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Gluten Free Blueberry Muffins

June 3, 2019

Breakfast has come around the corner, as it does most mornings, and yet again you are stuck looking for something to eat and end up going to the local coffee shop spending more money to get you a muffin and coffee, which might not be a blueberry muffins. I know this sounds like me some mornings when I forget that I need breakfast in the morning… It happens to the best of us for sure at one point or another.

This is why I have started to be prepared most mornings now with some type of breakfast. Whether it is a meal prepped breakfast burrito or a muffin, I am ready to go. Muffins are always the best start to any day. Especially when they have fruit. These gluten free blueberry muffins are made from fresh blueberries and are so in season right now!

This recipe is full of quality ingredients and it is so easy to make. I always have fresh fruit on hand and this is great to make when the blueberries are starting to get a little bit too ripe but still taste great. Check these blueberry muffins out below!

Gluten Free Blueberry Muffin Recipe

1 cup Brown Rice Flour
1/2 cup Tapioca Starch
3/4 tsp Xantham Gum
1/2 tsp Salt
2 tsp baking powder
3/4 cup Sugar plus some for sprinkling on top before baking
1/3 cup Coconut Oil, melted
1 egg
1/2 cup Milk (I use Almond milk but any milk will do)
1 1/2 tsp Vanilla
8 oz Blueberries washed (1 cup if frozen)

Preheat oven to 400 degree Fahrenheit.
Mix together brown rice flour, tapioca starch, xantham gum, baking powder and salt. sift through a wire mesh strainer or sifter. Set aside.
Mix together the sugar, egg, coconut oil, milk and vanilla in the bottom of a stand mixer or large mixing bowl.
Slowly add in the dry mix until incorporated.
Use a spatula and stir in the blueberries so that they do not fall apart from a mixer.
Fill a prepared muffin tin (sprayed with nonstick spray) each well about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way full.
Sprinkle each well with sugar.
Bake 18-20 minutes until they are cooked all the way through. When a toothpick comes out clean.

Oh My Yummy!

Talk about a delicious and spongy muffin that is perfect for the summer. I like mine with my coffee in the morning or as a mid afternoon sweet spot. Some people I know can eat them any time of day. Dessert, midnight snack, 3 of them for lunch… seriously the options are endless. If I want to add more wholesomeness to my muffins, I take out 2 Tbsps of my brown rice and tapioca starch (when mixed together) and add 2 Tbsp of protein powder. This is a great way to add in some extra calories if you are wanting to get more into your diet too.

These blueberry muffins make an amazing breakfast and snack. Adding it with your morning smoothie is also a huge plus for me too. Let me know what you think!

Deliciously,
Gabby

Gluten Free White Chocolate Cranberry Muffins

April 29, 2019

Do you want to know my philosophy on being healthy? Honestly, it is just sticking healthy things into unhealthy things to make them better. Like these white chocolate cranberry muffins. So delish and you would never know that they were good for you too.

Sticking the white chocolate chips in them to disguise the healthy is seriously the best thing that could ever happen to these white chocolate cranberry muffins. I am impressed by how much of an amazing breakfast they are and how full they make me.

Gluten Free White Chocolate Cranberry Muffins Recipe:

2 3/4 cups Brown Rice Flour
1 1/4 cup Tapioca Starch
2 tsp Xantham Gum
2 Tbsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
6 Tbsp Coconut Oil or 1/2 cup Butter (Room Temp.)
1 cup Sugar (I used Coconut Palm Sugar)
2 Cups Almond Milk (any milk will do)
2 Eggs
2 tsp Vanilla
2 cups Dried Cranberries
1 1/2 cups White Chocolate Chips

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix together Coconut oil, sugar, eggs, almond milk and vanilla. Mix Together the rice flour, tapioca starch, xantham gum, baking powder and salt. Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until combined. Stir in the cranberries and white chocolate chips.

Pour batter into a prepared muffin tin (either sprayed or has baking cups) fill the wells about 3/4 of the way full. Bake for 18-20 minutes or until brown. If you have a convection oven, it does take a little bit less time.

