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Cheddar Cheese Crackers, Gluten and Egg Free

In All about kids, Baking, Gluten free, Kids and nutrition on May 7, 2013 at 7:14 pm

Crunch, munch crackers are a must. Especially yellow ones, how my kids like to call them.
Beauty of these recipe is that you can choose the cheese of your choice and every time crackers will be different. Like spicy with pepper jack, zing with feta or creamy with fontina.
Love to have some homemade crackers on hand when on the go.
Selection of store bought gluten free crackers is limited and to be honest all those crackers are very pricey.
This is amazing recipe, super easy and quick to make. Also there is no eggs in this recipe.
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Homemade Gluten-Free Cheddar Cheese Crackers

Makes 70 crackers, 1 inch size

2 cups sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
1/2 stick butter, cold
1/4 cup kefir
1 tsp. sea salt, optional
1 cup brown rice flour
1/2 cup tapioca flour

Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
Combine the butter, cheese and kefir in the bowl of a mixer
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and beat at slow speed until blended. Gradually add the flours until just combined, scraping the sides of the bowl if necessary. The dough should have all pulled away from the sides of the bowl and formed a ball.
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Roll out the dough with a floured rolling pin until the disk is about an 1/8-inch thick. Cut with a cookie cutter shape no bigger then 1 inch.
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Place dough 1 inch apart on the lined baking sheet and sprinkle with salt.
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Let the crackers first rest in fridge for about 20 minutes and then transfer the pan to bake for 12-16 minutes or until golden.
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Cool on baking sheets or wire racks for 20 minutes.
When completely cooled store crackers in an airtight container.
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Enjoy!!

Sunflower Chocolate Chunk Cookies, Gluten and Nut Free

In All about kids, Baking, Cookies, Gluten free on April 25, 2013 at 10:58 am

Mid week afternoon require some serious cookies. Before kids games you have to have a boost of wonderful aromatic cookies.
Since baseball season is in full swing and tennis tournaments are almost every weekend, I made a system of making healthy cookies and freeze the leftovers so every time we need one we just have them ready to go.
This time I had a sunflower seeds in a pantry so instead of almonds I decided to grind these and use them in a cookies.
Fantastic flavor, tiny bit salty but with semi sweet chocolate chunks make dream cookies.
Plus these are not only gluten free they are also nut free for everybody who needs to avoid nuts.
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Makes 12 cookies

Ingredients:

1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chunk
1/2 cup butter
1 egg
1 cup brown rice flour
1 cup sunflower seeds (grind)
1/4 cup tapioca starch
1/4 cup coconut flour
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 teaspoon organic vanilla sugar
1/4 cup powdered sugar, optional

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350F.
Using double broiler melt chocolate chunks with tea spoon of milk and tiny bit of butter. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring occasionally till smooth, set aside.
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Grind the sunflower seeds.
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In a stand up mixer bowl add cold butter, sugar, egg, vanilla sugar, melted chocolate.
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Mix just for a few spins, then add all the flours. Texture should be like a dough.
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With hands roll the dough and form balls adding few chocolate chunks and if wanted extra pieces of sunflower seeds for the crunch.
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Pop cookies in the oven for 14 minutes.
Let them cool and if you like you can sprinkle them with powdered sugar.
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Fantastic aroma and texture combination of trail mix and great cookie.
Enjoy!!

Rubber Duckies Fondant Toppers, Surf’s Up!!

In All about kids, Baking, California, Chocolate cupcakes on March 26, 2013 at 10:56 am

Surf rubber duckies birthday party idea, SOUNDS GREAT:-)
This is a super party idea for any age and everybody can enjoy the fun of water and cuteness of rubber duckies cupcakes!!

IMG_1097Ducky pool theme party can be at your local Gym, YMCA or any other indoor pool facility available for party rental.

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In this case cupcakes were gluten free red velvet with cream cheese frosting.

Few tips:

In your pool party invitation, ask the party guests to bring their swimsuits, a change of clothes, flip flops and a towel.

Use fun pool party supplies to pull in the summer theme, oversized beach balls are always a hit!

The entire party time will be taken with the kids swimming and playing together in the pool. Hopefully, you will dive right in and lead some games, or have a few parents who are interested in getting in as well so they can lead games too:

- Have a rubber duck race. Give each child a rubber duck and have them use their noses to move it to the other side of the pool. First one there wins!
- Play water volleyball!
- Have a splash contest from the diving board to see who can make the biggest splash! Make sure to follow pool rules, however!
- Play Shark! Have the birthday kid start off as the shark and tag the fish (the rest of the kids in the pool). As the fish are tagged, they also become sharks. The game is over when the pool is full of sharks!

For additional info on rubber duckies fondant cupcakes or cake decorations please visit:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/petitfondantcreation

Thanks!!

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