Gluten Free Hummingbird Cake Recipe

This Gluten Free Hummingbird Cake Recipe is easy to make and absolutely delicious. Made in one bowl without a mixer, this simple recipe is perfect for afternoon tea or dessert. Lower in fat and sugar than traditional recipes, it's perfect for sharing with the whole family.

Why hello there, long time no speak... if you follow me on Instagram, that statement is certainly not true because I'm always posting there... but the blog has been very neglected lately as I'm constantly chasing a very cute 2 year old around - and even when I am making new recipes, they're usually quickly gobbled by said 2 year old before a photo is even thought of.

But, this Gluten Free Hummingbird Cake Recipe is too good not to share, so here I am, just like old times, sharing a delicious gluten free recipe with you. 

Gluten Free Hummingbird Cake Recipe >> 

Recipe: 2 Ingredient Sweet Potato Scrolls (Gluten Free & Vegan, BLW Friendly)

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It’s no secret that back to school expenses can add up quickly. 

You’ve got uniforms, shoes, books, lunchboxes, drink bottles, school fees, hair cuts, grocery bills to restock the pantry.

So naturally, when ALDI asked if I would help create some Back to School Inso for them, I knew I had to come up with some simple back to school recipes that were quick, easy, kid friendly and budget friendly too. 

This recipe cost less than $10 for all of the ingredients, making 12 scrolls with plenty left to make a second batch. 

Better still? It’s gluten free, nut free and egg free and can also be vegan and dairy free too. 

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Recipe: Tahini Chocolate Chip Cookies (Gluten Free)

Crisp and chewy, this Gluten Free Tahini Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe is addictively delicious and so easy to make. Roasted sesame creates a moreish tasty cookie that everyone will love and uses up the last of the tahini jar.

You might be thinking... "tahini? cookies? why?!" but stick with me and you'll discover the most addictively delicious cookies you've ever tried.

With the perfect balance of salty and sweet, these cookies are so moreish and so delicious - and also so easy to make.

Better still, they'll use up that tahini jar you have floating around in your pantry that you never seem to have enough uses for.... even if it's the bottom of the jar and a mix of dry clumpy bits and properly stirred tahini (which is likely if you're like me and too lazy to fully stir the jar every time you use it). 

The roasted sesame flavour adds that extra oomph to these cookies without being too overpowering. It's the secret ingredient that will have everyone coming back for more and asking for the recipe.

The edges are crisp and crunchy whilst the centres are soft and chewy with melting gooey chocolate chips.

I mean, seriously. Can you ever go wrong with a chocolate chip cookie?

So let me share the recipe with you >> 

Recipe: BLW Friendly Weetbix Banana Muffins (Gluten Free and Sugar Free)

A baby led weaning friendly recipe, these Weetbix Banana Muffins Recipe is sugar free, gluten free and so easy to make. A BLW fave that babies, toddlers and the whole family will love.

Life with an eight month old is hectic. 

With Jensen now on a mission to walk, he's climbing everything he can which means I can't take my eyes off him for a second. 

My beautiful shaker door cabinets have become finger holds for a baby who seems to think he's some kind of daredevil free climber. If he's not climbing, he's crab crawling through the house at lighting speed, untying shoelaces or chasing toys around.

And if he's not on the move, he's probably eating because oh boy does this kid love his food!

Muffins have become a recent favourite - both as entertainment (Jensen is fascinated with watching me cook) and as a snack and they've been perfect for taking with us on the go. From the zoo to the shopping centre and soon to be taken with us on our vacation, these muffins are the perfect portable snack for both baby and Mum and Dad. 

As a baby friendly recipe, they don't contain any added sugars - but you could easily add some sweetener (maple syrup or sugar) if you have an older baby or just want a sweeter muffin.

Best of all, these muffins use up the weetbix crumbs you get at the bottom of the box - and are great if, like us, you only have one weetbix eater in the family and want to use them up before they go stale.

We use gluten free weetbix for these muffins so that I can eat them to, but you can just as easily use regular weetbix. 

The recipe is also super adaptable. We add chia seeds, flaxseeds and almond meal to ours, but you can swap that out for more flour or mix through hemp seeds, raisins or whatever you like.

So let me share the recipe with you! >> 

Recipe: Easy Gluten Free Snickers Cookies (Crisp and Chewy!)

