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 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 Vegan Pistachio Raspberry Rose Donuts
Alright y’all, I’ve done something that I’ve been terrified of for a very long time: vegan baking!! It’s been a long time coming, and something I’ve subconsciously avoided due to years of well-meaning waiters, acquaintances, and online folks recommending restaurants and dishes that are vegan because in a lot of peoples’ minds, vegan and gluten free are exactly the same thing (all of you with food allergies or who are actually vegan may have similar experiences). It takes ages of built-up patience to explain, yet again, that problematic gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley, and vegan means you don’t eat animal products….LITERALLY not even close to…
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Gluten Free Raspberry Chocolate Layer Cake with Chocolate Cream Cheese Buttercream
Is there anything better than a slice of gloriously-rich chocolate cake. Rhetorical, of course. This one was a particular stunner: four layers of the fluffiest, most decadent gluten free chocolate cake layers you’ll ever eat, filled with chocolate cream cheese buttercream (YES you heard that right – cream cheese frosting in CHOCOLATE? yes), raspberry puree + preserves, and bright raspberry whipped cream, and enrobed in more chocolate cream cheese buttercream, a rich chocolate ganache drip, and topped with gorgeous fresh flowers and raspberries. Just go ahead and let out that sigh of relief that it’s ALL GLUTEN FREE and serve yourself a second or third piece. One of the best…
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Gluten Free Raspberry White Chocolate Amaretto Cake
This is one of my favorite cakes I’ve ever made – inspired by the absolutely glorious-looking raspberry, white chocolate, and almond cake by Baker by Nature – though tweaked to be gluten free, a bit less sweet, heavy on the white chocolate (full-on whipped ganache instead of a white chocolate buttercream), with lots of fresh raspberries with the raspberry jam, fresh whipped cream and extra almond buttercream to boot – and toasted almonds to add a final touch! I highly recommend checking out the initial recipe-inspiration linked above, but if you’re looking for a less sweet, lots-of-white-chocolate, extra fillings, gluten free version, this is the recipe for you! The almond/amaretto…
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Gluten Free Pavlova with Raspberry and Jasmine Cream
Today is my 28th birthday! For those of you new to the blog, I’m Amelia Farber, the older, shorter sister of Sisters Sans Gluten (check out more about Kendra – the younger, taller one – and myself on our About Us page!). Twenty eight always felt like that shining age, emblematic of a settled, confident adult. Maybe because my parents got married at 28, or when a few friends back in college turned 28 it felt so foreign to all of us 20 year olds. Whatever it is, I’m now that age and feel thoroughly…the same – though closer to 30 than I’ve ever been and THAT, my friends, is…
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Gluten Free Chocolate Mousse Cake
Chocolate mousse. That lighter-than-air, seemingly miraculous dessert that’s the stuff of high-end restaurants and single-serve custard cups of sublime chocolatey goodness. I’d always balked at the idea of making it at home – intimidated by the technique or what I thought I needed to do to make it. But there are many ways to make a mousse! (feels like that should be a saying…) and this one is gosh darn easy as pie (or cake). In times of isolation and social distancing, tracking those “safe” friends/folks in your bubble and making plans to get gussied up and cook a fancy meal add a bit more excitement to the COVID life.…
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Gluten Free Charlotte Russe
For this gluten free Charlotte Russe we are giving a huge shout out to Simply Delish for this recipe inspiration! Full disclosure – we joined the Simply Delish affiliate program which essentially entails them sending us a box of their gluten/dairy-free pudding and jel boxed mixes every few months, and us coming up with recipes that involve those boxed mixes as an ingredient every month, so you’ll see a few other Simply Delish-inspired recipes on here once in a while! This one uses their strawberry pudding boxed mix (we are a HUGE fan of any boxed pudding, it was our favorite camping treat when we were kids) and if you’re…
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Gluten Free Chocolate Raspberry Birthday Cake
In Harry Potter, Professor Lupin gives Harry, Hermione, and Ron chocolate after the first bizarre and harrowing encounter with dementors, and you’ve got to hand it to him, he knows how to cure a case of the willies. For any anti-chocolaters out there, apologies in advance for this post, but you’re probably not reading it anyway after seeing the gargantuan photo of an ALL CHOCOLATE cake, so, oh well. My sister and I have always loved chocolate. When we were little, we’d frequently have chocolate ice cream rings around our mouths, or would choose the flourless chocolate cake (often times the only gluten free dessert option but we’re not complaining),…
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Gluten Free Raspberry Vanilla Bean Layer Cake
Over thirty fires have cropped up across California in the past five days, due to late summer heat waves, high winds, and unexpected lightning and thunder storms. Situated in down-town San Francisco, we’re usually safely far from the path of any wildfires, and only have to worry about smoke-tinged air cloaking the peninsula, blown across the state. But this time they’re even closer to home. There’s a strange cognitive dissonance when fire season starts – while admiring the nectarine-orange sunrises and movie-filter sunsets we’re worried about friends and family around the state and wary of the flash-fire devastation that tore so many from their homes in years past. If our…
