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Baked Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Doughnuts (Vegan, Allergy-Free)

April 8, 2019 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 58 Comments

These are the best Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Doughnuts you’ll ever bake! Healthy donuts topped with a delicious vegan cream cheese frosting, they’re allergy-free, sugar-free, easily whipped up in one bowl, and baked in 12 minutes! This kid-friendly breakfast or dessert recipe is perfect for any springtime treat or Easter celebration!

You can’t have too much carrot cake! Nor can you have too many doughnuts! Combine the two and you’ll have a new favorite dessert (okay, and breakfast!) on your hands! You know we’re all about carrot cake for breakfast and carrot cake for dessert here on Strength and Sunshine. Since doughnuts can go either way, carrot cake doughnuts seemed like just the Springtime recipe you’d need! Baked in a quick 12 minutes, gluten-free, vegan, allergy-free, and sugar-free! Topped with an easy, creamy, sweet dairy-free cream cheese frosting…what more could you want?Read More

New Orleans Gluten-Free King Cake (Vegan, Allergy-Free)

February 18, 2019 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 36 Comments

Carnival season in New Orleans means it’s time to bake up a King Cake for Mardi Gras! This Gluten-Free King Cake recipe is vegan, allergy-free, lightened-up, and low in sugar! A rich brioche-style cake ring with a sweet, buttery filling, decorated with icing and bold colored sugar crystals! A classic Fat Tuesday dessert everyone will love!

Mardi Gras always sneaks up on me every year and I never end up getting around to creating a gluten-free king cake recipe! Not this year! I’ve had this recipe planned to test out since I dropped the ball last year. King cake is full of rich culture and contrary to what you may think, not an exclusive treat to just New Orleans. King cake is a broad term that many cultures use for the cake that celebrates the end of the Christmas season and/or pre-Lenten festivities. However, if you’re from the United States, that iconic purple, green, and gold sugary sparkle automatically bring to mind Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras!Read More

The Best Gluten-Free Vegan Fruitcake – Christmas Cake (Allergy-Free)

December 17, 2018 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 40 Comments

Whatever your opinion is, it’s not Christmas without the classic traditional fruitcake! However you like your Christmas cake, this is The Best Gluten-Free Vegan Fruitcake to try! This easy recipe is allergy-free (no nuts!), refined sugar-free with natural dried fruit, alcohol-free, kid-friendly, and perfect for gifting or dessert!

I know what you’re thinking. “Ew, fruitcake!” But I bet you only think that due to the negative stereotypes the media have made you believe about fruitcakes. I’m also going to take a chance and say you’ve never even had a slice of fruitcake. So no judging by a cake by it’s name or perceived notions. Let me show you just how delicious, fruit, sweet, and allergy-free this classic Christmas cake can be!Read More

The Best Gluten-Free Vegan Allergy-Free Christmas Cookie Recipes

December 12, 2018 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 32 Comments

Looking for the best gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free Christmas cookie recipes? This round-up is your resource for all the holiday and Christmas cookies you used to love, but now suitable for all your dietary, celiac, and food allergy needs! From gingerbread men to chocolate crinkles, snickerdoodles, sugar cookies, even shortbread!

I think it’s time to round-up ALL the delicious Christmas cookies here on Strength and Sunshine in one post! The holidays are prime time for baking and most of that baking happens to be cookie baking (right?) In this post you’ll find ALL the gluten-free, vegan, allergy-free cookies your heart desires! Everyone deserves a cookie (or 12) during the holidays and celiac disease and food allergies should never get in the way! Cookies for comfort baking, gifting, cookie exchanges, decorating with the kids, and of course…leaving for Santa!

Grain-Free Italian Wedding Snowball Cookies (Gluten-Free, Vegan, Paleo)

November 28, 2018 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 44 Comments

Snowball cookies are a classic nutty, buttery, sweet holiday dessert with many forms: Italian wedding cookies, Mexican wedding cookies, or Russian tea cakes! But this almond-based recipe for Grain-Free Italian Wedding Snowball Cookies is gluten-free, vegan, paleo, and sugar-free! Just 4 ingredients, they’re a healthy low-carb addition for the Christmas cookie tray!

Nutty, buttery, and sweet! These bitable balls of almond cookie goodness are going to be more than just a holiday cookie for you now! They’re so simple and so easy to bake, not to mention these grain-free snowball cookies are pretty darn healthy too! You only need 4 ingredients to make these cookies and just 15 minutes of baking time! They can be that last minute bake for any holiday party or…of course…for Santa’s cookie plate!Read More