Hello Everyone!
Are you having a great Tuesday?? The count down is on – only 3 more sleeps until Santa arrives! I can remember when I was a little girl I used to count down the days on my calendar to when good ol’ Saint Nick would arrive. In our house he comes Christmas Eve after a late dinner and this was great for me because I always had all my gifts before my friends had theirs!
The last few years at Christmas I have been Gluten Free after finding out about my allergies so I always bake a whack of treats that I can eat and are “allergy friendly” and Santa has always had a few left for him under the tree 
This year Santa will be spoiled - He is getting a buffet of Gluten Free / Dairy Free treats to fuel up his strength before the next house……I hope, just hope he enjoys the Gluten Free treats a tad more than the house next door……
Some Wonderful Gluten Free, Vegan Treats to Place for Santa:
Jam Pockets:
Recipe is from ElanasPantry.com – I just changed the Jam from Raspberry to Apricot.
2 cups blanched almond flour
½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
2 tablespoons grapeseed oil
2 tablespoons agave nectar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon water
some apricot jam
1. In a large bowl, combine almond flour and salt
2. In a smaller bowl, combine oil, agave, vanilla and water
3. Mix wet ingredients into dry
4. Chill dough in refrigerator 1 hour
5. Roll out dough between 2 pieces of parchment paper ¼ – ½ inch thick
6. Cut dough into circles (size of your choosing)
7. Make a light indentation with your forefinger in the center of each circle
8. Drop ½ teaspoon of raspberry jam into the center of each circle
9. Fold the dough in to create 3 sides; pinch each of the 3 corners to form a triangle shaped cookie
10. Bake at 350° for 8 minutes until cookies are golden brown around the edges
11. Serve
Almond Butter Bites:
1 cup dates (soaked in warm water)
3 tbsp raw almond butter
1 tbsp virgin coconut oil
melted chocolate
1. Soak dates in warm filtered water for about 5-10 min
2. Melt chocolate (I used chocolate chips) on a double broiler
3. Remove dates from water and add to a bowl with almond butter and coconut oil.
4. Mix with hands
5. Roll into balls and place on parchment paper
5. Drizzle melted chocolate over balls
6. Freeze or place in the fridge until hard.
7. Serve
Mint Chocolate Cookies
My fave – never get sick of you cookies!!
1/2 cup Chocolate Chips
1/4 cup Agave Nectar
1/4 tsp Sea Salt
3 tbsp Cocoa Powder
1 1/8 cup flour (oat, spelt, almond – I used 1/2 oat, 1/2 almond)
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1/2 tsp Mint Extract
1/4 cup Oil (I used Coconut)
1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Combine Chocolate Chips, salt and Flour in a bowl; sift in the cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda.
3. In a separate bowl combine agave nectar, extracts and oil. Stir until mixed well.
4. Add wet ingredients to dry and mix well.
5. Spoon batter onto lined cookie sheets and Bake for 11 – 15 min (depends on oil used etc. Mine took closer to 14 minutes)
Almond Milk:
1 cup soaked almonds
3 cups water
5 dates
1 tsp vanilla
pinch of sea salt
1. Place all in the blender and mix well.
2. Strain milk through strainer or cheese cloth.
I don’t mind my with pieces of almond in it, so I use a strainer
Store in a mason jar in the fridge for up to 4 days.
I am baking up something really special for Christmas Morning, I will let you all know how it turns out!
FUN!
Yesterday was such a wonderful day, my sister and I spent the afternoon together relaxing with a good cup of joe in the coffee bar at Urban Fair Market in Yaletown. It was festive and wonderful! We people watched and chatted and just listened to the hustle and bustle.
After coffee we headed back to my place and baked all of our Christmas goodies for Santa!
After Michelle left I made a quick dinner and then off to the mall Ryan and I went. We had to pick up one last thing and we couldn’t resist this little cutie for Hudson
Yes, he’s spoiled….but he loves it and I love it!
During me writing this post – he is curled up on the arm of the couch like a cat….
What treats are you making for the holidays?
XXOO
Kris
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LOVE all these cookies!!! and your sweet doggie! it looks like you are having so much fun baking-i love it!
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LOVE the mint chocolate cookies!! Definitely enticed to make them this holiday season.
I'm also planning to make raw gingerbread men. YES! (Using the recipe from : http://www.rawfoodnation.org/2009/raw-holiday-r... )
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hudson is adorable!! & the cookies look delicious
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Yummy!! These sound fabulous! I may have to make one:)
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Drooooooooling!!!!!! And adorable pup pics! Enjoy the holiday xoxo
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You are so happy. Beautiful.
All those recipes are amazing. Wish I had my own space to do more baking and stuff.
Take care.
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Thanks for posting about those jam bites! They look so good, I definitely want to make them! I've said it before, and I'll say it again, but Hudson is just way too cute. Love his mini daschund!
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Sugar cookies are where it's at in this house – with lots of frosting! Not gluten-free. Although I got a slow cooker recipe book for Christmas and every single recipe is gluten-free!! Do you have a slow cooker?? Great stuff in here, from soup to desserts to baby food!! You'll see lots of recipes on my blog in the future I'm sure!
xoxo Beautiful!
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LOL ayer I told my niece that I heard on the news that Christmas was cancelled and since she is 6 she believed me, until my sister told her I was lying and the my niece yelled “THAT IS NOT NICE TITI, THAT IS NOT NICE!” and hungup on me hahaha….to be young again =)
those cookies look delish!
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I am SO glad you posted the recipe for almond milk!! Im totally going to try and make my own!
My moms dog curls up on the arm of the couch like that too. lol its so cute – my dog couldnt fit there, shes a little too fat!
Im so glad to see someone else spoils their dog the way I do, shes totally getting a Christmas present. And quite possibly a stocking. I normally wouldnt bother because dogs dont know the difference, but everytime I walk into the house with a bag she gets SO excited that its for her. So I cant let her sit and watch everyone getting fun stuff without a little something of her own!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
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Those almond butter bites look amazing!!! Mmm.
Merry Christmas!
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the Almond Butter Bites w/ chocolate…OMG delish and simple, too. Thanks for the recipe!!!!
And the mint choc cookies…LOVE That you can use almond, oat, etc flour and they still “work” as cookies. As you know, many times if you sub in or out with a GF flour, in traditional baking you can really mess things up
and they wont rise, set, cook properly, etc. so this is a great recipe!!! thank you for sharing!
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Thank you so much for your amazing, supportive comment!
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oh my gosh those almond bites look so so delish! My current fave are white chocolate-macadamia-cranberry cookies. They are so good! Thanks for stopping by my blog!
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