Sweet, yummy, and absolutely delicious. These little treats are quick and can be used for all sorts of occasions. When I first made them, they were an immediate success. Note: You can make chocolate-bottomed vanilla cupcakes by simply separating ½ a cup of dough from the rest of the dough and stirring in 2 tablespoons cocoa. Then place the remainder of your vanilla cupcake mix inside of the cupcake casings and add a teaspoon of chocolate-mix on top of this. The ...
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Gluten-Free Chocolate Zucchini Cake or Cupcakes
This is a great way to use up all those overgrown garden zucchinis. Who knew that mashed up green vegetables could taste so good? CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI CAKE Serves: 10 Time: 30 minutes active, 45 minutes cooking. Cream Together (check 'tips' section for directions on 'creaming butter') 1 stick (½ cup) butter, soft but still cold 1 2/3 white granulated sugar Add and beat well: 2 large eggs Add and beat in: 3/4 cup rice flour 1/4 cup almond flour ½ cup ...
Strawberry Pie Filling
This pie is delicious and easy. It tastes very good with rhubarb. If you would like a rhubarb pie, add ½ cup chopped rhubarb to the mixture in the saucepan. One gluten free pie shell (see pie shell recipe) ½ cup sugar 2 tablespoons tapioca starch 1 pound strawberries Place the pie shell in a pie pan. Set aside. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and position rack in center of oven. Slice strawberries into fourths. Place strawberries, sugar, and tapioca in a medium ...
Mom’s Cream Cheese Frosting
Mom's Cream Cheese Frosting Print Prep time 10 mins Total time 10 mins This is my mom's frosting recipe, and it tastes perfect on almost every type of cake. Add food coloring or cocoa for variations. The picture at the side is of this frosting on the Gluten-Free Carrot Cake. Author: Linnaea Recipe type: Dessert Cuisine: Frosting Serves: Enough for 1 9 inch cake or 1 dozen cupcakes Ingredients 4 ounces, (½ a stick) cream cheese ¼ cup (½ a stick) butter 1 teaspoon ...
Delicious Gluten-Free Chocolate Cake
We have used this recipe many times for birthdays, holidays, and normal desserts. It is delicious with frosting, or without, and it would also be very good with chocolate chips or nuts. Ingredients: ¼ cup salted butter, melted ¾ cup sugar 2 eggs ½ cup plain yogurt 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 cup cornstarch, potato starch, or half-half potato starch/ rice flour, or cornstarch/rice flour mix, whichever is available. Rice flour will make cake grittier and slightly ...
Gluten-Free Chocolate Cupcakes
These are rich, delicate, and sweet. They are good with or without frosting, and would also be great with nuts. dry ingredients: ½ cup rice flour or sorghum flour ½ cup cornstarch ¼ cup potato starch or cornstarch ¼ cup cocoa powder 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder ½ cup granulated sugar ¼ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon xanthan gum 2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips, optional Wet ingredients: 1 large egg 2/3 cup milk 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 teaspoons pure ...
Peanut Butter Cookies
These cookies taste like the perfect peanut butter cookie made from wheat, but they are completely gluten-free. You get about 30 cookies out of this batch, so you may want to butter two pans, but I do my batches one at a time. Peanut Butter Cookies Print Prep time 10 mins Cook time 12 mins Total time 22 mins These cookies taste like the perfect peanut butter cookie made from wheat, but they are completely gluten-free. Author: Linnaea Recipe type: ...
Almond Toffee
This toffee, like most toffees, is very sweet and delicious. It has become one of our family's favorite travel foods,(because we can't eat in restaurants)because not only does it keep well, but it is a nice treat, and is very quick to prepare. 1 cup butter 1 cup brown sugar 2 ½ cups almonds, (sliced) 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly butter a 13 by 9 by 2” baking pan. Set aside. Combine butter and brown sugar in a saucepan, and bring to a boil at medium ...
Gluten-Free Cheesecake
You'll need softened (room temperature) cream cheese in this recipe. If you don't have enough time for it to get soft, you can soften it in a double boiler. This can be a chocolate cheesecake as well as a regular one, simply add 1 tablespoon cocoa powder. Note to the Grain-Freers: No. You didn't free any grain. Instead, you are free of grain. This almond crust has rice flour in it. If you do not want to use any grain at all, use pecan or almond flour instead. If you are fine with starches, ...