Posts Tagged ‘applesauce’
|Gluten-Free Chocolate Hazelnut Cake
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
Gluten-free Chocolate Hazelnut Cake
This past weekend I headed up to southern Colorado to celebrate a very special birthday. My sweetheart was turning…well, maybe I shouldn’t say how old, but anyway, it is the precursor to a big one! 
Although I have always wanted to try-out baking a gluten-free birthday cake before, I have never had the courage, until now! I was inspired by a chocolate-hazelnut cake recipe that I had tried about 1.5 years ago, and also more recently by the chocolate mousse recipe that Joslyn shared on the Shak-Shuka blog… So I thought I would try them together… I have never made a layered cake before!
Considering the circumstances, my first attempt was a smashing success! I was headed to a retreat center, and was unsure whether I would have time/resources to make the cake there. So I made the layers at home, kept them in the cooler for the 3.5 hour drive, and pieced them together the night of the birthday dinner. Everyone was quite pleased with it, including my sweetie, who was happy to have leftovers!
Tags: agar agar, agave, applesauce, arrowroot powder, buckwheat flour, cardamom, coconut milk, coconut oil, eggs, hazelnuts, raw cacao, vanilla
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A Key West Cookie Creation
Friday, February 6th, 2009
Cashew Oat Cookies basking in the sun
We are back from our Key West vacation, and were happy to find that it is actually warmer in Boulder than it was when we left Key West! It was a nice chance to visit with family and see a few friends, but I realized that my love for cooking and my desire to feed my body with nourishing foods set me up for a vacation full of grocery shopping and cooking. Lets just say between the cooler weather and my time in the kitchen, I did not come home with a tan.
I did however come up with a great new recipe for oatmeal cookies. Improvising from a basic cookie recipe that I had, and using what was available in the house, I came up with these delicious Cashew Oat Cookies which are full of many other yummy ingredients.
(Although I did not make them with gluten free oats, those of you who eat only gluten free could easily use the gluten free version.)
Tags: applesauce, cashews, chocolate, oatmeal, raisins
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