When the girls are away, the editor will bake.

This is not Lara.

This is her cameraman, editor, and husband ... Matt.

As an early Christmas present I thought I would shoot myself.  With a camera.  Geez, gotta watch the phrasing.

Anyway, as I post this now, she is still completely unaware that this video exists.  She will watch it for the first time along with many of you.

Full recipe to follow:

Gluten-free White Chocolate Egg Nog Cookies

Wet Ingredients:

* 1 cup white sugar

* 1/4 cup brown sugar

* 3/4 cup butter

* 1/2 cup egg nog

* 2 egg yolks (save whites)

Dry ingredients:

* 2 1/4 cup of GF Flour mix

* 1 tsp baking powder

* 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Flavorings:

* 1 tsp rum extract (using vanilla would be fine too)

* 3/4 cup white chocolate chips

Eggwash:

* 2 saved egg whites

* 1 tsp nutmeg

Instructions:

Cream the sugars and the butter.  Then mix in egg nog and egg yolks.  Sift the dry ingredients, then add slowly into the wet ingredients.  Once the dough is well mixed, put in extract and chocolate chips and mix briefly to integrate.

Chill dough for about an hour.  Once chilled, preheat the oven to 300 degrees F and scoop onto your parchment paper covered cookie sheets.  Using a brush do a light coat of the egg wash/nutmeg blend.  Bake around 11 minutes, rotate for even baking, then bake for another 11 minutes.  Allow to cool, if you have the willpower.  Eventually you eat them.  Or at this point, do whatever.  I'm not going to tell you how to live.

-Matt

Gluten Free Sisters Cooking Show: SpicerDoodles

Lara and I decided that since we are close to Christmas we wanted to make some Christmasy cookies! In this episode we take a snickerdoodle recipe, add some holiday like spices and create what we dubbed as the SpicerDoodle!

Gluten Free Sisters Cooking Show: Corn Casserole

This recipe actually came from Lara's in-laws, her husbands great grandmother, Grandma Higgins, used to make this corn casserole and it's a tradition for them to have it at their Thanksgiving. Two years ago she decided she wanted to add it to our menu at Thanksgiving. She unfortunately didn't make it gluten free. Last year we decided to try it GF and it turned out great. Here is this years video of us making an Ashbaugh family tradition and one of my favorites: Corn Casserole!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tucd3JA2hLE

Gluten-Free Sisters Cooking Show:Cornbread Stuffing

 In this video, we take the cornbread I made and turn it into some delicious stuffing! Along with the GF cornbread, we have a focaccia GF bread and Udi's brand whole grain GF bread, which turned this recipe into a pretty easy to make gluten-free stuffing.

We have also added a few characters to our show, our Grandma makes an appearance and in the background you can hear our cousin, Mandy, make some comments. We hope you enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7diedFqagI

Gluten Free Sisters Cooking Show - Pumpkin Chocolate Torte

This was another recipe I knew I had to try for the holidays.  The recipe itself was already gluten-free, which are my favorites.  The less substitutions the better.  The end result is a very rich chocolate cake.

Check it out!

Gluten Free Sisters Cooking Show: Cranberry Meringue Pie

So this is the first video that Lara and I did together. Lara gets cooking magazines and found this recipe and decided that we HAD to make it! :)

Even though Lara did most of the cooking and I was her assistant, we still had a lot of fun cooking together and are looking forward to posting more of our cooking videos. See below for the full recipe.

The Full Recipe:

Ingredients:

Gluten Free Crust (See Previous Blog Posting)

Filling

1 12-oz bag cranberries, fresh or frozen, thawed

1 cup orange juice

3/4 cup sugar

1 large egg

3 large eggs, separated

Meringue Topping

1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar

pinch of salt

1/3 cup sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla, the real stuff

Preheat over to 350 degrees. Coat a 9-in pie pan with cooking spray

To Prepare Filling

1. Combine cranberries and orange juice in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over high heat and cook, stirring occasionally, until all the cranberries are beginning to break down, about 5 to 6 minutes. * While you are waiting on the cranberries feel free to make up your own "waiting on the cranberries" song at this point * 

2. Pour through a fine-mesh sieve into a medium bowl, pressing on the solids to extract all the juice. Whisk 3/4 cup sugar into the juice until combined. Whisk in whole egg and 3 egg yolks. 

3. Return cranberry mixture to the saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly and vigorously  until it thickens and just starts to bubble as you are stirring, about 4 to 5 minutes. 

4. Pour the warm filling into the warm crust. Set aside while you prepare the meringue *Please remember to use oven mitts!!* :) 

To Prepare Meringue

1. Beat the 3 egg whites in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until frothy. Add cream of tartar and pinch of salt, beat at high speed until soft "floppy" peaks form.

2. Very slowly add 1/3 cup sugar, beating constantly until stiff peaks form. Beat in (Real) vanilla.

3. Spoon the meringue over the filling, then gently spread to the edges of the crust. 

4. Make peaks in the meringue with the back of a spoon. Bake until the top is lightly browned, about 15 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for at least 3 hours before serving. 



*recipe taken from December 2012 Eating Well Magazine*

Gluten-Free Sisters Cooking Show - Pie Crust

Making a good pie crust is an important part of any dessert.  I had what I thought was a very simple recipe for a butter pie crust.  However, my kitchen appliances failed me!  It's a lot harder to make something when the appliance doesn't work the way it's supposed to - or you don't quite have the right tool for the job.

But, just like you do in life, you play the hand you are dealt.  I made do as best I could.  In the end the crust still tasted delicious - which is what really matters when cooking.

Enjoy watching me try not to destroy the dang appliance and still get a pie crust in the end!

GF Sisters Cooking Video: Cornbread

Growing up, Lara and I would watch Saturday morning cooking shows - it's basically how we learned to cook. So as we were discussing what we wanted to do for Thanksgiving, we decided to make our own cooking show! I had already posted the cornbread recipe a few weeks ago - but this is the video of me actually making the cornbread.

We had always pretended to have our own cooking show as kids whenever we cooked (and yes I still do as an adult when I cook alone sometimes) but it was a little weird to be actually doing it in front of a camera. Once I got going though, it was a lot of fun. There will be more videos of Lara and I cooking together coming soon!

If you happen to not catch the recipe from the video, please check out previous blogs to get the full recipe. Enjoy!