Desserts

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grain-free doughnuts

I love the community that gathers around food, whether it’s our family of three at the dinner table every evening, or a picnic with friends in a park crowded with sunshine and other people, or an elegant meal in a hushed restaurant. Mostly, though, I love the stories that come from food. Last week, in [...]

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gluten-free chocolate bundt cake

How can you not love someone whose name is Joy the Baker? That’s what she is — Joy. Yes, her name is Joy, but I mean more than that. Joy Wilson is sunlight and goofiness, connected conversations, generosity and cookies, and a good amount of butter and sugar. I’ve been relishing her website for years. [...]

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gluten-free brownies

Brownies seem pretty simple, right? They’re flat, they taste of chocolate, they satisfy a quick urging for a weeknight dessert. How hard could they be? Let me tell you, people, there are no end to discussions about brownies in the world. A couple of days ago, knowing I wanted to work on this recipe, I [...]

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fresh pumpkin pie, gluten-free

It’s pumpkin pie time. Pretty much, it’s always pie time around here. I love making pie enough that I was asked to speak at a performance art/pie contest event called PIE STORIES last weekend. Pie stories. I have plenty of those. However, for all the pies I have made — countless pies, hundreds of crimped [...]

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gluten-free glazed yeast doughnuts

These are doughnuts. Yeasted doughnuts with a honey glaze, to be exact. They are light with a little heft, sweet but not too sweet, and have the feel and smell and taste of doughnuts. That’s because they are doughnuts. The fact that they are gluten-free doughnuts doesn’t matter one bit. You don’t need gluten to [...]

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peanut butter pie, gluten-free

Today, all over the world, people are making a pie for Jennifer Perillo’s Mikey. We made one yesterday, so we could freeze it, take it on the airplane for our trip to Utah, and eat some on a family picnic. (The Aherns are gathering. There will be hiking and white water rafting.) I believe we’ll [...]

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gluten-free strawberry shortcake

I’m in the middle of strawberry swooning season. It happens every year. We wait all year long, patiently, and then not so patiently, for real strawberries to appear at the farmstands here. From the fall until spring, we can wait. We freeze the red berries so we have some more smoothies and the occasionally decadent [...]

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gluten-free ice cream sandwiches

For awhile there, we were giving you recommendations here, of foods we like and products that arrived at the house that we would buy again. You can see the tab up there, the one that says RECOMMENDATIONS. However, we sort of tailed off eventually. This morning, I was trying to figure out why. Then it [...]

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gluten-free quinoa cookies

Yesterday, Lu threw her first big temper tantrum. For a week she snuffled along with a cold, then pneumonia. Thankfully, we caught it early, so I didn’t have to worry about her lethargy and sadness for longer than a night. (That night — when she coughed every two minutes and cried in between — seemed [...]

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gluten-free scones

I’ve eaten a lot of bad scones. And I don’t mean gluten-free scones, although I haven’t had much success with them before this week. I mean regular gluten scones, the ones I ate before six years ago. You know the ones, right? The big-chain coffee shop scones. The ones that crumble like cheap grocery-store cake [...]

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gluten-free lemon poppyseed bread

In the past few days, I’ve made three batches of lemon poppyseed bread. Each of them was quite different from each other. Each of them was delicious. For one batch, I replaced the butter or oil I would have used with an equal weight of applesauce. I know this is a popular solution for people [...]

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gluten-free crepes

A couple of weeks ago, we had our friends Tita and John over for breakfast. This isn’t an uncommon occurrence. These are two of our favorite people in the world. However, it was Tita’s birthday recently, so this was a special occasion. We wanted to fix her whatever she wanted to eat. She thought when [...]

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gluten-free blueberry clafoutis

Words rattle around in my head all the time. Sometimes my brain repeats words that sound good: prestidigitation, mellifluous, voluminous. Other times, my mind worries over names that snake in there: Christianne Amanpour, Shmuley Boteach, Prunella Scales. Once in awhile, when I’m stressed, I catch my brain repeating b i c y c l e [...]

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gluten-free Mexican hot chocolate cakes for Valentine’s Day

You all blow me away. This past week has been extraordinary, for a number of small reasons. However, mostly it’s because my life has been imbued with your love stories. Every day, I have been coming here to publish comments and ended up in tears. Happy tears, mind you. Your vulnerability, generosity, and humor has [...]

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making homemade yogurt

Most of my life, I have thought, “I’m just not crafty.” I watch other women knit sweaters while talking with friends, or see the dramatic swirls of art projects other moms have done with their kids, or look at the clothes that dear Amanda Soule makes for her kids, and I think, “Well. That’s just [...]

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gluten-free shortbread

I made three batches of shortbread yesterday. Yes, I’m a little nuts. It’s the last day of posting holiday cookie recipes around here. After jam tarts, gingerbread men, coconut sugar cookies, cannolis, plus 8 more, you think I’d be done. That’s an even dozen, right? (Plus, if you go over to our friend Silvana Nardone’s [...]

