Celebrating life with (gluten free) food and littles on the California Coast
I added a new cookie to the Christmas mix this year. My kids love candy canes (I love candy canes) so why not add them to our Christmas cookie platter. I made some with the kids (who doesn’t love rolling little snakes) and they were gone in a day. They use my Sugar cookie cutouts […]
Gingerbread was never one of our holiday cookies. I don’t think my mom liked it, and who can blame her. The dough is usually sticky and irksome to work with. The resulting cookies smell spicy but they have the texture and flavor of a car air freshener. I’d beg to add gingerbread, and when I […]
Snow Balls, Russian Tea Cookies, Mexican Wedding Cookies. Whatever you call them I always thought of them as the dry powdered sugary cookies you make just because they look pretty on a Christmas cookie platter. You don’t actually want to eat them. Well toasted pecans and my cassava almond sugar cookie dough change all that. […]
Jam drops are my favorite holiday cookie. Buttery shortbread, crunchy nuts, and a pop of fruity jam. They also make a beautiful addition to a holiday cookie plate without any fake red stuff. When I was a child, my mother would make would make 7 or 8 kinds of cookies and stack them in the […]
This clementine cake is based on Nigella Lawson’s viral clementine cake which is based on Claudia Roden’s orange almond cake with a couple of fantastic upgrades. First I add butter even if I am not adding the cranberries. It gives just the right touch of richness. Second I add brandied cranberries – it is basically […]
This is a simple buttery sugar cookie recipe that works great for precise cutout shapes. I like to make a big batch of this dough and use it as a base for all my holiday favorites. It’s great for icebox cookies, jam drops, snow ball / Russian tea cookie/ Mexican wedding cookie. These cookies are […]
I love these green banana flour ” oatmeal” cookies. They are based on my favorite oatmeal cookies –https://www.seriouseats.com/easy-one-bowl-oatmeal-cookies-recipe and I was feeling really deprived in gluten free land (especially since I don’t really tolerate grain particularly oats well) but I decided to try them with my new love – green banana flour -it makes a […]
I love coffee cake, particularly crumb coffee cake. The kind where buttery crumbly crisp topping makes up half the cake. It’s the thing I always used to want at Starbucks (though it’s not ever quite as good as it looks). I could put streusel topping on everything – banana bread, boring muffins. But the This […]
I love this almond cake. As a result, I use it for all cakes where I want something gluten free that rivals a traditional cake. It is so easy and delicious, I think even if I could go back to gluten, I don’t think I’d want to. Even with sugar, when I suffered from gestational […]
