Gingerless Christmas Cookies
These cookies are made like your usual gingerbread, we just need to leave out the spices to be low chemical.
ingredients
125g Nuttelex
1/2C Brown Sugar
1/2C Golden Syrup
1 1/4C Fine White Rice Flour
1 1/4C Arrowroot or Tapioca Starch
1t Bicarb Soda
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius
traditional method
Cream the Nuttelex and the sugarAdd golden syrup and mix
Add dry ingredients and mix until you have a smooth dough
(if sticky add a tiny bit of each flour until smooth)
Thermomix method
Add Nuttelex and sugar to the bowl, mix 10 seconds, speed 4Add Syrup, mix 10 seconds, speed 4
Add dry ingredients, mix 10 seconds, speed 4
Scrape down and repeat if necessary
(if sticky add a tiny bit of each flour until smooth)
Refrigerate for 15 minutes to firm up
Roll out between sheets of baking paper (add a little dusting of rice flour if necessary)
Cut into desired shapes and bake on baking paper for approx 10 minutes until golden.
Cool and decorate using a simple icing (icing sugar with a tiny bit of water) and white Hopper Sprinkles from Allergy Train.
Cookie Christmas Tree
This is made with the Vanilla Cookie recipe in my first Recipe Book and a kit I purchased from Kmart.Add a bit of extra rice flour to the mix to make the dough a little firmer.
Refrigerate for 15 minutes
Roll out between sheets of baking paper (add a little dusting of rice flour if necessary)
Using the cookie cutters in the kit, cut lots of different size stars - using the cutter provided to make holes in the centre of each cookie
Bake as usual and cool
Assemble using the wooden dowel in the kit (they are delicate so handle carefully)
Dust with icing sugar to finish!
Reindeer Cupcakes
These little cuties were a bit hit with my daughter's preschool last year. All recipes for each component can be found in my first Recipe Book.
You will need pretzels, cupcakes and icing...
First you need pretzels for the antlers... instead of piping squiggles, pipe in a V shape (you can use poppy seeds or not in the mix)
The cupcake is my usual gluten, dairy, egg, nut, soy, corn, sugar free mix, made in metalic silver, gold, green and red cases instead of plain. Everything is done as per recipe.
Icing is a simple mix of icing sugar and a small amount of water to make a thick paste. Spread onto cool cupcake and smooth.
The nose and eyes are the same icing with a small amount of carob added for colour. Roll into three small balls and press onto the cupcake face.
While the icing is still setting, insert the antlers carefully.
What your toddlers eyes light up when they see these on the Christmas table...