Gluten Free Desserts and Sweets

Tandy Cake Dessert – Gluten Free

Gluten Free Tandy Cake Dessert

Photo by recipe author

Servings: 24
Preparation Time: 15 minutes

1 cup plus 2 tablespoons organic butter, softened
1 8 oz package organic cream cheese, softened
2 1/4 cups whole organic sugar
6 large eggs
1 cup coconut flour
1 cup organic tapioca flour or corn starch
pinch salt
1 cup peanut butter or coconut peanut butter
10 ounces chocolate chips; semi sweet or milk

Preheat oven at 350. Grease a 10x15x1 inch jelly roll pan generously with coconut oil.

Cream butter and cream cheese together; add sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time. Blend in flours and salt. Spread in prepared pan.

Bake cake for 20 minutes. Immediately after removing from oven spoon the peanut butter/coconut peanut butter over the top. Let sit a few minutes until melted and spread evenly (if using crunchy peanut butter put back in the oven for 4 minutes till it melts enough to spread). Let set or store in the refrigerator until peanut butter/coconut peanut butter hardens.

Melt chocolate chips and spread over the peanut layer. Let sit until firm or store in the refrigerator.

Recipe submitted by Julie, Elizabethtown, PA

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Coconut Peanut Butter Meltaways

This is my latest creation using our newest product: Coconut Peanut Butter! What is Coconut Peanut Butter? Coconut Peanut Butter is a wonderfully smooth and creamy blend of coconut and peanut butter; a new twist on the old favorite. I never thought the two would be such a perfect match, but they are! The spread is creamier then regular peanut butter and a bit sweeter too.

These delectable little candies are a great addition to any Christmas cookie and candy plate! They’re rich, creamy and very much a candy. They just melt in your mouth! Hence the name: Meltaways. The pretty, creamy peanut butter and coconut swirls go round and round, just begging you to bite into them. Even non coconut lovers will find them hard to pass up, and peanut butter lovers will find them irresistible.

Coconut Peanut Butter Meltaways Close-up recipe photo

The problem is they’re addicting. I mean addicting. They’re dangerous. If you have a wild sweet tooth you’d better watch it around these little candies. Give them away, freeze them until Christmas time, hide them in the back of the refrigerator, make them only once a year, or make sure you’re not the only one eating them. Just don’t let them keep staring at you from their pretty perch on the serving plate.

Next time I make these I’ll add more Coconut Peanut Butter. I used about 1/4 cup per ball of “dough” but next time will probably use about 1/3 of a cup or more. If you use more then 1/4 cup, I’d recommend sticking the whole round into the refrigerator to firm up a bit so that the spread doesn’t all ooze out during the rolling. After it’s firmer, take it back out and roll it up. After that, judge whether you need to stick it back in before slicing. I didn’t refrigerate before rolling the dough into a log so I refrigerated it after it was rolled up and then sliced it after 10 minutes of chilling time.

So that’s that! Be sure to order a jar or two of the new Coconut Peanut Butter so you can make these wonderful little candies yourself! They truly are a must try. They’re rich, creamy, coconutty, peanutty, melty, gluten free and no bake. Can it get any better then that?

Coconut Peanut Butter Meltaways

Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Servings: 20 – 30 pieces

2 cups powdered sugar
2 tablespoons salted butter, softened
2 tablespoons heavy cream
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 – 2/3 cup Coconut Peanut Butter, more to taste as needed

Combine all ingredients except Coconut Peanut Butter until a soft but not sticky dough forms. Divide into two balls.

Roll each ball out into a 6 inch circle (or desired size) between two sheets of wax or parchment paper. Spread with at least 1/4 cup coconut peanut butter. Add more if desired. If you used about 1/3 cup of Coconut Peanut Butter or more, refrigerate un-rolled round for about 5 minutes, or until firmer.

Roll dough spread with Coconut Peanut Butter up into a log. Refrigerate for 10-15 minutes or until firm enough to slice.

Take logs out and slice into 1/2 inch pieces. Keep refrigerated.

Enjoy!

Sarah

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Gluten Free Coconut Flour Orange Cake with Coconut Oil Frosting

Gluten Free Coconut Flour Organic Cake

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Preparation time: 15 minutes
Servings: 5-8

I give you a method for melting the coconut oil while greasing the pan, saving you a dish. You can certainly melt the coconut oil in one pan and grease the pan separately. Also, I add the coconut oil last just in case it is still pretty warm. The eggs already mixed with the other ingredients provides a bit of a buffer in case the oil is still too warm. Scrambled egg cake is not what we’re after here.

