Gluten Free Pumpkin Donuts

                                                         

        As anyone who has ever tasted gluten free baked goods knows, food items without gluten just taste a little off. Let's me honest - they taste horrendous. BUT sometimes you find a gem and this recipe is one of those times!

Ingredients:

1 cup sorghum flour 

1 cup potato starch (not potato flour) 

1/2 cup hazelnut flour 

1 cup light brown sugar 

1/4 cup cane sugar 

1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 

1 teaspoon xanthan gum 

1 teaspoon sea salt 

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger 

3 organic free-range eggs, beaten 

1/2 cup organic expeller-pressed canola oil 

1 14-oz can pumpkin 

2 teaspoons bourbon vanilla extract 

For sugar dusting: 

Granulated cane sugar 

Cinnamon                                        

 

Directions:

1) Preheat the over to 350 and grease a donut pan

2) Mix all of the flour, sugar ( brown and white), baking soda, xanthan gum, salt, and spices

3) Add the eggs, pumpkin, oil, and vanilla until the batter is moist        (don't worry if it is sticky) 

 4) Fill the donut pan until each section is almost full. Bake for 15 minutes ( or until a toothpick comes out clean) 

 5)  In a zip-block bag mix sugar and cinnamon to taste. 

 6) While donuts are still warm place each donut in the bag full of the cinnamon sugar one at a time. Move the zip-block bag around so that the donut is fully covered is the sugar mixture.

                                 Enjoy!!

recipe from http://glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com/2012/10/gluten-free-pumpkin-donuts.html

Burgers and Fries ( aka brownies inside of cupcakes and sugar cookies)

So for Father's Day I made my dad these delicious treats! The burgers are cupcakes split down the middle with brownies in-between. To represent the lettuce and ketchup I used green and red ( maybe a little pink...) icing. To fully capture the idea of a burger, I sprinkled cut up seeds on top.  To help the seeds stick dust a little water on top of the cupcake ( bun top).

To make the fries I made sugar cookies. Normal sugar cookie recipes aren't fitted for needing to cut or mold the dough, so once the regular recipe is complete roll the dough in some all purpose flour. The flour will allow more work to be done with the dough. Roll the dough out as thin as possible and cut the dough into really thin slices. Even the thinnest slices with expand and end up looking like steak fries, so don't worry if they look to thin before you make them! Once the cookies are finished baking if you feel the fries are too fat, while they are still warm you can cut them in half.

 Enjoy!