Pumpkin Pudding

I was playing with some left over ingredients in my cupboard and decided I would try and make some sort of pumpkin pudding. You can over course adjust the sweetness and thickness of this fairly easy and you could probably also tweak this a little to make this a coconut pumpkin cream pie filling. 

1 can, 14 oz coconut milk

1 cup milk (I used almond breeze)

dash salt

half can, 8 oz pumpkin

1/4 cup buckwheat cereal

1/2 tsp gelatin

1 cup sugar

Combine the milk, coconut milk, and buckwheat cereal in a pot and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, periodically stirring, for about 10-15 minutes. Then add in you salt, sugar, and gelatin and bring back to a boil. Boil for a minute or so and reduce heat again, simmering for about 5 minutes. From here you can put this in your blender and smooth it out if you like, or leave it more like tapioca. Pour into containers and pop in the fridge. If you like pumpkin, you'll like this. 

Apple Cider Caramel Cookies

Pinterest is the modern era encyclopedia set for recipes. It's a great place for kitchen inspiration, gluten-free, vegan, you name it. I saw a recipe for apple cider caramel stuffed cookies, and they looked great- I had to try them. A friend and I got together and off we went, creaming our butter and sugar. The original recipe was not made gluten free, and I am sure this recipe would be slightly different based on which gluten free flour you use. We ran into a few challenges with this recipe though.

Our dough was super sticky and it was impossible to press the caramel in the center of the dough, so we improvised and made them more like a Hershey kiss cookie that I make for Christmas where the caramel goes in the center of the cookie, only unlike a kiss, we cooked the caramel in the cookie, verses the kiss that goes in the cookie after the cookie is done baking. 

Overall, they turned out ok, but not great, although they did get a little better as they sat a bit. I think I would rather work on tweaking my zuccihini pizza crust recipe than this cookie recipe.  You're welcome to give this recipe a try, or tell me you've made these gluten free and I'm crazy, but I do ALOT of baking, and this recipe gets a C-. 

Avocado Brownies

 I love avocados, I love avocado frosting, and then I saw a recipe for avocado brownies that seemed right up my baking alley. I got a friend, I got a bottle of wine, and a whisk, and thus we made the avocado brownies. The recipe we roughly followed called for a lot of avocado. Two large hass avocados added to your basis brownie recipe, and then another avocado mixed with powdered sugar and coconut oil. 

The brownies were good, but they were a little "green". I think I would try this again, but I would use my basic brownie recipe and add one avocado to replace the eggs. That would make them dense, but really fudgy. Of course the frosting was good; the combination of the two just needs a little improvement.