Simple Ice Cream Pie

I wanted to make a ice cream pie recipe for a long time. At first I was going to use cookies for the crust then I decided ice cream cones but that decision was changed when I couldn't find ice cream cones and so my crust is actually crackers. I don't know if it was just me but the pie some how had a nutty taste and I don't remember having anything nutty? Here's the recipe:

2 Tablespoons Sugar
2 Tablespoons Brown Sugar
4 Tablespoons Melted butter
1 1/4 Cup crackers
Some caramel sauce
3/4 Cup Vanilla Ice cream

preheat oven to 375° F.  Smash the crumbs in a large bowl until you get coarse crumbs. Then add the sugars and melted butter. put the crackers on a 9" pie plate and press it down all over the pie plate and bake it for 20 minutes. Pour the ice cream over the pie crust and flatten out and top with caramel sauce then place in freezer and freeze until hard.

English Muffins

I was shopping for some ice cream again... and saw English muffins and something that said gluten-free I was so happy and I bought it. I haven't had them for let’s see um well a long time and from what I remember I loved them. The English muffins were good they weren't terrible but didn't have too much taste I can't remember if English muffins are supposed to have taste. I liked them a lot, sadly I don't know why this happens to lots of gluten-free foods, it gets heavy it doesn’t affect the taste but I think that it's kind of weird to half heavy food. Anyway they are good and I prefer them with jelly (you should try it). Here’s the website of the company: Food for Life- http://www.foodforlife.com/

Stand-up Mixer

While I was baking a "pumpkin" cake for a birthday, my electric mixer somehow just broke and was just waiting to break because of it's age. It was a disaster... sort of, well it just made it harder. I managed to finish the cake and then the day after that we went to go buy one of those stand up mixers, with the big b owl and everything. After a while of figuring out which one to get we finally chose one and went home. When we got home I was looking at the box to see what it had said on there and i found out there was like 10 attachments to go with it, a meat grinder, a fruit/vegetable strainer, even a grain mill. I was surprised and thought that was pretty amazing. Obviously when we cleaned everything up and placed the mixer I decided to bake with this new machine. So I made cinnamon swirl bread (my own recipe, it came out delicious!) I started baking and mixing and it was just amazing. at first the flour splattered out of the bowl a little but then it got easier. It was very easy and aside from that one mess it doesn't make a big mess at all. The day after when I got home from school I decided to make my first pie, I should say my first lattice pie. I won't give you the recipe because I am going to use it in the cookbook but I'll give you the technique for making the lattice top. on top of a floured surface with a floured rolling pin roll the dough into a sort-of rectangle. With a knife cut out 8 as neat as you can strips of dough. Place 4 of the strips of dough on the pie. For now let’s number them 1-4. Pull down let’s say 2 and 4 to nearly the bottom of the plate, place a new strip of dough over 1 then under 2, over 3 and under 4. Repeat with the other strips of dough. Then if the strips are too long cut them, and then with the entire strips pinch to the dough on the pie plate and with fork press onto the pie. With the beaten egg brush it over the finished pie. There you go a lattice pie. In this picture I accidentally messed up the lattice top but here it is anyway:  

Good News!

So as you may have noticed I have been baking alot and sharing my recipes with you. You also may have noticed that I haven't been posting too much recipes anymore, well there's obviously a reason for that and that reason is that I've decided I wanted to try to write a gluten-free cookbook, all about gluten-free sweets, I already have lot's of recipes. This means that I won't be posting too much recipes any more because I can't just give away them if I'm writing a cookbook. I hope to try to have the cookbook done sometime next year, I'm thinking maybe around late March. (coincedentally near my birthday!). I also have more good news, some of my friends and I at school started baking together and we also started making little cooking shows, our first one, about strawberry macarons we just put up on Youtube, here's the link to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap1frWVTIhA.  Keep on baking!

Macarons

So I've finally got myself to make Macarons not Macaroons the one with coconut but the parisian ones, I made it from the book Gluten-Free Bible, The recipe was very good and made very tasty Macarons, except for there was one thing that confused me, in the Raspberry Macarons recipe, where I think the second step, it said add cocoa powder but in the ingredients list there was no cocoa powder, I just skipped the cocoa powder, Guessing that it was an accident, but other than that this is the BEST recipe I absolutely love Macarons, my favorite is the Raspberry macarons, or maybe the almond, they're both good. the recipe may seem hard from all the steps but was much easier than I thought, except for when baking them to make sure they didn't crack that was a little too hard, but as I always say I'll definitely be making these again!

Flourless Peanut Butter- Chocolate Cookies

Here's a recipe for some cookies which weren't the best but were still good. Just to tell you before you make these, If you don't like peanut butter, than this is not for you, if you love peanut butter this is definatly for you. Anyway here's the recipe:

Peanut butter part:

1 cup Peanut butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/8 cup Butter
1/2 tablespoon Maple Syrup
1 Egg

Chocolate part:

3/4 cup Cocoa powder
1/2 cup Sugar
1/8 cup Butter, melted
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 Egg
1/2 cup Melted chocolate chips
1/2 cup Milk

Preheat oven to 350°. Mix all ingredients together according to the two sections, then put some of each batter on a greased pan, so that half is chocolate and half is peanut butter. Then cook for 25 minutes.

Maninis oat bread

I recently said that I would bake the Maninis bread I finally got around to get the yeast and make it. It was fun to make and was pretty easy except for the fact that it takes along time because you have to wait about an hour for the bread to rise. I made this and then me and my family ate all of it that first day and so I made it again the next day, the next day my dad had the idea of me putting butter on top of the bread to give it a good tasting glaze. I did this and it came out great. The Maninis mix I like a lot because first one bag makes 8 loaves so you don't have to buy it again every time you make it.The taste is very good I love the taste of the oats, it has a good texture for gluten-free bread and wasn't very complicated, I think this recipe is great, I will definitely be making this bread a lot.