If you’re a fan of ube, or if you’re looking for something to try with ube in it, these gluten free ube white chocolate cookies are for you! Ube, or purple yam, is something I was introduced to via incredible Filipino treats that highlight the nutty, sultry flavor that this deep purple produce packs. It’s a bit trickier to find key ube ingredients over here in the UK, but I’ve managed to find ube extract, and have some options for sourcing ube powder and ube jam which are also awesome additions to so many bakes (plus, the jam is great on its own!). If you’re new to ube, I highly…
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Gluten Free White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies
These gluten free white chocolate macadamia cookies are a DREAM. Full stop. Background for this flavor: I never used to be a fan of white chocolate (Kendra, on the other hand, loved the stuff growing up!). When given the choice between milk, dark, and white, I would always opt for the bars that actually tasted like chocolate, and thus white chocolate got left by the wayside. The higher % the better, really – I had a phase when 90% dark chocolate was all I’d eat (and I still love it! It’s like eating chocolate dirt, in the best possible way you can imagine that). But this all changed when I…
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Giant Gluten Free Black Sesame and White Chocolate Chip Muffins
Black sesame is one of the most sultry, smooth, indulgent flavors out there, and is so fun to bake with. I’m so thankful that I’ve been able to try so many incredible black sesame treats, from black sesame mochi and ice cream, to this black sesame and white chocolate cake, to these black sesame rice krispie treats (a fancy grown up version of your childhood favorite), and there are SO many other incredible black sesame bakes out there if you just do a quick google search. So, with all that, I knew I had to make a gluten free black sesame muffin to add to the giant muffin series –…
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Giant Gluten Free Ube White Chocolate Muffins
Ube is one of those flavors I’m thankful to have been introduced to in the last five years. It’s a very popular one in Filipino cuisine – and I highly recommend seeking out Filipino bloggers and pastry shops who will have tons of glorious ube bakes and treats for you to try. There’s one in particular here in the Bay Area that I’m so glad I found out about last year: Meryienda Bake Shop! They’re actually based in New York but recently started sharing their incredible bakes here in the Bay Area which is how I got to know them. I ended up ordering a bunch of their ube white…
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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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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 Black Sesame and White Chocolate Cake
Today is the Day of Remembrance, a day of observance of February 19th, 1942 when the crime against humanity that was the mass internment of over 120,000 Japanese Americans, two thirds of whom were native-born American Citizens, first started. Innocent families, children, grandparents, were forcefully relocated into concentration camps primarily on the west coast of the United States. This was all done out of blatant ignorance and cowardice of President Franklin D. Roosevelt shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, with the signing of Executive Order 9066, meant to solve the “Japanese Problem.” The irony of creating our very own concentration camps on US soil while fighting a war to…
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Gluten Free Caramelized White Chocolate Blondies
White chocolate has always been one of those things that I never really got. Why take the chocolate out of chocolate? Why go with just the cocoa butter and a mild, dusty, warm sweetness that lacks the bold depth and bright bite of chocolate chocolate? I must admit, after splurging on some high-quality white chocolate for this and a few other baking projects, I now understand the appeal (though I still prefer a good milk or dark any day). The buttery closeness of a soft, hazy white chocolate is quite delicious. Now, when I started seeing trays of molten white chocolate deepening into rich, sultry caramel colors on so many…
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Gluten Free Coconut Lime Lamingtons
These insanely delicate, perfectly-sized cubes of coconut cake, filled with homemade lime curd and coated in silky white chocolate and more desiccated coconut are a gorgeous blend of treats from two very different countries! Lamingtons, as we all know (maybe), are a classic Aussie treat, especially around Australia Day, which is fast-approaching! (January 26th, everyone, get your “g’days” and bbqs ready!). The coconut + lime combo harkens back to one of THE best drinks (non-alcoholic, though very easily the opposite!) I’ve ever had in my life: the creamiest, dreamiest limonada de coco in Colombia. I was with the ever-impressive Laura Jimenez – a former colleague and dear friend – in…
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Gluten Free Strawberry Layer Cake with Cream Cheese Buttercream
There’s something about cream cheese frosting. For all of you lactose/dairy-free folk out there, I feel your pain – as a weird and twisted side effect of Celiac disease, I also lost the ability to digest lactose for years before and after diagnosis, so I’m quiiiiite familiar with the array of nut, rice, and soy mylks and cheeses out there, and Kendra, the younger taller sister of Sisters Sans Gluten, is still dairy free to this day! (she makes a mean dairy free cheesecake too). This cake, however, is definitely heavy on the dairy. Gotta love swoops of silky, slightly-tangy cream cheese buttercream wrapped around summery strawberry cake layers, billowy…
