Giveaway and Review: Spunky Coconut Sugar-Free, Grain-Free Baked Goods and Desserts
THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED!
Now that I’ve been following the ACD for almost two years (I know! How crazy is that??), I’ve become accustomed to making more or less everything I eat from scratch (including nut butters, jams, condiments, some flours, and even raisin substitutes). As a result, I’ve come to expect that, if I want a dessert, I will not only have to make it myself, but usually create the recipe myself, too.
So imagine my absolute delight when I received a copy of Kelly (of The Spunky Coconut)’s latest cookbook, Spunky Coconut Grain-Free Baked Goods and Desserts ! Not only are many of Kelly’s recipes perfectly compatible with the ACD, they also are all grain-free!
This beautiful volume, Kelly’s follow up to her wildly successful The Spunky Coconut Cookbook contains over 80 recipes, all gluten free and casein free, with many egg free as well. Each is accompanied by a full-color photograph. Chapters include Pie, Cake & Brownies, Ice Cream, Cookies & Treats, Bread & Rolls and Breakfast. In addition, Kelly provides information on ingredients, how to make nut milk, equipment and a full index.
Above is a photo of the Banana Coconut Cream Pie I made (topped with Kelly’s Whipped Topping from her first book). I substituted pear for the banana in the original (I’m not allowed bananas on the ACD), and it worked perfectly–I loved this pie! And, as Kelly tells us in the blurb to this recipe, she and her daughter Ashley “eat this pie for breakfast all the time”–so that is exactly what I did. Since the pie is tasty without being too sweet and it’s full of nutrition, it’s a perfect morning treat!
Next up were these Buckwheat Biscuits. They were terrific slathered with some coconut butter.
Finally, I simply had to try the Divine Vegan Chocolate Cake (Like chocolate much? Who, me?). I opted for the mini-cupcake versions, which were perfect topped with my Sugar Free, Soy Free, Nut Free Chocolate Buttercream Frosting (recipe coming up later this week). Aren’t they gorgeous? Fudgy, moist and chocolately, these cupcakes were, indeed divine.
And Kelly has generously offered to give away a copy of the book to one of you!
Now that you’re drooling, I bet you’d love to win a copy of The Spunky Coconut: Grain-Free Baked Goods and Desserts for your very own! All you need do to enter the giveaway is leave a comment on this post. Simply tell me what is your favorite dessert, or which dessert you’d love to try in a grain-free version. Please be sure that your email address is connected to the comment (if you’re commenting for the first time, it won’t be visible on this page; if you’ve commented before, you won’t need to add it if it’s already linked to your name or blog).
THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED!
The contest will remain open until Friday, February 11th at 6:00 PM my time, after which I’ll choose a name at random. I won’t be contacting the winner, so please be sure to return here to let me know if you won! If I don’t hear from the winner after one week, I’ll choose another winner.
Good luck, everyone! 
THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED!
Egg-Free Grain-Free Biscuits (original recipe here) from Spunky Coconut Grain-Free Baked Goods & Desserts
In the bowl of a food processor, purée the beans, applesauce, guar gum, flax, cashew milk, vinegar, stevia, vanilla, coconut sugar, salt and coconut oil until smooth. Add the tapioca starch, buckwheat flour, soda and baking powder and purée again until combined.
Drop onto greased baking sheet in tall piles (I used an ice cream scoop) and bake at 350 F (180C) for 15 to 20 minutes. Makes about 10 biscuits.
My favorite dessert is sticky brownies. Mmm, would love to have a coconut flour version!
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Oh gosh, I’d love a grain-free pie crust recipe!
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oh anything chocolate. i’ve been making my own *chocolate* lately with coconut butter and cocoa powder. it’s been helping calm those crazy chocolate cravings!
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My favorite dessert I would like to try grain-free could be cookies.
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I just listed a few older cookbooks on Amazon today so I could buy Kelly’s new book! This would be awesome.
I would love to try her vegan chocolate cake. I have yet to find a good grain free cake recipe. I just made her chocolate chip bars this weekend.
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My favourite dessert is strudel. I wonder if it would be possible to make a vegan, grain-free version! I am only familiar with the handmade authentic German recipe.
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Wow these look delicious I would love a copy of this book so I could make the Divine Vegan Chocolate Cake.
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This sounds like a really useful book for the gluten intolerant, thanks for sharing it. By the way, my favorite dessert if the Black Bean brownies I found online.
