Christmas Cut Out Cookies Gluten Free Recipes and Gluten Recipes

Good day to you all! My favorite time of the year is Christmas! I know quite a few people that love cookies especially. To get ready for the Christmas holiday baking, I found these awesome cookie cut recipes that are going to leave your mouth watering. 

Gluten Cut Out Recipes:

Chocolate Flavor:                      

http://sweetopia.net/2013/12/chocolate-sugar-cookie-recipe-cut-out-cookies/

Peanutbutter Flavor:

http://sweetopia.net/2014/11/the-perfect-peanut-butter-cut-out-cookie/

Vanilla Almond Flavor:

http://www.chewoutloud.com/2014/12/18/perfect-vanilla-almond-cut-cookies/

Sugar Flavor:

http://www.inkatrinaskitchen.com/best-sugar-cookie-recipe-and-kitchenaid_28/

Gluten Free Cut Out Recipes:

http://www.southerninlaw.com/2014/11/gluten-free-healthy-cut-out-cookies-recipe.html

http://www.teabiscuit.org/gluten-free-dairy-free-perfect-cut-cookies/

http://powerhungry.com/2013/12/grain-free-cut-out-cookies-refined-sugar-free-paleo-gluten-free/

Last but not least. I have been baking these Vanilla butter almond cookies every Christmas for 3 years now, and the were always a hit! So I wanted to share this recipe with you. It's super easy to make:

http://www.food.com/recipe/vanilla-butter-cookies-62130?scaleto=105&mode=null&st=true

My holiday baking will be simple this year. I will be using these recipes I just posted. Enjoy!

Holiday Pumpkin Pie Recipes

Hey Everyone! This year I realized no matter what holiday it is, it is always important to stay healthy. Back in the day, when I was eating loads of sugary foods/desserts, I remember feeling fatigued, tired, moodiness, and headaches, every time I ate something that had excessive sugar.

One of my favorite desserts is Pumpkin Pie! When ever I go to the Organic Health Food Stores, even there pies have a lot of sugar too. So I was searching on Pinterest and found these delicious gluten free pumpkin pie recipes. Luckily there are a lot of people all over the world who care about they eat and are nice enough to post there awesome recipes online. Enjoy!

1. http://www.sugarfreemom.com/recipes/no-bake-sugar-free-pumpkin-cheesecake/#_a5y_p=2808955
2. http://www.howdoesshe.com/healthy-pumpkin-pie-gluten-free-dairy-free-sugar-free/
3. http://www.ancestral-nutrition.com/paleo-pumpkin-pie/
4. http://the-lowcarb-diet.com/low-carb-pumpkin-pie/#_a5y_p=2542805

Beautiful Dove Cake

A couple of weeks ago, I wanted to make a cake for my priests because I appreciate them a lot. I also wanted to come up with a religious design. So the first thing of I thought was adding a dove. I had to draw out a dove on paper, cut the dove out and then trace the dove on the cake with icing, remove the paper, then fill the dove with icing. This was my first try and it actually came pretty good. The black icing represents the priests cassok, the gold spray represents light, the dove holding an olive branch represents the Holy Ghost (Hope and Peace). "Quis ut Deus" means St. Michael, "JMJ" means Jesus Mary and Joseph, and roses represent the gifts and fruits of the Holy Ghost. This is a 6 inch butter cake with buttercream frosting. There are quite a bit of details on this tiny cake. The price would have been around $18.

 

Homemade Minion Cookies!

A lady ordered 40 large minion butter cookies from me for her son's 5th birthday party. This was the look she wanted, so using my famous butter cutout cookie recipe, I used yellow, black, gray and white fondant and Wilton's edible markers (black and brown) to draw out the hair, smile and eyes. Put them in treat bags and viola! It took me 1 day to bake all the cookies and 2 days to decorate all of them. Total for all 40: $55.96. Single ones: $1.25.

Mother's Day Cupcakes

I forgot to post this delicious muffins. These are gluten free, soy free, dairy free, corn free, refined sugar free, yeast free vanilla pear muffins! Before going to church, I woke up at 4 am in the morning to make these for my mom for mother's day. She has a lot of allergies, so when I made these, she was so happy. I found this recipe here: 
http://www.healthfulpursuit.com/2012/08/vanilla-pear-muffins/

Another Amazing Design!

I was so excited to make this design because one of my best friends, Sister Mary Marcelina, who is a teaching nun in Browerville Minnesota, flew to California! She is staying for 2 weeks and I wanted to make her a cake for her first visit back. This design just came to my mind last minute. I wanted the design to be colorful symbolizing that when God calls a young lady to become a nun, its one of the most beautiful things that could happen to her and the family, relatives and friends. It's a huge blessing and should not be silenced. This is an 8 inch cake. Cake: Gluten Free Bob's Red Mill Vanilla Cake, Filling: Vanilla Buttercream mixed with fresh strawberries, Frosting and Decorations: Vanilla Buttercream. Topped with the Name: Sr. Mary Marcelina, edible flowers/leaves, and edible pearls. This cake took me 9 hours to do.  The cake, strawberries, butter, eggs and shortening, are organic, so If someone were to buy something similar to this, it would cost: $45.00. If everything was non organic, it would be $40.

Piano Recital Winter 2013

I totally forgot about this picture! Back in 2013, during Christmas, I attended my first piano recital. The song I played was the original Disney song: "When you Wish Upon A Star". I was told to bring snacks or sweets etc. I decided to make these butter flavor cupcakes with vanilla butter cream frosting on top. There is no filling in the middle. To top it off, I added colorful sprinkles. Everybody at the recital, pretty much loved these. I was told they look like store brought cupcakes or something you would buy from a bakery! If I were to make these again it would Cost:$1