Give us all the citrus! I recently returned from an absolutely wonderful vacation in France and Italy, and the final week was filled with incredible foods and citrus-centered dishes. I stayed with friends in Sicily, where lemons reign supreme and seafood is the freshest you’ll ever have. A few lemony stand outs: limone e sale, a typical Sicilian drink (especially on the east coast where we were) made of sparkling water, fresh lemon juice, and sea salt! Sounds weird, but it’s surprisingly refreshing – highly recommend. Another stellar find was an absolutely glorious scoop of lemon gelato at Caffè Sicilia (which, apparently, is a now a world-famous cafe thanks to…
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Giant Gluten Free Lavender Earl Grey Muffins
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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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
This recipe is AGE OLD. I remember my mom making giant chocolate zucchini sheet cakes and covering them with her homemade fudge sauce when I was maybe 5 or 6 years old for any and every potluck or family event. It was hands down my favorite chocolate cake, maybe one of my favorite desserts (which, let me tell you, is a really difficult question to answer as a 5 or 6 year old – there are so many favorites!). I went on to make chocolate zucchini cakes for friends for their birthdays, especially for Christina who is the number one chocolate zucchini cake fan EVER. I even brought a ziplock…
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Giant Gluten Free Peach Crumble Muffins
Peaches: the ultimate orb of summer. Give me bucketloads, give me crates, give me windowsills full of peaches and I’ll be happy. They maaaaaay just be my favorite summer fruit (I mean favorite fruit in general, come on), so of course I had to go and made giant gluten free peach muffins. With crumble topping. And a peach glaze. It’s summer in a muffin and I wish I could freeze a batch all year so that in December I could pop one out and feel that dusty late summer haze again. In the meantime, I’m just eating my fill of stone fruit and thinking up more peachy keen recipes. If…
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Giant Gluten Free Mango Muffins
Get a load of these giant gluten free mango muffins, y’all!! Gut health has been, as you might imagine, a HUGE part of my life. Celiac basically requires it, so here I am, intimately in-tune with my digestive system, which means noticing exactly which foods and amounts of things will push me over the edge and make the intestine + stomach combo very displeased. One thing I’ve found in the last few years that really helps is regularity, and that includes consuming things that soothe my tummy (and taste great) every morning (starting off on the wrong spoonful of whatever is NOT a recipe for success). I actually go for…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Zucchini Muffins
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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Gluten Free Red White & Blue Cupcakes
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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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…
