Thursday, October 24, 2013
COFFEE and Gluten Free Apple Spiced Donuts
Woohoo, it's Thursday people and I'm posting twice this week! I mean dang, I'm getting stuff done! And by stuff, I don't mean laundry, um, let's not talk about it. By stuff I mean, blogging a little (I have priorities, people I miss you guys), teaching classes, training clients, shuffling kids to and from school and drinking cups of coffee the size of my head!


Yeah, don't we all drink our iced mochas from quart sized mason jars? Well, those of us that get up at 4:30am during the week do...and then we are WIRED for about 3 hours, but dang those 3 hours feel great! Hello legal addictive stimulant!

So, I promised a recipe for those apple spiced baked donuts or doughnuts (By the way, how do you spell this? I lean towards the first one, but I also use the second. Probably not important...I've just had too much coffee!) Anyway, so these are light and caky with a nice hint of spice to celebrate the cooler weather. I've always been more of a fan of cake donuts personally and Old Fashion Doughnuts always have that hint of nutmeg. So good. So here's my dairy and gluten free version of a spiced donut...


Apple Spiced Baked Donuts
(makes 6 donuts and a small loaf - I only have 1 donut pan)

1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup tagatose (NuNaturals) or 1/4 cup sugar
1 dropper vanilla stevia (NuNaturals) or 2 TBSP sugar plus 1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup coconut oil
2 eggs (flax or chia gel works too)

1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/4 cup almond milk

1 TBSP apple cider vinegar
3/4 cup Gluten Free All Purpose Flour (Bob's Red Mill)
3/4 cup Sweet Rice Flour (Bob's Red Mill)
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp xanthan gum (Bob's Red Mill)
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp fresh nutmeg
pinch of cardamom
pinch of salt

Spray a donut pan and/or small loaf pan with cooking spray. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a large mixing bowl, beat the sugar through coconut oil together until light and fluffy. Then add the eggs, applesauce, almond milk and apple cider vinegar to the sugar mixture and beat until blended well. In a separate bowl, combine the gluten free all purpose flour through salt together. Next add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until fully combined. Scoop batter evenly into prepared pans. Bake the donuts for 15-20 minutes and the mini loaf will take from 30-40 minutes depending on how much batter you put in it. Stick them with a toothpick and it should come out clean. Cool in pan for 5 minutes. Then remove from pans to cool completely...

To glaze or not to glaze...that is the question?! We are a mixed family here. The guys like glaze because, you know, more sugar. I like baked donuts without glaze for dipping in my coffee.

Glaze
1 cup powder sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
enough water or almond milk to form a thick glaze (add a tablespoon at a time)

Mix everything together until thick and smooth. Glaze slightly cooled donuts.

I will be sharing these on next week's Slightly Indulgent Tuesday and Allergy Free Wednesday.

So, how is everyone's week going? It's crazy here, but that's not different from any other week. Who has fun plans for the weekend?

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posted by Sarena Shasteen - The Non-Dairy Queen @ 5:00 AM   21 comments
Monday, October 21, 2013
Amazing Weekend With Friends and Family!
It's Monday friends! I am most definitely feeling Marvelous In My Monday! Thank you Katie for encouraging me to see the positive in the beginning of the week!
MiMM MIMM #67 Just a Chill Kind of Weekend!

This weekend marked a passage of time for me. I took all of my men with me to my homecoming class reunion game on Friday night. It definitely brought back so many memories of my youth. I was lucky enough to meet Tony shortly after I graduated from high school, so this time of year really always brings back those memories. I'm also lucky enough to keep in touch with a good amount of my friends from high school through Facebook, so it was really nice seeing them all face to face.



The night was filled with good friends a talking old times along with catching up with how things are going now. 


Also, what better way to fill the time waiting for your best friend from high school (she still is my best girlfriend!) than taking family photos in the car. This was the best we got...not too bad. 


Saturday night we had friends over for pumpkin carving and good eats! I love this time of year and sharing good times with friends definitely makes it that much more festive!

Tony's pumpkin this year...


We cooked up a big pot of Tony's vegetable soup...



and a pot roast...


I also baked up some of my gluten free bread to go along with the meal...


and caramel popcorn for treats afterwards... 


Sunday morning started with apple spice donuts! 


Fall is definitely here and we are definitely celebrating it. Tony and I set out for a 10 mile run after enjoying our coffee and donuts. The weather was amazing and the run went really well. I'm going to share the donut recipe this week along with some running stuff that I just want to chat about. I will leave you with this for now though...Happy Monday!

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