Pumpkin season is in full swing and I’m just scrambling to find cans of pumpkin puree here in the UK so that I can make these GIANT gluten free pumpkin coffee cake muffins again for my new roommates! These muffins are an utter dream: they’re fluffy, sooooo pumpkiny, topped with a melt-in-your-mouth pecan streusel AND a maple glaze. Because just pumpkin alone is good, pumpkin and streusel is great, and pumpkin, streusel, and glaze is WOW. They’re actually gosh-darn easy to make too, so don’t let the three sets of ingredients put you off. It’s worth it to get all of these out of the giant muffin pans and show…
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Giant Gluten Free Toasted Almond Muffins
Almond is a flavor I’ve fallen in love with in the last five or so years. With the discovery of marzipan on trips to Austria and Germany, I discovered a whole world of ethereal flavor that I had been missing for ages, and now I’m a fan of it in nearly everything. These giant gluten free toasted almond muffins are no exception: they’re fluffy, filled with that incredible almond flavor, and packed with toasted sliced almonds for extra almondy goodness and an added crunch. I highly recommend making a batch or two of these for your morning routine or afternoon snacks, and freezing a few for a rainy day (it’s…
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Giant Gluten Free Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
These are some of the most EPIC muffins you’ll ever make, all thanks to our mother! This is one of her first ever gluten free recipes, created years ago when there was really nothing edible on the gluten free grocery store shelves. These gluten free pumpkin chocolate chip muffins, now giantized because why not, have stood the test of time and are still one of my favorite recipes of all time. If you’re a pumpkin fan to begin with, then these muffins are an absolute must-add to your fall baking repertoire (and here’s to saving a few cans for the off-season so that you can indulge in these ridiculously-easy treats…
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Giant Gluten Free Cinnamon Chip Muffins
Cinnamon chips! Whoever invented them was a gosh darn genius. Thankfully, I got to incorporate that genius into these giant gluten free cinnamon chip muffins and the results are OUTstanding, folks. Cinnamon chips are tiny baby baking chips (they look like chocolate chips but they’re made out of cinnamon and some other stuff). I’ve found great deals on them from Olive Nation, though there are a number of companies that produce them. I’ve never seen them in grocery stores near me, so I’ve always ordered them online, so if you’re not into scanning grocery store shelves, I recommend taking a peak on the Olive Nation site or doing a general…
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Giant Gluten Free Chocolate Orange Cinnamon Muffins
Anyone else have fond memories smashing spheres of perfectly-welded chocolate orange segments on the table every Christmas and then slowly eating each delicate slice? I have to admit, chocolate orange isn’t actually my favorite chocolate fruit combo, but there’s something deeply nostalgic about it and every once in a while I absolutely crave it. Which is why, for our next installment in the GIANT muffin series, I give you: GIANT gluten free chocolate orange muffins with an extra-cozy hint of cinnamon, and a deliciously-easy chocolate orange glaze (you’ll want to pour it on EVERYTHING, let me tell you). For those of you just joining, we started creating GIANT muffin recipes…
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Giant Gluten Free Ube White Chocolate Muffins
Ube is one of those flavors I’m thankful to have been introduced to in the last five years. It’s a very popular one in Filipino cuisine – and I highly recommend seeking out Filipino bloggers and pastry shops who will have tons of glorious ube bakes and treats for you to try. There’s one in particular here in the Bay Area that I’m so glad I found out about last year: Meryienda Bake Shop! They’re actually based in New York but recently started sharing their incredible bakes here in the Bay Area which is how I got to know them. I ended up ordering a bunch of their ube white…
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Giant Gluten Free Lemon Saffron Muffins
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…