Crisp and chewy Gluten Free Peanut Butter Snickers Cookie Recipe, aka Naptime Cookies. Baked in just 10 mins with less than 10 minutes prep, these quick and easy cookies are perfect for busy families and absolutely delicious. Made using pantry staples and ingredients you probably already have at home!

Oh hello there! Yes, I am actually alive…. the bags under my eyes would probably rack up a hefty excess baggage charge on a long haul flight and my to-do list is a million miles long - but I am indeed alive…. and I’ve come back with a recipe! 

Remember those? 

Since Jensen was born, I’ve been quiet on the recipe front. I’ve still been cooking, but it’s mainly been breakfasts, lunches and dinners. The only baking I’ve really done has been a birthday cake, some cupcakes and batch after batch of boobie bikkies.

Instead my days have been filled with juggling working full time, looking after a very active 6 month old and trying to stop my house from looking like a total dump. That doesn’t leave much time for baking.

But these cookies are worth the effort - and they’re so quick they can be made during nap time…. even if your little one is a cat napper like Jensen can sometime be.

They need 10 minutes of prep and 10 minutes in the oven and you’ve got a batch of delicious cookies ready to devour.

What’s not to love?! 

So let me share the recipe with you >> 

Recipe: Gluten Free Gingerbread Blondies

Blondies get a Christmas makeover with this Easy Gluten Free Gingerbread Blondies Recipe. With all of the flavours of gingerbread in a chewy white chocolate chip studded blondie, these are sure to be a holiday hit!

Is anyone else finding themselves slowly transforming their house into Christmas mode?

Whilst usually I'd get everything done in the one weekend, we're still working on some home to-dos before baby arrives - and at 9 months pregnant, I totally don't have the energy to decorate our house all in one go - so Christmas is slowly starting to appear.

One tree is up, another two are going up today, the lounge room is decorated and our kitchen has a sprinkling of Christmas magic too.... but most importantly, Christmas scents have been filling our house with treats baking away in the oven.

With a newborn arriving in just two weeks, I don't know how much time (or energy) i'll have for Christmas baking, so I've been baking and enjoying Christmas treats while I still can!

These Gingerbread Blondies are a new favourite we've been enjoying with a cup of coffee. They have just the right amount of sweetness, are full of Christmas flavour and are dense and fudgy like any good blondie should be.

Better still? You can totally make the recipe your own. Throw in nuts or stir through chocolate chips (just don't make the mistake I did with the last batch and stir them through when the mix is too hot - notes below!) or frost them with your favourite frosting and Christmas sprinkles. 

But let me share the recipe with you! >>

Recipe: Easy Melt and Mix Chewy Peanut Butter Blondies (Gluten Free!)

An easy Melt and Mix recipe, these Gluten Free Chewy Peanut Butter Blondies are seriously delicious and so easy to make using pantry staple ingredients. A quick and easy dessert the whole family will love!

Sometimes you just need a quick and easy dessert.

A no fuss, melt and mix dessert or snack with simple ingredients you already have at home - and that's exactly what this Melt and Mix Chewy Peanut Butter Blondies Recipe is.

Made with ingredients you would already have at home, you can whip this recipe up in half an hour and you'll have a delicious batch of blondies to enjoy.

This is one of our favourite recipes to make when we're having friends or family over for coffee (or just having an at home coffee date!) and want something sweet to go with it. 

Even though the ingredients and recipe is super simple, they taste seriously impressive - and can be adapted to add in whatever mix ins you fancy.

Throw in some chocolate chips or chopped nuts, chop up some candy bars or drizzle over caramel sauce before baking - the choice is yours!

So let me share the recipe with you >> 

Recipe: Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies (Gluten Free & Vegan)

Combining traditional gingerbread flavours and rich chocolate, this Easy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies Recipe will become a new family fave - and it's gluten free, egg free and vegan too! Makes a small batch that is perfect for Christmas gifting. 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....... especially in our home!

You see, once November rolls around, I decide it's officially a-okay to begin celebrating Christmas. The cookies baking in my oven are most likely Christmas cookies, Alexa is playing Christmas radio, the Christmas decorations start appearing and we are in full on holiday mode.

So I thought I'd kick off November's recipes with a Christmas themed one - and what better recipe that one that combines Christmas spices AND chocolate!

I love gingerbread cookies, but chocolate gingerbread cookies are next level delicious. 

