This easy pumpkin bread recipe comes together in just a few minutes and can also be made dairy free! It's moist, soft, and just slightly spicy. I also love to wrap the cooled loaf in plastic wrap and store it on the counter for up to four days, slicing off a piece now and then. It stores really well (see the notes section for more on that). Gluten free, dairy free. With Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up fast, now is the time to start doing some winter baking. This incredibly easy ...
Desserts
Gluten Free Easy Pot Pie Recipe with Leftover Beef or Chicken Stew
This gluten free easy pot pie recipe transforms leftover beef or chicken stew into a delicious and hearty winter meal. You can also make this ahead of time and freeze for up to six weeks! Can be made as a large pie or as mini pies. I'm so glad it's fall. As I write this, a cinnamon-vanilla scented candle burns near my laptop (but luckily not too near). A bowl of popcorn sits temptingly on the table nearby, left by my roommate with the invitation to help myself. I am trying to resist. ...
Fluffy Gluten Free Pumpkin Pancakes
These gluten free pumpkin pancakes are fluffy, super easy, and reminiscent of pumpkin pie. But with chocolate. What's not to love? Gluten free, can be refined sugar free. It's the time of year to make things with pumpkin. Like these pumpkin doughnuts, for instance. Or pumpkin pie. Definitely pumpkin pie (especially this recipe, which happens to be free of refined sugar, and made with real pumpkin or butternut squash and cream instead of evaporated milk). Or these light and ...
Mini Dutch Baby Pancakes with Blueberry Strawberry Sauce (Gluten Free)
These gluten free mini dutch babies are cooked in a muffin pan to perfect serving-sized puffiness. Coated with fruit sauce, they are a beautiful and delicious breakfast or coffee accompaniment. And did I mention that they only take like 30 minutes to make? You need these. Now. See those plates? I am so excited about those plates. Yes, I know what your thinking: "Here it is at last. Confirmation that Linnaea is 100% insane. I think it's time I unsubscribed from this blog." Insane ...
Peanut Butter Chocolate Covered Dates
Every now and then, you need survival food. This is why my Dad always brings chocolate chips when we go hiking. Often, the youngest of my little siblings will start dragging her feet and moaning quite a bit. The second to youngest (aka my slightly dramatic and should-be-an-actress sister) tends to collapse in the middle of the trail and start giving us her last will and testament while other hikers pass by giving us strange looks. If they weren't already giving us strange looks because the ...
Gluten Free Pumpkin Doughnuts
These sweet, aromatic, slightly spicy gluten free pumpkin doughnuts are the perfect fall and winter treat. Filled with chocolate chips and sprinkled with sugar, they go perfectly with Netflix, cozy socks, and a hot cup of apple cider. This is also one of the easiest baked goods you will ever make. Winter is here, folks. I can feel it seeping through my jacket as I bike to class in the morning, head bent against the wind. I feel it when I wake up in the morning and really can’t even ...
Dutch Baby Recipe with Vanilla Peach Sauce
This gluten free Dutch baby recipe makes a beautiful Dutch baby pancake coated in buttery vanilla peach sauce. The Dutch baby itself is slightly crispy on the edges, perfectly puffy, and just a bit like custard inside. Can be eaten for breakfast...or dessert! You guys, since the last post there have been some serious changes. I’ve started hanging out with tons of people who don’t know how to do anything, eat poor quality food and like it, live in closet-sized spaces with people they’ve ...
Gluten Free Recipe for Ice Cream (Chocolate/Vanilla)
This recipe for ice cream actually started out in New Zealand this past winter. One very hot afternoon (February in New Zealand, remember, is actually summer) we all got back from working to find ourselves longing for ice cream (yes, we worked on the New Zealand trip. And made up a new hashtag: #lifeofacheapskate). I’d found a recipe for ice cream a few days earlier that did not require a machine and decided that this was a perfect opportunity to try it. After making my brother-in-law whip ...
15 Insanely Easy Paleo Desserts
I've gone around the web finding the best fast easy, and absolutely delicious easy paleo desserts. Because eating paleo is hard enough without having to spend two hours making a complicated dessert only to have it come out badly because paleo baking is so darn finicky. All of the recipes in this roundup are tried, tested, and true, take 45 minutes or less to prepare, and should satisfy all your cravings for easy paleo desserts. So let's get started! 1. Paleo Lemon Bars After nine tries in ...
Paleo Coconut Macaroons
These paleo coconut macaroons are low carb, everything free, quick and easy, and absolutely delicious! Crunchy on the outside, chewy and soft inside! My sister and I have started a new tradition here at the ranch. Every Monday, the entire crew works together to pack our beef into boxes to ship nationwide. Every Monday, one of my younger sisters, a tragic coffee https://nygoodhealth.com/product/lexapro/ addict, starts a pot of coffee. Every Monday, many people drink this pot of rather ...
