Piggies! I have been inspired by our Gluten Free Healthy Surprise Giveaway, and so this month I am sharing some quick easy gluten free vegan snack recipes. These maple cinnamon almonds are absolutely scrumptious! Raw almonds are my favourite snack food, and if I want to make them more decadent, I cover them in different sweeteners and flavourings and dehydrate them. I made a few different kinds of sugar almonds last Christmas, and they were a huge hit. I have labelled this recipe as "raw" because the almonds are raw and dehydrated. However, strictly speaking, they are not completely raw because the maple sugar has been made from boiled maple syrup. But, there are raw foodists who eat maple syrup. So I thought I would include it in the... Keep Reading
Piggies! May is Celiac Awareness month, and to celebrate I am helping to launch the BRAND NEW Gluten Free Surprise snack delivery service from Healthy Surprise. In this month's giveaway, you can WIN a Six Month Subscription to Gluten Free Surprise valued at $396! That is SIX boxes full of delicious gluten free snacks delivered directly to your door. My friend Joe has teamed up with some of the best natural food companies in America to bring you a box full of healthy gluten free snacks every month. Partner companies (what you might find in each box) include: Hail Merry, Caveman Bakery, Go Raw, Two Degrees, Home Free, Righteously Raw, Yoga Earth, Bobo's Oat Bars, Skinny Crisps, Two Moms in the Raw, Bumble Bar, Kopali, The Bliss Bar, Twin... Keep Reading
Piggies! It is DAY 30 of Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid, which means it is the LAST DAY to enter to win the 7QT KitchenAid Stand Mixer! We have had an incredible month of delicious gluten free recipes created by some of the top gluten free bloggers in the world. So, it is only fitting that we wrap up our celebration in style with these SENSATIONAL gluten free peanut butter glazed chocolate midnight doughnuts created by the incomparable Silvana Nardone from Silvana's Kitchen. These doughnuts are rich and DELICIOUS. I had never made doughnuts before, and Scott and I had SO much fun! Silvana will be featuring these babies in the May/June issue of Easy Eats magazine. How lucky are we that we get to sample them first?! Do not miss making... Keep Reading
Piggies! It is DAY 29 of Gluten Free Baking with KitchenAid and we celebrate the second to the last day of our KitchenAid Stand Mixer Giveaway with this delicious gluten free apple spiced loaf created by Jennifer Cafferty from GFree Life and founder of The Gluten and Allergy Free Expo and the Nourished Gluten Free Food Bloggers Conference. This gluten free apple spiced loaf is really a sweet cake baked in a loaf pan! Pure apple deliciousness! This apple cake is gluten free, dairy free, soy free, nut-free, and is amazingly moist! Scott and I happily scoffed half the loaf during our "Mad Men Marathon" last night. The other half will be enjoyed when we continue it tonight! So who is Jen Cafferty? Well, she is one BUSY gluten free maven... Keep Reading
Piggies! It is DAY 25 of Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid and I divert today with these delicious non-baked gluten free autumn spiced truffle bites created by the lovely Lisa Natcharian from Allergy Free Vintage Cookery. I came across Lisa's blog some time ago when I was searching for healthy recipes for multiple food allergies. I was immediately struck by the warmth and fun of Lisa's blog, (check out the photo of her and Johnny Depp) and then found myself getting lost in the sea of incredible food allergy information! I immediately forwarded many of the articles to my sister, who is cooking for my little niece, Alexandra who suffers from multiple food allergies. If you are living with multiple food allergies, Lisa's blog is a... Keep Reading
Piggies! It is DAY 25 of Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid and today we continue to celebrate our KitchenAid Stand Mixer Giveaway with these delicious gluten free, dairy free, almond cranberry muffins from the lovely Linda Etherton from The Gluten-Free Homemaker. All of Linda's wonderful recipes are gluten free, dairy free, and soy free. My kind of recipes! I LOVE any recipes made with almond flour, and Linda beautifully mixes protein and starchy flours together to create a lovely moist muffin with a gorgeous flavour. I used cranberries in my batch, but you could also use raisins. Either way, these muffins are piggilicious! I use that word deliberately, for I scoffed FOUR in one sitting. YES! I AM a pig! Oh, and there's more! When... Keep Reading
Piggies! It is DAY 23 of Gluten Free Baking with KitchenAid, and we begin the last week of KitchenAid Stand Mixer Giveaway Mania with this fantastic gluten free, vegan crunchy topped apple coffee cake from the DIVINE Kim Lutz and Megan Hart from Welcoming Kitchen. If you are living with multiple food allergies, this amazing website will be a LIFESAVER for you and your family. All of the delicious recipes that Kim and Megan share are free of the eight common allergens (dairy, eggs, soy, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, fish, and shellfish), and are gluten-free, and vegan. WOO HOO! I swear this site is a GOLD MINE! I call these ladies the "dynamic duo" because they do AMAZING things together in the food allergic community. These ladies both... Keep Reading
Piggies! It is DAY 19 of Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid and we continue our grand celebration of the 7QT KitchenAid Stand Mixer Giveaway with this fabulous gluten free, dairy free cinnmon bun cake from the lovely Jeanine Friesen from The Baking Beauties. Heads up! If you like cinnamon rolls but don't want to take the time to make them, you can still enjoy the lovely taste of them with this super easy cake. But I will say, that if you want to make some AMAZING cinnamon rolls, TRY Jeanine's gluten free cinnamon rolls which are the most popular recipe on her site! One bite of those babies and you will see why people are flocking there in their droves for a piece of cinnamon heaven! I am trying her lemon bars and homemade granola... Keep Reading
Piggies! It is still DAY 18 of Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid and we continue celebrating zucchini with this delicious gluten free, dairy free, nut free, soy free, vegan sweet zucchini cake from my other New York beauty, Patrice Pollack from A Health Foodie. I wanted to feature a brand new blog during this month and I chose Patrice because I just love her! I first came into contact with her when she started following my blog and wrote to me regarding the use of agave in my recipes. This started a chain of lovely emails, and a fabulous new internet friendship was born. Patrice revealed that she works in advertising at JWT in NYC but was a self professed "foodie" who had just started a recipe blog that was mainly vegan and gluten... Keep Reading
Piggies! It is DAY 16 of Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid in honour of our 7QT Stand Mixer Giveaway and today I am thrilled to celebrate with one of my lovely virtual friends, Alta Mantsch from Tasty Eats At Home. I first came in contact with Alta when we both became regular contributors to The Balanced Platter, and it didn't take me long to totally fall in love with her. First of all, isn't that the most fantastic name for a blog? Secondly, she is just a really cool lady. Alta is a recipe writer, amateur food photographer (pretty darn good if you ask me!), and self-taught "home-chef-in-training" as she calls herself. She shares her journey with food in a humble, personal, authentic, honest way that I find incredibly appealing.... Keep Reading
