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Red Icing for Cakes
I always used vegetable shortening, not butter, for the base. .... When I make red icing I use maraschino cherry juice instead of water as my liquid and ...
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- I used to make a deco. cakes for a living. i found that the wilton gel colors work the best. they come in all different colors and when the icing sits after being colo...
- This is just a guess, but to make a red velvet cake you just add red food coloring. This is a chocolate cake with red food color, so I am guessing that if you make a ...
- Hi, A.. I've found that if you add the wilton food coloring, (you may need to use a lot to get true red color) and whip it for a few minutes...really more like at le...
Baking Cookies
There is a great choc.chip cookie recipe using bananas instead of sugar on Oprah .com ... 1 Cup shortening (I use butter personally) 1/2 Cup sugar ...
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- There are several problems with traditional holiday cookies. First, they contain too much white flour AND white refined sugar. Both have ZERO nutrition in them and the...
- Look in diabetic cook books or on the web for sugar free cookies
- Hi G., I'm a registered dietitian. It's hard to believe but kids acting up on sugar is really just a myth. It's typically the special occasions that surround the su...
Burning Her Bottom!!!
instead of butter --> coconut oil, dairy-free buttery spread like Earth's Balance or margarine, or even Crisco Butter Flavored Shortening ...
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- I have used PINXAV with my girls and it has always worked wonders and QUICK! But, if she has sores..that may actually burn right at first. That you may have to check w...
- My neighbor's little girl was having the same problem. She is about 1 1/2 years old. They took her to the doctor and found out she has an allergy to milk, dairy, whey,...
- My daughter had terrible diaper rashes. I couldn't wait to get her potty trained. Good old fashioned desitin was the best thing ever invented!!! It provides great barr...
Your Favorite Cookbooks
... they were aiming for when they chose 2T instead of 3 T of something . ... that to get a flaky and rich pie crust requires butter and shortening (myself, ...
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- i didn't see Moosewood Restaurant cookbooks on any of your responses and they have some great recipes. They are pro healthy/natural organic & vegetarian- Here is a li...
- I love to cook and have a huge collection of cookbooks, but the ones I recommend (and give to others) are the ones I use again and again and love without fail. Fir...
- The Swarzbein Principle by Diana Swarzbein & Nourishing Traditons by Sally Fallon. Swarzbein gives a lot of great info on how our body processes stuff, along with Fal...
Looking for Good 1St Birthday Cake Recipe
1/2 C butter or shortening (i used butter - cream it until smooth) .... putting my own organic sugar in a recipe anyway instead of buying a mix with all of ...
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- You can sweeten any recipe with fruit juice. I'm thinking apple juice is the sweetest if your little one can tolerate apple juice! Happy Birthday!
- I don't have a recipe, but when my girls turned 1 yr.old I made them their own cakes. It was a bear sitting up.(Wilton Cakes makes the pans). Decorated with little sta...
- Easy one and low sugar. 1 cake mix and 1 can of diet soda, any flavor. Do not add anything else and cook it the regular way it says on the box. Dont add anything but...
A No-sugar Cake Recipe for My Daughter's First Birthday
Vegetable Spray/Shortening 2 cups whole-wheat flour .... I use agave necter instead of sugar. You can find it at any health food store and it is YUMMY. No one will ever know. Also we cut out the oils and butter by using applesauce. ...
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- Personally I wouldn't use, or serve anything to my daughter with Splenda or Sweet-n-low in it. It hasn't been around long enough to know if there are any long term eff...
- I used a carrot cake recipe in the "Super Baby Food" book, and I thought it was good! There were a number of no sugar cake recipes in that book.
- for Ellie's first birthday I layered matza (although I was planning to use thin slices of bread, which you could do if you don't have/use matza) with thickened youghur...
Breakfast Ideas 1 and 3 Year Olds.
1/4 cup butter flavor shortening and 2 cups Self Rising Flour ... She also enjoyed pancakes made with milk instead of water, and waffles. ...
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- Hi E., I have a 13 month old little boy. He has a couple of ounces of fruit yogurt, a handful of cheerios, juice, and usually cut up peaches and blueberries. I buy ...
- Hi I am a stay at home mom of 4, here are a few ideas I have used. instant oatmeal with honey, bananas cut up and buttered wheat toast, scrambled eggs and sausage cook...
- My daughter loves to eat the mini pancakes by pilsbury. You can find them in the frozen breakfast section and they are easy and fast to make. she also likes the Jimmy...
Christmas Cookies and Gifts
Cream together butter, shortening, 1 1/2 cups sugar, the eggs and the vanilla. ... Instead of using tins to put them in, I like to use Tupperware that the ...
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- There has been a couple of years past that I just didn't have enough money to go around for the aunts, uncles, and 3 sets of grandparents and godparents. That's a lot ...
- First off, giving food is always a plus in my book. Make sure when you tell your relatives that your daughter washed her hands first and didn't blow boogers into the ...
- I think that baking the cookies with El is a terrific idea! And I think the effort that it will take to tackle this task with a 2 year old will speak louder than word...
Looking for Some Interesting Cookie Recipes
1/2 c shortening 1/2 c peanut butter. - Add: 1/2 c brown sugar .... An an alternative, my husband really likes Candy Cane kisses instead of the milk ...
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- Chocolate no bake cookies are so good and easy to make. They contain chocolate (chips or powder) peanut butter (crunchy or not) and oatmeal. Some have coconut in them ...
- My husband's favorite cookies are Chocolate Crinkles. I don't have the recipe (his mom always makes them). You can probably google the recipe though.
- Try finding Paula Dean on the Food Network web page. Look up secret chocolate cookie recipe from last Holiday Season. I am NOT a baker but these are so easy and I have...
Dairy, Egg and Peanut Allergy
... milk (really whatever he drinks) with powdered sugar and vegetable shortening. ... instead of this glaze, just substitute the butter & milk with non-dairy items. .... You can always use fun inedible decorations (candles, etc) instead of ... We used brown rice flour instead of spelt and left out the walnuts as ...
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- You can still make a cake but you use Ener-G's Egg replacer and rice milk. :)
- Our son just turned one and we made him a healthy cupcake that had no egg, wheat, dairy or nuts (walnuts were optional in the recipe, I left them out and they were not...
- I've made these cupcakes every year for my son's birthday -- and they always go over big (even with adults). They are dairy, egg, and peanut-free and only have 1 cup ...