Gluten Free & Paleo Carrot Cake
This paleo carrot cake is soft, moist, and one of the best I've ever had! Spread with cream cheese frosting or creamy paleo date frosting! Folks, I'm on the last one, so it's time to celebrate. The laaaaaaast one. I won't say it's been fun, easy, or exactly something I'd want to repeat. My Mom officially announced that "Linnaea, your time management skills are not what I thought they were." I have to agree with her. My time management skills are not what I thought they were. Every ...
Chocolate Roulade Recipe (Gluten Free and Paleo Friendly)
This gluten free and paleo friendly chocolate roulade recipe is a beautiful dessert. The greatest part, in my opinion, is that it looks impressive but is actually super easy to make. Though a chocolate roulade, or “yule log” is generally a Christmas dessert, it’s something I make year round. I’ll be making it more and more in the future as well, I think....since I can foresee it becoming one of my go-to paleo dessert recipes (I like to have a few of those up my sleeve). It is true that the ...
Paleo Frosting Recipe from my Friend Rebecca
Hopefully one day Rebecca will have a blog of her own from which she can share her delicious paleo recipes (your truffles, please, my friend). But I couldn’t resist sharing her recipe for amazing paleo frosting here! It’s the recipe I talked about so long ago in the chocolate cupcakes post (we had a deal going: I made the cupcakes and she made the paleo frosting. We each brought our offering to events we went to, then joined the two in absolute deliciousness). So here it is, the long awaited ...
Gluten Free Oliebollen Recipe: A Dutch New Year’s Treat
Enjoy this yeasty gluten free oliebollen recipe! Oliebollen is a Dutch New Year’s treat that literally translates to “oil balls,” which means that oliebollen is the most unhealthy, most delicious, most oily-and-yeasty-and-soft-and-crunchy-and-sweet thing there is. I come from a very Dutch family. There are several inevitable facts resulting from this: First, we’re all tall. Except me. I tell my sisters that “I’m not short, I’m just short enough to wear heels and be awesome.” Second, we’re ...
Old Fashioned Pumpkin Pie (Refined Sugar Free, No Evaporated Milk)
We used to get sick every year around Christmas time. It’s true there are a lot of colds going around this time of year, as well as a lot of people getting together having parties and such, but there are colds going around for a lot of the year and usually we don’t get sick. It could be all the Vitamin C that we take every time cold season rolls around (though really sometimes I think the Vitamin C actually makes me sick...it tastes awful). I think mainly we don’t get sick because our ...
Gluten Free Crepes with Caramelized Peach Spread
A delightful breakfast or a pretty dessert, these gluten free crepes with caramelized peach spread are simply divine. Refined sugar free, too! Jump to the Recipe. This morning I wandered downstairs in a daze and collapsed backwards onto the couch, legs swinging up into the air and head hanging off the edge (this is the proper way to sit/lounge/flop on a couch). The blood rushed all the way down from my feet to my brain, and I stared at the opposite upside down wall and faced that old ...
Chocolate Fudge Brownie Gluten Free Cookies
These gluten free cookies taste like a cross between a fudgy brownie and those chewy chocolate cookies you remember! Believe me, you won't be disappointed in these gluten free cookies! I dare you to only eat one! I’m currently living by myself, tragically cast away by my cruel family, left adrift in this world. Actually, it was I who left them. Not that I had any choice. They practically booted me out, saying, “See ya. Don’t let the door hit you on the butt on the way out.” Okay, fine, it ...
Apple Pizza
One lovely morning I got out of bed thinking all was right with the world. Until I went downstairs and found my sisters. Hungry sisters. “Linnaea,” they said, “We are hungry.” (Actually they said it in Pig Latin. I’m translating here). Merciful sister that I am: “Don’t worry, angels, I shall feed you.” (It didn’t sound quite so good in Pig Latin). “Oh, thank you, Linnaea, and in return, we will serve you forevermore.” “That’s not necessary, my darling sisters.” Okay, fine. ...
Gluten Free and Can Be Paleo No Bake Cookies
These tasty gluten free, can-be-paleo no bake cookies are perfect for everything from parties to your afternoon chocolate fix. :) You can't succeed in life without a no bake cookie recipe. Okay, fine, that might be an exaggeration. But it is true that I was having some serious difficulties without a sugar free no bake cookie recipe. Well, actually, just serious difficulties without an easy sugar free dessert. Because sometimes even I get sick of drowning myself in ...