To make them even more delectable, I will use dark chocolate chips at times for a sweeter yet delicious combo if white chocolate is not your thing. Also, in any muffin recipe, if I am looking for a fuller and fibrous recipe, I will substitute 2 TBS of my flour mixture with 2 TBS of protein powder. It gives a more fuller feeling so that these white chocolate cranberry muffins can last longer. It also doesn’t hurt that they are already delicious.

I am always on the look out for some delicious muffin recipes. Do you have one that is amazing? Share it with me if you would like! I would love to hear more!

Deliciously,

Gabby

Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies

September 11, 2018

Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies

I cannot even begin to tell a lie, I baked these chocolate chip pumpkin cookies for the millionth time in my life on September 1st. Yes, I am that person who loves fall. I am that person who puts her boots on in 90 degree weather sweating like crazy. I am that person who thinks that fall starts the minute August ends and September starts. I am THAT person.

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Gluten Free Apple Fritters

March 6, 2018

Gluten Free Apple Fritters

Ever craving something so much but you simply don’t want to go get it, or the best one you have ever had half way across the country? I mean that happens to me a lot… Especially with Apple Fritters! There is a tiny little hole in the wall that sells the best doughnuts and baked goods in Upstate New York that I could almost kill for one right now!

BUT…. then I got to thinking. With these magic hands of mine I could probably make some of the best ones I know! I was right (when am I not?).

The best part? They are gluten free! No Bloating YAY!

Turns out these gluten free apple fritters are really not that hard. I always pictured them to take like 5 hours from start to finish and then the only way to eat them was hot (that part is still true). But these take literally like 30 minutes from start to finish and they are super easy! I blown away that I could create this recipe and it be so simple that I just had to share with you all!

They are seriously a must in every household. Even if you aren’t gluten free that are so delicious, full of flavor, scrumptious, apples galore, and tasty! Did I mention DELICIOUS? I can’t stress that enough!

Gluten Free Apple Fritters

1/2 cup Brown Rice Flour
1/4 Tapioca Starch
1/2 Xanthan Gum
1/4 cup Sugar
Pinch of Salt
1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/3 cup Milk (I used Almond)
1 egg
splash of Vanilla
1-2 tsp Cinnamon mixed with 5-4 tsp Sugar (depending on taste of cinnamon)
2-3 Peeled and Diced Apples
Coconut Oil for Frying (you can use any oil)

Topping
1 1/2 cups 10x Sugar (confectioner’s sugar)
2 Tbsp Milk (almond milk for me)

Mix together your flour, tapioca starch, xanthan gum, sugar, baking powder and salt. Set aside. In a mixer or large bowl whisk together your milk and egg and vanilla. Add in your dry mix and mix until well combined. Toss diced apples in the cinnamon sugar mixture. Then add the apples and the excess cinnamon sugar into the batter.

Heat up a deep pot (I used a sauce pan) with about 2 cups coconut oil and let it get to about 300 degrees Fahrenheit. We need the fritters to be floating for easy cooking. I used a cookie scooper to get the size of my apple fritters. Fry on both sides until golden brown and cooked thoroughly. This made about 12 apple fritters.

The bigger you make them the longer it will take to cook on the inside (but so worth it).

Once the gluten free apple fritters have cooled mix together your 10x sugar and milk until a glaze is make. Cot the tops of the fritters by sticking them face down in the glaze. Let set and enjoy!

Best served warm, gooey and in the morning for the best sugar rush!

Totally EASY and Totally DELICIOUS!!

Seriously, these gluten free apple fritters are the easiest thing to make for company coming and they look absolutely magnificent chilling in your cover stand on your island that you probably use once in a great while to make the kitchen look cute. Don’t worry, I am the same way! The goodies never stay long enough in this house.

