Give Mom what she really wants for Mother's Day — a day off from planning and cooking meals! From decadent desserts to fun cocktails, delicious brunch ideas and entrees that will knock her socks off, these gluten free recipes will thrill and delight the special lady in your life.
I saw a post on social media the other day that said what Moms actually want on Mother’s Day is to not have to plan or cook anything for an entire day.
Where do I cosign?!
That said, this Mother’s Day, show the special lady in your life some extra love by cooking her a day’s worth of fabulous food starting with a gluten free brunch, followed by cocktails, dinner, and dessert. Woo! My heart is racing just thinking about it! ;)
From decadent desserts, to fabulous drinks, and a special and satisfying dinner, these gluten free recipes will make Mom swoon!
Brunch Ideas
Easy Gluten Free Pancakes
Easy Gluten Free Pancakes are light, fluffy, and made with fridge and pantry staples. Meet your new, go-to gluten free pancake recipe!
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3 Ingredient Billionaire Bacon
Billionaire Bacon is smokey, spicy, sweet — in a word, irresistible! Upgrade your weekend brunch plans or the holidays with this easy yet impressive bacon.
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Cheesy Ham and Hash Brown Casserole
Cheesy Ham and Hash Brown Casserole is the ultimate comfort food! Your family will lick their plates clean of this easy, cheesy, casserole.
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Gluten Free Cinnamon Rolls
Yes, you can be gluten free and have your cinnamon rolls too! Gluten Free Cinnamon Rolls are sweet, fluffy, and made from pantry staples. Meet your new go to recipe.
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Easy Gluten Free Quiche
Gluten Free Quiche is a creamy, savory breakfast pie with a homemade, flaky gluten-free crust. Perfect for holiday brunches and special occasions!
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Gluten-Free Breakfast Casserole
Gluten-Free Breakfast Casserole is a hearty and crowd-pleasing breakfast recipe. Prepped in minutes then baked until golden brown and bubbly!
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Gluten-Free French Toast Casserole with Butter-Pecan Maple Syrup
Gluten Free French Toast Casserole with Butter-Pecan Maple Syrup is make ahead and perfect for feeding a crowd. Easy and decadent!
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Fresh Fruit Salad Recipe for a Crowd
Fresh Fruit Salad Recipe for a Crowd is bursting with sweet and juicy fruits and berries. This big batch recipe is perfect for parties and potlucks.
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Hash Brown Crust Breakfast Pizza
Hash Brown Crust Breakfast Pizza is the answer to your gluten free breakfast pizza prayers! This crispy, 1 skillet dish is perfect for breakfast or brunch.
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Gluten Free Strawberry Muffins
Gluten Free Strawberry Muffins are moist and tender on the inside with a crystal-sugar snap on the outside. Perfectly sweet and summery!
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Dinner Ideas
Easy Mushroom Risotto
Easy Mushroom Risotto is a cinch to prepare, yet tastes like it came from a restaurant. Gluten free, vegetarian, and gorgeous!
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Berry Chicken Quinoa Salad with Strawberry-Balsamic Vinaigrette
Berry Chicken Quinoa Salad is packed with protein, vegetables, and berries then drizzled with a luscious, homemade Strawberry-Balsamic Vinaigrette.
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Perfect Grilled Steak with Herb Butter
Perfect Grilled Steak with Herb Butter features a homemade steak seasoning and buttery herb finish. This easy sizzling grilled steak recipe is mouthwatering!
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Mozzarella Bruschetta Chicken
Mozzarella Bruschetta Chicken is an easy chicken dinner recipe that pairs the craveable flavors of fresh bruschetta with mozzarella cheese.
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Shrimp and Asparagus Risotto
Shrimp and Asparagus Risotto is rich, creamy, and tastes like it came from a restaurant. This easy, spring-forward dish is practically fool-proof!
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Company Chicken
Company Chicken is an easy yet elegant chicken breast recipe that's ready in just 20 minutes. Luscious, mouthwatering, and perfect for entertaining!
