gluten free Strawberry and Coconut Scones

Recently Andrew has been trying out a gluten free diet.  Every once and a while he slips, sometimes on accident, but I have been trying to support him in this.  He gets really bad mouth sores when living in the states and we have tried special toothpaste and other things and eating gluten free seems to help.  Since Andrew couldn't eat the lemon blueberry bread I recently made I wanted to find a similar recipe that was gluten free.  Although this recipe wasn't my favorite it seemed to hit the spot for Andrew and he ate almost the whole thing without help.

gluten free Strawberry and Coconut Scones

1 egg

1/4 cup coconut oil

1/4 cup sugar

1 1/2 cup oatmeal flour (or blended oats)

2 Tbs. cornstarch

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup chopped strawberries

1/4 cup coconut

1 tsp. baking powder

1 Tbs. sugar for sprinkling

Grease 9 inch pie pan and preheat oven to 350.  Combine egg, coconut oil, and sugar.  Add oatmeal flour, cornstarch, vanilla, coconut, and baking powder and mix.  Toss strawberries in a little flour and gently mix into batter.  Poor into pie pan, sprinkle with sugar and bake for 35-40 minutes.  My scones were a little crumbly so you might want to add another egg to the recipe.  Enjoy this yummy gluten free breakfast!

recipe adapted from here

lemon blueberry bread

Happy 4th today!  It's one of those funny holidays in our home where all around us everyone goes all out in celebrating but being married to an Englishman he tends to roll his eyes and remind us the Independence Day is the day they decided to get rid of us Americans.  Either way you look at it, it was meant to be.  Here's a little recipe that sort of goes with the holiday.  It's blueberry season!  I keep finding them on sale and when my kids don't snack on them first I love to make lemon blueberry bread.  It's so good for a snack, treat, or even breakfast.  It's really good egg-free if you need that option.

Lemon Blueberry Bread

1 1/2 c flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 c butter softened

3/4 c sugar

1 egg (optional)

1/1 tsp vanilla extract

1 Tbs. lemon zest

1/2 c milk

1 1/2 c fresh or frozen blueberries (tossed in 1 Tbs. flour)

1 Tbs. sugar for sprinking

First combine flour, baking powder and salt.  Set aside and in another bowl combine butter and sugar.  Add egg (if desired), vanilla. lemon zest, and milk (I used powdered milk).  Combine with flour mixture and them fold in blueberries.  Sprinkle the top with sugar.  Bake at 350 for 55 minutes.

recipe adapted from here

cupcakes sound gooooood

I had so much fun making cupcakes for Elliot's birthday party I couldn't resist making some more.  This time from scratch.  The great thing about these recipes is the cupcake is fast and easy to bake and doesn't dirty a lot of dishes.  In fact, it's called One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes.  Ha!  That's uncommon for Martha Stewart!  Also, the Basic Buttercream Frosting consists of only three ingredients.  Just for the record, I preferred the cupcake and Andrew preferred the frosting.  What have you been baking recently?

p.s. Thank you Martha for your yummy recipes, 

thank you Mom for lending me 3 sticks of butter to make this happen,

and thank you family for helping me eat these cupcakes!

recipe: chocolate oatmeal cookies

Chocolate Oatmeal cookies:

1 box choc. cake mix

1 1/3 cups oatmeal

1 cup coconut

3/4 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup applesauce

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1/2 cup white chocolate chips

-mix ingredients and bake at 350F for 10-12 minutes

I've been in the mood for white chocolate lately so these just hit the spot. Did you notice there are no eggs? Yep. It was one of those days where we finished off the eggs at breakfast and I forgot so I had to improvise the recipe as I went. Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't, but worked this time! The cookies were not the least bit crumbly. The best part is sampling the dough without worries about raw eggs.

The kids really loved them too.

I usually avoid cake box cookie recipes because they never taste as good as from scratch but this recipe tastes great and is quick to make. You should try it out!