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Egg-free cookies and cream ice cream
Sunday, 21 Jun, 2009 – 21:47 | No Comment
Egg-free cookies and cream ice cream

You know that old ditty about screaming for ice cream? It’s a good thing my daily newsletter from Feels Like Home lands while the guys still are awake, or there would have been no getting …

Egg-free strawberry cake from a mix
Sunday, 3 May, 2009 – 21:09 | No Comment
Egg-free strawberry cake from a mix

For some reason, the guys have been clamoring for strawberry cake for about the past month.
They’d never had strawberry cake before in their lives, but I guess the assumption was, we love strawberries and we …

Egg-free lemon scones
Wednesday, 1 Apr, 2009 – 13:25 | 2 Comments
Egg-free lemon scones

Lemon and I just don’t seem to get along.
It’s not that I don’t have a deep love for it. It’s just that every time I try to convert a lemon recipe to egg-free it results …

Shortbread a big hit with the short people
Wednesday, 11 Mar, 2009 – 21:10 | One Comment
Shortbread a big hit with the short people

This is going to be one of those recipes that lands me in trouble some afternoon when one of the guys asks, “But didn’t you just make cookies yesterday?”
Oops. You see, guys, sometimes around 2 …

Egg-free chocolate muffins
Monday, 9 Mar, 2009 – 11:23 | One Comment
Egg-free chocolate muffins

If at first you don’t succeed, try chocolate again.
Frustrated after two failed attempts at a lemon layer cake - the second formulation still fell, but at least the oven didn’t catch fire - I grabbed …

Egg-free chocolate fudge layer cake
Sunday, 1 Mar, 2009 – 11:19 | 3 Comments
Egg-free chocolate fudge layer cake

This is another fine mess Madhuram at egglesscooking.com has gotten me into.
Here I was, rolling along in my little egg-replacer rut when she throw a curve at me:  This month’s egg-free baking challenge is using …

Egg-free cutout sugar cookies
Thursday, 12 Feb, 2009 – 23:43 | No Comment
Egg-free cutout sugar cookies

Normally, I wouldn’t have tried this sugar cookie recipe, because my policy is find something that works and stick with it. I was just the opposite when I baked with eggs, but in the allergy …

Egg-free devil’s food cake a little slice of heaven
Saturday, 7 Feb, 2009 – 11:47 | One Comment
Egg-free devil’s food cake a little slice of heaven

Pssst … Did you hear the one about the egg-free cake with all the height, structure and texture of the original? It’s no longer just an urban legend.
I wouldn’t have believed it either had I …

Sour cream frosting
Saturday, 7 Feb, 2009 – 11:11 | No Comment
Sour cream frosting

Not that there’s anything wrong with basic buttercream - Big Guy actually prefers it, making his “ick” face when first exposed to this recipe.
But I have a low boredom threshold and like to play around. …

Strawbery cake filling
Wednesday, 4 Feb, 2009 – 11:25 | No Comment
Strawbery cake filling

Big Guy is world-famous for not liking much that’s healthful, but he’ll always eat strawberries.
That means he also loves this cake filling, which is another ladycakes.com recipe that predates allergies. He doesn’t love it quite …

Egg-free chocolate drop cookies
Monday, 2 Feb, 2009 – 0:51 | One Comment
Egg-free chocolate drop cookies

Christmas-baking burnout lasted a little longer than usual this go-round. By the time Boots was begging for cookies Saturday, it’s been going on six weeks since I’d last seen an Air Bake.
At least I think …

Egg-free yogurt cake
Friday, 30 Jan, 2009 – 1:25 | No Comment
Egg-free yogurt cake

Once in a while, I run into a recipe that I keep around strictly for practical purposes. Such is the case with this one.
Aside from the stock reason - that it’s a great frosting-delivery platform …

Egg-free cranberry-cheesecake bars
Thursday, 29 Jan, 2009 – 0:40 | No Comment
Egg-free cranberry-cheesecake bars

The time might seem to have passed for cranberry bars, but that particular season never ends in this house. At least not for me.
I chug the juice by the gallon and start hording fresh berries …

Egg-free, peanut-free no-bake oatmeal cookies
Wednesday, 21 Jan, 2009 – 13:02 | 2 Comments
Egg-free, peanut-free no-bake oatmeal cookies

