Adapted from Erin McKenna’s Recipe in Babycakes, a vegan, gluten-free cookbook.
When my son’s girlfriend comes to visit, I have a partner in crime in the kitchen. We both enjoy cooking and eating. The only difference is that she’s tall and thin– and I’m not! The challenge is creating the stuff we love that she can eat. She needs to eat gluten-free. It’s not a life-style choice. Many of our successes are posted elsewhere in this blog. A lot of what we’ve done has been blind experimentation. We found some good conceptual recipes, too, that provide information on how these unusual ingredients work.
Christmas afforded time to really experiment. Here’s one we adapted from the Babycakes cookbook. With no need to be vegan, we used eggs and butter with abandon. The recipe requires faith. If you lick your fingers when you flip the finished cake out of the pan, you may want to throw it out– just keep going! Continue reading Triple Chocolate Fat Pants Cake Delivers on its Name!