Gluten free choco chip cookies

Yum, yum, yum..

Yum.... Every time I just imagine my choco-chip cookies I just drool all over. But recently I have been thinking about my kid which is diabetic and I don't now much about the gluten free subject but I have heard that its better for people specially if they are diabetic. So I started looking for info on how to make cookies for him.

One day I'm at Marshall's (my fave store by the way) and saw they had gluten free all purpose flour.  Read the box and it said to change one on one, in other words 1 cup of regular all purpose flour for 1 cup of gluten free flour. I said well that's not so hard so I bought a box to give it a try.

 And it happens that the next day I returned to buy all the rest of the boxes left, there were only 4 boxes left, so took them all. Love this flour its awesome.

These cookies came out marvelous. I wanted to share the recipe but you may use any recipe you have that you'd like to change.

Gluten free Chocolate chip cookies

1 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 1/4 cup brown sugar
1 1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract, I use vanilla beans
2 eggs
4 cups Gluten free flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 bag Chocolate chips

Mix together flour, salt and baking soda. Set aside. Beat butter and both sugars until creamy. Add vanilla extract and eggs, beat until light and fluffy.  Lower the speed on your beater and slowly stir in the flour mixture.  Mixture will be pretty heavy and thick. Stir in Chips. You may use right away or leave in the fridge for a 30 min period. I prefer to wait a bit I think they taste better after waiting.

 Prepare your pan with parchment paper, and spoon drop your batter on the pan. Bake at 350F for no more then 10 mins (if you like your cookies soft inside and crisp on the edges.

These came our a little puffier but with the same great taste as my regular ones. So I advise you to give them a try.  Please let me know your reaction to them.  If you have any question just leave a comment below.

Love Victoria

Ruffle Cake Technique Tutorial

Oh Ruffles, I just love ruffles since I was a little girl. I loved them on dresses, on stockings, on shoes and just about on anything. Its a girl ruffle thing?  And since I learned ruffles could be made on baking goods like cakes, cookies and cakepops, I have gone wild with this technique. I love it sooo much that every cake that is for a gal and just don't have like a theme I make it a ruffle cake.

If you'll like to become a freaky ruffle decorator like me here is a tutorial so you may do so...

Tools:
Cake ( already crumb coated)
Piping bag
Tip 104
Buttercream or Frosting of your choice
Turn table (Lazy susan)

First thing is to have your cake crumb coated very lightly. This is because if it is not coated the crumbs will begin to stick to your piping tip and or start to fall off, and also if your ruffles aren't to close together the crumb part wont show thru.

Take your piping bag already fitted with the tip and touching (with the wider part of the tip) the cake where you would like to begin, start by squeezing the bag and giving it a up and down motion at the same time you move your turning table if you want the ruffles side way like in the picture above.

Now repeat the same step until you decide where you like to stop.

The more ruffle you add to your cake the more beautiful it will look.

On the top you may want to leave it with out the ruffles and add some detail or what ever you like, but I just decided to keep going and going....

Doesn't it just look beautiful just like it is??? yeah but I just wanted to add something more girly to it and my favorite thing after baking, Shoe! Yes a cupcake shoe, just love it.

Cupcake Shoe and Sprinkles, what better things to add???

Hope you enjoy making ruffles on everything you can get your hands on too!  Good Luck with it and if any questions just leave me a comment. 

Love Ya!!

Victoria

Do your cakes stick to the pans??? Well not anymore!

Have you had one of those days that your cakes stick to the pans even when you have used everything in the market to prevent from sticking? Well I used to have those days and even cried about it because I had used everything I could think of to prevent it. Well not anymore! Nope not anymore!! I have used this recipe for a few months now and its great and cheaper than the commercial version.  I don't have to use the parchment paper in the pan anymore and that makes an extra saving to my pocket. 

So let move on to this magical buttery non-stick potion, yeah that the best name for it.

Ingredients:

1/4 cup of Crisco

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup All purpose flour

1/4 cup melted butter or margarine

Just mix everything up very well and tadaaaa! Ready to use. Keep in the fridge. 

Try it out and your will remember me. Please leave your comments or questions. Thanks and Be Blessed!

Victoria

Spanish/Espanol

Has tenido uno de esos dias donde por mas que le untes de todo a tus moldes de hornear, tus bizcochos se pegan? Ohhhh siiii yo los he tenido pero ya no mas! Hace varios meses estoy utilizando esta receta y es maravillosa, tanto que ni siquiera tengo que usar el papel para horneo en los moldes y esto es un ahorro adicional a mi bolsillo. Esta receta es mas economica que comprando la version commercial, la cual en ocasiones se me pegaban los bizcochos.

Asi que vamos a la mantequillosa magica receta, si ese seria un buen nombre para ella.

Ingredientes:

1/4 T de Manteca Crisco

1/2 T de aceite vegetal

1/2 T Harina todo uso

1/4 T de Mantequilla o Margarina derretida

Solo mezcla todos los ingredientes bien y Tadaaaaa! Lista para usar. Conservar en su nevera despues de usar.

Bueno Amig@s espero que la prueben, se acordaran de mi! Dejenme sus comentarios. 

Bendecidos siempre!

Victoria

 

Playing Around With Cookies

      OMG my teenage daughters are driving me Nuts!!!! Yeah! Nuts I sad! How do I work with them? My little girls have grown up and I'm always trying to involve them in different activities with me and around me, so  I may keep a close eye on them. Well you know 14 year old girls? Not easy but trying to make the best as being a divorced mom and trying to earn their trust in me. Well trying to get them to be closer to me and share activities with them... I thought of cookies! Yes Cookies, decorating cookies and how they would enjoy playing around with them I came up with this idea!

