Spicy pear and honey cake

Make this comforting spicy pear and honey cake on a rainy autumn day while you sip your coffee and listen to jazz. The process itself will be relaxing and make you feel all warm inside. Or at least that’s what it did for me the other morning when I came home from a cold and […]

Best cherry cake recipe. Ever.

This gluten-free cherry cake recipe is a summery take on my amazingly moist apple raisin one, which in my humble opinion is the best processed sugar-free coffee cake recipe I’ve tried. The cherry, almond extract combo is a great one, but if you don’t have any on hand, you can use blueberries or raspberries and […]

Super sexy berry compote

I’ve posted berry compote recipes previously but this one is the best. Why? Because I’ve now got a special hack to make it extra shiny and hold really well: cornstarch. Yep, it is as easy as that! Perfect to flavor a bowl of yogurt, spread on toast, this lustrous beauty is also perfect to top […]

Italian chestnut cake

Amazingly moist chestnut cake

Moist apple cinnamon raisin cake

You can use this moist apple cinnamon raisin cake recipe as the base for almost any gluten-free fruit loaf cake. Whether you replace the apple with berries, stone fruit or pears*, and the raisins with any dried fruit or nut, you will end up with a wonderfully moist and delicate cake to serve for tea, […]

Genius ratatouille rice cakes

Although these little savory cakes were born from leftover rice and ratatouille, they are absolutely genius.

Starbucks oatmeal cookie copycat recipe

Here is the story behind my Starbucks oatmeal cranberry cookie. First, let me admit that I sometimes have Starbucks cookies. More specifically, the big outrageous processed sugar, white flour and whatever else-ladden oatmeal, cranberry ones. It just takes a bite and you’re hooked. Seriously. I really felt like having one a month ago and now […]

Moist Orange Cardamom Muffins

These gluten free bundles of goodness are moist and ooze of Persian flavors: pistachio, almonds, cardamom, honey, orange….you get the drift. I discovered them the other week when perusing through a wonderful cookbook gifted to me by a beautiful Persian friend of mine. The original recipe is absolutely delish but a little heavy for my […]

Feel-good gingerbread waffles

This is the only breakfast I ever have tea with – there is just something about gingerbread that calls for it. Deeply flavored with all the usual suspects – ginger, clove, nutmeg and cinnamon – these guys will wake up even the soundest sleepers with their great aroma. I tend to slightly underbake a few […]

The Kids’ Chocolate Granola

My last chocolate granola recipe dates back to over a year ago – and though it was a hit with the adults, my kiddos weren’t sold because it “didn’t taste like chocolate”. Eye roll…fair enough. So recently, I went back to the drawing board to create one that would be more appealing to a child’s […]