No-bake oatmeal cookies are probably the ideal baking-on-training-wheels recipe.
It’s the first cookie I made by myself after the recipe made the rounds during my pre-teen years. It requires only one pan, no baking sheets and …

Egg-free chocolate cheesecake
Monday, 19 Jan, 2009 – 15:28 | One Comment
Egg-free chocolate cheesecake

I’d given up hope of ever making cheesecake again until I found Rosemarie Emro’s excellent Bakin’ Without Eggs cookbook. Not only does the book offer an amazing collection of time-tested egg-free recipes, but it also …

Egg-free hot milk pound cake
Friday, 16 Jan, 2009 – 13:02 | 2 Comments
Egg-free hot milk pound cake

I shall never bake again.
Late last night, I said that as the guys caterwauled around me while I peering into the oven and staring at a cake showing every sign of falling faster than my …

Egg-free butter cake
Sunday, 11 Jan, 2009 – 11:17 | 2 Comments
Egg-free butter cake

Betty Crocker’s Bonnie Butter cake was my stand-by in the pre- egg-free baking days. It’s moist, nearly infallible and you don’t have to mess with separating eggs.
Back then, I didn’t even use cake flour because …

It’s a frosting! It’s a filling! Ganache is easy and egg-free
Saturday, 10 Jan, 2009 – 13:31 | 2 Comments
It’s a frosting! It’s a filling! Ganache is easy and egg-free

One of the biggest ironies of Big Guy’s egg allergy is that I used to be a pretty skilled baker and cake decorator. I won’t say highly skilled, because, like anything, it takes practice and …

Variations on an egg-free pudding theme
Friday, 9 Jan, 2009 – 13:29 | 3 Comments
Variations on an egg-free pudding theme

So you’re rolling along, pretty pleased with yourself at the relatively normal life you’re able to give your allergic child. Pizza, cupcakes and cookies are under control, pancakes are perfected.
Then one day you hear this:
“Mom, …

Egg-free pumpkin bread
Wednesday, 24 Dec, 2008 – 10:07 | 2 Comments
Egg-free pumpkin bread

Ever play Cookbook Bingo? OK, so maybe that’s just here.
The game involves being bored with all the usual dishes and thumbing through pages looking for something new to make. In this case, I needed a …

Egg-free scones
Saturday, 20 Dec, 2008 – 17:25 | No Comment
Egg-free scones

Scones really are nothing more than a biscuit with a bit of sugar and a good PR agent. Except Big Guy won’t eat biscuits.  He used to, but somewhere between 1 and 2 he went …

Egg-free, peanut-free fudge
Friday, 19 Dec, 2008 – 21:06 | No Comment
Egg-free, peanut-free fudge

I knew marshmallows were supposed to contain egg. I was spoiled, though, the first two years of Big Guy’s egg allergy by having never run into a grocery-store variety with egg in it.
So I blithely …

Egg-free chocolate pudding cake
Friday, 19 Dec, 2008 – 1:12 | No Comment
Egg-free chocolate pudding cake

The first time I made this recipe for the kids, it caused serious problems.
Boots was only about a year and a half old, and chocolate tended to cause, er, gastrointestinal disturbances. The next morning, he …

Egg-free oatmeal-chocolate chip cookie
Wednesday, 17 Dec, 2008 – 19:13 | 3 Comments
Egg-free oatmeal-chocolate chip cookie

This recipe makes a lot. As in, half it unless you’re on a serious sugar bender. Or plan to freeze part of it. Or leave them all in the cookie jar and make a serious …

Egg-free sour cream drop cookies
Monday, 15 Dec, 2008 – 22:00 | No Comment
Egg-free sour cream drop cookies

The guys’ 11-year-old cousin proclaims these “the best cookies she’s ever made.”
That might be a bit misleading: they’re also the only cookies she’s ever made.
Slightly deceptive endorsement aside, it is a good cookie. Crunchy on …

Egg-free overnight cinnamon rolls
Sunday, 14 Dec, 2008 – 11:46 | No Comment
Egg-free overnight cinnamon rolls

This is our Christmas morning stand-by breakfast. It’s easier to do on the fly than the guys’ favorite pancakes, and they like it almost as well. It does take a bit of advance work, though.
It’s …

