Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookie Recipe;

These little pumpkin cookies are a great seasonal idea if you're gluten free and want some goodies! They're diary free, nut free, eggs free and soy free! Enjoy!

Ingredients:
3/4 cup coconut flour
1/2 cup tapioca flour
1/2 sorghum flour
1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
2 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup organic cane sugar
1/2 honey
1 cup and 1/4 cup coconut oil, not melted.
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup pumpkin
3/4 to 1 cup coconut milk, unsweetened
Directions:

Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl. In another bowl, cream together wet ingredients. Add to dry and fold well, making sure that there is enough liguid. If not, add a little bit more. Sprinkle gluten-free flour on cutting board and rolling pin, roll out pastry and cut out the cookies! Bake at 350 for approximatly 35 minutes.

Pumpkin Icing:
1/4 cup pumpkin
1 to 2 tablespoons organic coconut butter, not oil.
1 tablespoon organic fresh squeezed orange juice
1 to 2 tablespoons raw honey
dash of cinnamon


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Mix in a food processor or blender. The mixture should be rather thick

Lemon Poppyseed Loaf Recipe;

Here is my favorite loaf recipe of all time! I made it on Saturday, and now it's all gone!! Enjoy! Bon appetite my dears.

Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons poppy seeds
1 tablespoon lemon rind
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk

Lemon Syrup:
1/3 granulated sugar
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
1/3 cup lemon juice

Prep. Preheat oven to 325'F (180'C) for one hr. or until toothpick is clean
  1. In large bowl, beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy; beat in eggs, 1 at a time, beating well.

  2. In seperate bowl, whisk together flour, poppyseeds, lemon rind, baking powder and salt; stir into butter mixture alternately with milk. Spread into 8- x 4-inch loaf pan.

Lemon Syrup: In saucepan or microwave, warm together sugar and lemon rind and juice until sugar dissolves. With a skewer, make holes in the lemon loaf from top to bottom creating "tunnels". Pour juice all over loaf. Let cool in fridge for 1 hr. Munch on it later.

First Post of the Year; Its time for Fall!

Cheers everyone, summer is officially over! Its time to dust off those fall decorations and pull out the warm clothes. My favorite time of the year is here! The leaves are falling, that seasonal smell, and the excuse to cuddle up to your loved ones. Its time for turkey, family, cold weather and of course, Halloween! I'm ecstatic about this years' Halloween. Who ever said I was too young to Trick-or-Treat? My parents did.. but who cares about them. They tell you not to do something and you just want to do do do it. Classic teenage story.
Anyways, I'll be posting stories, pictures links, Fall recipes and homemade Fall decorations that you can easily make all by yourself with household scraps!
So enjoy, and write me back!
Brookeknowsbest.