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 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 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 Hi Hat Cupcakes
Halloween was always one of my favorite holidays. My sister and I were VERY into dress up (especially Renaissance and other time-period costumes) growing up – we even had a dress up closet that consisted of giant bins of fanciful dresses and capes and scarves and wigs and suspenders with which to enrobe ourselves for various make believe games and mock-plays. Stepping into the outerwear of some other character not only allowed us to feed our wild imaginations, but also to inspect various aspects of ourselves. We would heighten our silliness or breathe life into our anger or ambition and create characters flooded with those magnified bits of our own…
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Gluten Free Irish Cream Cupcakes
I’m a tea drinker – any coffee and my heart thinks it’s part of a horse race and my brain bounces off ALL of the mental walls faster than tonight’s debate dissolved into absolute carnivalistic absurdity. So the coffee in the photo shoot for these cupcakes was, I’m sure, absolutely terrible, made from instant coffee granules (GREAT for baking) and promptly tossed out after the winning shots were captured. But! I do love a good coffee-infuse/flavored/enrobed baked good. Or coffee ice cream – I’ll take that any day before 6pm. These gorgeously indulgent cupcakes have not only a luxurious chocolate cupcake (with Irish Cream Liqueur), but they’re filled with –…
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Gluten Free Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Cupcakes
Now these cupcakes may have a very adult name, but they don’t have to be just for the adults! These gluten free chocolate bourbon pecan cupcakes are a Southerner’s daydream. Soft and moist chocolate cupcakes with bourbon added, so when they bake the alcohol cooks off but the bourbon flavor stays behind. I have to say, I’m not a bourbon girl myself, but these cupcakes have just the right amount of the flavor, and none of the bight! They’re topped with decadent and much too rich butter pecan buttercream frosting!Other than being sprinkled on top for decoration, the brown sugar roasted pecans are mixed with homemade caramel into this buttercream.…
