Gluten Free Chocolate Cupcakes

This is another recipe from the Cooking Free book by Carol Fenster. The chocolate cake recipe in cupcake form. The icing is from the Betty Crocker cook book. This combination makes for a VERY tasty cupcake.

The recipe says to fill 12 cupcake molds. Well, a couple months ago I dropped a 1/2 pint Ball jar on the corner of my Pampered Chef muffin stone. :( It snapped the corner cupcake well right off. So now I have an 11 cupcake - muffin pan. At first I was sad. But after making the blueberry muffins and these cupcakes in the ELEVEN pan...I find that they are taller and happier looking. So try filling 11 cups instead of 12 and see how it does for you.

She's Little But Tough!

Margaret carrying semi-dry, heavy quilts and a comforter. She made her way from the laundromat doors to the truck intact..
So funny!

Gluten Free Breads..in my opinion part two.

We use the Carol Fenster book, "Cooking Free" for the gluten free recipes. The blueberry muffins, chocolate cupcakes and the regular sandwich bread are tasty. You can get it on Amazon.com.

The recipe for almond bread is here at my niece's blog.

Gluten Free Breads..in my opinion.

We have found that instead of baking a loaf of g-f bread in a loaf pan...they turn out with a little more body if you use three 3 x 5 pans. Then I cut them long ways to resemble a larger piece of bread.

The bread in the back is the regular g-f bread while the bread in the front is almond bread. We slice this bread width-wise for little sandwiches.

Make basil butter (a little basil and a little butter), spread it on the little pieces of almond bread, then put a simple chicken salad dollop (we use canned g-f chicken and reg. mayonnaise-Hellmann's or Kirkland) and make a little sandwich. Quite tasty.

With Margaret being the only true gluten free eater here, I freeze the bread and she takes out what is needed-as needed.

The Little Sweater Has A Home

National Pie Day

It is National Pie Day. All of you gals at the Tuesday Talker's Club be ready for some Pumpkin Pie. As most of you know I ventured into the world of a different pie a week for a year and blogged about it. It started out as a 'let's learn how to make pies really well' with my daughter. Well, after 52 weeks of pies and blog posts, we know a little bit more about pies. We also know what kinds we love and those we don't love. I learned to cook with coconut flakes, yuk. But a lot of pies call for coconut and my husband really likes coconut, so I made pies with coconut. I got a lot of feedback from pie eaters at the church we attended. Pies that were voiced the most were: Coconut Cream Pie, Snow Pie, Sawdust Pie,Tar Heel Pie, Beekeeper's Pie and Blue Bramble Pie. My all time favorite is Rhubarb Pie. I would love to make a gooseberry pie this year, but the gooseberries are so expensive. I entered my pies in contests. Coconut Cream, Apple, Blue Bramble and Sawdust Pies. Blue Bramble received honorable mention and Sawdust received champion at the county fair. I entered the Coconut Cream in a church fund raiser and came in second in the cream pies division. They auctioned off the top pies for charity. My husband bid and won my pie for $40.00. I told him I would make him a pie anytime he wanted....he said something sweet, like "It's for charity Honey" and we left. What makes this funny is that the pies that won high awards were made with coconut...so I didn't even taste the pies that won.

So, I guess I said all of that to say this, if you want to see my pie posts, just click HERE or click Year of the Pie on the sidebar.

If you are making a pie today I would love to know what kind. Leave a comment!

~Until Next Time~

The Little Sweater is Finished!