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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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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Gluten Free Chocolate Vanilla Bean Layer Cake
This chocolate vanilla bean cake was epic to make: four layers of one of my favorite chocolate cake recipes, layered with silky, gorgeously-easy and indulgent vanilla bean pastry cream (with a touch of bourbon because why the heck not), rich chocolate buttercream (also with a touch of bourbon), and a ganache drip. And tons of flowers! Sometimes the classic combos like vanilla and chocolate are the absolute winners, and that certainly is the case with this cake. For those of you who haven’t tried making pastry cream yet, let me be the first to welcome you to the world of SUCH easy and mind-blowing-amazingness. Pastry cream comes together in under…
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Gluten Free Passion Fruit Tart
Passion fruit was one of those mysterious, enticing fruits that I never saw in the grocery store in tiny, semi-rural Eagle Point, Oregon as a kid. The first time I got up close and personal, and proceeded to eat an abundance of the strange, wrinkly, impossibly satisfying tangy fruit was when I got to travel to Australia at age 13. I’d applied for and gotten into a People to People Student Ambassador Program in 7th grade, and spent the year raising money for the program cost and studying the various peculiarities and fascinations of the great southern island. When we finally got there, all 20-something of us 13 year olds…
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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 Raspberry White Chocolate Amaretto Cake
This is one of my favorite cakes I’ve ever made – inspired by the absolutely glorious-looking raspberry, white chocolate, and almond cake by Baker by Nature – though tweaked to be gluten free, a bit less sweet, heavy on the white chocolate (full-on whipped ganache instead of a white chocolate buttercream), with lots of fresh raspberries with the raspberry jam, fresh whipped cream and extra almond buttercream to boot – and toasted almonds to add a final touch! I highly recommend checking out the initial recipe-inspiration linked above, but if you’re looking for a less sweet, lots-of-white-chocolate, extra fillings, gluten free version, this is the recipe for you! The almond/amaretto…
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The Ultimate Gluten Free Funfetti Cake
This cake is the ULTIMATE celebration cake. Funfetti, brithday cake, anything and eVERYTHING with sprinkles, all wrapped into one ginormous, four-layer beauty complete with cream cheese buttercream, ube white chocolate whipped ganache, and strawberry whipped cream (because go big or go home). What’s the occasion? Not a birthday, as you might expect, but a massive milestone for us here at Sisters Sans Gluten. For anyone who follows us on Instagram, you’ll know we spend a TON of time on the platform and honestly, it’s become a go-to space for some of the best friendships, support, encouragement, and inspiration these past two years. When we first started, it involved a lot…
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Gluten Free Tiramisu Layer Cake
This may be the weightiest cake I’ve ever made. It all started with a birthday cake request – always the best ones because it usually means something unique – since we all want something special for our special days – not a plain white or chocolate cake, no simple layers of simple buttercream, no repeat flavors or styles. That’s why I LOVE birthday cakes. This one was no exception. The one flavor note I got for the order was tiramisu, but of course we wanted to go in the classic layer cake direction so those perfect Italian flavors were spun into a four-layer, 9-inch cake with the most frostings, fillings,…
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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 Chocolate Hazelnut Layer Cake
I could not wait for someone to request this pairing as a commissioned cake, and it finally happened! A friend recalled the chocolate hazelnut cupcakes I had made earlier this year (because sharing cupcakes during tough times is always a good thing) and asked it I could make it as a giant birthday cake. Answer: of course. So here it is in all its glory: four layers of the most heavenly, moist, cloud-like hazelnut cake (made with heaps of finely ground, freshly-roasted hazelnuts because that’s truly the only way to eat these perfumed little beauties), enrobed in the silkiest chocolate hazelnut buttercream, topped with dark chocolate ganache, and then decorated…
