Friday, May 17, 2013

Gluten Free Treat

Recently, one of my daughter's was diagnosed with having Morphia.  It's a disease that can pop up here and there and it affects your skin.  There's no cause behind it, but just to be on the safe and healthy side, and also because we just think it's a better way of eating, we decided to make her diet gluten free.  This is just something we're trying to see if it will help.  There's no documented evidence that it will, but I personally think that gluten is a root of many things that we don't realize yet.

I'm really not a fan of spending the extra money on gluten free boxed mixes, although I have been known to do that.  It's all just so expensive!  So just to add another card in your gluten free recipe rolodex, I came up with this.

Serving rice crispy treats in the nontraditional way is perfect for gluten free kids who would like to bring something comparable to cupcakes to a party without having to either, a) make gluten free cupcakes for all of the kids or b) bringing their own special cupcake while supplying the other kids with the regular kind. 

All you need to do is make your favorite rice crispy treat recipe, put it in the refrigerator for 5-10 minutes so that they can be molded without melting down into a lump, butter those hands up, form balls that are big enough to fill the cupcake papers that you bought, and pop them in the papers.  Voila!  I think they're super cute and we get compliments on them every time we show up with them in hand.  I mean, what nutso doesn't like rice crispy treats?! lol

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