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 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 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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Gluten Free Pink Grapefruit Almond Crumb Cake
Mother’s Day is just around the corner and we wanted to do something new this year! This also happens to coincide with one of our partnerships with a brand that we have been using for nigh on two decades now: Bob’s Red Mill! Start your morning off right with this glorious gluten free pink grapefruit almond crumb cake (it’s a mouthful but SO SO good) using Bob’s Red Mill super fine blanched almond flour and Bob’s Red Mill gluten free 1-1 baking mix. This is the perfect, bright, springy breakfast cake – picturing a lavish Mother’s Day brunch complete with this celebration of pink grapefruit (happens to be a favorite…
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Giant Gluten Free Costco Copycat Apple Streusel Muffins
For those of you who’ve remained invested in this epic saga of the gluten free Costco copycat muffins, this is your post! The fifth installment in our adventure, heaped with apples and buttery crumb topping and vanilla glaze: these GIANT gluten free apple streusel muffins, à la our favorite bulk grocery store chain. I remember that, as a kid facing the trays of massive muffins in the Costco bakery section, these apple streusel creations seemed very “adult.” Something about the elegance of the crumb topping and the criss-crosses of white glaze just had the air of “posh adult breakfast.” Now, as an adult, I’m not sure where I got that…
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Kendra’s Gluten Free Velvet Spice Cake
This was the cakes to end all cakes. Every year, my sister and I would enter things into the Jackson county fair. Yes, it does sound like we just stepped out of a mid-20th-century Rogers and Hammerstein musical, but honestly these were some of the most exciting parts of summers in Southern Oregon! There were loads of categories too, which meant you could enter photographs, canned goods, home-sewn dresses, paintings, drawings, and baked goods all at once and vie for county-fair fame by coming out with one of those multi-colored, frilled, glorious objects: the GRAND PRIZE ribbon. The first price ribbon wasn’t too bad either but the grand prize, or…
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Mini Gluten Free Red Velvet Bundt Cakes with Cream Cheese Glaze
Happy almost Halloween!! It’s definitely a different feel this year, stuck inside and terrified of something we can’t see or touch but that is all-too-real. Not quite the Halloween scare we were all hoping for – though I heard that some car washes have transformed themselves into drive-through haunted houses if you’re craving even more scariness this weekend! In all seriousness, though, there are tons of people who wake up every day afraid for their life, whether that be because of COVID (wear a mask, it’s really not that hard), or because of the color of their skin. STILL. In 2020. In the wealthiest nation in the world and also…
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Gluten Free Neapolitan Pound Cake with Neapolitan Glaze
There’s something delightful about the Neapolitan trio: chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry smushed together into perfect bands of ice cream or cake or candy, layers of those three most classic (at least here) flavors that you never have to choose from again. I remember only ever eating one flavor out of the tub of Neapolitan ice cream as a kid, which, looking back, seems like such a bummer because the three flavors together really are perfectly, simplistically lovely. But hey! A tub of Neapolitan meant whatever mood you were in, whether it was straight forward vanilla, silky chocolate, or summery strawberry, you were covered. After a quick bit of “research” (one…
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Gluten Free Spiced Mandarin Orange Pound Cake with Spiced Blood Orange Tea
I’m not a fan of orange-flavored desserts. But here’s an orange (more specifically, mandarin) pound cake! Contradiction: absolutely. Successful baking venture: also absolutely. Chocolate orange is, in my book, one of the highest offenders, which I know is a wildly unpopular opinion. I used to love those chocolate oranges that we got as gifts on Christmas morning or Christmas eve and smash on the table until they splintered into a dozen perfectly-molded chocolate orange segments, melting on our tongues. Years and years of these, and probably some unfavorable experience with an overly-sweet orange cake over did it for the orange stuff and I retreated to safer spaces of lemon, lime,…
