Zucchini has been my ultimate veggie staple since sixth grade. Weird? Maybe. Sixth grade was a bumpy year: I was homeschooled that year because it was the *YEAR OF THE TESTS* – ie tons of medical stuff going on to figure out what the heck was wrong with me, why I had stopped growing, couldn’t gain weight, and had stomach issues constantly. Cue Celiac Diagnosis *enters stage right* – and that solved it! But before the diagnosis my mom was doing TONS of research to try and track down tests or diets or other dietary ideas that might alleviate my symptoms. We did a few months with no sugar or…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Orange Marmalade Muffins
Orange you glad we have yet ANOTHER giant muffin recipe for you to keep your weekday breakfasts (or weekend brunches) lively and fun? These gluten free orange marmalade muffins are stunners and packed with vitamin C. They’ve got orange juice, orange zest, AND orange marmalade, and a touch of orange extract for an extra kick. I’d heard a few folks ask if we were going to do marmalade or orange muffins so drafting this recipe and trying them out was a no brainer. If you’re an orange fan, or generally down with citrus, these are the giant muffins for you! They also look splendid on a summer brunch table when…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Pistachio Apricot Muffins
Welcome back to another GIANT MUFFIN MONDAY!! We’re here again with all your giant muffin content to satisfy all of your giant muffin cravings! This time with giant gluten free pistachio muffins studded with fresh summer apricots!! For those of you thinking, “what the heck is all this hullabaloo about giant muffins?” Glad you asked! In lieu of being able to buy and eat those gloriously-huge Costco muffins we loved so much as kids, we decided to start making heaps of giant muffins at home. And when we say giant, we mean GIANT. Those “jumbo” muffin pans you’ve maybe seen before? Nope, not even close. We make the ACTUAL Costco…
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Giant Costco-Copycat Gluten Free Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
These muffins are DAMN good. They disappear nearly as fast as they come together, so making a second batch is highly recommended. My boyfriend absolutely adores banana chocolate chip bread, so these GIANT gluten free banana chocolate chip muffins are (I believe) his favorite of our giant muffins so far. Plus, they’re ridiculously-easy to make and they freeze really well, making these perfect weekday breakfast treats or emergency tough-day snacks that you simply pop in the microwave for instant, fluffy, studded-with-melty-chocolate-chips muffins! Plus, potassium! So there you go, they’re “healthy” too! For those of you just joining the giant muffin train, welcome aboard! This series of breakfasty/snacky treats started a…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Blackberry Nectarine Streusel Muffins
Welcome to summer at it’s best: thick with sweet summer fruit and perfect for those dusty July mornings when you want something a bit more breakfasty than an entire berry crisp or crumble: these GIANT gluten free blackberry nectarine streusel muffins. They’re packed with gluten free rolled oats, brown sugar, and heaps of that good fresh summer fruit, so essentially, a blackberry nectarine crisp in muffin form. These might, MIGHT, be my favorite giant muffin yet. For those of you wondering – “yet? what are these giant muffins? what’s the hype?” let me let you in on a giant secret: we recently became obsessed with recreating those glorious Costco muffins…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Coffee Walnut Muffins
Happy Monday folks! I’m definitely one of those people who love a good, buttery, crumble-top, cinnamon-filled coffee cake, but I also LOVE coffee-flavored baked goods (ie actual coffee cake). And these giant gluten free coffee walnut muffins are exactly that. I’ve tried the coffee + walnut combo once before when making this glorious coffee walnut layer cake filled with toasted walnuts, ganache, and coffee buttercream (it’s the ULTIMATE Monday cake), but really wanted a breakfast muffin that mimicked the flavor. These are super easy, making them perfect as a WHAT-should-I-make-to-get-me-through-Monday bake – even the coffee glaze is super easy! For those of you just joining the GIANT muffin craze over…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Cherry Chocolate Chip Muffins
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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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins
Strawberry rhubarb is one of those classic combos that reminds me of summer potlucks, with bowls of pasta salad and cornbread and hot dogs and hamburgers and flimsy paper plates and plastic cups. Hot, southern Oregon summers (for those of you not from the Pacific Northwest, southern Oregon is not the same as Portland/Seattle – those two cities perpetually washed in grey and rain – it’s actually darn hot, sunny, and dry from May-September). So here I am, wishing for a hot southern Oregon summer, making these MASSIVE gluten free strawberry rhubarb muffins because that’s as close as we’re gonna get for now. And for those of you new to…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Lemon Raspberry Muffins
The giant muffin saga continues!! Not to worry, friends, this is going to be a regular installment series for us. With so much going on in the world that seems shakeable or unsteady, we’ve set a strong enough foundation to continue serving you giant muffin recipes for a long time to come (we may be reaching out to you all on Instagram and other platforms to help us come up with new flavors when our idea well runs dry). These ones were a top-voted flavor from our Instagram stories a week or so back, so we knew we had to make them pronto. They’re also a new (maybe? maybe they’ve…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Muffins
The saga continues!! For those of you just joining, we’ve been at this Costco-Copycat muffin thing for a while now, and have spun up five other delicious recipes that hit the SPOT for those of us who have been missing those quintessential Costco muffins ever since going gluten free. For me, it’s been a solid 17 years since I last got to snag a tray of those bigger-than-your-face and unbelievably fluffy muffins, but I can now rest easy knowing I can make them at home whenever I want! (perhaps more dangerous than having to make the trip to Costco to get them!). So far we’ve got: giant banana nut muffins,…
