This gluten free ube coconut cake was dreamt up as a very special birthday cake for a very special person in our lives: our mom Lynn! If you’ve read through our other recipes or follow along with our gluten free baking adventures on our Instagram, you’ll know that our mom has been one of the most constant sources of inspiration, and knowledge, for our baking hobby. And after the recent unexpected and scary events that led me to need to come back to Oregon in order to get distance from Oxford, I happen to be home around her birthday – so I finally get to make her a cake! In…
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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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Giant Gluten Free Toasted Coconut Muffins
I have a vivid memory of tasting my first coconut ice cream bar as a kid from the neighborhood ice cream truck: one of the dreamiest flavors I’d ever encountered and probably ever will. That revelation has lead me to try and recreate various different coconut treats through the years, and these giant gluten free coconut muffins are the most recent one. They’re fluffy, packed with heavenly coconut flavor, tons of toasted desiccated coconut, and absolutely covered in the most incredible coconut glaze. If you’re a coconut fan, these are the muffins you need to make this week (plus, they’re wildly easy to make!). If you’re looking for more coconut…
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Gluten Free Dairy Free Ube Coconut Panna Cotta
Ube is just a happy color – thank goodness for its sultry, cozy, vibrant purple to light up so many desserts and menu items. These gluten free ube panna cotta are also dairy free (!!!) because coconut already pairs perfectly with this queen of purple yams and because Kendra tries to avoid dairy so we figured we should have some dedicated dairy free desserts (how’s that for alliteration) on here that she could make more often than others. This recipe was part of our string of wildly successful panna cotta adventures about a month or so ago – when I actually got the chance to visit her and the family…
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Gluten Free Toasted Coconut Butter Cookies
Anyone else remember dark blue round tins filled with rustlely paper cups holding heaps of differently-shaped butter cookies? I do. They were incredible. They were the most perfect, melt-in-your-mouth cookies, each piped into delicate swirls or rolled in sugar or printed with a stamp. And they were impossible to eat just one of, in fact, it was customary to eat a quarter of your body weight both before and after the family dinner, resulting in greater rotundity and probably a stomach ache. I did push this limit one year and ate nearly an entire tin all on my own which had the disastrous consequence of feeling queasy everytime I saw…
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Gluten Free Toasted Coconut Custard Pie
Custard pie has been one of my absolute favorite Thanksgiving dessert table treats since I can remember. To give you a bit of background – my mother hails from Alabama (moved to Oregon when she was in 8th grade), so we continue to ride the long coattails of southern cuisine, from pecan to karo to custard pies, to green jello salads (I had a MIND-blowingly-good one when we visited family outside of Montgomery when I was five and still think about it *sigh*), to hush puppies and family-secret barbecue sauce. Custard pie is arguably one of the simplest ones on that list, but it’s just so dang good! Now, after…
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Gluten Free Toasted Coconut Cupcakes
It’s in weeks like these – stuck at home, always slightly on edge worrying about family members who we may not see for a few more months depending on shelter in place guidance – that the dreaminess of coconut can work some extra magic on our comfort-food-demanding diets. Now, I know coconut can be a divisive topic: texture-wise it’s one of the more controversial dessert ingredients, but you’ve gotta admit, creamy dreamy coconut frosting sounds like the tiny tropical note we need now (unless of course you actually live in a tropical location in which case you might be craving something totally temperate. If so, we’ve SO got you covered…
