GLUTEN FREE DARK CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES, EVERYONE.

So, I've been in the urge to bake - however, I just couldn't seem to find recipes that didn't use really expensive flours to make GF desserts [I'm a poor college student, you know]. So, here are some cookies that I love! It was my first time to cook with GF baking mix - and it seems like the same consistency to me!

I substituted 3/4 butter for unsalted butter, and substituted 1 tsp of salt to a 1/2 tsp of salt, and instead of egg substitute, I used 1 egg..

Oh, and I used Dark chocolate morsels instead of Semi-Sweet (I don't like semi-sweet)

Anyways, i hope you GF friends are as excited about this as I am!

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon gluten-free vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup egg substitute
• 2 1/4 cups gluten-free baking mix
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F ( 190 degrees C). Prepare a greased baking sheet.
2. In a medium bowl, cream butter and sugar. Gradually add replacer eggs and vanilla while mixing. Sift together gluten- free flour mix, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Stir into the butter mixture until blended. Finally, stir in the chocolate chips.
3. Using a teaspoon, drop cookies 2 inches apart on prepared baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven for 6 to 8 minutes or until light brown. Let cookies cool on baking sheet for 2 minutes before removing to wire racks.

Something that made me happy today...

I found a health food store in Shawnee.

Praise-The-Lord.

I bought some: Chips! Soy milk! BREAD! Cake Mix! Soup! ....

All Gluten Free.

Also, I found some blogs with GF recipes...

I was trying the gluten free attempt from only eating fruits & vegetables. I am so excited now.

Also, my mom gave me a recepie for pumpkin muffins/cupcakes today - Its 1 box of yellow cake mix (I picked up the GF kind...), and one can of pumpkin pie mix... We will see how it works out!

Well. I guess It's official.

Lately, everything that has to do with my faith also has to do with community. it's a buzz-word here around campus. Especially among us Res-Life staffers.

I went to a fellowship on Sunday, and we talked about living in Community, and what that biblically looks like.

Tonight, I went to a service and we talked about what it means - how it looks.

To me, community is living life-on-life. Discipleship. You can't have community without d-ship. You can't have d-ship without community. Community is VITAL to our faith. Living where we are together working to see the fingerprints of God among us... is VITAL to who we are as believers in Christ.

However, I think I am absolutely horrible at living in community. As my pastor says, "when you live in Community with one another, you rub against each other (As iron sharpens iron...)... and it hurts, and it's dirty". I wish I knew better how I could live in community.

Anyways. On another note... I applied for my first after-college ... job?.. can I call it that? I will for now. Let's just say that it's something I promised God, my family, and everyone else in my life that I would never do - but here I am. I'm nervous. it's step one - but 2,000 miles is a really, really long way from home. We'll see.

Also, I recently found out that I have an intolerance to gluten. Gluten is in just about everything yummy in the world - so I'm not exactly the happiest camper I found this out. I've eaten edamame (soy beans) for the past 2 days. I need some new thoughts for food. If you also have this intolerance, or love someone who does... I could use some help in my dietary choices. :)

this wasn't one of my better blogs. But, I don't think I really have a whole bunch that I want to talk about. I still wanted to write. maybe the next will be better.