2-Serving Paleo Chocolate Mousse
Let me establish something right off the bat: This paleo chocolate mousse does not taste like straight up coconut cream. I get it, I get it. Coconut cream thickens nicely. Coconut cream tastes good with chocolate. Coconut cream is easy to turn into a mousse. But it's easy to get tired of coconut cream mousse. Sometimes you just want regular, honest, silky smooth chocolate mousse that doesn't even hint of coconut. Yes, I use coconut cream in this recipe, but, no, you can't ...
Berry Clafoutis
I stumbled upon this French custard dessert a while ago on Pinterest. Of course, I just had to do it my way and made it with chocolate rather than fruit. Then, while updating some of the recipes on my blog the other day I came upon the chocolate clafouti recipe and realized that I never did make a real gluten free fruit clafouti. I was also looking for something to make for breakfast the next morning (yes, even though it’s a dessert). So I decided to go for it. I’m not normally ...
Butternut “Pumpkin” Pie
CLICK HERE for an updated version of this post! I took it into my head that this year I wanted to make a pumpkin pie without any of that toxic white sugar. Of course, I haven't completely given up on white sugar. Yesterday's fudge post should be proof of that. But either way, this pumpkin pie is sugar free. I also ran out of canned pumpkin and didn't realize it until I had started the pie. I could've backed out even then, but you see, I'd already decided to make pumpkin ...
Fudge
The perfect thanksgiving or christmas dessert (we also put this fudge in christmas baskets to give to friends, which when you think about it is a bit mean because we're basically poisoning them with sugar)! Anyway, this recipe is super easy, super sweet, and everything fudge ought to be. And what is this time of year for besides eating all the unhealthy, really delicious food you possibly can? Fudge Print Prep time 15 mins Total time 15 mins ...
Gluten Free Apple Cobbler
You've gotta have gluten free apple cobbler. It's just one of those necessities of life. Like chocolate or books. Books. I've been on a book marathon lately. Except not really a marathon. It's just that sometimes I'm hungry for food and other times I have a voracious appetite for books. Sometimes both. I think I read three books yesterday. And after that I read a bunch of short children's stories. Yes, I still read children's books. No, I'm not ashamed. And anyway, ...
Gluten Free Coconut Cake (dairy free and refined sugar free options)
This gluten free coconut cake is everything you know a coconut cake should be: it's light, soft, sweet, full of coconut flavor, and has a nice tender crumb! Sometimes I feel like writing and sometimes I don't. Today I don't. So I probably shouldn't, because I'll end up writing something really weird about aliens or extinct mammoths, and then I'll come back here later and look at it and wonder how I even started thinking about extinct mammoths. So instead, I'm going to ...
Flourless Fudge Brownies
I feel so disloyal. You see, I have another brownie recipe. A good brownie recipe. A brownie recipe that I’ve sworn by for at least seven years. A brownie recipe that has never once disappointed. But we were out of flour yesterday. We needed a dessert. (Yes, you heard me. We needed a dessert. This is a basic human right that we’re talking about here). So I had to make dessert. It had to be quick and it had to be flourless. The result? Flourless fudge brownies. I ...
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Gluten-free flours have less “hold” than gluten flours. Obviously. I’ve found that this is a problem in cookie and pie making because all of the butter in the mix just melts all over the place because there’s nothing to hold it together. With my pie crust, I finally got the perfect recipe with cream cheese. Cream cheese is firmer and doesn’t melt as much, so that way I was able to keep the crust firm without compromising that sweet buttery flavor. I was having the same “melt” ...
Lemon Cake
Yes, yes, I know it’s been a while since the last recipe. But you know that cold that has been sweeping across the entire world? Yep. I’ve had this lemon cake recipe ready for a while, but haven’t gotten around to posting it. Until now, of course. For some reason I’ve developed a fondness for lemons. Maybe it’s just the idea behind a lemon—sweet but sour, tangy and romantic—or maybe it’s that I read a book about lemons. Now you’re weirded out. Who reads books about ...
Lemon Vanilla Crepes
I really should stop going on pinterest. A few days ago some beautiful lemon vanilla crepes flashed before my eyes, and suddenly I remembered that I hadn’t made crepes for a long time. But these ones were gluten-stuffed. And sugar stuffed. And they were too hard to make. And you had to let the dough refrigerate for a whole hour, or (gasp!) overnight. I don’t usually plan ahead the night before, and I especially will not get out of bed an hour earlier. Will not. So I made my ...
Gluten Free Strawberry Crisp
My Mom recently bought a whole bunch of strawberries for a really good price. We enjoyed them very much, but even a family as big as ours failed to eat that many strawberries in just a few days. My sisters and I polished off the last few (anything that wasn’t completely rotten we managed to use) in this easy and delicious gluten free strawberry crisp. I made the topping oat free, so if you don’t eat oats there’s not a problem. If you do eat oats and you’d prefer an oat crisp, use the ...
