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Make a Gluten-free and Dairy-free Pecan Pie for Thanksgiving

Try our gluten and dairy free pecan pie recipe

Here's a example of our family's favorite gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, corn-free pecan pie!

As Thanksgiving and Christmas approach, celiac and food allergy sufferers should consider adding a little pie to their holiday desert menus. We’ve used this recipe every year for the past several years during the holiday season. I finally decided to post it online because it is a top request with our non-allergic family members every year. So if our guests like it, and they can eat anything that they like, then your company will like it too! I’ve made several allergy-friendly alterations to the typical pecan pie’s standard ingredients but the resulting gluten-free dessert tastes very much like the ones you buy in the store …continue reading »


Fast and Easy Pie Crust

Need to make a crust from scratch in a hurry?

This crust calls for only 6 ingredients, 10 minutes preparing, and 15 minutes in the oven. Every year my aunt and I get together a day or two before the holidays to bake. This year we are in the middle of a pie baking frenzy. Here is our favorite foolproof crust recipe for just about every filling we can think of to make. So if you are planning a pumpkin pie, pecan pie, apple pie, or even a chocolate cream pie, this crust won’t disappoint. As with all of our recipes, this one is g-free, corn-free, and preservative-free. By the way, if you are also allergic to dairy and need to be dairy-free, we’ve got that covered too …continue reading »


9 Easy Gluten free Holiday Cookie Recipes to Bake this Christmas

These recipes are gluten and corn free & one’s free from the top 8!

free from the top 8, gluten, and corn

This Sunbutter Blossom Recipe from cilie-yack.org is free from the top 8, gluten, and corn!

Here are nine of our favorite holiday cookie recipes. Okay, roll up your sleeves and turn that oven on! What’s Christmas without a few favorite holiday cookie recipes? Over the years we have worked hard to try to recreate familiar family favorites. If you are part of the celiac community there’s no reason you can’t bake a batch or two of these holiday cookie recipes to share with your family and friends. All of our recipes are also good for the Feingold diet and offer helpful tips for folks with corn allergies. So here’s our knockoff list of best allergy-friendly look and taste alike holiday cookie recipes:

Pecan Dreams

Nut Cups

Kolacky Cookies

Tumbprint cookies

Thumbprints

Sunbutter Blossom cookie

Sunbutter Blossoms

Coconutty Fruit Cookies

Tollhouse Cookies

Chocolate Coconut Bars

Chocolate Duplex Cookies GFCF

Chocolate Duplex Cookies

Allergy friendly Pecan Dreams

Pecan Dreams


Gluten, Corn, Soy and Dairy free Pecan Dreams Cookie Recipe

This pecan dreams cookie recipe will melt in your mouth!

Allergy friendly Pecan Dreams

Pecan Dreams

The pecan dreams cookie has always been a childhood favorite for me. I can remember sneaking into the freezer as a child to snatch these shortbread-like cookies in the days before our holiday gatherings. I would go into hiding to eat those pecan dreams so that my mom wouldn’t catch me in the act. Mom often had half her batch of pecan dreams left when it came time to divvy them up as gifts to friends and family or serve them for dessert after the holiday dinner.

She never said a word to me or my brother about the missing pecan dreams cookies.

After my son’s diagnosis in 2007 with celiac disease and his need to go on a strict gluten and corn free diet, we had to stop making this family favorite. Over the years I have attempted to recreate it but have never gotten the recipe quite right, until now.

But I am very happy to have found a gluten and corn free pecan dreams cookie recipe that works just great this year! …continue reading »


Gluten free and Dairy free Chocolate Duplex Cookies

Add this Cookie Recipe to your Holiday Party Plate

Chocolate Duplex Cookies GFCF

Chocolate Duplex Cookies

We tried a brand new allergy safe cookie recipe after I picked up the boys from school today. We were all chilled to the bone as we raced through the school parking lot on the way to the car.

The oldest one said to me, “You know, this is the perfect day for cookies and hot chocolate.”

Well, I couldn’t agree more.

After we landed in the door we got started on a quick TGIF cookie that we could all enjoy and even share with our aunt who is gluten free, dairy free, soy free, and corn free.

The recipe itself is very simple. It takes 10 minutes to prepare and 15 minutes to bake each batch. These cookies are crispy and not too sweet. …continue reading »


Is a Celiac coming for Dinner? Some helpful tips for the busy host.

author: Brenton Nicholls | sxc.hu

author: Brenton Nicholls | sxc.hu

I get a lot of emails these days from folks who are not diagnosed with Celiac but want to make food for their recently diagnosed loved one at an upcoming family party or special event. Many look for recipes such as the ones listed here at healthy-family.org.

I understand the need to make the gluten intolerant guest feel a part of things, as food is a natural way to bring folks together at holiday times and at parties.  But it’s not practical, and no matter how good your intentions are, if you do not know the specific risks and pitfalls it can be dangerous for your visitor to eat what you’re serving. …continue reading »


Dairy-free Egg Nog Recipe

eggnog

If you are frantically getting ready for the holidays and in need of a good alternative to the egg nog in the stores, here’s a terrific dairy free recipe that is quick and easy.

We hadn’t had egg nog for years until last Christmas when we decided to have a battle of the egg nog contest at our house: Joy of Cooking vs. the Internet.  We mixed up a batch of the Joy of Cooking Cooked recipe.  My mom chose an internet recipe that was less rich and less sweet.  The Joy of Cooking recipe was sweeter and richer – much richer.

Our dairy free modification to the Joy recipe was to replace all of the milk and cream with coconut milk.  Of the total quantity, we used half light coconut milk and half full fat. …continue reading »


Cherrybrook Kitchen’s Gluten-free Dreams Chocolate Cupcakes

cherrybrookcupcakeWe recently tried out Cherrybrook Kitchen’s Gluten-free Dreams Chocolate Cake Mix. We used a single box mix and it produced 12 standard-sized (2 3/4 inch diameter) cupcakes. The directions on the box were simple and the recipe requires no eggs. We opted to avoid the vanilla extract and go with orange oil instead because our corn-intolerant son reacts to commercially made vanilla extracts. Otherwise we followed the directions on the box. The cupcakes baked for 18 minutes.

We topped our cupcakes with a variation of Better Homes and Gardens’ popular fudge frosting recipe. I halved the original recipe, exchanged the butter for spectrum palm oil, and omitted the vanilla again.  My version required more water and I utilized the microwave to get the right consistency.

Our family really enjoyed the cupcakes. The box mix from Cherrybrook Kitchen is a really delicious dark, bittersweet cake, and the frosting is a thick, fudge-like, very sweet but not sticky topping. I personally found the frosting to be a bit sweet for me but the boys unequivocally objected. They thought it was just perfect. We will definitely make this again. …continue reading »