Category: Dairy Free

Taco Tuesday

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We are obsessed with Taco Tuesday at our house. It is “Awesome”!  I wanted a dessert for this weeks taco night and decide to make Mexican Wedding Cookies.

I love these crumbly balls of goodness.  Of course this version is free of nuts, gluten and dairy.  I used raw pumpkin seeds, but roasted would be good too.  I’ve made these before with sunflower seeds and they were wonderful.  I like to enjoy these cookies for an afternoon snack with coffee.

I also love that these are made completely in the food processor.  It makes these really easy to make.  The longest part of this recipe is the cooking time.  But they are worth it.  Enjoy!

 

Mexican Wedding Cookies

  • Servings: 2 dozen cookies
  • Difficulty: easy
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Ingredients

Cygnet Organizing LLC Mexican Wedding Cookies for Taco Tuesday.
Cygnet Organizing LLC
Mexican Wedding Cookies for Taco Tuesday.

1 cup Butter Substitute

1/2 cup Powdered Sugar

1 teaspoon Vanilla Paste

1 3/4 cup Sweet Rice Flour

1 cup Raw Pumpkin Seeds

Sweet Rice Flour for dusting hands

Powdered Sugar for dusting the cookies

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
  2. Place pumpkin seeds in bowl of a large food processor.  Blitz until the seeds turn into a fine meal.
  3. Add the rest of the ingredients to the food processor, and pulse until combines into dough.
  4. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or silicon liner.
  5. Dust hands in the rice flour and form dough into 1 inch balls.
  6. Place balls on prepared cookie sheet at least one inch apart.
  7. Bake for 30 minutes, or until balls are dry.
  8. Remove from oven and cool for ten minutes.
  9. Roll cookies in powdered sugar, then allow cookies to cool completely.

Hot Chocolate – It’s almost May!

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I will be attending a Beltane Festival tonight and usually I would take something yellow or Springy, maybe a salad with lots of color or a lemon something-or-other. This year it is cold! Not just a little cold, REALLY COLD.  Like 45 degrees cold.

So this year I am making the ever popular Chocolate Meringue Cookies and Hot Chocolate. Yes dark and dense overly sweet, but all I can think of in this cold is comfort food.

If I have not told you, I use to be a Chemist, an Analytical Chemist.  So measuring was always important.  I feel like I am often rebelling against my past when making Hot Chocolate.  I really like just throwing some things in a pot and heating it up.  The problem is, my kids want me to repeat the recipe.  “I put what was left in all the milk containers in with chocolate chips and coconut cream.” Not very reproducible.

Really that is my recipe, what ever milk we have, Trader Joes Semi-Sweeet Chocolate Chips, and Trader Joes Coconut Cream.  Sometimes I will add Vanilla or Cinnamon. The portions are always determined by my mood.  Cygnet Organizing LLC Hot Chocolate

The best part of Hot Chocolate is what you put on top.  I like Jet Puff Mallow Bits.  These are the dried marshmallows you find in hot chocolate packs.  You can find them at Walmart and some other grocery stores.  I also like using Marshmallow Fluff as a topping.

Blessed Beltane, and Happy Spring.

My favorite Doughnuts

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IMG_9245Sweets for breakfast are so indulgent.  It is nice to have something that feels like a treat some mornings.  We had tried some gluten free doughnuts but had not found a readily available one.  We of course love the Erin McKenna doughnuts while at Disney World, and the Silly Yak Bakery when in Madison.  Finally we have doughnuts to eat for breakfast Katz Gluten Free are the best doughnuts we have had since going gluten free.  We have loved every variety we have tried and one day I will order the creme filled ones.  I am afraid they will become my kryptonite.

Katz doughnuts are dairy free and gluten free.  They are also nut free and potato free.  We find them at a few local grocery stores (except those amazing looking filled ones) and our favorite health food store carries them.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do – Susan B.