Huber Family

Gluten Free German Chocolate Cake:

Here it is!! I made this for my mom's birthday and everybody loved it!

This is a mix of different recipes that I put together to make it gluten free and even dairy free.

German Chocolate Cake:

Chocolate Cake:

1/2 c. butter or coconut oil

3/4 c. cocoa powder

1/4 c. of coconut milk or regular milk

9 eggs

1 1/2 c. rapadura

3/4 tsp. salt

1 tsp. vanilla

3/4 c. sifted coconut flour

3/4 tsp. baking powder

Melt butter or oil in a saucepan over med/low heat. Add cocoa powder and coconut milk and mix together. Remove from heat and set aside. In a bowl, mix together eggs, sugar, salt and vanilla. Stir in cocoa mixture. Combine coconut flour with baking powder and whisk into batter until there are no lumps. Pour batter into greased 8x8x2 or 9x9x2-inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for 35 minutes or until knife inserted into center comes out clean. Cool and cover with frosting of your choice.

Coconut Frosting:

1 c. rapadura

1 c. milk (or coconut milk if your dairy free)

1/2 c. coconut oil or butter

3 egg yolks, beaten

1 1/3 c. flaked coconut

1 c. chopped pecans

1 tsp. vanilla

In a small saucepan, heat sugar, milk, oil, and egg yolks over med/low heat until mixture is thickened and golden brown, (I added a little bit of organic corn starch)

stirring constantly. Remove from the heat. Stir in the coconut, pecans, and vanilla. Cool until thick enough to spread. Spread a third of the frosting over tops of each cake layer and stack the layers.

Melt coconut oil, honey and cocoa and drizzle over sides of the cake.

~Kristalyn

Gluten Free Recipe!

Many people have been begging us to start a blog with gluten free recipes so we decided to post recipes and other things we have been doing here hopefully on a regular basis.

This Quinoa Crust is one of our favorite! There's lots of things you can do with it such as... regular pizza, dip in pesto, use it in place of bread, and put hummus, olives,feta, cucumber etc...

Quinoa Pizza Crust:

1 1/2 c. quinoa, soaked overnight and drained
1/2 - 3/4 c. water
1 tsp. sea salt
1/4 c. olive oil or coconut oil (we use coconut oil because olive oil goes rancid when heated to high)
Preheat oven to 450 F. Place the sprouted quinoa, water, and salt in a blender and blend until creamy. The consistency will be thick (like pancake batter). Start with 1/2 c. water and see if
you need more. Divide the coconut oil and cover the bottom of 2-8 in. cake pans or one large rectangular pan. (We used our cast iron skillets. They work so much better). Place the pan(s) in the oven until they are shimmering hot (but not smoking). Remove from the oven. At this point, you can add some minced garlic and/or herbs. (I used Rosemary, Basil, Garlic, and Onion powder). Divide the quinoa mixture evenly. Bake for 10-15 minutes (until the crust is brown on the edges). Flip the crusts over and return to bake another 8-10 minutes (until the crust(s) are brown and and crispy). Enjoy!

Hopefully I will get pictures for the future recipes.

Check back tomorrow for gluten free German Chocolate Cake :)

~Kristalyn

Announcing the arrival of...

Sevilla Marie Van Dyk. Weighing 8lbs 8oz and 20 1/2 inches.

Vienna loves her little sister :)

Due to both the camera and the computer (that we have all our pictures on) that aren't working we will be behind on our blog posts. So if we don't post for a while you will know why :) Hopefully we will be able to get them fixed soon and I will be able to do more posts.

Nothing very exciting has been happening in the Huber house hold recently except for our cow having a calf to which we named Nels keeping our tradition of naming our cows after Little House characters :)

Thanks for stopping by.

Kristalyn

Catching up:

I can't believe it's 2011!! Wow...that went by fast!

Here is a review of what has been going on in the Huber household in the past 3 months.

First... Back in October we went up to IL for the first time as a family in 7 years. A twenty two plus trip. Illinois is where both mom and dad's parents live and more than half of the uncles and aunts, not to mention all the friends we have up there too :)

Almost there!! Time to take a break and get some exercise :)

And we finally arrive!!

A visit to the Blackhawk statue.

At the Apple orchard with Aunt Barb and our cousin Jay.

Dinner at Uncle John and Aunt Barb with the rest of my dad's side.

One day we had lunch at the Restoration cafe then went on a tour of the Rockford Rescue Mission.

Friends...

Sadly we don't have any pictures of our departure or a few other things :( But we had a great trip. It was an amazing time! Thank you friends and family for your hospitality.

2. We returned on the 26th just in time for Vienna's 1st birthday on the 27th.

The cake was adorable!

And everybody needs lots of uncles protecting them. :)

3. On the 31st of October Justin our baby turned 4! We keep saying you aren't a baby anymore but he keeps insisting he is and truthfully we don't mind :D

A Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Jonathan using his talent wrote "Justin" in sprinkles.

4. Nikkae and Vienna came over while mom and dad went away on a road trip to watch Jonathan's football game. While they were here I took some pictures of Vienna.

Seriously...I think I have the most adorably cute niece in the whole wide world!!! No offence guys :)

5. So we came home from IL in the morning on the 26th which happened to be my birthday.

We decided to celebrate another time which was a very good thing since we were all too tired to do anything besides sleep.

On Wednsday mom decided to go to harp lessons with Katherine and me. We left the house early and they surprised me with an envelope to open every hour or so with a coupon for something special. The first one was to get a pedicure. It was a first for me :)

Then we went to La Madeline's for lunch. Mom and Katherine surprised me with Jacqueline coming to lunch with us!

Next we went bowling and the Macias girls showed up! Of course we took pictures.

Thank you mom and Katherine for a wonderful day!!!

6. For Thanksgiving Nathan and Rebecca came down from Nashville TN. We also had the Selgi family over. The food was delicious and it was all gluten free! We had lots of fun.

7. Football season is over. The Patriots did a great job and finished 2nd in the T-CAL championship!

8. In December I had a harp ensemble concert with 11 other harps of all sizes and colors. Usually Katherine does it too but she has been the world traveler of late so I had to do it with out her.

9. Putting up Christmas decorations. (Who puts together a Christmas tree and eats ice cream bars outside in December)?!?!?!?

10. Christmas eve Nathan and Rebecca, Vince, Nikkae and Vienna, Brandon and Anthony came over. We opened gifts together and enjoyed a lovely time.

Books!!!!

And the day just isn't complete without a game of backyard football :)

(They look really happy) :P

11. After Christmas eve service since everybody was here, we decided to take a family picture.

Everybody:

Nathan and Rebecca:

Vince, Nikkae, Vienna and ?:

12. After Christmas eve service we went over to the Long's. Thank you very much John and Mary-Ellen for having us over! We had a fantastic time.

Opening gifts:

I just love those big blue eyes!

13. January 6th was mom's birthday and since it was her 5o we had to do something extra special. So we got together some of mom's good friends for as surprise party at "The Melting Pot". It was a lot of fun!