Gluten Free Strawberry Pie

One of my favorite things is Strawberry Pie.

I have always made my pie using my Mom's recipes for the pie crust and the strawberry jell.  Delish!

This year due to going gluten free for my girls, I switched out the flour for gluten free flour.  So this pie crust recipe will work with either gluten free flour or regular flour.

I came accross a recipe for Fresh and Super Simple Strawberry Pie Filling (only 3 indredients) and decided to try it instead of making the jell.  The results were wonderful!  A certain uncle made sure he had a second piece before the end of the day.  :)  He knew it was gluten free, but he said he could not tell.

The recipe for my pie crust is below.


1 stick softened Oleo (butter)
1 (3 ounce) package Philadelphia Cream Cheese (generic works just as well)
1 cup flour (gluten free if needed.  I use an all purpose gluten free flour.)
+ extra flour for rolling

Mix the 3 ingredients together in bowl.  Roll the dough out and then place it in your pie pan.  Bake pie shell at 400 degrees F for 10-12 mins.

The recipe for the Pie Filling I mentioned above can be found  here.

Enjoy!

Dino's for Girls?

Yes!  Girls can play with and love dinosaurs too.  

Have you noticed though that if you would like a girly dinosaur shirt, you may have a hard time finding one?

My middle daughter was invited to her friend's birthday party.  We didn't know what the birthday girl wanted  so I asked her Mom.  The Mom mentioned that her little girl loved dinosaurs and wanted a shirt with a dinosaur.  

So, my middle daughter picked out the colors and the dinosaur outline and I went to work.   I even made a matching hair bow.   

  

To make this shirt, I printed a dinosaur pic to use for a pattern.  After I cut the dinosaur out of fabric, I zigzagged it to the shirt.  Simple.  You could even hand sew this if one doesn't have a sewing machine.  

Crayons, Stickers, and Paper...Oh, My!

Any guesses what this is?

Why, it is a travel art studio for my youngest.  It holds her crayons, paper, and stickers.  

I used Velcro at the top and bottom to keep it closed when not in use.  

Now, who is ready for vacation?  

Butterfly Cake

Another Birthday came and went.

My middle child celebrated her 6th birthday.

She was able to pick out  the colors for her butterfly cake.  She was very happy with the way her cake turned out.

I am so happy that I learned how to decorate cakes...  My kids love being able to ask for a specific type of cake.   (I remember my own mom decorating cakes for my brothers and me.  So I wanted to be able to do the same.)  My kids enjoy having a special cake for their day.

Of course, I made this a gluten free chocolate and white cake.

Minnie Mouse Cake

My youngest is 3.  

How is that possible?  

Here she is in her finished Dress and Ears.  

   

 I also made her a gluten free Minnie Mouse Cake.  It was both white and chocolate.  The white cake mix was Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free White Cake Mix.  The chocolate was Betty Crocker's Gluten Free Chocolate Cake Mix

Minnie Mouse for the Birthday Girl

Someone is almost 3 years old.  

She told me she wanted a Minnie and Mickey Mouse Cake for her party.  

Then she informed she needed to have ears with bows like Minnie Mouse ... 

and a Minnie Mouse dress.

More ruffles

I love ruffle fabric.  I made me a gray skirt.  Yeah, for making something for me!  I used an old black tshirt as a lining under the gray ruffles.  

I had enough left over to make my youngest one too.  :)