Pamela’s Products NO COOK & SIMPLE COOKIES . These are delicious and fast and fun to make. Even kids enjoy these as they can get a “result” quickly and munch away. I made these for a wonderful cookie exchange in Tampa at the Celiac Group’s meeting. These were all eaten up and the plate was empty.

My Orange-Iced Lemon-Shortbread Delights. Another extremely delicious and easy adaptation of Pamela’s already make cookies and whipping up a frosting that is sweet, easy fun and absolutely scrumptious

You will need:

Two Boxes of Pamela’s Lemon Shortbread Cookies (Frozen)

½ bag of Pamela’s Vanilla Frosting

1 large orange

Water

4TBL Butter

Directions:

Add  room temp. butter and water to half the bag of frosting

Mix well so no lumps.

Finely grate the orange rind to make orange zest (about 1-1/2-2 tsp. full)

Add to frosting and mix well and let sit about 15 minutes to “marinade”

Frost your cookies and set out for everyone to eat. (You may decorate them at this point too)

NOTE:  I prefer to lightly frost my cookies as the flavor of both the lemon and orange come though this way. They are delicious!

You may store in refrig. or freezer covered.

Tina Turbin

Pamela’s Products NO COOK & SIMPLE COOKIES. No baking needed makes this a great gluten-free recipe to do with your kids.

Tina’s Orange-Iced Lemon-Shortbread Delights. Also try this gluten-free blueberry pie.

You will need:

Two Boxes of Pamela’s Lemon Shortbread Cookies (Frozen)

½ bag of Pamela’s Vanilla Frosting

1 large orange

Water

4TBL Butter

Directions:

Add  room temp. butter and water to half the bag of frosting

Mix well so no lumps.

Finely grate the orange rind to make orange zest (about 1-1/2-2 tsp. full)

Add to frosting and mix well and let sit about 15 minutes to “marinade”

Frost your cookies and set out for everyone to eat. (You may decorate them at this point too)

NOTE:  I prefer to lightly frost my cookies as the flavor of both the lemon and orange come though this way. They are delicious!

You may store in refrig. or freezer covered.

Tina Turbin

The GlutenFreeHelp contest of January proved to be a smashing success and with the number of terrific recipe entries, deciding on the winner was a tough choice to make.

Lucky winner Julianne Karow received the coveted Pamela’s gift bag full of a wonderful assortment of Pamela’s products and kitchen untensils.  Check out the bag’s delectable contents here.

Congratulations Julianne!

January 2010 Contest Runner UP

Irresistible GF Chocolate Frosting

Time: 5 minutes

1/2 cup Pamela’s GF Chocolate Frosting mix
2 tablespoons Ghirardelli Unsweetened Cocoa powder
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon water
1/2 teaspoon (real) GF vanilla

Combine frosting mix and unsweetened cocoa. Beat in butter, water, and vanilla. This recipe will frost an 8” flourless chocolate torte perfectly. Hope you and yours enjoy it!

Thanks again very much & all best, Vanessa

© 2010 Vanessa Wright

Please sign up for my Newsletter (click on link and scroll down the right side of the page) to stay on top of this.  The “project” details will be fully released by the end of October.

Click here to watch a  7-minute video interview with Dr Peter Green, the doctor I am 100% behind and will be on some radio interviews with across the world over the next many months! He is a delight and is the  TOP doctor truly helping strongly to encourage celiac awareness in the USA. Listen to him and his simplicity. I think you will agree he is wonderful man with a heart of gold to help. He too agrees many kids in the USA should NOT be on drugs and are terribly misdiagnosed! He is the Head of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University. 

Let’s raise awareness about the overwhelming amount of misdiagnosed and long undiagnosed children  and adults. Let’s get the word out about the effects celiac disease has on 1 out of every 100 person in the USA! Connect up with me and I will share with you what is happening to help this area. 

Again, watch this video and get yourself informed in just 7 minutes by an amazing man I respect with all my heart. Dr. Green has devoted his life to opening the eyes of Americans and intends to continue to raise awareness. He is CORRECTLY diagnosing an average of 2,400 people per year as he continues to research this disease and facts of gluten. 

Please ask any of your friends or associates who may be interested in this field to connect up with me. I have had 7 radio interviews on this subject alone in the past 2 months and scheduling an average of 2 per week at this point in time, and this is increasing.

Side Note: Pamela’s Products sponsors my monthly Gluten-Free cupcake party videos. This month we have one scheduled in Tampa Bay, Florida. If you are interested, just let us know. Space is limited.  This month’s theme will be Thanksgiving for the kids and families! FUN! All gluten-free of course. This too is to raise awareness for this disease and all videos promoted broadly.  

Thank you,

Tina Turbin

This is a lovely “thank you” card sent to me from a child that had attended one of my fun and exciting monthly Gluten-Free Cup Cake Parties, generously sponsored by Pamela’s Products and Nature’s Food Patch in Clearwater.

And an equally lovely note from his mother.  Enjoy!

Dear Tina,

Thank you so much for including us in your cupcake party Saturday!  It was really cute, when we got home from your place, Bodhi (my 4-yr old, who you met at Spring Valley School) was actually reading Danny the Dragon!  So Tristan picked up the book and got to the part where they are all eating dinner together, and he said, all matter-of-factly, “Danny the Dragon eats healthy.” I responded with, “yes, and his author, Tina Turbin, eats gluten-free!”, and just as matter-of-factly and straight-faced, he responded, ‘yes, true’. You could not have planned it better!

Then Sunday night I was telling Shane and Tristan that Monday was a holiday (their school started today, Tuesday), and that the four of us (Shane, Tristan, Bodhi and I) would have the day to play, so I asked them to think of some fun things to do on Monday.  Shane got all bright-eyed and exclaimed, “I know, we can write Tina Turbin a card thanking her for Saturday!”.  Oh Tina, just what every mom wants to hear, an un-prompted desire to write a thank you card!  And that’s what fun thing he wanted to do on our day off!  So I am enclosing that card – it looks like both boys drew you scenes of a Pokemon battle – quite an esteemed gift from their point of view!

It was wonderful to see you, and thank you again for including us.  I went to a dinner party Saturday night and must have told about 15-20 people about it, and gluten, and did the same today when I returned to work, so I am defnitely spreading the word.  Even Allen (my hubby) was telling people about it at his office yesterday, and he wasn’t even there!

Love,

Lael

Special thanks to Creative Loafing for running the following!

“Tina Turbin’s Cupcake Party: The acclaimed children’s cookbook author hosts a gluten-free cupcake party, to be videotaped and used to raise funds and awareness for the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness. Parents and kids are invited to help bake and decorate yummy treats for a good cause. Those interested in being filmed for the video can contact Rosie Newman at roseann.newman@gmail.com for location and further details, and learn more about the author at TinaTurbin.com. Sat., Aug. 22, 2-4 p.m.”

Oh and as a side note, the cupcake party was a resounding success and a great time for all! Due to popular demand, planning is in the works for more fun, family-friendly events. Stay tuned!

She is not all business and as a result she offers a number of contests and I for one have entered this latest one, which ends tomorrow. I invite you to join in and compete against me. I actually just entered my recipe a few days ago so sorry for the late heads-up.

Anyhow, hop on over to http://www.pamelasproducts.com/recipe_contest/index.html and you can read the rules and enter one of your own creations.

Baking is fun and quite adventuresome. While you are at it, check out some gluten-free goodies I have been playing around with. As the saying goes, ”sharing is caring.”