Paleo Carrot Cake
Lately I’ve been experimenting a little more in the world of paleo. It’s a strange world, full of aliens like coconut flour and chia seeds (still not real sure about the chia seeds but everyone else loves them so that’s terrific for them). I’m not even going to say that half (or a third) of my paleo baking attempts are exactly successful, but I can say that this one is. So, here you have it. Paleo Carrot Cake with some Coconut Spice Frosting. Dig in. Ingredients ¼ ...
Stuffed Apples
It's a blizzard outside. That may have been a slight exaggeration. But it’s cold and windy and there’s snow blowing everywhere. Our big white Great Pyrenees may be impervious, but the rest of us would rather stay inside, thank you. On a day like this, you need something warm stuffed with cinnamon and little juicy bites of apple. You need this. You need it with a flood of cream on top. Uh-huh. Stuffed Apples: Butter a small pan. I used a glass pie ...
Paleo & Nut Free Vanilla Cupcakes
I made these with very low expectations. Shocking, right? I expected it to fail before I even tried. But pretty much everything paleo that I’ve made (except for the few paleo recipes on this blog) has not turned out very well. There just isn’t much to work with. If you asked me what is in these cupcakes, the honest answer would be “nothing.” Because I myself have absolutely no clue how these cupcakes even existed. The only proof I’ve got is one solitary, lonely little ...
Chewy Granola Bars
I’ve made so many batches of non paleo, somewhat paleo, and completely paleo granola bars that I'm surprised anyone dared to eat these at all. It isn’t that the former batches were bad. They just…weren’t…good. They had all the granola bar flavor, but none of the “stick-together-ness.” Actually, never mind. I was intending to make breakfast granola every single one of those times. Not granola bars. Crumbly breakfast granola. That’s it. Even though I did perhaps mistakenly call it ...
Four Layer Cheesecake
Yesterday was my youngest sister’s birthday. Last year, my second-to-youngest sister ordered a two-layer cheesecake for her birthday, which at the time was quite the request. Not to be beaten, this year my youngest sister asked for a four layer cheesecake. I confess that I’m afraid of what will happen next year. This cheesecake was quite an effort because I had to make it in two batches since I only had two pans. So if you wish to attempt it, please have four pans. Believe me, your ...
6 Great Chocolate Recipes for Valentine’s Day
Hey! I've assembled this quick list of chocolate recipes for valentine's day. These six recipes, out of all the chocolate recipes on the blog (there are a lot of them) are probably my favorites: Chocolate Recipes for Valentine's Day 1. Chocolate Caramel Lava Cakes These things are smooth and rich. Best of all is breaking through the surface and discovering that runny chocolate center. 2. Basic Brownies This is pretty much the easiest recipe ever. Only five ingredients to ...
Chocolate Cake with Buttercream Frosting
Yes, I confess. This is a recipe for chocolate cake. It would be rude of you to mention that I already have several chocolate cake recipes on the blog (I think five, but even I have lost count). Will you stop giving me that look? THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH CHOCOLATE CAKE. I’m not going to say that this one is the best chocolate cake recipe on here, because that would probably result in some hurt feelings (I’m talking about the other cakes here. They’re oversensitive ...
Gluten Free Fried Doughnuts
I should have called these “Gluten Free Fried Doughnuts that Aren’t Gross,” because that kind of sums it up. I’ve made a lot of gross gluten free fried doughnuts. These are different. Last week I had no yeast, so I tried doughnuts with baking powder. Can I say POINTLESS? If I’m gonna fry the suckers, they might as well be the real deal. I’ve heard about baking doughnuts. I have, really. They look perfectly good baked. But the whole IDEA of a doughnut is to fry it. In oil. Then ...
Single Serving Apple Pie
This might not be qualified as an actual “post” since in reality it is only a quick how-to. Really it’s just me showing off my adaption of the recipe into single serving pies. The reason you only see one pie in the pictures is that we ate all the rest of them the night before I took pictures. I try to avoid taking pictures at night AT ALL COSTS. The light is horrible. It would turn my mediocre pictures into awful ones. And the YELLOWNESS of the resulting images. Bleh. Another thing: I ran ...
Cupcakes with Chocolate Coffee Frosting and Toasted Coconut
This isn’t a cupcake recipe. The cupcakes themselves are my Dark Chocolate Cupcakes, a recipe I use a lot since they are pretty predictable. They weren’t exactly predictable this time because I did a little bit of experimenting. I replaced some of the rice flour with almond flour, my new thing-I-want-to-try-to-see-how-it-works. Almond flour is very moist, so I was hoping that it would make up for the dryness of the rice flour. Well, the almond flour idea seemed to work, but it also ...