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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Keep it up.These yummy dishes would make any mother smile keep it up!! sighed kaitlyn hackman
Congratulations!!! I am expecting this fall too- on Halloween to be exact! Love you blog…we’re making you Kung Pao Chicken Lettuce Wraps tonight :)
I just realized I never congratulated you…CONGRATULATIONS! I was so happy to hear that your little family will be growing. And I at least partially understand your feelings about not being able to give Lincoln your undivided attention anymore. Upon learning we would have twins, my post-freak out thoughts immediately turned to the idea that I would never have just one child. And as an only child myself, that was just mind-blowingly odd. But you, as a daughter and sibling yourself, know how very possible it is to make sure that each of your littles knows just how much they are loved. You’ll find time for both of them, no doubt, and Lincoln will be so stoked about having a mini-me that he won’t even notice all of the attention isn’t on him! :)
Best of luck with continuing to feel well! It seems maxi skirt season is officially here in the Midwest so cheers to the ideal pregnancy wardrobe!
Congratulations! I am a bit late in posting, but just catching up after vacation. I have to say thank you for your message about getting pregnant. My husband and I are trying now (for about 9 months) and I have been having a roller coaster of emotions every time there is a new pregnancy announcement, birth of a baby, etc. (which seems to be every day). Often we don’t know the back stories and feel like it comes so easily to everyone else, so thank you thank you thank you for the reminder that it’s not always true. It is also reassuring to know that while some people do get pregnant super fast, some dont! And it’s all meant to happen for a reason. Love your blog, and best wishes for a healthy pregnancy!
I know exactly how you feel, Samantha! My thoughts are with you and your husband!!
Congratulations! From someone who has struggled with infertility and had to go through rounds of IVF to have her children, I appreciate your post. Also, I saw this article today about the link between celiac disease and infertility and it made me think of you (isn’t it crazy that complete strangers randomly think of you!? ha.). http://www.todaysparent.com/trying-to-conceive/infertility/infertility-and-celiac-disease-is-there-a-connection/
I actually thought for a long time that my body was to too damaged from CD, and that’s why we were having trouble. It really does a number on you!
Oh congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!! It took us over 3 years to get our sweet Willa girl and we are beyond thrilled! She is 14 months now, and we are onto the fertility treatment journey again to get her a sibling! Such a hard, sensitive subject. I used to hate Mother’s Day and hate feeling so alone, broken, isolated, “why not me!?” But, to be on the other side, wipes out all those sad and hard times and makes us appreciate our sweet girl that much more. I take nothing for granted! Diaper changes? Bring it! Love it! Congratulations again! <3
Yay!! Congratulations! My husband and I are expecting our first in November! (Guessing you’re a Nov due date as well??) Yippee! Hope we can work together on a post again soon.
That is so exciting, Samantha, congratulations!!!! Yes, definitely, can’t wait to hear from you. :)
long time reader and recipe maker but first time commenter–CONGRATS! so excited for you and your family! i am the oldest of two (no kids myself) and i LOVE having a younger sibling/best friend :-)
Huge congratulations! Thanks for the words about fertility. It needs to become more of an open conversation as you said. I’m due this fall, too. Please do not hesitate posting mocktails or craving satisfying recipes!
Thank you so much for this. I’m currently trying to get pregnant with my first, and isn’t as easy as I had hoped. I appreciate hearing success stories as I head into fertility testing.
Kristin, so happy for you and Ben and Lincoln, and the new little one on the way! Praying for a healthy pregnancy, better delivery than the first, and healthy baby.