Filled with all of the traditional spices but with a sweet chocolate kick, these are one of my favourite Christmas cookies - and they're so easy to make!

The recipe makes a smallish batch, but be warned that you might find yourself doubling or tripling the measurements because these cookies will disappear before your eyes!

Don't love gingerbread or cinnamon and ginger spices? You can make chocolate cookies by leaving the cinnamon and ginger out altogether. Instead of a spicy kick, you'll have a sweet chocolate cookie that kids and adults will adore.

I keep things simple by drizzling these with chocolate, but you could easily decorate them with icing, sprinkles or whatever takes your fancy.

So let me share the recipe with you! >> 

Recipe: Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie Bars (GF + Vegan)

Gluten free and vegan, this Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie Bars Recipe is so easy to make and packed full of nutritious ingredients like ground flaxseed, oatmeal and coconut oil. Perfect for breastfeeding mamas.

With what looks like 5, maybe 6 weeks until our sweet boy arrives, I've been busy cooking and baking all the things to stash in the freezer for after he is born.

If you open our freezer at the moment, you'll find it jam packed with meals ready for quick and easy options once we get home from the hospital - as well as alllll the snacks! 

This Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie Bars Recipe is one of our favourite snacks as it's jam packed full of nutrients, but sweet enough to feel like a treat.

Being gluten free (if you are oat tolerant*), vegan, egg free and dairy free, it also means it's the perfect treat to share - and if you're a pregnant or breastfeeding mama, it's packed full of milk friendly ingredients.

So let me share it with you! >> 

Recipe: Easy Two Bite Double Chocolate Brownies (Gluten Free!)

Using ingredients you already have at home, this one bowl Easy Two Bite Double Chocolate Brownies Recipe takes just one bowl and is SO quick and easy to make. A new family fave.

Sometimes the best recipes are the simplest ones.... and the best recipes are the ones you make again, and again, and again. 

This is one of those recipes.

These two bite recipes are SO easy to make, but they're one of our all time favourites. All you need is one bowl and about half an hour of your time and you've got a whole batch of delicious brownie bites to devour.

During lockdown we haven't been doing too much baking because it's just the two of us at home.

A batch of cupcakes would easily be wasted, a batch of cookies often feels too large and an entire cake feels too indulgent - but a batch of two bite brownies? Sign us up!

These brownies keep really well in a container at room temperature (they've lasted almost a week before we finished them off!) and they also freeze really well so you have a quick dessert or snack to defrost and enjoy.

Better still? They use ingredients you probably already have at home!

So let me share the recipe with you >> 

Recipe: Cinnamon Streusel Topped Banana Bread (Gluten Free!)

Banana Bread gets an upgrade with this Cinnamon Streusel Topped recipe! Crunchy, delicious and gluten free too, you may not be able to make homemade banana bread without a cinnamon streusel topping again!  A melt and mix family fave recipe that will have your house smelling divine!

The lockdown days just keep stretching on here in Sydney, but we're trying to make the most of it. 

Our weekends are spent ticking off to-do lists with projects around the house and we're making the most of extra time spent at home by trying out new recipes and baking yummy treats. 

This banana bread is one of those treats.

As it bakes away in the oven, your house will be filled with the buttery, cinnamony scent of this delicious banana bread.... but be warned!

The delicious smell will having you pacing in front of the oven, waiting for it to bake. Tummy rumbling, you'll be counting down the seconds til you can try your first piece.

But let me share the recipe with you >> 

Recipe: Peanut Butter Stuffed Brownie Cookies (Gluten Free!)

Crisp, chewy brownie cookies are sandwiched with creamy peanut butter buttercream to make these delicious sandwich cookies. A Butterbing copycat recipe that is gluten free and so easy to make. A dessert the whole family will love.

Pin the recipe on Pinterest here!

I’m a cheap ass by nature. Anyone who knows me knows that’s true - but it’s saved me a lot of money over the years.

It’s the reason we took up 110 sqm of tile up ourselves by hand. It’s the reason we spent our weekend hammering away at a giant rock in our backyard (also COVID lockdowns contributed to that 😅).

And it’s also one of the reasons I make so many different recipes…. Including this one. 

You see, I’d been seeing advertisements for Butterbing’s delicious gluten free cookies for weeks - and when their online store was launched, I was totally planning on buying some…. Until I realised I would need to spend a minimum of $78 on cookies that I could make myself for less than $5.