"Cookie Games" 

Yes, Games on a cookie! I made different game on cookies and the girls played and marked or colored them with edible markers.  The first one was a tic tac toe cookie. 

This was my second idea and made a color by number cookie. While they colored and played,  they ate the Love one and the Lets play cookies. And for the last one...

Join the dots... I used to LOVE this when I was a kid, it was my fav.  These were super easy to do. The fun didn't last long because they ended up eating them but it was worth seeing them playing and taking time to enjoy something together like family should do. 

Hope you can enjoy some time with your kids no matter what their ages are, always try to involve them in your activities because they grow up fast and leave.  Sorry for the bad pictures, all I have is a small digital camera and trying to save up for a good one.

Dulce de Leche Sugar Cookies

Hi all! December is here and surely I just LOVE December, I LOVE Christmas and the smell of the pine Christmas tree, Love the cookie baking, the gift giving and most important the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ!!

Cookie baking has become an obsession for me! When I see all the different, wonderful, artistic and colorful decorated cookies posted all over facebook, I just drool over them. Oh gosh, most of them I cant even dream of trying to make them :( These ladies are soooo talented! During all that cookie obsession I have now I try new recipes and here is one I just love and came out perfect the first time I tried it. Please try it out and let me know what you think!

Dulce de Leche sugar cut out cookies  

2 sticks of butter

1 c of sugar 

1 egg

1 tsp Butter Vanilla emulsion 

1/4 c of Dulce de Leche ( I used homemade)

3 1/2 c of All Purpose Flour

2 tsp baking powder

Cream Butter and Sugar until change of color, add in the Dulce de Leche and mix well. Add egg and beat until combined. Now add in the emulsion and mix. Slowly mix in the flour and B. powder until cant see the flour. If the mixture is too soft just add a little more. Remove and make a ball with it and wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1hr. When its cold roll and cut as desired. bake at 350 for 8-10 or til edges are golden. Let cool well and decorate has desired with Royal Icing. 

These are my naked Dulce de Leche sugar cookies

Hope you can enjoy this recipe which I consider very tasty infact to me it tasted like shortbread but with a little more consistency and less fragile.

If you have any questions or doubt, just leave your questions or comments, I would Loooove to here them. 

Love, Victoria!   

Pumpkin Pie Spice Sugar Cookies

Cookies, Cookies, Cookies! Oh yeah Cookies! 

I just found out I'm a cookie decorator. Noooo I'm a cookie freak. How did I found this out?? Well recently someone posted on Facebook a list of actions that meant that you'r a cookie decorator  if you could identify your self with them,  but the one that really convinced me was that if everything you see, you imagine you can turn it into a cookie. Yupp thats me!

Even thou I'm not a good cookie decorator, I'm in love with it!!  And since the best season is falling in I wanted to make something with that special touch for this season.
Pumpkin Pie spice sugar cookies, Ohhhh and these were soo good specially when iced.  Delicious, yeah thats the word for them.

Love the color they have! Its a nice tangy orange color. 

Covered with fondant

Please give them a try they are really awesome!!

Pumpkin Pie Spice Sugar Cookies:

1 stick of butter

1/2cup granulated sugar

1 egg

1/4 cup Pumpkin

1 tsp vanilla extract 

1 tbsp Pumpkin pie spices

1 tsp baking Powder 

11/2 to 2 cups of All Purpose Flour( add more if needed)

Beat butter and sugar as usually. Add egg and pumpkin. Beat only until mixed. Add extract and spices. Slowly add baking powder and flour. If the mixture is too moist just add a little more flour. Wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate 2hrs or overnight. Roll out, cut and freeze for 10 mins. Bake at 350F for 8-10 mins. Since I like them a little crispier I left them a little longer. 

Let cool. And decorate as you like.  Enjoy!!

                                                                   Decorated with RI

I love to receive your coments and questions, so please dont hesitate to do sooo! Bless you all!

Fresh Fruit Tart! Yummmmm!

Today is a lovely Sunday, and after church I had decided to just relax since I had been very busy this week and today was my day off from my new exercise routine. Yeah exercise, not my favorite thing but trying to get back at it after a few years of being lazy and as a consequence the gaining of almost 30 pounds and that isnt funny. But that's another story.

 Soooo yes I was relax seeing a movie on my laptop when just got bored and sad HHHHaaa let me make something sweet for the kids.  Went straight to my recipe book and looked thru it and say its been like 3 years I havent made a fruit tart! It seemed like a great idea knowing that its made with fresh fruit and sound sooo refreshing and the best part it wouldn't hurt my diet since it was made with fresh fruit, Right!!!!

 Lets make it!

Recipe:
Crust:
1/2 cup confectioners sugar
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter

Filling:
1 (8onz) package cream cheese
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (I used vanilla bean paste)

Topping:
Fresh Fruit (any you like, may be strawberries. kiwis, blueberries, raspberries, etc.

Whipped cream (optional) for garnish

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

For Crust: in food processor or your kitchen aid machine combine confectioners sugar, butter and flour til it forms a ball.

 With fingers press dough into the 12 inch tart pan with removable bottom. Push the dough into indentations and sides.

 Bake for about 10-12 min. Remove from oven and let cool completely.

In another bowl beat together cream cheese, granulated sugar and vanilla until creamy. Once the crust is completely cool just add the filling to it and garnish with the fresh fruits.

Oh Gosh, this really is a very fast, simple and awesome dessert to make at anytime.

There goes my diet :0 !! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did and it was delissssssh!!