recipes for birthday party

October 10, 2004

The peanut butter cake is delicious. I've made that recipe for

several birthday celebrations.

I don't know of anyone who has succeeded at making pretzels

from almond flour.

How about frozen bananas with honey drizzled on top? This

tastes very much like ice cream and would go very nicely with the

peanut butter cake. You can freeze the bananas (no peels), then

slice into circles, then refreeze and the serve with pieces of the

cake.

As for snacks, how about gelatin jigglers cut with cookie cutters

to match the theme of the party? You can make several colors of

jigglers to make it more festive.

You can make gelatin parfaits too. Make this in small clear party

cups. Make one color gelatin, pour into cups, let the gelatin set.

Spread a thin amount of yogurt on top. Then add another color

gelatin and let set. Add another thin layer of yogurt and add one

last color of gelatin. You could also add diced fruit to the layers

of gelatin.

For fun fizzy drinks you can serve pineapple juice mixed with

carbonated water.

If you are looking for a sandwich type idea, you could make mini

pancakes and make very small peanut butter sandwiches.

For pizzas, I use pancakes for the crust. Then I put sauce,

toppings and cheese. They make nice individual-sized pizzas. I

usually use the chicken pancakes and add veggie toppings.

Jody

mom to -5 and -8

SCD 20 months

October 11, 2004

Hi Michal,

> We are planning a small b day celebration for our soon to be 5 yr

old and I would like to make the food as special and

as " birthdaylike " as possible. I have BTVC and :Lucy's cookbook and

nothing has grabbed me for something he would like. I just ordered

the frozen yogurt maker from Lucy'sKitchen shop and I am thinking I

can try to make " ice cream " but I am anxious about that because he

hates the yogurt. So I either need a really good ice cream recipe

(that tastes like real ice cream) or some kind of cake with frosting.

Although I like the ice cream made from yogurt it does tend to taste

a lot like yogurt. If you are able to use strawberries making a

frozen strawberry yogurt is pretty tasty. The cakes made with nut

butter are pretty good - we all like the pnut butter cake recipe. I

have frosted it with many different colors depending on the cake.

For 's birthday I made it into his favourite Pokemon character -

Pikachu.

> I would also like to have some kind of special snackfood. Can you

>make pretzels out of almond flour?

I haven't tried to make SCD pretzels but there's a very yummy cracker

recipe at http://www.scdrecipe.com/r_014_00082.html I've cut the

dough into triangles and the kids love them as is or with a dip.

There favourite is Marilyn's ranch dip - with a few alterations.

>I was also thinking that maybe I can make a pizza dough out of nut

>flour so he could actually have pizza. Any ideas are greatly

>appreciated.Thanks in advance

The pizza recipe in BTVC with the nut crust is crunchy. Our families

latest fav is the piza with a hamburger crust. Lots of non SCDers

love it also Here is the link

http://www.scdrecipe.com/r_004_00041.html

Besides this for birthdays I usually do up a veggie platter that kids

and adults dive into with two different dips. And at Dan's bday I

made a carmel fondue dip and had lots of bananas and cut up apples.

All told we went through 5 lbs of bananas and about two pounds of

apples and assorted other fruit. Peanut butter caramels cut up into

bite size pieces make nice candies on a tray.

Sheila

October 11, 2004

Birthday cake. What I have done is made a layer cake out of the Nut bread

recipe. I doubled or tripled the recipes to make sure I had enough for two

layers. I pour them in two cake pans.

I made jam using fresh fruits and honey.

I place the jam in between the two layers.

I use the honey frosting in the BTVC book-taste marshmellowy and then I placed

cut strawberries on top of it. It is delicious and beautiful but you can always

decorate it with stuff you buy at the store...little toys and such depending on

the theme. I would recommend refrigerating the honey frosting till the last

minute before putting it on the cake. It melts.

I suppose you can also color the frosting with food coloring but I have never

bothered with that. My kids and a lot of other people who were non gfcf and SCD

at a picnic I went to raved about the cake.

I also made the legal SCD marshmellows.

I also placed almond butter, and dates in a food processor and mixed them up and

roll them in nuts and coconut.

Gelatin and juice with fruits are great. You can do a veggie or fruit platter

and/or make the punch with perrier water and legal juice or smoothies. You can

also freeze the smoothies into cups to make a yogurt ice cream kind of thing.

Sheila: How did you make carmel fondue dip and is it legal?

Carolyn

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