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gluten-free Mexican wedding cookies

Mexican wedding cookies. Of all the requests people had for gluten-free holiday cookies, I think this was the most requested. Finely ground nuts, butter and shortening, gluten-free flours, and powdered sugar. It isn’t much more complicated than that. All that deliciousness and it’s easy too? Sign me up. Now this cookie, with tiny variations of [...]

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gluten-free cannoli

“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.” I’m tempted to write only this. After all, it’s the only phrase I hear in my head when someone says cannoli. Probably you too. (And if you don’t know what it is, look here. Watch out — you’re going to want spaghetti and meatballs after watching this movie.) However, I [...]

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gluten-free spritz cookies

We are coming into the home stretch of holiday cookies and goodies around here. I don’t want to think about how many pounds of butter, flours, and sugar have been used in this kitchen the past month. I can’t even calculate how many times the paddle of the KitchenAid has whirled around these weeks. Every [...]

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gluten-free cake pops

This is a cake pop. It’s a cake pop made by my wonderfully talented and lovely friends Jessie (also known as Cakespy) and Megan (also known as Not Martha).If you are lucky enough to know people who want to spend the afternoon with you crumbling up cake with their hands, manipulating marzipan, and making zombie [...]

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gluten-free date-walnut bars

We can’t seem to stop buying new cookbooks. I mean, after that list of our favorite 12 of 2010, we should be done for a bit. There are plenty of meals to be made in that towering stack. However, the lure of another good cookbook is powerful. On the other hand, we can’t go broke [...]

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gluten-free ginger-lemon bars

I spent about 15 minutes this morning fretting that this photograph wasn’t good enough. It’s messy. You can’t see the ooze on the cookies. The top cracked — I ran out of AP flour before I needed 46 grams of it, so I just used sweet rice flour. Don’t do that anymore, Shauna. Too starchy. [...]

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gluten-free honey-spice madeleines

All of Proust’s remembrances began with one bite of a madeleines. I have a confession. I still haven’t read all of Proust’s books. Try as I might, several times, I could never make it past the first 60 pages. Well, you’re saying, most of us haven’t. I know. But I was a literature major, an [...]

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gluten-free coconut sugar cookies

These cookies may not look like much, but they are really quite wonderful. They are also gone. Danny and Lu nibbled them during an afternoon snack, after my photo session, as they lay on our bed together reading an I-Spy book. Weak winter sunlight spilled into the room and on their toes. I had so [...]

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gluten-free pine nut cookie

When Danny and I tried to decide all the cookies we would bake for the cookie-baking extravaganza here, we pulled down all our baking books and cookbooks with baked goods. We ran our fingers down the index of each one, looking for baked goods that appealed to us both. Quickly, we realized we had a [...]

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gluten-free snickerdoodles

Okay, I’m going to call an audible here. (Is that a football term? I sort of have this vague feeling that it is, but I don’t want to google it and spend any time looking at football terms. I have to admit, I’m totally indifferent to football. I was going to type that I loath [...]

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gluten-free pistachio-cranberry cookies

As you have probably guessed, I have been baking cookies and more cookies for weeks. Nuts and flours spill on the counter. Lu is frequently reaching for a piece of dried fruit or a chocolate chip. We are making memories, she sitting on the kitchen counter, wanting to crack eggs with me, still amazed when [...]

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gluten-free gingerbread men

“Hey sweetie, do you want to read books?” Lu bounces across the room, almost skipping. Her eyes grow wide and she shouts, “Yes! Yes! Yes!” We go over to the mound of books that are always spilling from the blue and red tubs in the corner of the room. The bookshelf in her room is [...]

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gluten-free jam tart cookies

I still miss Gourmet. I know that it has been gone for more than a year, and I’m supposed to have moved on by now. And frankly, it’s not as if I had time to read every article those last couple of years, or even most of them. With a newborn, who became a toddler, [...]

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gluten-free holiday baking, 2010

Let’s bake, shall we? It’s December 2nd. Most of you have probably gathered your recipe cards around you to take notes and make substitutions, pulled out the butter to soften on the kitchen counter, and started planning on sending boxes full of crisp cookies and soft squares of gingerbread to friends and family across the [...]

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gluten-free Oreos

A few days ago, on Twitter, someone I follow linked to a recipe for homemade Oreos. Now I have to tell you, I wasn’t a huge Oreos fan when I was a kid. The cookie part of the sandwich always crumbled tough against my teeth. More than any other packaged cookie, Oreos tasted like they [...]

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gluten-free doughnuts

Doughnuts. You know you want some. When I lived in New York, my friend Gabe and I often met on the corner of 86th and Lexington, late at night. Neither of us lived in that neighborhood. But when we got the jones for perfect doughnuts, he got on the subway from Brooklyn, and I took [...]

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gluten-free oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

We’re awfully fond of Sesame Street around here. Every morning, at 8 am, we turn on the television, find the kids’ section from On Demand, and choose a Sesame Street episode. Should we watch Elmo learning salsa? Or Baby Bear trying to rid himself of hiccups? We three settle in on the couch, Lu on [...]

