Happy summer in Northern Hemisphere November? Yes! It just snowed in Oxford and I am loving the winter wonderland vibes, but I also miss the comfort of a cocoon of warm sun in July and these muffins absolutely embody that. They’re giant gluten free pineapple coconut muffins and they’re darn magical: fluffy muffins packed with pineapple and with coconut extract, topped with literal pure sunshine in the form of a pineapple coconut glaze. If you’re already car-stuck-in-the-driveway deep in snow and are missing that summer sunshine, these will brighten up your kitchen, guaranteed. For those of you just joining, we started creating GIANT muffin recipes about 8 months ago after…
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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 Poached Pineapple Upside Down Cake with Hungarian Sweet Wine
Pineapple upside down cake has been a life-long love. One of those loves that you don’t often cherish because for some reason it always seems too tricky to make. Well, I’m here to tell you that it’s absolutely not and you should absolutely make this gluten free pineapple upside down cake the very next chance you get. This one was a labor of love, because the lead up to this final recipe was LONG. We’ve been planning our third Wind & Desserts pairing with our friend Iker (check out his awesome knowledge on wine here!), who’s training to be a sommalier in Austria, for weeks now, and we had landed…
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Gluten Free Pineapple Cake
This is a brand new cake for me – thanks to special requests from colleagues for socially-distant birthdays for family members! I’ve always been a fan of pineapple upside down cake – the caramelized slices of fruit saturating the rest of the cake with deep summer sweetness. So this cake peaked my interest, and after a lot of recipe research, I landed on this creation: a sponge similar to an angel food or chiffon cake, with LOTS of eggs (not just egg whites!), not too much sugar, and cooled upside down to preserve the lightness of the risen layers. The secret addition (not so secret anymore)? Powdered freeze dried pineapple…
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Gluten Free Piña Colada Cupcakes
The best piña colada I’ve ever had was also the most difficult to get to. Difficult in a good way – just lots of legs of transportation involved. It was also the best because I got to enjoy it on a tiny beach alongside my younger, taller, sister, Kendra, the other half of Sisters Sans Gluten. We started taking “Sister Trips” every year after our first trip together for Kendra’s 21st birthday, when we both flew down to LA, stayed in our first solo AirBnB, and spent the weekend in Universal Studios (Harry Potter world), around farmers markets and old bookstores and dining halls in downtown LA, and generally being…