You can use all sorts of apples for this just keep in mind the hard the apple is the easier it will stay together and the less mushy it will after it is cooked. I have make them with granny smith (they were so amazing!) but Fuji apples are what I typically have around the house to use and I wait until they are about to go bad on me (cut out the bad spots) and use them. No one eats them after that point, so I dice them up and whip up a couple of batches of these bad boys.

You can double the recipe and make them double the size for large and in charge ones! They are the best and just like the bakery style ones, but the smaller they are the more you can eat (my motto).

Let me know what you all think! This recipe is so simple and so yummy too!

Deliciously,
Gabby

Gluten Free Freezer S’mores

August 5, 2016

Gluten Free Freezer Smores

You absolutely love s’mores! In fact you love them so much, but you hate to stand over the gas stove with a marshmallow on a skewer or toast them in the oven. In the middle of the day too! SO the whole house warms up just for a few smores? Is it worth it? sure it is, but what about something that cools you down instead? Like Freezer smores! …

Gluten Free Graham Crackers

August 3, 2016

Cinnamon Honey Graham Crackers

What do I miss most about preschool? Besides the naps, no homework and no bills to pay, but I missed having snacks too! In particular I missed having those graham crackers that you can break apart and nimble on while all the cinnamon falls to the napkin. Then when I was done I would lick my finger and clean all the crumbs and cinnamon.

That’s just me of course! (I am sure I’m not the only one…) …

Gluten Free Pub Chips

July 16, 2016

Pub Chips!

What is your go to snack when you are looking for something salty and crunchy? My answer, probably like any other person, would be some potato chips. Not just any chips though, but those amazing, thick cut and super easy pub chips!

As I have told you in a recent post, Paleo Zucchini Chips, that I jut happened to obtain a mandolin. Not the instrument but a slicing mandolin! I have never been so excited to have one! However, I have been making everything with it! Any form of potatoes, squash, cucumbers or anything slicable. ( not sure if that is a word but I am going with it) And it has turned out to be a tasty one.

SOOOO I tried my hand at some pub chips!…

Gluten Free Brownie Whoopie Pies

July 13, 2016

Brownie Whoopie Pies with Vanilla bean Icing!

Talk about a sensational treat! These brownie whoopie pies are out of this world tasty and tiny for a sweet little treat!

I know, I know, I KNOW! Look at them! So cute, so yummy and so pretty too! Whoopie pies have always been a favorite in out house. I can remember when I was 5 years old my mom and I would be making some whoopie pies in her tiny kitchen in Florida. Her kitchenaid was just a stirring, oven making the house warm and me covered in cocoa powder flour. Yeah one of my favorite things was being in the kitchen with my mom. It still happens but she sits while I am cooking or baking now… Not quite the way it used to be. …

Gluten Free Steak Stir Fry

June 24, 2016

Steak Stir Fry

What a weekend it has been! Our refrigerator decided to it didn’t want to work right anymore. Why? Because when everything decides to go wrong it does. Thankfully it ended with the fridge. However, I am not going to jinx it. We also have another fridge downstairs so we were blessed this time! Besides I get to tell you about this awesome gluten free steak stir fry!

Anyways, I have had to cook a lot of food because of that incident and I had about 1 1/2 pounds of steak that I had no idea what to do with but maybe make food for the dogs… Yeah I though that would a bit of a waste too….

Avocado Pico De Gallo

March 9, 2016

Spring is Here!

Certainly, Spring is coming in with full force sunshine and warmer weather and I couldn’t be happier! With this glorious weather we have been having in the foothills of North Carolina I have been craving fresh foods! In fact, this avocado pico de gallo is all fresh and so ready to have outdoor parties with you this spring and summer!

My family is all about outdoor living. We used to live in Florida where it was all outdoors all year. Well, the summer so dang hot we couldn’t stand it without some form of air conditioning running. Now that we have moved to North Carolina we are outside most of the day in the spring and summer. We turn the A/C on at night to sleep cool, but for the most part it stays off. What is the point of having it on if you are just going to be chilling in the pool with an ice cold beverage of choice? Seriously, this sounds like a dream!…