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Steak Salad with Maple Balsamic Vinaigrette
Steak Salad with Maple Balsamic Vinaigrette is a feast for the eyes and stomach! This restaurant-quality salad is loaded with dried cherries, crispy shallots, candied pecans, and goat cheese.
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Shrimp and Asparagus Skillet
Shrimp and Asparagus Skillet is a light and flavorful, low carb dinner recipe that cooks in just 15 minutes. Super easy and so delicious!
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Chicken Crust Caesar Salad Pizza
Chicken Crust Caesar Salad Pizza is a gluten and grain-free, high-protein version of a chicken caesar salad pizza. Fun and delicious to eat!
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Cocktail Ideas
Strawberry-Basil Ginger Cocktail
Strawberry-Basil Ginger Cocktail is a refreshing and easy vodka cocktail recipe featuring fresh strawberries and basil. This drink is also great served as a mocktail!
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Cold Brew Martini
Calling all coffee + cocktail lovers! A Cold Brew Martini is made without espresso and is a cinch to shake up. Beyond delicious!
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Pomegranate Peach Prosecco Cocktail
Pomegranate Peach Prosecco Cocktail is fizzy and refreshing with zippy, unexpected flavors. Perfect for any special occasion!
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Watermelon Jalapeño Margaritas
Watermelon Jalapeño Margaritas are the perfect balance of sweet and spice. Incredibly refreshing and no fancy liquors required!
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Dessert Ideas
Easy Fruit Dip
The Best Fruit Dip is made from 3 everyday ingredients and is perfect for the holidays, parties, showers, and BBQs. Pair with fresh fruit for a beautiful presentation.
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Gluten Free Blueberry Crisp
Gluten Free Blueberry Crisp is a luscious, blueberry filling beneath a craveable, crunchy-crisp topping. The perfect summer dessert recipe!
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Gluten-Free Strawberry Shortcake
Gluten-Free Strawberry Shortcake that's classic yet never fails to impressive. Simple, stunning, and perfect for any spring or summer dessert occasion.
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Moist Gluten Free Chocolate Cupcakes
Gluten Free Chocolate Cupcakes are tender and ultra-chocolatey. They're also super moist thanks to the addition of one everyday ingredient!
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Gluten Free Lemon Bars
Gluten Free Lemon Bars are a simple yet outstanding dessert made with everyday ingredients. This bright and sweet-tart treat will be loved by all!
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Gluten Free Vanilla Cupcakes
Gluten Free Vanilla Cupcakes are light, fluffy, and perfectly sweet. Topped with a flourish of vanilla buttercream frosting – nobody would ever guess they're gluten free!
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Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies are crisp on the outside, dense and chewy on the inside, and made with everyday ingredients. Meet your new go-to CCC recipe!
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Dirt Cake
Dirt Cake is a classic Midwestern dessert that's loved by all. This no-bake dessert recipe is perfect for holidays and summer BBQs.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Lava Cakes
Chocolate Peanut Butter Lava Cakes are easy yet impressive! Molten chocolate and peanut butter spill out of this epic gluten free dessert.
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Gluten Free Angel Food Cake
Gluten Free Angel Food Cake is impossibly light and fluffy, just like the original! This sweet and simple cake is perfection topped with whipped cream and berries.
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Gluten Free S’Mores Bars
Gluten Free S’Mores Bars are sweet, sticky, and ooey-gooey — no campfire needed! A quintessential summer treat that can be enjoyed all year round.
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Gluten Free Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars
Gluten Free Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars are soft, chewy, and finished with a flourish of homemade buttercream frosting!
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Congratulations!!! I am so excited for you and your family. :) I’ve been reading your blog for years and have loved watching your family grow. We have two little ones, and also struggled along the way with fertility issues. You are so right when you say that once you tell people that you are struggling, its amazing how many other families have struggled as well. Thanks for sharing your story! :) Sending you positive vibes and well wishes!!!
