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Allergy Friendly Muffins

March 28, 2015 · by munchiesandmunchkins · 5 Comments

I’m just starting to get to grips with this new style of baking.. I miss my normal flours which work in the way I’m used to. The rich butters which give so much flavour and being able to just toss in ingredients whenever I fancy but I have to try and make food and especially snacks more appealing for Chloe. Yesterday we had a bad day with her health wise and a massive lack of sleep and I was grouchy and frustrated so I used that negative energy to create this delicious cakes for her.

Chloe Coconutty Cakes

150g Dove Gluten free SR flour
100g caster sugar
1 small mashed banana
1.5 tsp of vanilla paste or extract
75ml water
15 ml of coconut milk
6 tbsp of melted coconut oil

Mix together the sugar, oil and vanilla in a high speed stand mixer – I advise this because coconut oil solidifies quickly so you need to move fairly fast. Add your mashed banana, flour, water and coconut milk. Blend until smooth.

Place into muffin cases and bake for approximately 15 mins or until golden and spring back when pressed lightly on top.

When slightly cooler, dust lightly with icing sugar or Cocoa powder mix of both.

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This made 6 decent size muffins with a large spoonful or so leftover. Its quite a firm mixture so I used it to make cocoa dusted truffles..more on that to come.

This recipe is Dairy Free, Egg Free, Gluten Free and Soy Free. It’s also actually pretty tasty too! Chloe demolished hers in record time and considering her appetite is pretty shocking right now that’s brilliant.

I’ve popped one in the freezer just to see if it freezes well and I’ll keep you posted on that.

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Filed Under: Allergies, Dairy free · Tagged: Cakes, coconut oil, dairy free, egg free, Gluten free, muffins, multiple allergies, Soy free, vegan, wheat free

Starting From Scratch – Living With Multiple Allergies

March 26, 2015 · by munchiesandmunchkins · 1 Comment

I’ve only really touched on this briefly on the blog so far but Chloe appears to have multiple allergies. At the moment we are Dairy, Gluten, Egg and Soya Free.. We think there could also be more. Whilst we have seen improvements since cutting out the above, she still has some pretty bad reactions to various ingredients so there is a still a long food battle ahead of us.

The best thing in the last few weeks has been seeing Chloe having a little more of an appetite…for the longest time it seems getting her to eat has been such a struggle but finally she wants it and enjoys it, often holding out her hand saying Ta Mammaaaaaa for more.

Enjoying homemade roast Sweet Potato, Peppers and Chickpea bread at a family members birthday meal recently:

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We have been on this allergy journey for about 5 months now and it’s been so difficult – hats off to you who have been doing it for longer than us or have even more allergies. Shopping takes five times longer, meals out are no longer an escape from the house. Even somebody offering to babysit for a few hours can make you stressed out. What if they unknowingly give her something she can’t tolerate?

Without spending an awful lot of money each week there only seems to be one way to get around these products (which are in everything by the way) and that is to cook from scratch. Now this may sound easy for a person who loves to cook but this is a whole new ball game for me. Flours that I’ve never worked with, avoiding simple things like stock cubes or dressings/sauces and it’s made me realise something quite alarming. For a family who eat a lot of completely home made meals we also eat a lot of rubbish. By rubbish I mean products which include ingredients I’ve never heard of with little nutritional goodness. We rarely give the girls chocolate, cake or biscuits unless homemade but you expect dry snacks or even yoghurts to be pretty much ok don’t you?

Think again…in fact after having a huge clear out of our pantry I think this whole family will be having a diet adjustment. Now I’m not going all Delicously Ella on you.. although she does have some pretty amazing recipes but as well as the standard family food and cakes/puddings I share on here there will now be more in the way of health food I guess. Certainly more dairy and gluten free options for those who may be interested in that.

We do still have to have shop bought options for when cooking time is limited and for when out and about and I’ll be sharing our favourites over the coming months.

First to come up on the homemade front will be pumpkin cakes next week and chickpea flour crackers.

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Don’t worry there will still be chocolate cakes and cream laden pasta dishes but maybe not all the time anymore because who has the time to cook separate meals for all the family? Not me that’s for sure.

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Filed Under: Allergies, Cakes, bread and all things baking, Dairy free, Family · Tagged: Allergies, cmpa, dairy free, egg free, multiple, Soy free

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