1/4 cup coconut oil
6 eggs, at room temperature
1/4 cup coconut milk*
6 tablespoons raw honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon orange zest
1/2 cup coconut flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder (aluminum free)
1/2 teaspoon salt
juice of 1/2 medium orange

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Measure out coconut oil and place in an 8″x8″ pan. Place the pan in the oven to melt the coconut oil.

While the coconut oil is melting, whisk the eggs, coconut milk, honey, vanilla and orange zest together.

Once the coconut oil is melted (probably around five minutes or less), remove the pan from the oven and let it cool while you mix in the rest of your ingredients. Combine coconut flour, baking powder and salt. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet.

Once your pan is cooled enough to handle, carefully swirl your coconut oil around your pan in order to grease all sides. Then pour the coconut oil into the batter and mix until all lumps are gone.

Pour the batter into your greased pan and place on the middle rack of the oven. Bake for 35-40 minutes, until browned on top and a toothpick comes out clean. Place the cake on a cooling rack.

After the cake has cooled a bit, but is still warm, poke holes all over the top with a fork. Juice the orange half right over the whole cake, making sure to evenly distribute the juice.

Orange Coconut Oil Frosting

Be sure to melt your coconut oil in a glass bowl. I do this by putting the bowl over a small pan of simmering water.

1/2 cup coconut oil, melted in a glass bowl
9 drops of liquid stevia (alternatively, you could use a couple of teaspoons of raw honey
1 packed teaspoon orange zest
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
pinch of salt

Mix all ingredients into warm coconut oil. You are now going to place the bowl into the freezer in order to cool it down. It is very important to check on it every couple of minutes to catch it before it gets too cold. You want to take it out of the freezer right when it starts to get cloudy.

At this point the cold bowl (and your cool kitchen) will continue to turn the liquid oil into a solid. Continue to whisk the frosting as it gets cloudier and cloudier and eventually turns into a whipped butter consistency. The idea is to get a bit of air into it.

Once it is to a whipped (very soft) butter consistency plop it onto your cooled cake. Frost it very quickly before the coconut oil hardens. It will seem like a pretty thin frosting, but it is just enough.

*Use 1 teaspoon of coconut cream concentrate for every 6-8 oz of water for coconut cream milk. Mix together and use as directed or make homemade coconut milk.

Recipe submitted by Shannon, Dexter, MI

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Vanilla Coconut Cream Candy

Vanilla Coconut Cream Candy made with Organic Coconut Cream Concentrate

Prepared by Sarah Shilhavy
Photo by Jeremiah Shilhavy

Preparation Time: 5 minutes

Servings: 30 pieces about 1/2 inch thick

16 oz Coconut Cream Concentrate
1/4 to 1/3 cup raw honey (or to taste)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2/3 cup raw or toasted walnuts (chopped)

Slightly warm the coconut cream concentrate over a bowl or pan of hot water until it can be stirred.

Stir in the honey, vanilla and chopped nuts into the coconut cream concentrate until well mixed.

Before it hardens, shape mixture into rolls and wrap in waxed paper. Let harden in the refrigerator and slice into rounds to eat as candy once firm. Store in refrigerator or at room temperature if below 75 degrees.

Recipe submitted by Annette, West Monroe, LA

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Chocolate Coconut Peanut Butter Balls

Chocolate Coconut Peanut Butter Balls

Photo by Ann M Huddleston

1/2 cup creamy peanut butter of your choice
1/4 cup crunchy peanut butter of your choice
1/4 cup honey or brown rice syrup
1 cup oat flour, you can grind your own oats or you can even grind half and use half oats or all oats
1/3 cup coconut flour – you can also use shredded low-moisture unsweetened coconut and grind it
3/4 cup chocolate chips
1 teaspoon coconut oil

Mix peanut butters, honey or brown rice syrup, oat flour and coconut flour until it forms a dough-like consistency.

Add more peanut butter or flour to get the right consistency.

Roll into balls – size of your choice and put on foil.

Melt the chocolate chips with coconut oil – if you want to have the Peanut Butter Balls completely covered with chocolate, double the chocolate and coconut oil. To not completely cover the balls, use a table spoon and drizzle chocolate on each ball until you get the amount of coverage you’d like. To completely cover them, throw the balls in the chocolate and remove with spoon- cool on foil. Refrigerate if your house is hot but let warm up a bit before eating.

Recipe submitted by Ann M Huddleston

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