Angel Food Cake and Mango Cake

I haven't posted in some time now, but it doesn't mean I haven't made a few gluten free items.  Shortly after the 4th of July, I started craving an angel food cake with fresh strawberries.  So it was time to master a gluten free angel food cake and the picture below is the delicious outcome!  Sorry the picture is sideways, not sure what happened there??  But I think you can still get the idea of how the yumminess!

So then I got my new "Living Without" magazine it had recipes for some great cakes.  I decided to try the mango cake and WOW was it moist.  Of course I can't eat an entire cake on my own, so my friends got to share in the wealth.

I have a few more items to get made before I head back to work in a few weeks.  I did make some delicous blondie bars for our teacher luncheon today.  They were also very good and so easy to make.  I will get pictures on soon. 
Enjoy your summer and I hope you are not melting like I am - praying for some relief from the heat!

Pie Time

Well my dear friends, making a gluten free pie crust was much harder than anything else I have made to date.  I was just craving a yummy strawberry pie.  We had signed up to bring a dessert to a 4th of July BBQ, so I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to make that pie.  Well almost 5 hours later after try 2 of making a crust, I broke down and switched to making brownies.  So sad!  I have been successful in all my gluten-free adventures, so to have a recipe not turn out was a huge disappointment.  I did finally get a crust made, but it doesn't roll out like  normal pie crust.  I have my crust in the freezer, because once I did get one made that looked half way decent, I just was in no mood to make the filling.  Maybe later this week I'll whip together a banana cream pie or something, but the initial craving for strawberry pie - GONE!  I will say, the first crust I made - that just crumbled the moment it was touched - turned into an amazing dessert topping crumble.  So it was time for snacks with my niece and nephew and we cut up some cherries, put a big scoop of Coconut Milk ice cream into a bowl and then my pie crust crumble.  I can only say DELICIOUS!  So for my friends who want to go dairy free - coconut milk ice cream is sold at Walmart.  It is dairy and soy free.  Walmart carries Mint Chip and Vanilla Bean flavors.  It is very tasty.  Well my friends, my summer of baking has not been as adventurous as I had hoped with all our traveling, but I will continue to bake as often as possible.  Enjoy our 100 degree heat days by staying cool.  Happy Baking!