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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Gluten Free Egg Nog Muffins featuring King Arthur Gluten Free Muffin Mix

December 20, 2012 By

I love egg nog and so do my children. But since two of them are not only gluten free but also dairy free having egg nog can be difficult. My husband was out doing our grocery shopping when he found So Delicious Coconut Milk Egg Nog and he knew I had to have it. Little did he know, I too had seen the Coconut Milk Egg Nog on my last trip, so now we have two quarts of it in the house. That is when I decided to try making Christmas Egg Nog Muffins. We love King Arthur Flour Gluten Free Muffin Mix and use it quite often, so I knew it would bake up beautifully even with a few tweaks here and there. I followed the instructions on the back of the box, simply substituting the So Delicious Coconut Milk Egg Nog for the regular milk it calls for and by adding in some Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips. The kids loved them and I think they make a great addition to Christmas morning.

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Gluten Free Casein Free Egg Nog Muffins featuring King Arthur Gluten Free Muffin Mix
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Recipe type: Breakfast
 
Egg Nog flavored GFCF Muffins
Ingredients
  • 1 box King Arthur Gluten Free Muffin Mix
  • So Delicious Coconut Milk Egg Nog
  • Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips
Instructions
  1. Follow the directions on the back of the muffin mix.
  2. Substitute the So Delicious Coconut Milk Egg Nog for the milk called for on the box.
  3. (note: I use coconut oil in place of butter or oil)
  4. Add Chocolate chips to the prepared mix.
  5. Bake
  6. Serve
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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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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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