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Desserts

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Kahlua Mousse

mmmm. Thats all I have to say about this divine (& naturally gluten-free) dessert.

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Baked Apples – Kids in the Kitchen!

So my daughter (9yrs old) has taken to baking (aka making a gigantic mess) in the kitchen.   And, with a lack of chocolate chips, cocoa powder, maple syrup, cream cheese, and half a dozen spices, what’s a girl to do?
We went for baked apples – in the microwave.
Per apple:
1.  Cut in half, and scoop [...]

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Favorite Dessert This week: Cheesecake!

In an instant of sheer brilliance, we purchased a frozen cheesecake for our daughter’s 9th birthday party.  It didn’t occur to me before this, that the cake might actually be gluten free! Come to think of it, my favorite cheesecake is nothing more than eggs, sugar, and cream cheese!  So, yeah, in its truest sense, [...]

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Gluten Free Cake Round-Up

Welcome to the Gluten Free Cake Round up!!
Listed are recipes from any predominantly gluten-free blog listed on Book of Yum.  If I could FIND your cake recipes – by tag or category or search, then they’re listed here.  Because of the sheer number, I excluded any recipe that did not say “cake” in the recipe [...]

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Ice Cream Cake with Brownie Crust

This is better than DQ ice cream cakes by a LOOOOONG ways.  Give this a go:

[cref  #802 Brownie Recipe]
2 liters of ice cream
bucket of cool whip, defrosted
birthday candles

Bake brownies in 9×13 pan.  (I had to use several pans, and then layered the cake in a truffle serving dish.)
While brownies are cooling, remove ice [...]

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Today’s favorite cookie: Peanut Butter

Yummmmmy.  My favorite cookie recipe is our Peanut Butter cookies, simply because they are so easy.  Even our 8 year old can make these, with a little help.

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg

Stir together.
Drop on ungreased cookie sheet by teaspoonful.
Press with sugared fork.
Cook 325 for 8 – 10 minutes.

Could it BE easier?

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Banana Cream Pie (Giveaway)

Scroll down to win a free pre-packaged version.
This has always been my go-to pie recipe.  Until we changed our diet to Gluten Free. (One reader uses GF to mean Good Food – cute, eh?)  So last week, I made an adaptation of this super easy desert but you aren’t going to get pictures.  Because, [...]

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Pie crust that works!

If you dug a bit further into the Cookie post below you would have found Ginger Lemon Girl’s Cookie 2008 round-up. And a recipe for Pecan Tassies.  Based on this recipe, I eventually came up with these extremely yummy butter tarts, and a crust recipe that will knock your socks off!  Gluten-eating people had [...]

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