Halloween can be a tricky time for those suffering from Celiac's disease or another gluten intolerance. Although Halloween candy isn't the healthiest thing you can consume, by making your own treats you're insuring exactly what goes into your body and may even have some DIY fun along the way.
Yummy Baked Fall Apples
Ingredients:
4 medium-sized apples, cored
4 strips lemon rind
1/2 cup currants, dried
4 whole cinnamon sticks
1 vanilla bean, cut into 4 pieces
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
Directions:
1. Put all four apples into a large, oven-ready container with lid.
2. Inside each apple insert currants, lemon rind, cinnamon and vanilla bean.
3. Pour lemon juice inside and over the apples.
4. Cover and bake at 350 degrees for about an hour or until apples are fork tender.
Chocolate Cookie Disks
Ingredients:
1/4 cup carob powder
1/4 cup rice flour
1/4 cup potato flour
1/2 cup raw white sugar
3/8 cup butter or margarine
One large whole egg
Directions:
1. Mix dry ingredients together and reserve.
2. Mix beaten egg and whisk in butter. Add mixture a little at a time to your dry ingredients and beat until smooth.
3. Using hands, roll dough into balls approximately one inch in side and place on greased cookie sheet.
4. Flatten the spheres using a greased fork. Slightly criss-cross tinge-marks if desired.
5. Preheat the oven at 350 degrees. Bake for 10 minutes. Let cool and serve.
Ghoulish Chocolate Fudge
Ingredients:
1 cup raw cacao or carob powder
1/2 cup coconut butter
1/2 cup coconut oil
1 cup agave nectar
1/2 cup macadamia nut butter
3/4 Tbsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp gray sea salt
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1. Combine cacao powder, coconut butter, oil and macadamia nut butter in a large mixing bowl.
2. Slowly stir in agave.
3. Add salt, cinnamon and vanilla extract.
4. Mix well and pour mixture into glass deep-sided dish.
5. Freeze until hard (about 2 hours).
6. Using Halloween cookie-cutters, cut fudge into ghosts, pumpkins or black cats and serve.
List of Gluten-free Candies
If you want to serve your homemade treats with packaged candy, here are some gluten-free products.
* Almond Joy
* Altoids
* Andes Mints
* Bazooka gum
* Big League Chew (original, grape, strawberry)
* Breath Saver mints
* Bubblicious gum
* Bubble Yum
* Charleston Chew
* Dubble Bubble gum
* Dove
* Hershey's Kisses
* Hershey's (plain chocolate bars)
* Hot Tamales
* Ice Breakers gum
* Jelly Belly
* Jolly Rancher products
* Junior Mints
* Mike and Ike
* Kraft caramels
* Kraft Mini Marshmallow Snack Packs
* Laffy Taffy by Willy Wonka
* Lifesavers
* Lifesaver Gummies
* M&M's Plain
* M&M's Peanut
* Mounds
* Necco Wafers
* Nestle Milk Chocolate
* Orbit gum
* Payday
* Pez
* Pixie Sticks by Willy Wonka
* Pop Rocks
* Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
* Reese's Pieces
* Snickers
* Sour Patch Kids
* Sugar Babies/Sugar Daddy
* Sunkist chewy candies
* 3 Musketeers - original
* TicTacs
* Tootsie Rolls
* Trident gum
* York Peppermint Patty
Note: Candy companies frequently change manufacturing processes so please double-check the ingredients before consuming.
For a more complete list go to www.glutenfreeda.com
Tags: carob powder, cinnamon vanilla, coconut butter, lemon juice, lemon rind, macadamia butter