Beet and Parsnip Chocolate Cake | Gluten Free

It’s good to have creative friends.

My friend Becca over at The Dabblist posted a recipe for Chocolate Almond Molten Beet Cakes.  I died. They looked so gooey and wonderful.  The color of red velvet.  Oh, and they are made with beets.  No big deal.  When I saw that post I got really fired up.  I wanted to bake with my beets.  I wanted to beet it. Does that sound dirty?  Stop it.  Get your mind out of the gutter.  I immediately went to my pantry and surveyed my ingredients. I didn’t have all of the things that I needed to make her exact cakes.  I did a quick google search.  No, I didn’t google search “Beet It”.  I suggest you don’t either.  Or do.  Tell me what you find. […]

Apple Coffee Cake | Gluten Free

I can’t really take credit for this one. This would be the brain child of one Betty Crocker. No joke.  I googled what I could do with the remains of my Gluten Free Bisquick and I found a recipe that has the words “Impossibly Easy” in the title.  It was a done deal.  Not only were they claiming that it would be easy, but impossibly so.

This could make a lovely Thanksgiving breakfast.

I figured all of you lovely people could use something IMPOSSIBLY easy right about now. Heck, I could use something easy, and I am only making cranberry sauce. Between getting your turkey in a brine, or lacing up your turkducken and the stuffing prep and the three different types of pie you got going on you deserve something that pretty much makes itself.  Do you have flour on your face right now? That is how I imagine everyone today. Perhaps because that is pretty much what I look like in the kitchen…Nay, in life. I am the girl that takes a shower and then manages to get salsa in her hair two minutes later. What am I doing eating salsa two minutes after showering? Great question.  I wish I had an answer for you other than…snacks. […]

Chocolate Bread Pudding | Gluten Free

I have a confession to make.  I have never eaten bread pudding before making this one.  All of those years of gluten eating, and bread pudding never made it on my radar.  It wasn’t until my husband ordered something called ” Chocolate Croissant Bread Pudding” at our local bakery that my ears perked up.  It sounded amazing. I watched him eat it with a sense of gluten eaters envy.  That doesn’t happen too often anymore, since I am SO used to being gluten-free… but there he was eating this melty pot of flakey chocolate and butter and there I was eating yogurt.  It was a moment.  I felt an injustice and it had to be righted.

I have no basis for how a bread pudding tastes.  I didn’t really know what went in it.  I assumed.  I didn’t even do a google search.  This could have gone poorly. I will admit that I have a tendency to fly by the seat of my pants in the kitchen.  A dash of this and a dash of that.  I am not great a measuring things.  I keep on having to remind myself to write things down now that I am blogging and sharing things with you lovelies! That’s just how I learned to cook.  I call it the “Put Some” method.  Every time my Grammie or my Mom would give me a recipe and I would ask them “Wait…how much garlic?” or “How much shoyu?” they would always tell me “Oh, you know…just put some!”  So there it is.  My general philosophy in the kitchen.  Just put some.  Cooking by feeling it out. […]

Apple Pie Cheesecakes | Gluten Free

It’s Friday.  We’ve pretty much made it.  The weekend is only hours away. You know what you need? (Besides the obvious cocktail and maybe a nap.) You need one (but in all honesty, three) of these mini cheesecakes in your face. You really do.  Your thighs might disagree, and I get it, my thighs tend to be of the disagreeable sort… but, tell your thighs to can it.  You can eat kale tomorrow.  Today is for cheesecake.

When I came across this recipe from the lovely Tracy at Shutterbean, I knew I had to make it.  The only challenge was to make it gluten-free…But, that was not going to dissuade me from making these beauties.   I replaced the graham crackers in the crust with gluten-free gingersnaps.  I also modified a few ingredients based on what I had in my pantry at home.  But really, other than a few minor tweaks, I stayed pretty true to the original. […]