Both of these flavors are some of the dreamiest out there, so be ready to drift off into a tea time daydreamscape of whimsical proportions. I am a HUGE tea drinker: I start off my day with a very large mug of black tea, usually English Breakfast, though my second go-to is earl grey, hence the penchant for these giant gluten free lavender earl grey muffins with perhaps my favorite glaze of the giant muffin series thus far. These giant muffins were born out of a longing for the similar lavender earl grey cupcakes I made for the first time last year (still one of my best recipes to date)…
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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 Earl Grey Lavender Cupcakes
When I was about eight or nine years old, my grandma gathered all three of us granddaughters, my cousin Sean, my little (at the time, now she towers over me) sister, and me, into the family room of her Ashland hills house and pointed through the fragile glass doors of a carefully-treasured case to the three sets of china that she had waiting for us. One for each granddaughter, differently-colored for differently-personalitied girls. Green and gold with straight-edged patterns, pale blue and silver in little floral loops, and blush-pink, full of little roses. That one was destined for Kendra, whose middle name is Rose, and who was about 4 years…
