The Best Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Chocolate Cookies!

Here's my go-to recipe for delicious chocolate cookies. They are easy, delicious, and AOK for gluten-free and dairy-free people! Gluten-free cookie and chocolate lovers, you'll thank me for this one:

Flourless Gluten Free Chocolate Cookies: (makes about 2 dozen)
3 cups powdered sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 tsp salt
5 oz. bitter/semi-sweet chocolate chopped or choc. chips
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
4 large egg whites

1. Preheat oven to 325
2. Whisk together sugar, cocoa, and salt
3. Add chocolate and pecans
4. Add egg whites and stir just until incorporated--it may look to dry at first, but just keep stirring. It will get there.
5. Space on cookie sheets 1-2 inches apart--they will spread a bit, but not too much
6. Bake for 15 to 20 minds just until cracked on top--they may still be a bit gooey inside from the melted chocolate
7. Let cool on racks and enjoy!

The Best Oatmeal

Oatmeal is a nutritious, hearty, easy, and delicious breakfast. I eat it almost every day. Once in a while, though, I'll make it extra special. Here's a great recipe for a delicious oatmeal. Of course, you can substitute whatever you like!

Steel Cut Oats
Toasted almonds, walnuts, pecans
Honey
Cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg
Cocoa
Protein powder of choice (optional)
Flax seeds
Ezekiel 4:9 (optional)
Milk or milk substitute
Raisins or craisins

Amounts are to taste. I usually cook down the oats until they are soft with water, then I add the milk at the end to make it nice and creamy.

Enjoy!

Magic Chocolate Flan Cake!

Instead of a pumpkin pie this year, my family decided to try a Magic Chocolate Flan Cake for dessert! I bet you're all wondering why it's "magic." Well, there are three layers to this cake: caramel, dense chocolate, and flan. You start with a bundt cake pan and add the caramel. Next, you pour in the chocolate batter, and finally, the custard. You might be wondering, why would you put the flan in last and have it end up as the bottom layer of the cake? Well, that's the magic part. Before the layers cook, the flan is more dense than the chocolate cake, so the flan sinks below the chocolate, and the chocolate ends up as the bottom layer of the cake! Like magic!

Here's what we did:
This is the cake about to go in the oven with the flan on top:

 Here's the cake coming out of the oven with the chocolate on top!

 Here's the cake one's it's been removed from the pan: caramel, flan, chocolate:

 Here's the amazing cake before I eat it :)