Sometimes you just need triple the chocolate. Because when you’re in the mood for chocolate, why not go ALL the way and triple it (is this technically quadrupling it? triple is a little easier to say so we’re going with that). AND, this cake happens to be the down right easiest layer cake on the blog (maybe giving this super simple and decadent Mexican Hot Chocolate layer cake with cinnamon and chile). If you’re new to layer cakes, or, like me, until quite recently (read: last June) had never fully decorated an actual layer cake before, this is for you. Huge props to the other half of Sisters Sans Gluten,…
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Gluten Free Dark Chocolate Earl Grey Cake
Chocolate cake is a forever cake. It’s indulgent, smooth, melts you into a puddle of cozy comfort food bliss, and is usually pretty easy to make so barrier to entry is pretty low. I know we have lots of different chocolate cakes on our blog, but this one is one I’m particularly proud of: a gluten free dark chocolate earl grey cake – filled with earl grey pastry cream, dark chocolate buttercream, and an earl grey chocolate ganache (SWOON). It bloomed out of a pure creative chance: two leftover chocolate cake layers and an afternoon free to just play! Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE planning and designing new cakes…
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Gluten Free Raspberry White Chocolate Amaretto Cake
This is one of my favorite cakes I’ve ever made – inspired by the absolutely glorious-looking raspberry, white chocolate, and almond cake by Baker by Nature – though tweaked to be gluten free, a bit less sweet, heavy on the white chocolate (full-on whipped ganache instead of a white chocolate buttercream), with lots of fresh raspberries with the raspberry jam, fresh whipped cream and extra almond buttercream to boot – and toasted almonds to add a final touch! I highly recommend checking out the initial recipe-inspiration linked above, but if you’re looking for a less sweet, lots-of-white-chocolate, extra fillings, gluten free version, this is the recipe for you! The almond/amaretto…
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Gluten Free Spumoni Cupcakes
Alright, who else has had spumoni ice cream before? I have this magical, hazy memory of getting it once (maybe I got it every time we went – who knows at this point) at Antonio’s – one of the three restaurants in “downtown” Eagle Point where we grew up. Eagle Point was a town of 5,000 when we moved there in 1998, though as a 5 year old the sense that it was the town the size of a pinhead didn’t really register (and Kendra was 2 so she definitely didn’t have a clue at the time). The downtown consisted of one street. Not like a city street that stretches…
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The Ultimate Gluten Free Funfetti Cake
This cake is the ULTIMATE celebration cake. Funfetti, brithday cake, anything and eVERYTHING with sprinkles, all wrapped into one ginormous, four-layer beauty complete with cream cheese buttercream, ube white chocolate whipped ganache, and strawberry whipped cream (because go big or go home). What’s the occasion? Not a birthday, as you might expect, but a massive milestone for us here at Sisters Sans Gluten. For anyone who follows us on Instagram, you’ll know we spend a TON of time on the platform and honestly, it’s become a go-to space for some of the best friendships, support, encouragement, and inspiration these past two years. When we first started, it involved a lot…
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Gluten Free Tiramisu Layer Cake
This may be the weightiest cake I’ve ever made. It all started with a birthday cake request – always the best ones because it usually means something unique – since we all want something special for our special days – not a plain white or chocolate cake, no simple layers of simple buttercream, no repeat flavors or styles. That’s why I LOVE birthday cakes. This one was no exception. The one flavor note I got for the order was tiramisu, but of course we wanted to go in the classic layer cake direction so those perfect Italian flavors were spun into a four-layer, 9-inch cake with the most frostings, fillings,…
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Gluten Free Snickers Tart
WhenI first was diagnosed with Celiac – even before, actually – I thought I’d never eat a candy bar again. In 6th grade, we embarked on a “what’s wrong with Amelia” crusade that involved thesis-worthy research into the myriad syndromes, allergies, or intolerances that could possibly stop me from growing or gaining any weight at age 11 or that could be the culprit for the seemingly endless number of quotidian digestive issues I faced. It was a fun year y’all, let me tell you. Though my mother was the real hero – not taking “I don’t know” for an answer from any doctor, always demanding we take the test or…
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Gluten Free Black and White Cupcakes
Racism is baked into the bones of America. Even after perceived progress due to the courage, tirelessness, and perseverance of so many, including Dr. King, racism persists in the very systems that this country is built on. In all the ugliness of 2020, thousands marched for the same injustices, the same changes that Dr. King wrote and spoke about over five decades ago. Because racism never left; it’s been twisted and reformed to fit into what we think are socially acceptable channels today. The saying, “they tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds” applies to racism and racists as much as it applies to those who are…
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Gluten Free Strawberry Layer Cake with Cream Cheese Buttercream
There’s something about cream cheese frosting. For all of you lactose/dairy-free folk out there, I feel your pain – as a weird and twisted side effect of Celiac disease, I also lost the ability to digest lactose for years before and after diagnosis, so I’m quiiiiite familiar with the array of nut, rice, and soy mylks and cheeses out there, and Kendra, the younger taller sister of Sisters Sans Gluten, is still dairy free to this day! (she makes a mean dairy free cheesecake too). This cake, however, is definitely heavy on the dairy. Gotta love swoops of silky, slightly-tangy cream cheese buttercream wrapped around summery strawberry cake layers, billowy…
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Gluten Free Vanilla Bean & Chocolate Layer Cake
Sometimes you save a very-ambitious baking project for the day-of and sometimes it takes a biiiiiit longer to pull it all together than anticipated and sometimes that means you end up taking photos of it after the sun has DEFINITELY set (thanks Winter) so they turn out a bit grainier and darker than you planned. And that sometime was THIS time, but I’m still excited because it was the first time working with edible gold powder and doing this gold drip layer cake! Don’t let the outside deceive you, this cake is dark as night inside with velvety chocolate cake layered with bourbon cherry preserves (just add bourbon to anything…
