Category: Desserts
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Happy President’s Day, Can’t Tell a Lie Cherry and Chocolate Chip Quick Bread
You know how hard it is to find a food theme for President’s Day? It’s hard. Which is why I’m using cherries out of desperation, even though I was a history major and I know that story about George Washington and the cherry tree is a crock. Despite that I decided to do it up,…
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No-Bake Cookies Revisited — with a Nut-free Variation
This was one of my favorites when I was a kid, and it’s also really fast if you were supposed to bring something to a potluck/holiday party/family dinner and maybe you didn’t get it together because the holiday season is so crazy and if you have to find time to do one more thing you’re…
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At Last Gluten-Free Brownies
So the year before I got my allergy diagnoses, I spent time perfecting a brownie recipe. Which was, of course, based on wheat flours, and which did not, of course, translate well to gluten-free. It was my first attempt at my own gluten-free recipe — I replaced the flour in the recipe with a GF…
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Apple Cranberry Crisp
I think you’re an apple crisp person or an apple pie person. Or at least I am, and I fall squarely into the apple crisp camp. I can pass up apple pie anytime because unless the crust is perfect and amazing, which it rarely is, I don’t want it. It just seems like a waste…
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Better Than Sex Vegan Rum Caramel Sauce
So, one of the major bummers about a milk allergy is no more caramel. Or at least no more store bought candy with caramel. And I miss that. So by adapting a recipe that was used to make sticky buns, we developed this caramel. The first thing we used it for was to dump over…
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Bat Signal Halloween Cupcakes
Good Morning Gotham City! Do you feel you’re missing out on the sugar that makes Halloween special, given that everything is chock full of allergens? You won’t after these cupcakes. This entire recipe is an excuse to play with marshmallow fondant, honestly, in my favorite baked goods format: the cupcake. Since gluten-free baking is still…