I love mincemeat pie. Like love love. It’s one of those great UK dessert dishes that makes use of a whole bunch of random dried fruits and makes them taste amazing. (If you love this type of recipe, or you just love dried fruit and you also love chocolate, try my gluten free, vegan version of tiffin, another traditional dessert from the UK) You can see the original mincemeat pie recipe being developed by some resourceful cook who just found out she’s having company. Let’s see, what do we have here, apples, dried fruit, sugar, and what the heck, let’s throw in some booze. Now we’ll put it in little…
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Gluten Free, Vegan Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies
These chocolate chip cookies are gluten free and vegan and taste like regular homemade cookies!! I know! I can hardly believe it either! But they are a huge hit with my gluten eating omnivores. And they all say not only are these cookies fantastic, but that you can’t tell that they’re gluten free and vegan. I even had a hard time rescuing enough cookies to take pictures for this post. Good gluten free homemade cookies were my entire 2003 vision board. When I first went gluten free (almost 20 years ago!), I was sure I would never eat a normal cookie again. A lot has changed in the gluten free…
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Gluten Free & Vegan Crispy Date Balls – Dairy Free, Egg Free
Date balls are a Christmas tradition from the era when people did Christmas visiting. At the beginning of the season, all the moms and grandmothers would make up a billion different squares and cookies and put them in the fridge or freezer to be served to company. Then they would all rotate through the different houses of their friends and family, and the lady of the house would pull out a big tray of all these different desserts. The date balls are one of my very favorites. They’re also one of the fastest and easiest to make. For years I made the traditional recipe, which calls for an egg, but…
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Gluten Free & Vegan Tiffin
What is Tiffin? It’s a mixture of crumbled cookies and dried fruit coated in chocolate and pressed into a pan to harden. Some people call it fridge-cake. It’s originally from Scotland. How are these UK people so resourceful with their desserts? Nothing goes to waste! Stale cake? Make trifle! Stale cookies? Make tiffin! You can really make tiffin with any combination of dried fruits and cookies. Most often it’s made with digestive biscuits and raisins, and if your Scottish grandmother made it, her recipe probably includes “a few handfuls of stale biscuits and a handful of raisins” but I made this Christmasy with ginger snaps, cranberries, and pecans. Many people…
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Gluten Free, Vegan, Chocolate Cake – Dairy Free, Egg Free
Hey friends!! I think you will really like this one. It’s simple, fairly inexpensive, and totally impressive. A gluten free, vegan, chocolate cake that actually tastes like a cake. It’s moist, and flavorful, and chocolatey, and cakey. There are no eggs, butter, or milk in it. And you can not tell. The regular version of this recipe is often called Depression Chocolate Cake. It was originally created for a world going through the Great Depression where staples like eggs, butter, and milk were scarce. It’s surprisingly amazing. Our fore-mothers were obvious geniuses in the kitchen. This version uses any cup-for-cup type gluten free flour for the same surprising amazingness. I’ve…
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Gluten Free Lower Carb Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
These lower sugar, lower carb peanut butter cookies are just the right thing to “cheat” with on your New Year’s Resolution.
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Gluten Free Peanut Butter Shortbread Cookies
These cookies taste like peanut butter, but melt in your mouth like shortbread.
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Gluten Free Cookies and Cream Hello Dolly Bars
These Gluten Free Cookies and Cream Hello Dollies are a fun and easy twist on an already tasty and easy classic. Hey Friends!! This post from 2015 has gotten a much needed update! Don’t worry! It’s the same recipe, I just removed some outdated stuff and added helpful ingredient info. Hello Dollies were front and center on our dessert tray this Christmas. They’re so fast and easy to make, it was no problem to keep constantly replacing the ones that got eaten. They also get tons of compliments, so they’re my favorite dessert if I need to bring something for a pot-luck or party. They’ll keep for a couple of…
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Easy Gluten Free Carrot Cake
My daughter made the most amazing carrot cake yesterday.
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Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cheesecake Bites
A lovely, little peanut butter cheesecake that you can eat with your fingers.
