I started making this gluten free maple pecan granola for my dad because he would it granola every morning with his eggs for breakfast before he went off to work. As I’m sure you’re aware, granola, let alone gluten free granola, can be pretty spendy. Gluten free granola also tends to come in pretty small packages for its steep price. However, once I created this recipe, I can make a batch which fills a liter glass jar in our pantry and keeps us happy for about a month. I make this granola for gifts at the holidays, and always include a ziploc of it in the care package boxes I’ll…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Blackberry Nectarine Streusel Muffins
Welcome to summer at it’s best: thick with sweet summer fruit and perfect for those dusty July mornings when you want something a bit more breakfasty than an entire berry crisp or crumble: these GIANT gluten free blackberry nectarine streusel muffins. They’re packed with gluten free rolled oats, brown sugar, and heaps of that good fresh summer fruit, so essentially, a blackberry nectarine crisp in muffin form. These might, MIGHT, be my favorite giant muffin yet. For those of you wondering – “yet? what are these giant muffins? what’s the hype?” let me let you in on a giant secret: we recently became obsessed with recreating those glorious Costco muffins…
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Gluten Free Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
I gotta say, getting a good, chewy, gluten free cookie is a science. Definitely a science worth studying and perfecting, but who has that kind of time? I certainly didn’t until this three-day weekend and a full day of recipe research, development, taste-testing, and finally, resulting trays upon trays of what I’m now calling a scientific breakthrough: the perfectly chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookie. We’ve done it, ladies, gentlemen, and persons of the gluten free world, you can all go home and make yourself a batch and be thoroughly glad that you did. These cookies are BIG, BOLD, and BETTER than anything you’ll spend $7/cookie on in stores. They’re studded…
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Pumpkin Molasses Whoopie Pies
These little clam-like cookie sandwiches are apparently called whoopie pies – and what a delightful name. Upon investigation of the name origin, it seems the Amish were very fond of using up leftover cookie batter (I’ve personally never heard of having leftover anything when baking cookies – it all gets used) and Amish bakers turn the leftover dollops into these cream-filled drops of happiness. The story gets even better, though, because the name Whoopie Pie is said to come from the exclamation of joy each child makes if one of these treats is found in said child’s lunch box. Thanks to the Amish for these things and for Amish children…
