Category: Desserts and Sweet Treats
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Gluten Free Graham Crackers
Graham Crackers These graham crackers make a tasty snack on their own, and they also make tasty s’mores. They will stay fresh for several days in a sealed container on the counter. To get nice, crispy cookies, even if the dough is rolled out on the thick side, we will bake them similar to biscotti.…
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Hostess-Style Chocolate Cupcakes
Chocolate Cream-Filled Cupcakes Whew! I just finished my first year teaching at a wonderful school. There is one thing I’ve heard talking to teachers: it doesn’t matter if are teaching second grade or twelfth grade, public or private school – the first year is a doozie. And it was, but I’m hoping that I’ll have…
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Gingerbread
Gingerbread This gingerbread is made with fresh ginger. I adapted Maxie’s supper club’s fresh ginger cake recipe so it is gluten-free. You may be wondering if it is worth it to mince up all that ginger – I say yes! The fresh ginger flavor is incredible. If you buy more ginger than you need, finish…
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Stuffed Strawberries
Stuffed Strawberries Here is a cool, no-bake summer dessert – and it doesn’t even need Jello or Cool-Whip. These little guys are stuffed with a slightly sweet whipped cream and cream cheese filling. The cream cheese stabilizes the whipped cream, so the shelf life is much longer than for plain whipped cream. If you don’t…
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Fudgies… or No-Bake Cookies – A geographic and cultural debate!
The proper name for these cookies is a matter of some debate in my household. My husband – and most of the country, as far as I can tell – calls these cookies “no-bake cookies.” In my family, these cookies go by one name and one name only – “fudgies”. My grandmother was a bona…
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Oatmeal Flax Muffins
Oatmeal Flax Muffins These muffins pack in fiber and iron, and have a delicious cinnamon molasses taste. This recipe use milled flax seed, not whole flax. Milled flax seed looks like this: You can find milled flax seed in the health food flours sections of the grocery store. I purchase Hodgson Mill brand, which is…
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Brownies
Brownies I’ve owned two of Marcel Desaulniers’s cookbooks, Death by Chocolate and Deserts to Die For, for ages- they date back to my pre-diagnosis days. I gave them a fresh look a few years ago, and discovered that lots of his recipes are free of flour as written! Who needs flour with that much eggs,…
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Yellow Cupcakes
Yellow Cupcakes These cupcakes were one of my first (successful!) gluten free baking attempts, and they are a great place for anyone to start. I found the recipe on A Gluten Free Guide (http://aglutenfreeguide.com/celebrate-love-with-a-gluten-free-cupcake.html), and it follows in the great tradition of doctored cake mixes. That’s right, these cupcakes “cheat” by using a boxed GF…
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Chocolate Icing
Chocolate Icing This chocolate icing recipe is based on the Pioneer Woman’s (http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/desserts/yellow-cupcakes-with-sticky-chocolate-icing/) sticky chocolate icing. I scaled it up a bit since the original recipe left odd amounts of sweetened condensed milk languishing in my fridge. This batch makes enough icing to frost two batches of yellow cupcakes (recipe here). This stuff freezes well,…
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Sugar Cookies and Snickerdoodles
Sugar Cookies and Snickerdoodles If you keep the gluten free flours on hand, these cookies come together quickly anytime the warm-cookies-NOW urge strikes. I have actually found that I tend to throw these cookies together a little too quickly… on two separate occasions, I have forgotten the xantham gum and the baking soda and powder.…
Cookie and Quilts 