing of salty, crunchy (or creamy), nutty peanut butter with the richness of chocolate. So this gluten free chocolate peanut butter cake has been a dream for a looooong time. I’d had plans to make some extravagant layer cake celebrating my forever favorite, and just never got around to doing it. So, when a friend requested two small anniversary cakes, one for her (pineapple coconut) and one for her husband (chocolate peanut butter), I ran with it, made extra cake batter, and ended up finally making…
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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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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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Gluten Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Bars with Meli’s Monster Cookies
Happy Celiac Awareness Month!! For those of you who don’t have Celiac or don’t have friends or family who have Celiac – happy month of becoming aware of this awesome (read: sarcasm) disease!! This month, we were thrilled to partner with an awesome women-run company called Meli’s Monster Cookies, to develop a recipe using their awesome gluten free boxed cookie mixes! So we give you: these DECADENT and super easy gluten free cookie bars, packed with peanut butter and chocolate (because wowsers), using the Meli’s Monster Cookies Choco-Lot Cookie mix! I haven’t used a cookie mix in ages and man aLIVE was it easy – I forgot the absolute breeze…
