Fudge

January 18, 2012 Leave a Comment

 

Chocolate Fudge

We usually use this chocolate fudge for gift baskets at Christmastime

This is a Christmas favorite. It is soft, chocolatey, and melts in your mouth.

¾ cup evaporated milk

1 ¾ cup white sugar

1 ½ cups miniature marshmallows

1 ½ cups semisweet chocolate chips

1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract

½ cup pecans or walnuts (optional)

 

In a small saucepan, combine the evaporated milk and sugar. Heat at medium high. Bring it to a slow boil, and let it boil for 1 minute. Turn the heat to low and stir in marshmallows, chocolate chips, vanilla extract, and nuts. Stir until the chocolate chips and marshmallows are melted.

Pour into a buttered 9×13 inch pan. Let it cool. When cool, cut into squares. Fudge can be kept for about a month. 

 

 

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Gluten-Free Dumplings

September 30, 2011 Leave a Comment

 

 

 

Chicken soup and a dumpling.

Tasty chicken soup with a soft, delicious dumpling

These dumplings are delicious. We eat them with berry sauce, apple sauce, or chicken soup. Leftover berry sauce can be used on pancakes the next morning. Yum!

Notes:

When making dumplings, first start the sauce, and while it is heating, make and roll out the dumpling dough. If making apple dumplings, add ¼ a teaspoon cinnamon to the dough for extra flavor.

 

2 cups rice flour or oat flour

 

½ cup sugar or ¼ cup if you are making chicken dumplings instead of dessert ones.

1 cup potato starch

1 cup tapioca starch or cornstarch

1 teaspoon xanthan gum

1 tablespoon baking powder

½ a cup butter, grated or sliced very small

1 1/3 cups milk

 

Mix together all the ingredients except for butter and milk. Add the butter, and stir until blended. Add the milk, stir well, and roll into one inch balls. Drop dumpling balls into boiling sauce. Allow sauce to return to boil, then turn heat to low, cover, and let simmer for ten to fifteen minutes, until dumplings are fork tender.

 

 

Dumpling Apple Sauce:

1 tablespoon cinnamon

1 tablespoon cornstarch

two large apples, sliced

four cups water

dash of nutmeg

pinch of salt

Stir ingredients togethor in saucepan, bring to a gentle boil, stirring constantly. Add dumplings, turn heat to low, cover, and simmer for about fifteen minutes, until dumplings are fork-tender. Serve immediately with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, or plain with warm apple sauce poured over them.

 

Dumpling Fruit Sauce:

This sauce can be made with blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, or strawberries. It is generally a sweet sauce, and tastes good with vanilla ice-cream or whipped cream.

Three cups berries, if strawberries, halved

six cups water

1 tablespoon cornstarch

A pinch of salt

1 ½ cups sugar, more or less, depending upon your preference

½ teaspoon lemon juice

Stir sauce, and bring to a slow boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Do not boil for over three minutes. Add dumplings, turn heat to low, simmer, remove from heat when dumplings are fork tender. Serve warm.

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Gluten-Free Cinnamon Rolls

July 4, 2010 Leave a Comment

Picture of gluten-free cinnamon roll

cinnamon roll being used as birthday cake.

Not only are these quick and easy to make, but they have the fluffy, light texture of wheat cinnamon rolls. These are a little less sugary than wheat ones, but I am sure you can add some powdered sugar if you want. The only thing these delicious little rolls are missing is the yeasty flavor, which is very hard to pull together. Other than that, though, you will find nothing lacking.

4 tablespoons butter, softened

1/3 cup sugar, granulated

5 egg whites

¾ cup plain yogurt

1 ½ cups cornstarch

½ cup rice flour

2 ½ teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons xanthan gum

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar

Filling:

4 tablespoons butter, grated

1 cup sugar

1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

Use a large glass baking pan, buttered. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Cream butter and sugar in medium sized bowl, add the egg whites, beat until very frothy. Add the remaining ingredients, beat well with electric mixer.

Sprinkle a clean counter top with potato starch, tapioca flour, or cornstarch. Flour your hands as well. Place the dough on the floured counter top, and use a rolling pin, (lightly dusted in flour,) to roll out the dough until it is 14 by 12,” but thinner is even better, depending upon the type of rolls you prefer. Slightly lift the dough, just to make sure it will come off of the counter. If not, gather back up the dough, add more flour to the counter, and roll it again.

Sprinkle the sugar and cocoa unto the dough, and then grate the butter on with a cheese grater, or cut into small slices. Now, carefully begin to roll the dough. It should lift up off of the counter. Roll it into a large round log, and then cut across it with a knife for the number of rolls you want. Place each carefully on the buttered pan, and bake for forty to forty-five minutes, until golden brown.

Note: The dough can be made before you make the rolls, just place the bowl of dough in the refrigerate with plastic wrap on top. Refrigerate for two days at most, dough will begin to crumble if refrigerated longer.

Cinnamon Roll Glaze:

1 cup powdered sugar

3 tablespoons milk

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Combine the ingredients in a small bowl until blended, spread over cinnamon rolls.

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Basic Brownies

February 6, 2009 Leave a Comment
Picture of gluten-free brownies with coffee

gluten-free brownies make a good snack.

This is one of the recipes my mom gave me. These brownies are gooey, chocolaty, and delicious. They are always the first thing to vanish, at a party. It is a very simple recipe, and i would recommend it for when you want to cook a quick dessert. You can really frost this thing up, cover it in chocolate chips, and make it into a birthday cake as well.

2 cups sugar

½ cup cocoa

1 ¼ cups cornflour

1 cup butter

4 eggs

1 12 oz bag of chocolate chips

Butter a 9 by 13 by 2” glass pan, and preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Set the pan aside. Combine the sugar, cocoa, and flour in a bowl. Break the eggs in a separate bowl, and beat them with a fork. Melt the butter, then mix it into the flour and sugar. Add the beaten eggs into the mix. Stir them in, until they are well blended. Add the chocolate chips, and stir them in. Pour the mixture into the pan, and place in the center of the oven. Cook for 35 to forty minutes,(depending on wether you like goopy brownies or well done.) until the center seems set. The brownies will still seem not cooked when you remove them from the oven. Let them set for about ten minutes, until they are cooled, and they will have become perfectly light, and delicious.

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