Lactose Free Birthday Pie Rhubarb & Strawberry Pie Filling 1 1/4 cups sugar 3 tbsp. cornstarch 1/4 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg 3 cup rhubarb, cut into 1/2″ pieces 2 cup sliced fresh strawberries 1 tbsp. butter Dairy Free Pastry for a Double Crust Pie Stir together the sugar, cornstarch, salt and nutmeg. Add the rhubarb pieces and sliced strawberries,and toss gently to coat fruit. Let the fruit and mix stand for at least 15 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare and roll out your pastry. I used a 9 inch pie plate and ran a pastry cutter around the edges to trim it and make it look tidy. Pour...
My favorite birthday cake of all time has got to be yellow cake with chocolate frosting. I’m not much of a cake person in general, but I’ll make an exception every year for my brithday with this one: the good, old fashioned, my-mother-started-making-it-for-my-birthday-when-I-was-four-and-never-stopped-because-I-wouldn’t-let her, Betty Crocker mix. But how to survive with all the dairy in the mix? It’s a box of absolute doom for my body, and without fail, I suffer for my weak willpower after. So this year, I chose this Valentine’s Day/Lunar New Year weekend to test...
Hooray!!! After only a couple dozen dairy free cookies coming out of the oven and sliding directly into the rubbish, I’m getting the hang of baking, and these turned out much easier than the last big batch (which is why they weren’t included in the Dairy Free Thanksgiving Cookies post). I guess the trick was really to watch them brown and take them out immediately to finish ‘cooking’ on the racks. You’re going to need a cookie gun to make them look like this, and given the negative reviews on most cookie guns online, I’m going to vouch for a cheapo Wilton one,...
Two dairy free versions of autumn cookie classics: Snickerdoodles and Iced Pumpkin Cookies, too. Originally, the recipe comes from the Disney Family website, who also came up with the 12 Cookies of Christmas. But I made them dairy free for my colleague’s birthday and nobody could tell they weren’t dairy, so I figure mission accomplished! The Iced Pumpkin ones are like mini pumpkin pies, and the Snickerdoodles, well, they snuck themselves in as they’re my husband’s favorite cookies, but who doesn’t appreciate a good Snickerdoodle treat around 11 o’clock? Enjoy! Dairy...
