Baking

Found my baking mojo again, guess cause I want to and dont have to.

Yesterday made some GF bread, which Dakota was so happy about as the slices are bigger than the store brought ones and of course its cheaper to make.

And i got a new recipe from GFME for fruit rolls and made the apricot ones and of course blueberry ones.  i now want to make apple ones and apple/blueberry ones.

And today i decided to make a rainbow cake.

So i used GFME sponge cake recipe and went with it

As for the photo challenge, yesterday 14 and today 15 arent going to happen as helping and creating didnt happen.

Baking

Even though I've been at course from 8.30-4.30 i still been getting some baking done after doing dinner and kids are in bed.

Last night was Gluten Free bread

Tonight I decided to make a banana cake the only recipe I had was in the edmonds cookbook so I used that and made it Gluten free. To be honest I like it better than normal banana cake.

I dont think its going to get a chance to be iced cause hubby and I have already had 3 small pieces each and it taste good, will be better for the kids without icing on it.

Tomorrow Im doing a chocolate cake for a friends sons birthday cake, I'm only making it so its gluten free and my kids can share the enjoyment of having cake.  My friend will come over Friday evening and cut it and make it a shape and then we will butter ice it. 

Tomorrow afternoon I will make some fudge brownies too, well I'm hoping

Fun day turned into baking

After Gymnastics this morning, thought I would take the kids over to the school for the family fun day as something fun to do and since it was a walk away why not.

Got there and shit a brick the prices of the things to do I couldn't believe it, the flyer said there was free things most places the bouncy castles are free or at least a small fee and for more than ONE slide too.

Since I only took $10 with me, they only got one ride and one slide.

The first thing that was seen was the Ferris wheel so they went on that.

The kids loved this ride it only lasted 5mins for $3.50 EACH child....

So we thought we would test out the bouncy slide thing and that was a gold coin donation, and the lady said just $1 so I paid that and the kids had a go but I didnt get a photo and they wanted a photo.  The lady said I had to pay AGAIN if they wanted another turn...WOW REALLY, so I gave her my last gold coin which was $2 in hoping she would give me my dollar back nope took that and kept it :( SUCKY thats for sure.  But the kids got their photo.

It was a long slide and they wanted to go on it again and again, I was out of money, so we went to the playground to play for a bit then walked about the back of the school to see what else there was, dunk a student or teacher $3 for 3 balls, then facepainting, nails and other things all for some stupid price too.

So I started walking out of the school to the gate to head home until the kids clicked where we were going I had to convince them we will go home and have fun making cupcakes, that worked home we got set up for cupcakes and they made the mix up, with a little help pouring and measuring.

Added everything to the bowl

 Got mixing

We decided to add white choc to it, even though the mix didnt ask for it

Then it was time to fill the silly feet cupcake holders up, I filled up a couple of them to help them do it faster

While the cupcakes were baking the kids went outside to play with flour and colour water adding animals to that mix and making handprints all over the deck

Dont worry nana and grandad it washes off as its just flour and water :)

Then it was time to ice the cupcakes since they had cooled down lots while we played...lucky the cooking only took 20mins :)

Cupcakes all ready out of the oven and the table all set up for the creative kids.  Icing flavours are mango, passionfruit, orange and blueberry, these flavacols can be found at GoBakeNZ we also used their fun and love sprinkles too which are great for kids to use

The results were amazing, I only did 2 to show them how to get the icing on and how to decorate. They did 5 each a total of 12 :)  The 4 in the container we took to my mums to share :)

At mums the kids got to eat one each and they enjoyed them

Once home after I watched a program at mums they played on their own for ages which is the first as they are normally annoying each other.  Dakota went to her room to play dolls house and Lukas played outside in the pool with bubbles.

So apart from the tanties from Dakota today, its been pretty good.

Gluten Free Made Easy

Better late that never.

The end of Septemeber I went to a Gluten Free Made Easy course.  I really wanted to learn more about Gluten Free cooking for Dakota, I felt bad she was missing out on all the yummy things that can be picked up in the cafe etc.

So I signed up for the course $95 later I was there, Judy and Nev were amazing, fun loving people.  The course was 5 hours long and they show you easy ways to get your yummy snacks.

Crackers

muffins

breads

rolls

you name it really they have spent years and years on making these recipes prefect (no I cant share them with you, you have to do the course to get them),

They make different blends you buy the flours and can make them yourself. Now I cant normally eat GF baking without my tongue going funny there was ONLY ONE thing there that did that to me and I think it was a type of cracker so not a big deal, everything else tasted great, even the pasta which I actually hate GF pasta its so sweet and gross, this one was GOOD we had it for lunch

Here are a few photos from the day

The pasta

goodies that were made in 5 hours

Goodies that were made in 5 hours

made with the French bread sticks at home

So have a look at their site and see if this is a course for you to do.