Katherine
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Chocolate! Anything chocolate!
Would love grain-free snack options for the kiddos.
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My favorite dessert is pie. I adore pie. So that banana cream pie is awfully tempting… I REALLY want this book! Thanks for such a great review, Ricki!
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I love Spunky Coconut! My dessert of preference would include chocolate, which could be why I loved her molten chocolate cake that I made (with a few tweaks)! Soo good.
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Hmmm. My favorite dessert is probably brownies with ice cream. Great review!
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my favorite dessert is pumpkin pie! or pumpkin cake! or pumpkin anything!
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I love her website and her last cookbook. I was soo happy to read about all of her recent good news.
My favorite dessert is a scone. With a hot cup of tea. Yum! 
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Oh my, desserts. I love all of them. But since I probably won’t have chocolate back for a good long while due to my ACD, I’d love a cobbler recipe. Especially one that would work well for blackberry peach. Yum!
Thank you both for all the support you offer the rest of us. <3
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Favorite dessert?!? Too many to chose just one, lol! I guess a really fudgy dense brownie…yummmm…
I would love to win this book!
Courtney
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Brownies of course
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I love oatmeal cookies, or anything with coconut!
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My favorite dessert is prettttty much the whole gamet of the chocolate-cake-brownie-torte spectrum. I made a few grain-free chocolate concoctions… I reaallly want to make banana bread!
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fave dessert = choco chip cookies or anything choc!
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Where to start?! Brownies, macaroons,chocolate chip cookies, muffins… I’m still searching for my go-to GF recipes. Thanks!
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Those cupcake versions of the chocolate cake!
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I would love a grain-free blondie recipe! Although anything is welcome, really. I do love chocolate, too, and these pics leave me drooling. Especially the buckwheat biscuits. Oh how I miss biscuits and white gravy for breakfast (ok, not dessert, I know. But breakfast is my favorite meal)
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I’d like a really good grain-free pumpkin muffin, not too dense, with a cakey texture.
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I would love to try any recipe out of your book. I’ve just been diagnosed with Candida and am having a difficult time adjusting to the new way of eating. Any help I could get would be very appreciated!!
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Cupcakes for sure!
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I really want to try her Cinnamon Rolls! The recipes at Spunky Coconut are always great, and this book looks awesome too!
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I LOVE anything chocolate! Although, that banana pie looks very tempting too!
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Brownies and coconut ice cream!
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That banana/pear cream pie looks so wonderful!! I can hardly wait to make it!
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i would love a fantastic creme brulee (sp?) or dark chocolate pudding or anything dark chocolate for that matter (esp when a little sea salt is added)!!
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I would love to try the Banana Coconut Cream Pie for breakfast minus the banana. I am on the ACD diet as well and have hope after reading your review for dessert sometime in the near future. Thank you!
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We’ve been grain free for over a year now, and I think the dessert I miss most are cupcakes!
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I would love to try any one of the pies! I have a gazillion allergies and grains are one of them on top of being celiac! Corn, rice, potatoes too!! GAH! This recipe book would be a life-saver for me!!
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Mmmmm… Lattice topped sour cherry pie and vanilla bean ice cream.
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Cupcakes win everytime!
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I really miss having crusty breads & biscuits with soups. I’d love to find a comparable grain-free version
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I made our 2nd Kelly entrée tonight. It was yummy – and I even have recreated it a bit differently so dinner is made for tomorrow evening. Now THAT is an accomplishment at our house! I’m finding myself excited to “be in the kitchen” again. It all looks yummy!
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Chewy chocolate chip cookies! My husband loves chocolate chip cookies!! He loves them at night with a glass of milk although I always tell him he shouldn’t be doing that! lol I might let him cheat more if I found a healthy chocolate chip cookie recipe that actually tasted good and was good for him!
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Anything pumpkin…I like pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, etc. I did bake a pumpkin muffin with cream cheese in the middle and a brown sugar crust. HEAVENLY! I would love to try to adapt that recipe.
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I’d love to find a recipe for tiramisu!
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I would love to try the Divine Vegan Chocolate Cake, sounds so good! Loving your website, found it thru Kelly!
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Not entering, but wanted to say what a beautiful job you did on this review (OMG, look at all those glorious desserts … extra special yum for that pear pie!) and I also wanted to add to the chorus with Kelly and Grain-Free Baked Goods love. Such a fabulous cookbook! Good luck to all!
