Chocolate cherry is one of my favorite fruit + chocolate combos (check out this chocolate cherry cake for more). I used to really dislike that artificial cherry flavor – the one that’s packed into those cherry-filled chocolate truffles or just maraschino cherries on or in anything, but my taste buds seemed to have welcomed the flavor with open arms in the past few years especially. I’m now a HUGE maraschino cherry fan (these spumponi cupcakes were an absolute DREAM), and I just found out about cherry chip cake, which is apparently a popular flavor in the midwest? So I’ll be making that soon in cake or cupcake form. But cherries…
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Gluten Free Black Forest Cake
Black forest cake has always looked and seemed to me like one of the most fantastic cakes you could make. Maybe it’s all in the name: black forest at once sounds mysterious and other-worldly – almost like you’ll happen upon Galadriel taking a perfectly-delicate bite of a slice of this dark chocolate, whipped cream, and cherry creation. The elegance of that combination of flavors lends itself to a sophisticated, gorgeous cake fit for an elfin queen. Perhaps it’s more up Elrond’s alley, but even so, this has been on my list for ages and I’m thrilled that a special request from a friend finally got me to make it! So…
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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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Gluten Free Turkish Delight
For this gluten free Turkish Delight we are giving a huge shout out to Simply Delish for this recipe inspiration! Full disclosure – we joined the Simply Delish affiliate program which essentially entails them sending us a box of their gluten/dairy-free pudding and jel boxed mixes every few months, and us coming up with recipes that involve those boxed mixes as an ingredient every month, so you’ll see a few other Simply Delish-inspired recipes on here once in a while! This one uses their new Black Cherry Jel boxed mix and if you’re into it, use our specific link here to go check out their products, and use our 10% discount code SSGPUDDING to get 10%…
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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…
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Gluten Free Berries and Cream Swiss Roll
We had a great Saturday today, complete with this marvelously-summery gluten free Swiss roll, and a whole spread of other homemade dishes. It was 4th of July today, but instead of celebrating as we have done in years past, we took note of how our country, and all of us in it (especially us white folks) can be better. If you truly love this country, it is paramount that your love pushes it in a direction of change, progress, justice, and peace. There is no peace without justice, so our daily pledge and work will be to dismantle systems that are inherently cruel and lethal to groups of people who…
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Gluten Free Jammy Strawberry Brownies for Valentines Day
Food is a love language. And in the full spirit of Valentines Day, here is a pan full of the most decadent love language gluten free brownies around: jammy (with actual cherry and raspberry jam), bright with fresh strawberries, and deeply, darkly chocolate with, well, chocolate. Lots of it. I usually just toss together a quick pan of plan brownies (which are, by themselves, pretty darn wonderful too, so no need to add the topping here), and serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, but this week felt like it needed a bit of extra love, berry-style. It just so happened that I had two jars of my new…
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Gluten Free Vanilla Bean Cheesecake with Balsamic Cherries
I don’t know about you, but upon taking the first bite of any cheesecake, all brain and muscle function seems to slow to a cozy, foggy crawl as I wrap my tastebuds around the unbelievable richness. If you can relate, make sure you’re in a safe, comfortable space before digging into this heap of creamy calories. This is the kind of dessert you either make for a crowd when you’re not sure how the dinner conversation is going to go and you’ve got this up your sleeve to knock all your guests into an instant coma and render the evening a resounding success. Or, you make it ahead of time…
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Gluten Free Dark Chocolate Cherry Cake with Buttercream Frosting
For years now, I’ve had one go-to gluten free chocolate cake (see Chocolate Zucchini Cake), and don’t get me wrong, it’s fantastic, but chocolate cake is one of those desserts that can express multitudes of characteristics depending on the subtle notes of coffee, sour cream, cinnamon, and any other added complementary ingredients. So a goal of mine is to search for and develop a handful of favorite chocolate cake recipes, each of which will be best suited for a different flavor pairing (cherry and buttercream being one) and which allow me to show off new baking skills. This chocolate cake leans heavily on two ingredients to give it its elegant…
