So there’s this whole new fasting trend, where people aren’t eating breakfast. In my opinion, breakfast is the best meal of the day. It has all the best foods, pancakes, crepes, french toast, cereal, eggs and bacon, or perhaps even sausage and WAFFLES. It’s all the good stuff. Brunch is great too, it’s an excuse to eat breakfast for lunch–and pair it with booze. And then there’s brinner. Breakfast for dinner, which happens all the time at my house. No matter what meal of the day, I like sweet breakfast food, but when it takes a savory turn, I am here for it. These cheddar and chive cornmeal waffles make…
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Chocolate Cherry Crumb Cake
Confession. As a kid, I never understood people that pair fruit with chocolate. Chocolate oranges around the holidays…yuck. Cordial cherries…nasty. However, after watching a great deal of Great British Bake Off, where everyone seems to be obsessed with putting fruit of all kinds into absolutely everything, I decided to give it a shot. Enter this Gluten Free Chocolate Cherry Crumb Cake. What my young taste buds didn’t understand was what happens to chocolate when it is paired with an acid; also known as the cherries, in this case. The cherries, while still maintaining their delicious sweet/tart flavor, make the chocolate that much more chocolaty. A little culinary science! The cherries…
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Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Donuts
Anyone else eat Nutella straight out of the jar? Anyone? All of us? That’s what I thought. If you’re a Nutella fiend, you’re in the right place. Let me confess something right off the bat: I am not a chocolate person. Go ahead with the “what’s the matter with you?!” I can take it. In my world chocolate is okay in small doses. With one exception to the rule: I LOVE Nutella. Which is why I packed the flavors of the beloved chocolate hazelnut spread into these Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Donuts! Soft and cakey, gooey and chocolaty, and delightfully crunchy these are sure to be a crowd pleaser. When I…
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Greek-Style Pasta Salad with Summer Squash
One of my favorite parts about summer in Michigan is squash season. Boil it, broil it, grill it, roast it, bake it, saute it, steam it…I wait not only for the warm weather of summer, but for the squash. And this Greek-Style Pasta Salad with Summer Squash showcases the best of this summer vegetable. My own garden hasn’t yielded any squash yet, so I couldn’t resist stocking up at the local farmer’s market as soon as they started appearing. I’m notorious for being a little overzealous with my squash purchases, and much like bananas, they end up going bad before I ever get to eat them. So I had to…
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Gluten Free S’mores Cake
Is there anything that screams summer more than a toasty, gooey s’more while sitting next to a campfire? It’s the perfect end to a summer day, and kick off to a summer night. But who says you can’t have s’mores to celebrate all year long? This Gluten Free S’mores Cake brings all those nostalgic summer flavors to the table in a whole new capacity. I mean, just look at those layers! Fun Fact: The S’more as we know them today were invented by The Girl Scouts. Back in 1927, the recipe for “some mores” was included in Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts. As both a former girl scout,…
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Gluten Free Cinnamon Aebelskiver
Aebelskiver. (e-bel-ski-ver). It’s Danish for delicious balls of yum. Kidding. But these gluten free cinnamon aebelskiver really are delish balls of yum. Eat them plain or fill them with a small dollop of jam for an extra special addition to your weekend brunch. When I first saw these tiny pancake balls during a technical challenge on The Great British Baking Show, I was fascinated. Everyone on the show was having a meltdown over how hard these little dough balls were to create. I had exactly two thoughts: There’s no way these can possibly be this hard. There so cute, I should make some. And an aebelskiver pan hopped right into…
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Cranberry Orange Sage Cake
If you’re looking for something a little something different for your holiday table, give this recipe for gluten free cranberry orange sage upside down cake a try. Delightfully spiced, fruity, and with just a background hint of sage (to make your tastebuds say “hummm, what is that?!) It’s light top off to a heavy holiday meal. Don’t get me wrong, pie is great, but it’s good to have options! One of my favorite things about November and December in Michigan is cranberry season. Heck, I love all the flavors of the holiday season. Cranberry, orange, sage, and all the warm spices that come along with them. But it can be…
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Best-Ever Gluten Free Banana Nut Muffins
I am the QUEEN of letting perfectly good bananas go to waste. So in an effort to counter my own personal madness, I am constantly on the hunt for ways to use my ugly, but super sweet and delish bananas. That’s how The Best-Ever Gluten Free Banana Nut Muffins were born. After a quick little Google, I stumbled upon Sugar Spun Run’s recipe for The Best Banana Muffin. They looked incredibly amazing and with streusel topping-gasp-my fav! I had to give them a try. One problem. They weren’t gluten free! With my proclivity for culinary tampering, I give you what I dare say are just as good, if not better…
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Gluten Free Cherry Limeaide Bundt Cake
Cherry Limeaide. The first time I ever had a cherry limeaide slush was on my honeymoon in Daytona Beach, Florida. I had seen commercials for Sonic but we didn’t have any in Michigan. And Sonic’s Cherry Limeaide was iconic. It was sweet, sour, and cold. Everything you could possibly want on a 90 degree day in December in Florida. Since my initial encounter with Cherry Limeaide, Sonic’s have been popping up in Michigan, one right around the corner from my house. Yaaaaassss! And my love affair with Cherry Limeaide has continued right into this Gluten Free Cherry Limeaide Bundt Cake. About a month ago, I was crusing the aisles of…
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Gluten Free Orange Cardamom Blondies
Confession: I’m not a big chocolate fan. Go ahead, throw your shade, but I will choose a blondie over a brownie any day. Sorry, not sorry. It’s why I gravitate to these Gluten Free Orange Cardamom Blondies. There’s something about a gooey blondie. It’s a sure way to make my day. My coworker, Prindle, makes the best blondies in the entire world. And I’ve always aspired to make her calibur of blondie. So when TheFeedFeed launched a contest to revamp a s’more in partnership with Ghiradelli, my mind set off on the best way to tackle the task. Maybe it was my own personal craving, but I knew I wanted…
