what’s This?
Obviously a pink heart right?
Into cutey delicious gluten-free cupcakes!
Bad picture of the castle cake (that’s a vinland flag)
She ate the crown first, then the whole frog head as screams of ’she must be Ozzie Osbourn’s daughter’ rang in the background
and Owyn’s sloppy goblins he cooked in the crockpot with momma’s supervision – he’s eight
A few months ago, on the Silly Yaks list I’m on, on yahoogroups. Someone posted about a cake in a cup they’d made.
Earlier today I was whining to myself (well ok, my honey too in passing) how I wanted brownies, or cake, or chocolate chip cookies or SOMETHING sweet, rich and chocolaty!
So I’m putting up the coffee cups after the younger kids have gone to bed, and I have this recipe kind of tap dance through my head.
Of Course I have to try it. And of Course I had to mess with the recipe LOL! I’m that kind of girl.
Just so you know, the older kids who were washing dishes have pronounced this ‘chocolately coffee goodness in a cup’ and ‘we’re definitely keeping this recipe!’
So kid tested and approved (and it’s with gluten free flours hahahaha)
Spiral Owls Cake-in-a-Cup
4 TB flour (my mix worked very well)
4 TB sugar
2 TB unsweetened cocoa
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp xanthum gum (if this is GF)
1 tsp instant coffee granules
mix together well, then add
2 eggs
Mix well again, then add
1 TB oil
1/2 tsp vanilla
3 TB milk, cream or milk substitute
mix well, then microwave on high for 3 min. Watch it, it’s an awesome display of science in your microwave, the kids and I were fascinated!
It’s really good! Very rich, chocolately, it has filled my craving to completion. It’s a very moist cake, almost custardy (which is a plus in my book from dry, crumbly cakes you mostly get with GF flours)
Cake Rising in the Microwave
Chocolaty Goodness Wafting Up
I have been SO sick this week. I haven’t been this sick in a long time. Between getting glutened a couple of weeks ago, then the tendon issues, THEN this throat/flu thing. Man.
Also in the bad news. We are poooooor. Lucky I’m a firm believer in having a stocked pantry and extras of all essentials.
So here I am, with a throat that will not permit me to eat anything but will slide all slippery like down my throat. A honey who barely knows the basics of cooking, and it’s not like we can just run out to the store and get gatoraide and healthy food that will slide down my throat. So what did we do? Well even sick as I was, I used my imagination, gave instructions (sometimes in sign language), so this post and the next will be GF food a sick person can slurp down.
Now the ? on Healthy is because this isn’t just sugar, flavor and cornstarch, I needed the fat and protein in the butter, because until this point it’d been Bouillon and very watery Cream of Rice cereal for 2 days. So pretty much I was trying to create something that had good fats, good protiens, slurped well, and had some flavor to it (they were eating peach cobbler! sniff) and at this point, a little teeny coffee pick me up was greatly appreciate, plus a girl needs her chocolate when she’s been ill right?
Abulita Hot Chocolate
Healthy(?) GF Pudding with a Mexican Chocolate Flair
Ingredients:
Melt butter in saucepan, stir in brown sugar, and let it melt together, take off heat and let sit for a few moments while you gather the rest of the ingredients. Add in the two eggs and whisk together well. Put back on low heat, add in the cocoa, 1 3/4 milk, coffee, cinnamon and cardamom. Take the 1/4 cup milk and mix in the cornstarch until there are no lumps. Now add to the pudding mixture. Turn up the heat to medium and whisk until it starts to boil (keep whisking or the milk will burn to the bottom). Make sure to scrape the sides of the pan well or you end up with cornstarch/egg lumps in the corners of the pan. When the mixture starts to boil, place it in the dish you intend to serve it from (in my case a bunch of soup mugs) and let it cool in the fridge.
The taste is very close to Abulita’s Chocolate in coffee. Mmmmm, that takes me back!
My mix was just a little runny, but I only put in about 3 TB of cornstarch. (and I was still pretty weak and silly)
Ingredients:
1 bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 bag of shredded coconut
1 small back of sliced almonds
Put all ingredients in the crockpot on low, stir occasionally. After about 2-3 hours, they should be soft enough and well mixed enough.
Roll out some wax paper on a tray. Take a spoon, dip it into the mixture and shape it slightly as you drop it onto the wax paper.
This made about 24 candies for me.
Was it good?
Heck yeah! My girls begged for more, and I’ve had 3 pieces this morning (and am swearing off until tomorrow LOL)
As far as making candy goes, this was SO simple, it had way less steps than everything else, and looks really nice in my clear christmas jar!
(the cookies we made last night took much longer and much more work)