Pin the recipe on Pinterest here!

So what did I do? 

I got to work in the kitchen, of course!

But because we’re also stuck in lockdown at the moment, I didn’t want to go to the shops to pick up any ingredients, so whilst these cookies aren’t an exact duplicate, they may just be even better because they are seriously, ridiculously good. 

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So good, in fact, that we did a COVID safe cookie drop to my sister and her boyfriend and we hadn’t even left their street when they called us gushing over how good they were. 

Soooo friends, being a cheap ass totally has its perks. Because for less than $5, I didn’t just have 12 cookies, I had 15 and a whole lot of satisfaction because I’d made them myself.

So let me share the recipe so that you can make them too! >> 

Recipe: Lemon Drizzle Pound Cake (Gluten Free!)

Perfect for enjoying with friends, this Gluten Free Lemon Drizzle Pound Cake Recipe is buttery, moist, delicious and so easy to make. Greek yogurt or sour cream creates a dense yet fluffy cake with a delicious lemon glaze frosting.

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What do you do when you're anxiously awaiting the results of your 20 week scan? You stress bake an old favourite so you can share it with your internet friends 😉

We're on what feels like day 402 of Sydney lockdown, but this cake is sure to brighten up your day wherever you are in the world and whatever you're going through. There's just enough of a lemon hit to feel like edible sunshine - and this easy to make cake is sure to impress anyone you serve it to.... even if that someone is just your husband who you've been stuck in lockdown with 😜

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After spending an hour in the kitchen whipping up this cake, I got the results of our 20 week scan (everything is perfect - phew! Head over to Instagram to see our sweet little dude) and I had a delicious slice of cake to celebrate with - what's not to love?!

Pound cakes are one of my favourite no fuss cakes to serve for afternoon tea with friends. There's no fussy piping of icing or multitudes of bowls to clean up. Just a simple cake with a drizzle of icing and you're good to go.

This Lemon Pound Cake is dense yet fluffy and full of lemon-y flavour. Whether you enjoy it with iced tea in the sunshine or a warm cup of tea on a winter's day, it's sure to be a hit.

So let me share the recipe with you! >> 

Recipe: The Ultimate Chocolate Cake with Sour Cream Frosting (Gluten Free!)

With a creamy sour cream chocolate frosting and a fudgy gluten free chocolate cake, this easy recipe really is The Ultimate Gluten Free Chocolate Cake Recipe. Perfect for birthday parties, holidays, celebrations, anniversaries or any moment that could be enhanced with cake!

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Sometimes you're in lockdown and stuck at home with nothing to do and you suddenly decide you need to bake a cake.

So you pull the mixer down from the cupboard, set it up on the bench, get out all of the ingredients, preheat the oven, bake said cake and then decide it needs a magnificent frosting.

Only, you don't have that much butter, there's no cream or cream cheese in your fridge and you don't want to go to the grocery store in the middle of a COVID flare.... so you reach for the sour cream instead.

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And you know what? Sometimes those last minute recipes turn out to be the best ones.

This chocolate cake is seriously good. It's rich and fluffy with a creamy, decadent frosting. You'd never know it uses sour cream (and if your fridge has no sour cream but you do have cream cheese, you can swap it for that!).

Smother it with sprinkles, cover it with smarties or your favourite lollies, let the kids get creative - the choice is totally yours.

But trust me, this pandemic chocolate cake is totally worth making.

So let me share the recipe with you >> 

Melt and Mix Banana Bread Recipe (Gluten Free!)

A simple one bowl recipe, this Gluten Free Melt and Mix Banana Bread Recipe will become a family favorite with ingredients you already have at home and a few simple steps. Two ripe bananas are all you will need to make this delicious treat that is perfect for breakfast, snacks or dessert.

It has been a long time between recipes here on Southern In Law, but between growing a baby and renovating our kitchen, things have been a little bit chaotic (and nauseating).

However, the kitchen is now complete (full update and before and afters coming very soon!) and I can finally eat like a regular human again so I wanted to share a recipe that's quick, easy and seriously delicious.

Banana Bread is always a winner in our house, but especially if the recipe is a simple one - using ingredients we already have at the house and whipped together without too much effort.

This Gluten Free Melt and Mix Banana Bread Recipe is a one bowl recipe that doesn't require getting the mixer or food processor out and will fill your house with the delicious scent of freshly baked banana bread.

So let me share it with you >>