Recipes by The Dusty Baker

The Very Best Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Banana Bread I’ve Ever Made by The Dusty Baker

{gluten-free} Meyer Lemon Coconut Cake for Two by The Dusty Baker

The Ultimate Gluten-Dairy-Grain-Nut-Soy-Sugar-Free Carob Cake by The Dusty Baker

Pro Pastry, Gluten-and-Dairy Free: Hush Puppies from Chef Amanda Cohen by The Dusty Baker

I’ve never had a “real” hush puppy.When you’ve been off gluten and cow-dairy pretty much for twenty years, there are things you miss. I don’t know the luxurious treat that is thick vanilla pastry cream oozing from a fluffy pastry casing that they call…

{gluten-free} Peanut Butter Krinkles and Holiday Kindnesses by The Dusty Baker

Notes on the recipe:As you can see in the photo above, temperature and time will affect these cookies, and you can choose your outcome. The cookie on the left was baked at a lower temperature – my oven was fluctuating between 325-350 degrees F – for a longer period of time, averaging 10-12 minutes. They were slightly toasty and…

{gluten-free} Mini Black and White Cookies and my 300th post! by The Dusty Baker

Notes on the recipe:Treat the cookie base like a cake recipe; make sure your cookie sheets are heavy ones, make sure your eggs and milk are not cold out of the fridge, and only fold in the flour ingredients until the batter comes together. If not, you…

{gluten-free} Toasted Walnut Butter Ball Cookies by The Dusty Baker

Growing up, there were several cookies my mom would always make around the holidays: crispy chocolate-chip laden biscotti, delicately caramelized lace cookies filled with melted chocolate, little cups of gooey nut pastries, and these tiny bombs of buttery walnut cookies I only knew as Butter Balls.When the gluten thing hit in my early…

Pro Pastry, Gluten Free: Frangipane and Chef Brooks Headley’s Quick Jam by The Dusty Baker

It was August, and I hadn’t made a single pie.I hadn’t made a single batch of ice cream or sorbet, either; but the cardinal sin was with the pie.Pie is my favorite dessert. I make one for my birthday, or when I want to impress a man, or when a man I’ve…

Pro Pastry Gluten Free: Spicy Chocolate Chipotle Brownies from Chef Johnny Iuzzini’s new Sugar Rush by The Dusty Baker

These are the best fu*king brownies I’ve ever made.No joke, no lies. They’re definitely not the easiest brownies in my arsenal: definitely not as easy as the Divine Cocoa Brownies that are literally dubbed “the easiest brownies you will ever make”, nor…

Pro Pastry, Gluten Free: Easiest Chicken Liver Mousse from Chef Jamie Bissonnette by The Dusty Baker

Welcome to my second installment of Pro Pastry. Today over at WordsFoodArt.com, I have a review of the cookbook this recipe came from – out today! – and a bit more on the chef behind it. Take a look at the why’s behind this series, and here for my…