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 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…
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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 Peanut Butter Monster Cookies
Happy election day, USofA! Today is a stressful day for millions of Americans – those especially whose rights, to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (and love) are teetering on the edge of oblivion. We have already voted, in two different states – Kendra in Oregon and me in California. Ballots cast into the great pit of representative democracy (heads up, the US has never been a true, cut and clean direct democracy, for better or for worse). We voted on behalf of so many who aren’t eligible but who support every detail of the running of this country nonetheless and deserve our support in kind. We voted on…
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Gluten Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Tart
I’ve already waxed poetic about my love of chocolate and peanut butter and peanut butter and chocolate and any elaborate combination of the two, so I’ll spare you the same spiel here (if you’re into it, you can read ALL of it here on our chocolate peanut butter mud cookies or on these chocolate peanut butter cupcakes). Instead, I’ll just give you the ooey gooey fudgey details of this gluten free chocolate peanut butter tart, my new pride and joy of the weekend (it can be yours too if you follow the recipe below). I’ve seen so many elegantly-simple chocolate tarts on Instagram (our number one app for consuming egregious…
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Gluten Free Peanut Butter Chocolate Mud Cookies
These cookies are for Hope. You know those friends who, even after years of losing track of each other, you fall back into friendship with so easily it’s like coming home? Hope is one of those friends. We hadn’t even seen each other since high school, back when we were both feeling a bit stuck in a rut in tiny Oregon towns, finding our outlet in community theater productions (I think we met on the set of West Side Story, so many years ago) and figuring out who we were. Fast forward nearly ten years and after watching her lay a foundation in actually writing, singing, and producing her own…
