Miss.Cherry bakes?

So I love everything about the 1940's and the 1950's. The fashion, the music, the starlets, the dancing...everything.  Except cooking.  Women back in that time were always in the kitchen cooking meals, baking and preserving...feeding their families.  That is not me...at all.  The kitchen is the absolute last place I like to be in my house unless its going to refill my coffee cup.  I'm a person that is multi-tasking with whatever I do so I always end up forgetting about what I'm cooking because I'm doing something else while I wait.  I don't do well with "watching the pot boil".  That kinda thing drives me crazy!  However, every one in awhile I will bake and since we have been trying to make a bit of a diet change now that our youngest son Shae has gluten and dairy issues...Miss. Cherry is becoming a bit of a baker.  Now when I use the word 'baker' it is in the loosest of terms.  More like an "I Love Lucy" episode than a Gordon Ramsay experience.  However, my new best friend Pinterest gave me a couple recipes the other day and I thought I would try them.  Here are the results...

This is a regular cookie recipe with Malcolm's gluten free mix as the flour substitute.  Did I forget to mention that my husband is a chef and bread maker?  Hmmmm...musta slipped my mind...tee hee.

Here is Malcolm's gluten free flour substitute recipe.  Add an extra teaspoon of Xanthan Gum for every cup of this flourless mixture when baking breads or cakes.

510 g  Brown Rice Flour
615 g White Rice Flour
360 g Tapioca Starch
495 g Potato Starch
6 tsp Xanthan Gum

This is the flourless peanut butter cookie recipe.  I would recommend natural unsweetened peanut butter to counter the sugar in them but they are delicious!  We will never buy a gluten free cardboard cookie again!

1 C         Peanut Butter
1/3 C      Brown Sugar
1/3 C      White Sugar
1             Egg
1 1/2 tsp Vanilla
1 tsp       Baking Soda
1/2 C     Chopped Salted Peanuts (the salty sweet thing that tastes sooo good)
1/2 C     Semi Sweet or Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chips

Method:

Mix peanut butter,sugars and egg until well blended.  Add baking soda and vanilla.  Stir in by hand chopped peanuts and chocolate chips.  The mixture will be chunky so hand rolling cookies into balls needs added pressure.  These cookies spread while cooking so make sure you have enough room.  I baked at 350  for about 8 minutes on an ungreased cookie sheet. Let cool before removing from baking sheet.

Good luck and happy cookie eating!

First post....? Really?

So here's the thing about this blog...it's been a long time coming. I mean years of thinking about it, planning it and then never following through with it. I've been juggling alot of jobs for the past few years and honestly, exhaustion has been a constant companion for me.  Recently I decided that a lifestyle change was in order including cutting the number of jobs I had in half and really focusing on some small goals that have been on the back burner for a long time.  This blog is one of them.

So for my first post I thought entering a challenge was a great way to motivate me and have something legitimate to post about.  This challenge blog is brand new and perfect for my first blog post...

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So for those of you who don't know me, from about August to the end of December my life revolves around Halloween and Christmas. SERIOUSLY. Shopping for/creating for/baking for/decorating for/spending far too much money on these two holidays. They are my favourite!  So of course my card entry is all about Halloween! I love this little guy so much that I've coloured him a bunch of times in various colour combo's and even monochromatic grey. Thanks for stopping by...

Miss. C

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