Gluten free banana nut cookies!! These are a dream, and a blast of sweet nostalgia all wrapped up in the perfect cookie. For those of you who also grew up on banana nut muffins or bread or other classic banana nut bakes, these are the ultimate trip down memory lane. These aren’t just banana cookies or banana walnut cookies, there’s a secret ingredient that gives these that quintessential banana nut flavor (hint, it’s banana extract!! This is one of my favorite extracts and is so underrated – highly recommend giving it a try). These are a hit with adults and kids alike, and so far, everyone who’s tried them have…
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Gluten Free Coffee Walnut Chocolate Chunk Cookies
These gluten free coffee walnut cookies are a DREAM (and also have actual coffee in them so if you’re like me and don’t normally drink coffee at all, I’d recommend avoiding eating these after 3pm lol). They’re a massively delicious cookie, with, as stated previously, lots of coffee, vanilla, toasty walnuts, and luxurious chunks of dark chocolate (I actually chopped up the leftover dark chocolate easter eggs that we had in the kitchen and tossed them in – utterly fantastic use of Easter chocolate). These cookies take inspiration from my coffee chocolate walnut cake, that I recently made again for one of my housemate’s birthdays. There’s something incredibly elegant and…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Coffee Walnut Muffins
Happy Monday folks! I’m definitely one of those people who love a good, buttery, crumble-top, cinnamon-filled coffee cake, but I also LOVE coffee-flavored baked goods (ie actual coffee cake). And these giant gluten free coffee walnut muffins are exactly that. I’ve tried the coffee + walnut combo once before when making this glorious coffee walnut layer cake filled with toasted walnuts, ganache, and coffee buttercream (it’s the ULTIMATE Monday cake), but really wanted a breakfast muffin that mimicked the flavor. These are super easy, making them perfect as a WHAT-should-I-make-to-get-me-through-Monday bake – even the coffee glaze is super easy! For those of you just joining the GIANT muffin craze over…
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Giant Gluten Free Banana Nut Muffins
Anyone else have those fond childhood memories of staring wide-eyed at tray upon tray of muffins bigger than your FACE at Costco? Well, even if not, I’m sure you could conjure up images of unimaginably large muffins, in varying flavors (the chocolate chocolate ones were always the biggest pull as a kid, though it was only for a special treat that we got those ones), usually sliced into quarters to mix and match or to actually be a reasonable sized-snack. Our mom used to run two separate girl scout troops for each of us growing up (still unclear how she managed both, plus working, plus finances, plus just being a…
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Gluten Free Chocolate Coffee Walnut Layer Cake
Walnuts are the ones that are always left out. They don’t have a whole pie dedicated to them at Thanksgiving, they don’t supply millions of school children (and children at heart) with America’s favorite sandwich, they don’t even make milk (apparently even cashews do now!)! But they are one of my favorite nuts. Arguably the most delicate nut, buttery, with a light crunch and a hint of bitterness that rounds out any treat. I used to add them to my morning bowl of yogurt and berries every day, and still have a strong affinity for their papery skins and carefully-folded contours. So, when we visited friends in Paso Robles a…
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Mini Gluten Free Banana Nut Loaves
When I was little, I remember trailing our shopping cart through Costco, delighted every time we passed (and stopped at) a sample table – getting to savor a bite of sausage or a cracker or a tiny cup of smoothie made with an on-sale blender. But the best part of those shopping trips were the muffins. If you’ve ever had a Costco muffin, you most likely have a similar nostalgia around these larger-than-life bakery flats. Because they were huge! At the time of first eating them, they may even have been bigger than my face – a muffin that, when cut into quarters, would more resemble a normal, homemade-sized muffin.…
