This gluten free ube coconut cake was dreamt up as a very special birthday cake for a very special person in our lives: our mom Lynn! If you’ve read through our other recipes or follow along with our gluten free baking adventures on our Instagram, you’ll know that our mom has been one of the most constant sources of inspiration, and knowledge, for our baking hobby. And after the recent unexpected and scary events that led me to need to come back to Oregon in order to get distance from Oxford, I happen to be home around her birthday – so I finally get to make her a cake! In…
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Gluten Free Lemon Ricotta Cake
If you love lemon, this cake is for you! It’s the ULTIMATE gluten free lemon ricotta cake, composed of moist, not-too-sweet lemon ricotta cake layers (inspired by Kendra’s lemon ricotta cupcakes), filled with whipped ricotta + cream, lemon glaze, and heaps of tart lemon buttercream. It’s got every form of lemon you can think of and makes for a sunny, cheerful cake for any occasion. In this case, one of my roommates, Verity, requested a non-chocolate cake for her recent 30th birthday, and after learning from her brother that one of her favorite cakes is lemon drizzle, I knew that turning Kendra’s lemon ricotta cupcakes into an actual layer cake…
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Gluten Free Pineapple Coconut Cake
Coconut is one of my all time favorite flavors – and paired with pineapple it’s brought to whole new levels, so this gluten free pineapple coconut cake is a DREAM. It’s made of four incredibly delicate, perfumed pineapple cake layers, filled with the silkiest pineapple coconut buttercream, the floofiest coconut whipped cream, and sprinkles of buttery, toasted coconut! Sound good? Read on. This cake was actually a happy mistake: I had committed to make a mini celebratory pineapple coconut cake for a friend in the Bay Area for her anniversary, and to make the recipe a bit easier, I just made triple what I would have needed for that tiny…
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Gluten Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
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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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 Rainbow Pride Cake
We are very very pleased to FINALLY present our very first actual rainbow pride cake!! It’s been a long time coming – mostly due to the fact that I was wildly intimidated to make a multi-layer, multi-colored cake and kept worrying that the colors would turn brown or not look great. But here we are, nearly the end of June with this fan-freaking-tastic EIGHT-layer gluten free Pride Cake, which not only boasts eight stunning colors, but eight stunning flavors as well. YES, you heard that right – to further embody the glorious array of everyone who celebrates who they are in all of our various colors, we wanted to add…
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Gluten Free Browned Butter Apricot and Vanilla Bean Cake Featuring Isigny Butter
This has probably been one of the most exciting partnerships we’ve done thus far: Isigny Butter! For those of us who’ve been following along with Sisters Sans Gluten for a while, you know that we LOVE butter. We buy it by the pounds for everything from cakes to cookies to brownies to buttercream and everything in between. Our freezers and fridges are constantly stocked with various butters for various projects. So when we pitched a partnership to Isigny Butter and they accepted, it was a DREAM come true. Isigny Sainte Mère is a dairy cooperative in Normandy in northern France where the dairy’s cows roam on gorgeous green pastures along…
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Gluten Free Guava Cake with Cream Cheese Buttercream
The wonderful thing about flavor is that there is so much of it in the world. Growing up in rural southern Oregon, I never once had guava, but years later, thanks to friends and travel and happy strangers, I’ve now fallen in love with it. The first time I actually had guava was when I was living in the Galapagos, conducting my undergraduate thesis research with a load of astonishingly patient teachers, principals, and 8th graders on three of the islands (yes, there are over 30,000 people who live in the Ecuadorian Archipelago!). One of the best restaurants on the main street in Puerto Ayora, the town on Santa Cruz…
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Gluten Free Triple Chocolate Raspberry Cake
Sometimes you just need triple the chocolate. Because when you’re in the mood for chocolate, why not go ALL the way and triple it (is this technically quadrupling it? triple is a little easier to say so we’re going with that). AND, this cake happens to be the down right easiest layer cake on the blog (maybe giving this super simple and decadent Mexican Hot Chocolate layer cake with cinnamon and chile). If you’re new to layer cakes, or, like me, until quite recently (read: last June) had never fully decorated an actual layer cake before, this is for you. Huge props to the other half of Sisters Sans Gluten,…
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Gluten Free Black Forest Cake
Black forest cake has always looked and seemed to me like one of the most fantastic cakes you could make. Maybe it’s all in the name: black forest at once sounds mysterious and other-worldly – almost like you’ll happen upon Galadriel taking a perfectly-delicate bite of a slice of this dark chocolate, whipped cream, and cherry creation. The elegance of that combination of flavors lends itself to a sophisticated, gorgeous cake fit for an elfin queen. Perhaps it’s more up Elrond’s alley, but even so, this has been on my list for ages and I’m thrilled that a special request from a friend finally got me to make it! So…
