Rice Krispie treats were one of those glorious childhood treats that always seemed safe – blue metalic wrapper krinkling as you unwrapped the marshmallow and crispy rice rectangle and bit into the impossibly soft, squishy, buttery, crispy mix of all those perfect ingredients. Until you were diagnosed with Celiac and realized that Kellogs, for some BIZARRE reason, just HAS to (still to this day) include malt flavor. Which happens to be made from barley, which happens to be one of the THREE grains you absolutely must avoid if you have Celiac. Now, apparently Kellogs released a gluten free version of their classic crispy rice cereal at some point in the…
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Giant Gluten Free Costco Copycat Blueberry Muffins
Installment four in our celebratory nostalgic saga featuring Costco muffin lookalikes!! We give you, GIANT, fluffy, gorgeously simple and perfect gluten free blueberry muffins. Once again, we’ve used the trick for producing giant muffins (truly giant, not the “giant” muffin pans you can find on Amazon, those aren’t actually that giant), which is a set of six 4-inch round cake pans (affiliate link) – with fairly tall sides – that are the perfect vehicle for these floofy massive creations. Highly recommend snagging yourself a set of those pans and using them to make these and ALL of the other Costco copycat muffins we have here on the blog – and…
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Giant Gluten Free Double Chocolate Muffins
For all of you waiting with baited breath for the next installment in the “Gluten Free Costco Muffin” saga, the time is now. I give you: the giant gluten free Costco copycat double chocolate muffin in all its chocolatey glory. It’s HUGE, it’s DOUBLE the chocolate, it’s fluffy and moist, and it’s dang easy to make which makes these the most dangerous chonky muffins out there. Each giant muffin is the equivalent of four regular-sized muffins, so be wary of the “I’ll just have two” urge that will wash over you once these come out of the oven. I finished making the first test batch of these just after 10pm…
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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 Almond Shortbread with White Chocolate
One of the best holidays as kids was Easter – the easter baskets, decorating real eggs, filling plastic ones with all the chocolates, marshmallow peeps, jelly beans, and other goodies we could get our hands on, and then the actual day-of – conducting the most elaborate hides and hunts of all of the easter goods in our backyard. When we were really little, we’d go to our friend Nathan’s house out in the hills above Ashland, where he and his family would host a massive egg hunt every year in the forests, tumbled trees, creek, and hillsides surrounding their home. We’d dress up in spring florals, do our hair, wear…
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Healthy Gluten Free Banana Pancakes
Pancakes. I have a long history with these thinnest of cakes, the ultimate breakfast food (at least here in the west). When I was going through the entire rigamarole of tests and food allergies blood draws and biopsies back in 6th grade, we tried everything under the sun in terms of diets. No, I wasn’t trying to lose any weight as an already-under-average 11 year old, but heck if we weren’t trying to figure out why I wasn’t gaining weight, and food had a lot to do with it. One “diet” we tried on for size (I think only for a couple of months but it felt like a YEAR…
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Gluten Free Mango Panna Cotta
After making this dang-easy mango panna cotta, I realized that we (quite unintentionally) have NO OTHER mango recipes!! Which is something that I’m going to need to remedy pronto because we’re both big fans of the creamy, bright, sultry depth of this orange fruit. It happens to pair very well with custardy treats like this elegant and deceptively simple panna cotta too, so I’m at least glad we have this first stab at a mango creation. Props to Kendra for cutting all the mango halves into little hedgehogs (probably a better name for them but hey it’s cute) for the photo shoot – especially because it meant that I got…
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Gluten Free Buttermilk Panna Cotta with Italian Pine Bud Syrup
This may be one of the easiest, simplest, and most elegant desserts you ever make. Looking for a show-stopping, dressed-to-impress post-dinner treat you can wow your quarantine date with? Wanting to spice dinners up after nearly (exactly) a year in semi-lockdowns? This is for YOU. It’s the ever-classic, ever-indulgent Panna cotta, an Italian gift to the world (in addition to so many others), that needs only a handful of ingredients, as many minutes as you can count on two hands, and some lead time. Yes, the only down side is that it needs to set in the fridge for at least 8 hours…but that just means that you won’t have…
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Giant Gluten Free Fudgy Brownies
Brownies. Need I say more? I need not, but I shall. When was the first time you remember experiencing the gloriousness of a warm, impossibly-dense, fudgy brownie? That moment of plunging into the chocolatey depths, only to resurface for a glug of cold milk or an extra spoonful of crisp vanilla ice cream. The rest of the world seems to melt away in that first bite – your peripheral vision compromised with visions of pools of melted chocolate chunks or in the velvety darkness of that center brownie piece. And then the satisfying chew of the caramelized edges. The most wonderful square you’ll ever eat. Brownies also happen to be…
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Gluten Free Sugared Cranberries
These are mind. blowing. If somebody had told me last week that eating totally RAW cranberries covered in a thin layer of sugar was safe enough to avoid a WHOLE FACE pucker at the insanity that is cranberry tartness, I would have laughed. But gosh dangit I’m a total convert to sugared cranberries. They aren’t just for incredible cake decoration! I’ve eaten 20 of these in a row, popping them like halloween candy at age 10, and I had to lock the rest away in a tupperware so I wouldn’t end up eating 3 cups of these tart garnet beauties which would have undoubtedly led to disastrous consequences. And they’re…
