Category Archives: Desserts

Blueberry Crumb Cake

If you have an extra pint of blueberries in your fridge, here’s one of my favorite ever cake recipes. I made the recipe from Smitten Kitchen’s Blueberry Crumb Cake but increased the chopped walnuts to 3/4 cup and used an 8 inch pan, which increased the cooking time to over an hour. It gets better […]

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Blueberry Banana Muffins

Vegan, Gluten-Free Makes 8- 10 These are the best muffins I’ve made to date. They are super healthy and super delicious. Ingredients 1 1/2 cup gluten-free flour blend – 1/2 cup oat flour, 1/2 cup buck wheat, 1/4 cup coconut flour, 1/4 cup tapioca* 1/4 cup palm sugar (any sugar is OK) 1 t baking […]

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Gingerbread men, Kelly’s Delicious Gluten-free, Dairy-free version

Makes about 32 cookies. 1 cup buckwheat flour * ½ cup rice flour * 1 cup almond meal * 1 cup coconut flour * 1 tablespoon ground ginger 1 ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon baking soda ¾ teaspoon sea salt ½ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg ¼ teaspoon ground cloves ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper […]

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Chocolate Raspberry Layer Cake

This is a most delicious devil’s food cake. Combined with raspberries this layer cake is off the chain, as Ben says! 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa 1 ¼ cup boiling water ¾ cup unbleached all-purpose flour ¾ cup whole wheat pastry flour

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Chocolate Frosting

1 cup heavy cream 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped

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Banana Bread

If I have three super ripe bananas, I just can’t do anything except make Banana Bread (especially if my mom is in town). Cream: 1 stick softened butter ½ cup turbinado sugar (or light brown sugar)

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Really, Really Good Apple Cake

  When I asked my son what he wanted me to make for a little tea party we were having, he said “really, really, really good apple cake.” I said ok, and here it is. I found this recipe to be very quick – I just threw everything into the mixer bowl, one by one. […]

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Lemon Bundt Cake

Here’s to 2011. This cake is so good that I’ve made it three times since New Year’s Eve! The diet starts next week… Grating the lemon takes some time and if you are not careful, some of your knuckles. Mine is still sore but the sacrifice was worth it. For Cake Finely grated zest from […]

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