Strawberry rhubarb is one of those classic combos that reminds me of summer potlucks, with bowls of pasta salad and cornbread and hot dogs and hamburgers and flimsy paper plates and plastic cups. Hot, southern Oregon summers (for those of you not from the Pacific Northwest, southern Oregon is not the same as Portland/Seattle – those two cities perpetually washed in grey and rain – it’s actually darn hot, sunny, and dry from May-September). So here I am, wishing for a hot southern Oregon summer, making these MASSIVE gluten free strawberry rhubarb muffins because that’s as close as we’re gonna get for now. And for those of you new to…
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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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Gluten Free Strawberry Snacking Bread
We’ve partnered with Bob’s Red Mill (#sponsored) (one of the longest-standing and favorite gluten free flour/ingredient companies out there) for a few collabs, and this one hit home after so many carefully-planned cook-at-home meals over the past year: a new recipe that includes their brand new Grain Free Flat Bread mix! It’s a quick, easy, and perfectly scrumptious gluten free strawberry snacking bread! I recommend making these for brunch or an afternoon tea and snacking on a slice with a bunch of butter. Bob’s has helped us get through so many ridiculously tricky gluten free times – back in 2004 when NO ONE else was making gluten free products, Bob’s…
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Gluten Free Banana Chocolate Chip Bread
We may be late to the banana bread train (so many amazing loaves out there that we’ve seen during shelter in place), but it’s never too late for a good ol’ fashioned slice of this stuff. While I do adore traditional banana bread (who first thought “hey, I have a bunch of near-mush brown bananas, let’s put them in a quick bread!) and its roots in deeply homey, practical, and penny-wise baking, but there are a few twists that, for me, make some very excellent banana bread/cake. This particular recipe leans more towards cake than quick-bread (hence the nifty bundt pan instead of the loaf pan), and it’s hands down…
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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 Chocolate Snacking Cake
And, after a short break, we’re back with the scheduled programming of pumpkin, pumpkin, and more pumpkin this October. For those of you outside of the US, the pumpkin craze may seem a bit strange. If you do have access to a fresh squash or canned pumpkin, though, give it a try and see if it doesn’t grow on you. This pumpkin chocolate chunk snacking cake is one of the easiest pumpkin desserts out there, and I wouldn’t even count it as a full dessert! It’s only a touch sweet, heavy with pumpkin (a vegetable), and a scattering of chocolate chunks, making it the perfect snack for after lunch, after…
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Graham Cracker Toffee Bars
I have vivid memories of laying out trays full of graham crackers (glutinous ones at the time – this was pre-Celiac-diagnosis and pre-anything-other-than-cardboard-gluten-free-snacks) to make these heavenly graham cracker toffee bars. Toffee has always been that guilty pleasure treat for me – though the real stuff always sticks in my teeth or just about breaks them with that first glass-shattering crunch. That’s why these graham cracker toffee bars are the answer to my life-long desire and the most dangerous cookie-sheet full of goodness you could put in front of me. I definitely almost ate the entire bowl of butter+brown sugar while making them, every time. Now that I’m an adult…
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Gluten Free Strawberry Ginger Snacking Cake
Dusky summer evenings or hazy summer afternoons are best enjoyed with friends. And by friends I mean wedges of cake – namely, this gluten free strawberry snacking cake. I realize I’m a bit late to the pool party (unless you’re in the southern hemisphere, in which case, get ready for a summer full of this ruby-studded dream, we’re jealous), but if you happen to pick up a pint or two of the season’s tail-end strawberries, by all means make this cake and enjoy it too. This baking endeavor was inspired by the ineffable genius of Bon Appetit mag, who made it their mission earlier this summer to create THE strawberry…