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gluten-free nectarine-blueberry buckle

I look forward to that first perfect peach every summer. You know the one I mean, right? That firm-fleshed peach that yields to the teeth, the one that is not entirely soft but not as hard as a toddler’s head either. The peach that is so bursting with juice that you have to stand over [...]

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two

She has started to jump, after weeks of frustration of her feet not leaving the floor. She holds onto my hands after I lift her onto the bed and she bounces, giggling, head thrown back, alive. She never stops moving, this one. After a couple of toddling months of walking, she began running, at full [...]

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gluten-free cherry crumble pie

As I ran down the wooded trail, sunlight on my skin, my thoughts meandered toward the afternoon ahead of me. We had leftover Rainier cherries from our dinner at Dog Mountain Farm. A big bag of Bing cherries waited for me at home, a gift from Northwest Cherries, when they found we couldn’t attend the [...]

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Ready for Dessert

I love David Lebovitz. Have I mentioned this? Well, apparently, I have mentioned how much I love David Lebovitz, just a few times in the last five years. Why do I keep wanting to tell you about how great this man is? It could be his charm, his debonair style, his kindness, his sharp wit, [...]

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gluten-free rough puff pastry

When I first went gluten-free — 5 years ago this week — I thought that I might never eat bread, pasta, or in a restaurant again. I certainly never thought I would eat puff pastry again. Of course, before I went gluten-free, I had never made puff pastry by hand. Why should I? There are [...]

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The Pioneer Woman Cooks

Can you guess whose cookbook we cooked out of this week? You can’t? What, have you been hiding under a big old rock the past couple of months? That’s Ree Drummon, the Pioneer Woman herself, force of nature, damned good writer, authentic being, hilarious hoot, and amazing woman. Her cookbook has been on the New [...]

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world peace cookies, gluten-free

I love so much in this world. I love the feeling of warming dirt underneath my bare feet, as I walk around our garden in February. (February!) I love seeing the first vivid unfurlings of the rhubarb plant emerging. I love the hope of spring, the anticipation of gardening, all that dark black soil waiting [...]

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gluten-free graham crackers

Graham crackers dunked in a glass of cold milk. I sure have missed this small, sweet treat at the end of an evening. There’s something humble about a graham cracker. (And terribly mis-named. These are only cracker in shape. Really, these are a slight sweet cookie.) It stands at your side, waiting for your attention. [...]

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gluten-free cinnamon rolls

My friend John is a painter, an incredible painter who is not recognized in the established art world the way he should be. Whatever. That’s not why he paints. (However, I hope the museums and art critics flock to his door when he is 94, the way they have with Carmen Herrera.) He paints because [...]

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gluten-free rugelach

I’ve been wanting for weeks to tell you about these cookies. And now that it’s time, I find that I don’t want to say very much. You know how some meals deserve elaborate place settings, candles lit, and a hushed expectation so your guests will say ooh when you proffer the platter? Others taste best [...]

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gluten-free cinnamon rolls, an update

I may be getting sick of cinnamon rolls. For the past week, I have made at least seven batches of gluten-free cinnamon rolls. Sometimes I have made them with Little Bean standing on a chair at my side, and I have talked with her as I combined flours and tossed in softened butter. Other times, [...]

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gluten-free cinnamon rolls, a work in progress

Almost every afternoon these days, I look down at Little Bean amidst her pile of books. Without her noticing, I have shoved all the sharp knives and breakable dishes to the side of the kitchen where the appliances congregate. The chair sits against the counter. I have her apron in my hand. “Do you want [...]

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gluten-free pie crust

(We’re thrilled that this recipe is being featured at Oprah.com’s roundup of holiday recipes for 2009. For more of our featured posts, visit Oprah.com today.) I love making pie. There’s no need to tell you more about this. I’ve written about pie so many times before on this site. Each year, I’ve created a pie [...]

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gluten-free gingerbread

(We’re thrilled that this recipe is being featured at Oprah.com’s roundup of holiday recipes for 2009. For more of our featured posts, visit Oprah.com today.)Gluten-Free Gingerbread, adapted from November 2009 issue of Gourmet Rain is hitting the windows on the door behind me so hard it sounds like little pellet guns full of pebbles are [...]

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The New Portuguese Table

(We’re thrilled that this recipe is being featured at Oprah.com’s roundup of holiday recipes for 2009. For more of our featured posts, visit Oprah.com today.) I imagine Portugal is warm most of the year. That’s probably not true, and I’m worse in meteorology than I am in geography, so don’t trust me. That’s only how [...]

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Soul of a New Cuisine

Two autumns ago, when Danny was still working full-time as a chef, and we were still living in Seattle, I sat in a Starbucks in Madison Park, excited. Marcus Samuelsson would be there soon. His glorious cookbook, The Soul of a New Cuisine, had come out the year before, and we had been dog-earing pages [...]

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please eat pie

When I was in my first year of college, my best friend Sharon and I sat in my bedroom on a hot summer day and wrote letters to David Letterman. Not love letters, although we did adore him with a certain fervor. No, we wrote pithy messages, brief missives, hoping to make it onto the [...]

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