Strawberry Mint Inspirations
One of our friends has a super fun blog that has inspired some delicious and unique creations lately. Because I have a problem following a recipe to a tee, I usually deviate a little, but it is totally unnecessary as her recipes are generally very healthy, not to mention several of my alterations haven't really changed the taste from what I can tell but have definitely made them less pretty or have a slightly different texture... My alterations also sometimes make it pretty obvious that my friend has quite a bit more patience than I do!
In any case, you should totally check the blog out @ http://strawberrymint.org/! Tonight my husband raved about the gluten free chocolate molten lava cakes I made after reading about/seeing photos of them on her Instagram feed. I subbed 1tbsp coconut sugar + ~1tbsp agave for the white sugar and used about a tsp or more of regular vanilla instead of the real vanilla bean in the cake (which was sad and only because we do not currently have any vanilla beans, although I plan to change that now!). They were not quite as fudgey looking as hers, but I am wondering if that may have been because I cooked them a tad longer than I should have... The agave may have played a role too. Either way, they were still to die for. I also must admit that I took a shortcut and skipped the delicious looking whipped cream. Instead I used store-bought truwhip (no high fructose corn syrup, etc) and added some new agave vanilla bean ice cream I wanted to try (it was on sale!). So yummy! I wish I had taken a photo...
Other yummy things we would recommend from her website (that we've tried thus far anyways): baked blueberry donuts with lemon glaze (I don't own a donut pan so just used a mini cupcake pan and made donut holes) and spaghetti squash with turkey meatballs (using my own simmered tomato sauce). Both are pictured below!
In any case, you should totally check the blog out @ http://strawberrymint.org/! Tonight my husband raved about the gluten free chocolate molten lava cakes I made after reading about/seeing photos of them on her Instagram feed. I subbed 1tbsp coconut sugar + ~1tbsp agave for the white sugar and used about a tsp or more of regular vanilla instead of the real vanilla bean in the cake (which was sad and only because we do not currently have any vanilla beans, although I plan to change that now!). They were not quite as fudgey looking as hers, but I am wondering if that may have been because I cooked them a tad longer than I should have... The agave may have played a role too. Either way, they were still to die for. I also must admit that I took a shortcut and skipped the delicious looking whipped cream. Instead I used store-bought truwhip (no high fructose corn syrup, etc) and added some new agave vanilla bean ice cream I wanted to try (it was on sale!). So yummy! I wish I had taken a photo...
Other yummy things we would recommend from her website (that we've tried thus far anyways): baked blueberry donuts with lemon glaze (I don't own a donut pan so just used a mini cupcake pan and made donut holes) and spaghetti squash with turkey meatballs (using my own simmered tomato sauce). Both are pictured below!
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