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Gluten Free Desserts

Strawberry Mousse Pudding

April 14, 2010

I love strawberries, but I have not always loved them.
Growing up I spent part of each summer working in the strawberry fields in Oregon. I got paid a whole $2 per flat of strawberries that I picked. By the end of strawberry season each year I did not care if I ever saw another strawberry again.
Now [...]

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Chocolate Tres Leches Rice Pudding

March 16, 2010

Rice pudding is an old fashioned classic dessert. People have been making it for a long time, and there are a lot of different versions.
I have tried many versions of rice pudding, but this one is my current favorite. I love it.
I made this rice pudding a little bit more special by using sweetened condensed milk and [...]

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Gluten Free Sandwich Cookies

March 6, 2010

I am fairly new to gluten free cooking. I have only been gluten free for about five months. I have had a lot of disasters when it comes to baking. Everything is so different when you are dealing with gluten free flours.
This has been hard on my family. I used to bake all the time. [...]

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Lemon Coconut Macaroons

March 4, 2010

I love cooking magazines. I love to look through them for tips and ideas like I do cookbooks. I often go to a used book sale in my area that is several times a year. Last year I came across quite a find at the sale. They had a whole stack of past issues of Paula [...]

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Chocolate Marshmallow Mousse

February 8, 2010

I love mousse. It is such a rich and creamy dessert that you can use so many different ways. You can serve it on it’s own, but you can also serve it as a topping to brownie. It works great as a layer in a trifle, in a pie, or even as a frosting on [...]

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Gluten Free Applesauce Cake

February 6, 2010

I have been trying a lot of gluten free recipes, but I have realized that if I use a few simple techniques that incorporate the science behind gluten free cooking, I can easily adapt my favorite recipes to be gluten free. And honestly I find that the recipes that I adapt, usually turn out better than the [...]

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Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

January 30, 2010

I love to make cookies. They are one of my favorite things to bake. I used to make cookies all the time, however since going gluten free I have only made them twice. Gluten free cookies are just not the same. I am trying to come up with some good gluten free cookies by adapting [...]

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Pudding Dessert

January 28, 2010

I recently layered my peanut butter pudding with my chocolate pudding in a trifle bowl and took it to a church dinner, and everyone loved it. In fact several people asked me for the recipe.
I made this because I needed a quick, easy, and frugal dessert that would feed a lot of people. This was [...]

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Flourless Chocolate Cake

January 18, 2010

There are a lot of Flourless Chocolate Cake recipes. I have seen many of them over the years. They are all similar and yet different. Each one is it’s own take on a classic recipe.
I found this version for Flourless Chocolate Cake in a Gourmet Magazine cookbook and I made it for dinner on Christmas Day. My [...]