Gluten Free Cake Pop Cream Puffs

March 11, 2013 By

Gluten Free Cake Pops

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love baking. It has been a favorite past time of mine for years. And when it snows, well then I absolutely must bake. This past week we had a snow storm and I got it in my head that I wanted to try making some gluten free cake pop cream puffs. I recently bought a BabyCakes Cake Pop maker and got an itching to try it out. I also wanted to see if I could come up with a gluten free vanilla cake recipe that was as good as the gluten free chocolate cake recipe I used for Matthew’s Birthday. I think these turned out amazingly well. They would look lovely at a brunch, Bridal Shower or Baby Shower. They have an easy elegance about them that makes them an instant classic. And to really punch up the flavor why not try drizzling them with a little homemade chocolate sauce?

5.0 from 7 reviews
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Gluten Free Cake Pop Cream Puffs
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Recipe type: Dessert
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Cake Recipe adapted from King Arthur Recipe
Ingredients
  • 1½ cups King Arthur Gluten-Free Multi-Purpose Flour
  • 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 6 tablespoons butter or Earth Balance Coconut Spread
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1½ teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon gluten-free vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon gluten-free almond extract
  • 2 large eggs
  • ½ cup milk of choice, at room temperature
Instructions
  1. In a bowl not used for your electric mixer, mix the flour and xanthan gum
  2. In the bowl of your electric mixer cream the sugar, butter, salt, baking powder, vanilla and almond extracts until smooth.
  3. Add the eggs and beat for a minute on high speed until fluffy.
  4. Scrape the bowl.
  5. Alternating the milk and flour mixture, beat into the egg mixture, ending with the dry ingredients.
  6. NOW PREHEAT cake pop maker.
  7. When cake pop maker is hot, spoon or pipe in approximately 1 tablespoon of the batter into each mold.
  8. Close the cake pop maker and cook for 5 minutes.
  9. Remove from cake pop maker and set on cooling rack.
  10. Repeat until all the batter has been used.
  11. Once the cake pops have cooled, cut them in half and fill with your favorite vanilla "buttercream" icing.
  12. I use Earth Balance or shortening to make the buttercream.
  13. Server with powdered sugar or homemade chocolate sauce.
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I served these with my homemade chocolate sauce. They would also be amazing with a homemade coconut caramel sauce.

 

Gluten Free Cake Pop Cream Puffs

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Friday Favorites Cleaning Products

March 8, 2013 By

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Today’s Friday Favorites is all about Cleaning Products. I love Mrs. Meyers Clean Day. I use it for almost all of my cleaning needs. They have these great scents and they are safe for the earth. Love their stuff. My new favorite is Iowa Pine it is divine! Yes, I said that.

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Dairy Free Irish Cream Recipe

March 7, 2013 By

 

Dairy Free Irish Cream

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Being 1/4 Irish I have to celebrate St. Paddy’s day properly. And that means with a good quality Irish Cream. Since I have pretty much given up real dairy I wanted to see if I could come up with a delicious dairy free Irish Cream recipe that would make my ancestors proud. I think I did it.

4.9 from 8 reviews
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Dairy Free Irish Cream Recipe
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Recipe type: Beverage
 
Ingredients
  • ¾ cup Irish Whiskey or Blended Scotch
  • 7 oz sweetened condensed coconut cream (recipe below)
  • ½ cup milk of choice
  • 2 tablespoons chocolate syrup (recipe below)
  • 1 teaspoon espresso powder
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ teaspoon almond extract
  • Sweetened Condensed Coconut Cream
  • 1 can coconut milk (full fat)
  • 1 cup coconut sugar or brown sugar
  • Chocolate Sauce
  • 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 cup coconut sugar or organic sugar
  • 1 dash salt
  • 1½ cups water
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
  1. Irish Cream
  2. Combine all ingredients in blender
  3. Mix well
  4. Refrigerate for up to 1 month
  5. Shake well before serving
  6. Sweetened Condensed Coconut Milk
  7. In a sauce pan mix ingredients and heat over medium heat
  8. Cook, stirring constantly, until thick mixture forms and mixture reduces by half
  9. May take 20 to 30 minutes
  10. Remove from heat and allow to cool
  11. Store in refrigerator
  12. Chocolate Sauce
  13. Combine all ingredients except vanilla in a sauce pan
  14. Over medium heat, cook until mixture thickens to your preference
  15. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla
  16. Store in refrigerator
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Serve over ice or in your favorite coffee. This is a delicious and complex dairy free Irish Cream recipe.

Sweetened Condensed Cardamom Coconut Milk

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Eye Can Art Review

March 5, 2013 By

 

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I love art. Do you? There is something about creating art that just releases the soul and makes you feel joyful. At least that is the way with me. Whenever I am around art supplies I need to touch them and I want to feel the weight of them in my hand. Their amazing textures, their smells, everything about art supplies makes me feel good.

Eye Can Art has this really cool Collage Print Making Kit ( one of 8 kits) that I had to try out with Lorenzo. Lorenzo is 3 so I helped him a bit but he was so interested in the kit. He and I have taken some mommy and me type art classes through Recreations and Parks so I suspected he would be really excited about the Eye Can Art kit. The neat thing about this kit is that it really has everything  you need to create a piece of art. The Eye Can Art Collage Print Making Kit contains a glue stick, instructions, tag board and paper, printing ink (2 colors), crayon, brayer (roller), and scissors. The only thing we needed was newspaper to cover our work area, a plate or cookie sheet to roll the paint on and some creativity.

The instructions suggested making a face and I thought this was a brilliant idea for a child Lorenzo’s age. Children need to know how to recognize faces and the different parts of a face. This was actually something we worked on with Matthew during speech and occupational therapy. Lorenzo used the crayon to draw the shape of the head and I cut it out for him using the scissors provided. He then drew the other shapes on the remaining tag board and I cut them for him. I helped him apply glue to the pieces and then let him adhere them to the face. After we let it dry for a few minutes I helped him use the roller to ink the collage. Then we used it to make a print on one of the papers we were provided with. We used the brayer to apply the other color to make the halo effect.

Eye Can Art

This was loads of fun. So much so, that I had to make my own collage print. I decided to stray from the face theme and made a cityscape. I love how it turned out. It reminds me of island art. It has depth and a primitive quality to it. I can not wait to get my hands on it again and create more art. Eye Can Art would make a fantastic gift for any child, or even adult, that likes to dabble in art but maybe doesn’t know where to begin.

I was provided with the Eye Can Art Collage Print Making Kit to facilitate my review. All Opinions are my own.

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