I've been on a bit of a baking binge lately.
I swore off sugar because I need to stop my cravings, but somehow, cake always ends up coming out of my oven. It's the weirdest thing.
The other day, I thought, "These blueberries in my fridge look delish. They'd look even better in a coffee cake." It was pretty much all downhill from there.
This is a recipe I converted from one of my cookbooks to make it gluten free and refined sugar free. It was outrageously delicious. I shared a few pieces with a coworker who is also gluten free, and then shoveled the rest into my mouth.
Then, there were cake balls. Not just any run-of-the-mill cake ball, mind you. Oh no.
Snickerdoodle cake balls.
They may not look pretty, but they're RIDICULOUSLY delicious. These I made for the department picnic yesterday, and they were gone in no time. Best part? No one knew they were gluten free. I feel like it's my calling in my baking life to take all these fantastic recipes I have in my cookbooks on my kitchen shelf and convert them to gluten free. And, if I'm really feeling sassy about it, refined sugar free and dairy free, too.
Last, but not least, there was strawberry shortcake.
Strawberries infused with sugar, making that runny glaze that seeped off the berries and ran down the cake. Homemade whipped cream that had me licking every last piece of evidence off the beater and spatula. Good lord there is nothing quite like homemade whipped cream. This cake was not gluten free (this was also for the department picnic), but next time, it sure as heckfire will be.
It's been quite a while since I've been around, but now you know part of what's been keeping me busy! I hope to pick up a needle and thread at some point this weekend, since it's been too long since I've done that, too.
Next week is the big 4th of July holiday! What's everyone up to?? BBQ's? Parties? Fireworks????