Congratulations to you all! And thank you for sharing your kind words about fertility issues. I just wanted to quickly tell my story: my hubby and I got married in 2009 and started trying for a family pretty much straight away, but nothing doing. We are lucky enough to live in a part of the U.K. that meant we could have three rounds of IVF on the National Health Service, but we still didn’t have any positive results. So in 2015, we started training to be adopters – and then found out that I was expecting! The baby is due in just over two weeks, and we are beyond delighted (if a little daunted by the work involved, not least because we are 38 and 40 years old!). For us, I think it was probably relaxing and forgetting about trying that worked (I had even stopped taking any medications/vitamins, even folic acid, which I felt very guilty about once I realised the little one was on the way!), but I know I always hated that “just relax” advice when we were trying, so don’t like the idea of being used as a cautionary tale for others! Nature works in mysterious ways… Huge congratulations again x
So many congratulations!! Our first took almost a year and so far we’re on three years trying for a second, and I’m 40 so… we’ll be talking seriously soon about whether I should try the B’s and Acupuncture route, or we call it a day and wallow in the awesome little dude we already have. = ) Happy belated Mother’s Day!
Congratulations! I am a reader of IGE since 2012 and absolutely love your posts and recipes! Hope you’ll have an enjoyable pregnancy and you’ll keep us updated whenever you feel like it!
Greetings from Germany!
Congratulations!!!!!! This is such exciting news for you and your family! And while I’m sure you’re a bit nervous, I think it will be a blast learning how to be a mom to two kids and watching them grow together! I hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day!
So very excited for you :) I was hoping this was coming soon, since I just know little Lincoln will be the most adorable big brother <3 Happy Mother's day to you (belated) and so happy to follow along with another sweet pregnancy!!!
Congrats!!! So happy for you guys! Sorry to hear you struggled a bit to get there… it was very kind of you to share that w/ others to know that they’re not alone. Glad you’re feeling great.
Congrats! I hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day!
Thanks for being honest about your struggles. I am also having some difficulty getting pregnant with my second. Would you mind sharing the vitamin B combo you took? Happy Mother’s Day!
I was wondering the same thing about the vitamins. I will take any help I can get!
Many congratulations!!
You bet! Here are the B vitamins I took/take from Country Life because they’re certified gluten-free. Prenatal: http://www.countrylifevitamins.com/store/prenatal-omega-mom, Action B 50 caps: http://www.countrylifevitamins.com/store/action-b-50, Folic acid: http://www.countrylifevitamins.com/store/folic-acid-800-mcg. This vitamin B6 might be something to look into too: http://www.countrylifevitamins.com/store/vitamin-b-6-200-mg (All posted with the disclaimer that I am not a doctor and am only sharing what worked for me!) :)
Oh Kristin, CONGRATS lady! I am so very happy for you guys! Happy Mothers Day to you, I am sure it is a very special one! I too was a wreck while I was expecting my second because of the same reason you are with Lincoln/only baby syndrome. It only got worse for me as my pregnancy went on! HA! BUT, I can tell you that literally the minute your 2nd enters this world, it’s all good! xo
When’s your actual due date?
Late October. :)
Congratulations! Infertility is a rough road. I’ve been on it. And I don’t have the second child I was hoping for, but I do have peace and contentment (most of the time). I’m genuinely happy for you.
I’ve never commented here before, but I’ve been trying lots of your recipes and loving them! I’ve determined to have a more healthy lifestyle, eating mostly real foods from the perimeter of the store. You have helped me make tasty dinners and breakfasts (I’m loving the smoothies) and I have energy, I feel good, and I’m losing weight! Yay!
Oh, and I also love your blog because I’m also an Iowa girl and I know I can find the ingredients you use. So thanks! And Happy Mother’s Day!
Thank you so much, Emily. I’m sure making peace with it is easier said than done. I’m so glad you’ve been able to use the recipes to live your best life too!
Congratulations! I’m sure you’ll be a great mom of two.