Peanut Butter Cookies

My husbands favorite cookies are Peanut butter cookies!  I am not the biggest fan of them so it is a good thing for me to make when I don't want to be eating sweets but the family wants some.  Every once in a while I will surprise him with these great cookies!

1 C Rice Flour

1/2 C. Tapioca Flour

3/4 C. Sorghum Flour

I use a lot of Bobs Red Mill because I like their quality and their price!  They have great products!

1 3/4 C. of Sugar

2 tbs Molasses

2 eggs

1tsp Baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1 c. butter

1 c all natural peanut butter

I prefer to use creamy peanut butter but you can use either creamy or crunchy will work great!  

First you cream your butter, peanut butter, sugar and molasses.  Then add in your eggs.

Then you add in the remaining ingredients.  If you let your dough sit then the next two steps will be a little easier.

You want to roll your dough into balls and put them on the baking sheet.  Use a dinner fork to make the criss cross pattern on the top.  I have done this after refrigerating the dough, freezing and defrosting it, or right away.  When the dough is a little cold or harder then it makes the criss crossing not stick to the fork as much.

Bake at 375 for 11 minutes!

Enjoy

Chocolate Pudding?

????  This might look like chocolate pudding but the texture is not!  This was definitely a fail!  My kids ate it but sometimes I think my kids will eat more then the dog.  Boiled  Cocoa powder, Tapioca flour, Chocolate Almond milk, and Evaporated Cane Sugar until it all was mixed.  Then refrigerated.

SNot

That is what we got, chocolate snot.  Flavorful but texture wise, BAD

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Oatmeal cookies are my Father-in-laws favorite so I tried a gluten free version and loved it.  

1 c. Sorghum Flour

1 c. Rice flour

1/2 c. Tapioca flour

1tsp Baking Powder

1/2 tsp Baking Soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp Xanthum gum

1/2 tsp Cinnamon

3/4 cup of butter

1/2 c. Sugar

2 tbl. Molasses

1tb Vanilla

2 eggs

3 - 3 1/2 c. GF Oats

1 c. chocolate chips

I always melt my butter to help with mixing the batter and it just bakes slightly different when the butter is melted.  With this recipe it is almost a necessity because of how thick the dough is. 

First add all the ingredients but the oats and chocolate chips. 

 When using your KitchenAid you will want to use then put on your dough hook to add in the oats and chocolate chips. 

 

 

Ghirardelli Chocolate makes two all natural chocolate chips that do not use the extra milk fat in making their chocolate.  The Bitter sweet (I use in place of dark chocolate) and their semi-sweet.  We don't do dairy, or caisen, but have never had any problems with these.  

I then put them in large balls, I like big cookies, then bake for 15min at 350.

 They are slightly dry, not as moist as I would like them.  Next time I bake them I will see what we can do to change that.  Or leave a comment and let me know what you find out.

Gotta love Cookies!!

Princess Cupcakes

I thought I would share these delicious Cupcakes and frosting I had made for my daughters birthday.  I will admit that I used BettyCrocker Gluten Free cake mix but the frosting is all mine.  I used an entire package of powdered sugar ( 5 cups or so), 1 cup of tapioca flour (that helps make the frosting a bit thicker) 1 cup of softened butter, 1 tsp of vanilla and 4 tbs of almond milk.  You can put more milk for a melty creamy frosting or less for a thicker frosting.  For the cupcake above I added almost an entire other cup of powder sugar to thicken it and form the swirls.  Once refrigerated it stays thick.  You can make it pink with a little bit of beet juice.  Believe it or not you can't taste the beets!  If you are making this in your KitchenAid the add the liquid ingredients first, tapioca then powdered sugar slowly to get your consistency.  Below is a picture of the thinner frosting I used that same day.  Enjoy the deliciousness!!