Shirley
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My favorite dessert is cheesecake. Would love a grain free and dairy free version
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Carrot Cake! Or Coconut Cream Pie! Or Cheesecake! I can’t possibly choose…Dessert is my favorite food group!!!
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I didn’t realize that it’s possible to have sweets again with candida diet. Looking forward to read more… Thanks!
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That banana coconut cream pie looks amazing! I would love to try a grain free pie crust.
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I am a huge fan of the raw cookie, they are like an experiment everytime! My fall back goes a little something like this, 1 cup dates, 1/2 cup cocoa, 1-2 tbsp nutbutter, sesame seeds or chia seeds. Throw it all into the food processor until it’s all mixed, shape into cookies and refrigerate! Yum Yum Yum! Great Website lots of great info and topics.
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My favorite dessert is anything super rich and chocolate-y. No, really, I can’t pick! Flourless chocolate torte is of course one of the best, and already grain free
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Oh my, I am new to gluten free so I am missing everything, especially cookies, any cookie, really any cookie. I’m having some serious withdrawal.
Thanks
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I just LOVE berry cheese cake. My mum makes the yummiest cheese cake with my brothers berries, but since discovering I had coeliac two years ago I’ve only attempted to make it once. The base was such a failure that I haven’t tried again. I so miss it. Cheese cake yum yum. I’d love to try your grain free biscuits as a base, do you think that would work?
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I love cookies. Thanks to Kelly, I can enjoy some super tasty ones even on a restricted diet.
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I would love chocolate cream pie
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I just like desserts in general! Chocolate, ice cream, pie, cake… I’m not too picky!
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I have 3 little girls who go ga-ga over cookies and cake! One of them was just diagnosed with a gluten allergy, so it would be great to have those recipes! The chocolate cake in the above picture looks SO good!
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That pie looks divine! And seeing as I usually eat chocolate and nut butter (currently sunflower seed butter) for breakfast, having that pie on hand would definitely be a step up, health-wise
Lemon Delicious is one of my favourite desserts, and my version uses so little flour that I think it could definitely be made grain free. I don’t know how it would work with an egg subsitition though…
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I love raw, vegan cashew “cheese”cake! It’s a winner all around.
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I’d like to try that pie you have pictured above. And of course anything chocolate! The book looks like it’s fantastic.
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pie for breakfast? sold.
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All these pictures made me hungry for a dessert! I would LOVE to try the Divine Vegan Chocolate Cake!
Thank you for yours and Kelly’s kindness!
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I want to try all desserts grain free! but I guess I will pick one… fudgy chocolate cake!
can’t wait to check out spunky coconuts book!
Smiles!
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My absolute favorite dessert is a grain free coconut waffle with ice cream. Yum!
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These all look fantastic!!!!!
But biscuits and such – YUM!
I have been slowly weening myself off of grains in anticipation of going grain-free. I am gluten free and nearly dairy-free (need to kick that one too!) and find I do best without the grains at all. The biscuits are right up my alley! I’m not a huge sweet fan per se, though I will eat them if they are there
I’m excited to try them!
Thank you for sharing this as well as offering up the opportunity to win the cookbook! Crossing my fingers!
Blessings!
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I have yet to attempt a grain free vegan version of carrot cake (have made gluten free ones before) with a soy and nut free “cream cheese” icing. Although your upcoming buttercream icing does sound promising Ricki
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My favorite dessert is pound cake. Whether it’s liqueur-laced or syrup-drizzled, ice cream-ed or fruit-topped, or even just plainly unadorned, a slice of rich golden pound cake is always fine with me.
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I would love to see a coffee / espresso cheesecake!
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My favorite dessert is probably brownies, but I wish I could say I was picky. I just like it all.
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Blackberry pie served warm and topped with vanilla ice cream by luna and larry’s coconut bliss! You have me drooling already!
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thanks for holding this wonderful giveaway! my favorite dessert is chocolate bread pudding and i would LOVE to see a grain free version.
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Anything chocolate
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Ooh, this looks great! I love grains but they do NOT love me back, so I eat grain-free as much as possible. My favorite dessert? That is a really tough one, but following a recent camping trip I might have to say roasted vegan marshmallows. Fortunately, those, for one, are grain-free already (though most certainly not sugar-free).