Egg-free bonbon cookies
Sunday, 14 Dec, 2008 – 10:42 | No Comment
Egg-free bonbon cookies

Take a candy, wrap cookie dough around it, bake, swirl in frosting and shower with sprinkles: It’s a Christmas cookie just made for kids to make a mess with.
The recipe comes from “Betty Crocker’s Baking …

Egg-free cookies: Seven-layer bars
Saturday, 13 Dec, 2008 – 10:50 | No Comment
Egg-free cookies: Seven-layer bars

Sometimes you can tell a recipe’s going to be evil just by its name: Seven-layer bars, seven deadly sins. Coincidence? No.
These cookie bars have no nutritionally redeeming qualities — I refuse to count graham-cracker crumbs …

Egg-free spritz cookies
Wednesday, 10 Dec, 2008 – 23:37 | No Comment
Egg-free spritz cookies

Nothing says the holidays like a plate of fresh Spritz.
Except these cookies are way too good to confine them to Christmas. We eat them year-round. I used to make them for other holidays parties at …

Egg-free Cherry Wink cookies
Tuesday, 9 Dec, 2008 – 23:59 | 3 Comments
Egg-free Cherry Wink cookies

The world knows this Christmas cookie as Cherry Winks. I call them Becki’s D*** Cookies.
Becki is the daughter of a former co-worker who also happens to be one of the genuinely sweetest people on this …

Egg-free, peanut-free “peanut blossoms”
Tuesday, 9 Dec, 2008 – 0:15 | No Comment
Egg-free, peanut-free “peanut blossoms”

Once in a while — but not often, because I’m not a fan of failure — I’m up for a “double-dog dare you” recipe. One that will earn baking bonus points for substituting two allergens …

Egg-free gumdrop cookies
Saturday, 6 Dec, 2008 – 11:17 | 2 Comments
Egg-free gumdrop cookies

This recipe was a childhood Christmas classic. We didn’t think twice about candy in cookies, because Mom also made an orange-slice cake every year.
I’d forgotten about it for ages until a friend wondered last year …

Egg-free gingerbread cookies
Friday, 5 Dec, 2008 – 1:44 | No Comment
Egg-free gingerbread cookies

I feel like I’m lobbying for a job on the Molasses Promotions Board, but gingerbread isn’t just for Christmas — at least not in our house.
Except it travels incognito, because Big Guy would immediately …

Egg-free oatmeal-jam bar cookies
Friday, 28 Nov, 2008 – 1:06 | No Comment
Egg-free oatmeal-jam bar cookies

This is based on a recipe from Kraft Foods clipped from TV Guide long ago — remember when they used to do those inserts around the holidays?
I revived it recently when manufactured food paranoia threw …

Egg-free cranberry bread
Sunday, 23 Nov, 2008 – 23:26 | No Comment
Egg-free cranberry bread

I know: It’s not Friday.
But I wanted to post a little extra something for my egg-allergic friends at Thanksgiving. Wish I could give you pumpkin pie, but I can’t. The best recipe I’ve found — …

Kids and Allergies: Egg-free chewy oatmeal cookies
Friday, 21 Nov, 2008 – 1:30 | No Comment
Kids and Allergies: Egg-free chewy oatmeal cookies

This is another adapted from Martha Stewart’s evil Cookie of the Day email that is going to be solely responsible for my letter to Santa pleading for a new wardrobe because nothing fits anymore.
It’s a …

Kids and Allergies: Egg-free pumpkin molasses cookies
Thursday, 13 Nov, 2008 – 23:55 | 2 Comments
Kids and Allergies: Egg-free pumpkin molasses cookies

This is another from my ancient Libby’s “Great Pumpkin Cookbook,” and a rare cookie recipe that was egg-free from the start.
I’d recommend using a stand mixer if you have one. The batter’s a little stiff …

Kids and Allergies: Egg-free pumpkin streusel pound cake
Friday, 7 Nov, 2008 – 1:16 | No Comment
Kids and Allergies: Egg-free pumpkin streusel pound cake

Credit tonight’s recipe to Big Guy’s last-minute switcharoo.
Yesterday, he wanted banana cake — I let the guys take turns picking treats. I planned accordingly, dutifully removing the overripe offerings from the freezer to thaw.
This evening, …