All Natural Christmas Coal Recipe

December 21, 2012 By

Do you ever feel like your kids (or maybe your hubby) deserve a little Christmas Coal in their stockings? I decided to whip up some all natural Christmas coal recipe just for this kind of occasion. I wanted something sweet but not made of refined sugar and something that was easy to make. I used apple juice and vanilla, but you could try other fruit juices and flavor it with extracts like anise, peppermint or even almond.

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All Natural Christmas Coal Recipe
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Recipe type: Dessert
 
Apple juice is used to make caramel that looks like Christmas Coal
Ingredients
  • 4 Cups apple juice (or other juice with high sugar content like pineapple or maybe even prune)
  • 1 Tablespoon coconut oil
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • ½ teaspoon extract of choice (anise, peppermint, or almond) (OPTIONAL)
Instructions
  1. In a saucepan over medium heat, bring apple juice to a light boil.
  2. Simmer for close to ½ hour or until juice is reduced to roughly ½ cup.
  3. Watch as juice thickens and stir to prevent burning.
  4. Once juice is thick, and has darkened but not burnt, remove from heat and add coconut oil, salt and vanilla.
  5. Using a whisk stir to incorporate the ingredients.
  6. Pour out onto a Silpat or parchment paper.
  7. Caramel is HOT!
  8. As it cools you can shape it into nuggets, I like to use kitchen sheers to cut the caramel and form it.
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This recipe is based on a recipe I found here

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Homemade Nutella Cookies Featuring Sweet Heat Pepper Jelly Gluten Free Casein Free

December 18, 2012 By

Last year I made 2 ingredient Nutella Cookies and they were a big hit. This year our middle son is dairy free and really Matthew should be too, so I decided to make homemade nutella and try using that in the 2 ingredient nutella cookies. Here is what I came up with. You can make the cookies with just the homemade nutella or you can spice them up with Stir it Up Cuisine’s Sweet Heat Pepper Jelly and make amazing thumbprint cookies like I did in the picture below.

Nutella Cookie

First you need to make your GFCF homemade nutella, then you use that to make the 2 ingredient nutella cookies. I used the basics of the homemade nutella recipe found here at Deliciously Organic but I made a few changes, mostly because I didn’t have the exact ingredients featured in the recipe.

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Homemade Nutella Cookies Featuring Sweet Heat Pepper JellyGluten Free Casein Free
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Recipe type: Cookie
Cuisine: Desserts
 
Ingredients
  • 1 Cup homemade nutella (see recipe in above link)
  • 1 egg
  • Stir it Up Cuisine's Sweet Heat Pepper Jelly
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Cover Cookie Sheets with parchment or silpat.
  3. In a medium bowl mix homemade nutella with egg and mix, it may take a minute to come together.
  4. Using a spoon, place dollops of the mix on prepared cookie sheets.
  5. Using a spoon, make a "thumbprint" in the cookie.
  6. Add a dollop of the Sweet Heat Pepper Jelly in the thumbprint.
  7. Bake 10 to 15 minutes.
  8. Remove from oven and cool cookies on parchment on cooling rack.
Notes
You can also add some of the Sweet Heat Pepper Jelly to the nutella and egg mix to spice up the cookie itself.
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Stir It Up Cuisine’s Sweet Heat Pepper Jelly is the perfect jelly for this chocolate cookie creation. It has the right amount of heat and tang, while balancing the nutty, sweet flavor of the cookie. The Sweet Heat Pepper Jelly would be delicious as a glaze on chicken wings (I think we will be trying that for the Super Bowl Party) or on a shrimp taco. Yum.

I was provided with a free sample of Sweet Heat Pepper Jelly in exchange for this review.

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Pignoli Cookie Recipe Gluten Free Casein Free

December 14, 2012 By

When I was a child one of the best parts of Christmas was baking cookies with my parents. I loved the smell of our home while they baked, I loved the feel our our kitchen while we prepared the dough. I loved how our house was filled with so much love and affection, and that is what made Christmastime so special. When I had Matthew I was so excited to be able to share this tradition with him, but when we realized he and his brothers did better on a gluten free casein free diet I thought Christmas cookie making was out of the question. Then I realized there were several really wonderful cookies that were naturally gluten and casein free, such as the Italian Pignoli cookie.

I found this wonderful Pignoli Cookie Recipe on line and set to making these soft, moist, almond flavored treats just in time for the holidays.

To make them Gluten Free please be sure you purchase a brand of almond paste that is states it is gluten free or check with the manufacturer. The first almond paste we bought actually contained wheat! The recipe also suggests you use the canned paste not the one found in a tube.  Enjoy.

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Pignoli Cookie Recipe Gluten Free Casein Free
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Recipe type: Cookie
Cuisine: Dessert
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Ingredients
  • 2 large egg whites
  • 2 (8-oz) cans almond paste (not marzipan), coarsely crumbled
  • 1½ cups confectioners sugar
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons mild honey
  • 1 cup pine nuts
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. In a stand mixer, beat egg whites until foamy.
  3. Add almond paste, confectioners sugar, salt and honey and mix.
  4. Scrape down bowl and mix until smooth at medium-high speed, about 5 minutes (batter will be very thick)
  5. Using wet hands (keep a bowl of water handy and re-wet hands as necessary), shape dough into balls.
  6. Pour pine nuts into a bowl.
  7. Drop dough balls into pine nuts and press the pine nuts into one side of ball.
  8. Place dough ball with pine nuts facing up on a silpat or parchment lined cookie sheet.
  9. Bake cookies in upper and lower thirds of oven, until golden, 12 to 20 minutes total.
  10. Slide cookies on parchment onto racks to cool completely, then peel cookies from parchment.
  11. Read More http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Pignoli-Cookies-107447#ixzz2ExDohfqK
Notes
I used a baking stone and needed to bake cookies closer to the 20 minute time.
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Chicken Salad Recipe

November 26, 2012 By

I love a really tasty chicken salad, but buying it at a restaurant seems to be such a waste of money to me. Instead I would rather make some at home. You can grill, bake, roast or even boil the chicken, then add in your favorite flavors and viola you have Chicken Salad. I hope you enjoy my Chicken Salad Recipe.

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Chicken Salad Recipe
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Recipe type: Salad
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Serves: 4
 
My favorite Chicken Salad
Ingredients
  • 2 chicken breasts, cooked, boneless, skinless, copped or shredded
  • salt to taste
  • pepper to taste
  • ¼ to ⅓ cup raisins
  • 1 medium carrot, shredded
  • ¼ cup pecans, chopped
  • celery (chopped) or celery seeds to taste
  • Mayonnaise to taste
Instructions
  1. In a mixing bowl mix chicken, salt, pepper, raisins, carrots, pecans, celery (seed), and mayonnaise.
  2. Server immediately.
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