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Wow those lookdeliciuos. My favorite dessert would be my mothers peanut butter pie. Full of dairy, sugar and wheat I just haven’t been able to convert it yet.
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My favourite dessert? Geeze, coconut cream or lemon pie maybe? I don’t actually think I have a favourite, but it looks like there would be lots of yummy ones to chose from in this book!
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After months of not being able to have cocoa, my body can finally tolerate it, so the chance to explore again the realms of chocolate! Plus Kelly uses coconut flour, so I’d love to try out her chocolate recipes! Those cupcakes you made look fab, Ricki!
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The book looks lovely. I think my favourite dessert is probably baked lemon tart..athough I haven’t had it since going vegan…so for a long time. I’d love to try a vegan and grain free version:)
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My favorite dessert is creme brulee, which is already grain free, but I’d love to see a good grain-free version of sticky toffee pudding.
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oh I would like to get a grain free pie crust recipe. Annette
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my favorite dessert is blueberry pie, an old classic!
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My favorite desserts… Anything chocolate, and old fashioned apple pie with ice cream (hard when I’m gluten free, dairy free, soy free, and trying to be sugar free!!!)
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I would really like to try to make the Divine Vegan Chocolate Cake!
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I would love to try the Vegan chocolate cakes…and the cook book would be awesome!! Just starting the journey of gluten, diary and sugar free.
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My favorite dessert is chocolate brownies with vanilla ice cream. I can’t have eggs or gluten. Not easy to find a recipe for brownies that don’t have one or the other.
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I’m all about grain-free cakes and cookies of any flavor!
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I’d like a good crisp cookie…any kind will do, but snicker doodles are on my mind right now:)
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I would love a gooey grain-free cinnamon roll!
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Pumpkin Cheesecake is my favorite dessert – I need a version that is vegan, soy, sugar, and gluten free! I’ve been anxious to attempt it with soaked nuts or coconut cream, but I haven’t taken the plunge yet! Thanks for a great giveaway!
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You did an amazing job with her cookbook Ricki! I have to admit, the recipes with beans haven’t sucked me in yet, but I’ll have to reconsider.
I’m not entering, as I have this cookbook, but maybe if you pick me then I could get her first cookbook!!
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Since starting the ACD, I try to think about dessert so very little that I can’t even name a favorite! But I do love anything and everything made with coconut flour. Would love Kelly’s book…I always have good luck with her recipes.
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I would love a great recipe for coconut frozen yogurt with chocolate chip cookie dough (of course). . .Have not found one yet.. .and I have LOOKED!
Its the frozen yogurt part that is eluding me. . .Can you help???
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Ricki, I would love to win this cookbook! I am on the same diet/lifestyle as you ACD! You are right, this is a perfect helper for the 2 of us that love sweets! I wrote your email address down, so I will email you soon!
I would love to make these vegan chocolate cakes (mini) with the divine looking frostening.
The egg free grain free biscuits, I would love to make these, but without the buckwheat or teff. I would use a gluten free wheatfree flour. From my understanding, buckwheat is still a no no for persons with wheat allergies.
Thank you Ricki for all you do to help others!
Blessings,
Jeanie
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My favourite dessert is creme caramel. Yum!
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Coconut pudding, hands down!
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i’d love to see some pumpkin bread or cupcakes!
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I am so in love with the Lava Cake recipe! I would like to see a gum free biscuit recipe.
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I love chocolate, so those chocolate cupcakes look amazing!
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I would love German Apple Cake!
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Ice cream with brownie pieces in it, mmm…. Since I’m no longer tolerating sugar, I haven’t indulged in Ice Cream for a few months now but I believe Kelley has some wonderful recipes right up my alley!
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I LOVE your adorable little mini chocolate cakes! My mini muffin pan is far underused… Maybe I’ll have to give these a shot!
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One of my favorite desserts is banana nut bread. I make mine with almond flour and use stevia and palm sugar to sweeten it.
I would love to win Kelly’s new cookbook! I already use some of her recipes from her blog. I have a batch of Chai Granola in the kitchen right now, and they are so yummy.
Eating this way has helped me lose a significant amount of weight over the course of three years (147 pounds to be exact). I’ll neer go back to eating the way I did. Following a gluten, dairy and sugar-free diet has been the best thing for me!
Thanks to all the bloggers who have helped me fix nutritious meals…you rock!
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I’m currently craving Boston Cream Pie, though a close second would be any kind of crumb/coffeecake.
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