Diabetes Blog Week #6: Biscuits

Theme today ART!

Do some “traditional” art like drawing, painting, collage or any other craft you enjoy. Or look to the literary arts and perhaps write a d-poem or share and discuss a favorite quote. Groove to some musical arts by sharing a song that inspires you diabetes-wise, reworking some song lyrics with a d-twist, or even writing your own song. Don’t forget dramatic arts too, perhaps you can create a diabetes reality show or play. These are just a starting point today – there are no right or wrong ways to get creative!

This going to be a stretch. For art, Bigfoot choose biscuit baking because strawberry shortcake season. Shortcake require biscuit. This low-carb biscuit = Bigfoot lazy riff on Elena’s Pantry gluten-free biscuits. Perfect for slice in half, place in bowl, top w. sliced strawberries + whipped cream. Also perfect for next day breakfast w. jam. 6g CHO/biscuit. (S i x   g r a m s.)

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I always like to show my arithmetic, because I make a  lot of mistakes. Combine dry ingredients in Cuisinart, then pulse in butter until you see evenly-sized coarse crumbs, then mix in eggs/honey until cohesive lump of dough forms. I’m sure you could do this without a food processor, by whatever method normal Southern people use to make biscuits.

Roll dough between two sheets parchment to about 1″ thick or thicker. Very easy, very compliant dough.

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Yum yum flecks of butter.

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I cut the rolled dough into rough 8 squares. You could use a biscuit cutter, but then you have to reform the scraps, etc. etc. infinity. I like square biscuits.

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Bake at 350F for about 10 minutes. Rotate pan & bake 3-5 minutes more, until golden brown. These smell like absolute ass while warm. Somehow they are delicious once cool. While the biscuits bake, slice up a large amount of strawberries and sprinkle with a little (insert name of least controversial sweetener in your life) and stir. For me it was one packet of Truvia.

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I had no whipped cream so we used the tail end of this very delicious vanilla ice cream.

biscuit (6) + berries (5) + 1/4c ice cream (12) = 23g CHO

biscuit (6) + berries (5) + 1/6c ice cream (10) = 23g CHO. Would be much lower with whipped cream instead of ice cream. I think.

Verdict = three snob-thumbs up. (Bigfoot thumbs up too but not have snob-thumbs.)

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OCD Pancakes Day 4

Carb-reduction/aesthetic/Dexcom pancake experiment continued:

Today full paleo: egg + coconut milk + almond flour + baking powder + butter for pan. Batter so, so gloppy/eggy/hurl. Don’t look.

I mixed it more thoroughly, and then it was significantly less repulsive.

I mixed it thoroughly, and then it was significantly less repulsive.

While cook, fragrance atmosphere scrambled eggs.

White chocolate chips, you're a hard habit to break. But you're just a 3g hard habit. Plus 10g CHO in maple syrup.

White chocolate chips, you’re a hard habit to break. But you’re just a 3g hard habit. And real maple syrup, you’re an even harder and carby-er habit to break. My whole family loves you to bits.

Almost there.

Almost there.

Bubs not notice egg fragrance.

BIGFOOT: Notice any difference?

BUBS: (Eating.) Hmm. Maybe.

BIGFOOT: Better or worse?

BUBS: Maybe a little bit worse. Sorry. Yesterday’s** were the best.

(** Yesterday’s = 1T almond flour/1T pancake mix + egg + coconut milk + butter for pan.) (+chocolate chips, + maple syrup.)

Dexcom reports—same/same:

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waiting for lift off

still waiting

still waiting

I am curious if it is ever possible to eat maple syrup and not get a monkey schlong.

Here we go! Is it ever possible to eat maple syrup and not get a monkey schlong? If the timing is just right?

1+ hour after eating--the beginning of the plateau?

1+ hour after eating–the beginning of the plateau. He was 120something & straight arrow by snack time at school. Whatever. I don’t care. I’m barely keeping track.

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A visiting PWT2D in residence left this behind at a friend’s house, and the friend passed it along to us. Yay!

Summary: yesterday pancake taste better, equal BG performance as per Dexcom. Therefore probably maybe stick with middle path, as always turns out best in every case this life except maybe for Better Sweaters wherein more sweaters = morebetter.

Imagine if Bubs like this sugarless maple syrup style product—! Thank you kind person leave sugarless treat on front porch.

To be continued, but probably not with so much blog about.

For official record, new standard:

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Imagine how bright the future would be if I made this in a Vitamix.

Pancakes, Pancakes: Day 3 Pancake Mania.

Eggy-er and eggy-er.

As per the slouching toward paleo plan: today's pancakes had 1T Arrowhead Mills pancake mix & 1T almond flour & 1 egg & one dribble of unsweetened coconut milk. And butter for the pan. And maple syrup.

As per the slouching toward paleo plan: today’s pancakes had 1T Arrowhead Mills pancake mix & 1T almond flour & 1 egg & one dribble of unsweetened coconut milk. And butter for the pan. And maple syrup.

Batter so gloopy.

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I was worried the visible almond flecks would disrupt the diner’s enjoyment but they went unnoticed.

Somehow this made nine silver dollars, each with 7/9ths of a gram.

Somehow this made NINE silver dollars, each with 7/9ths of a gram. Oh–but there’s a chocolate chip in each one. So more like 1.5g CHO per silver dollar. We still use tree syrup. That adds 14g CHO to the plate. But he never uses it all. So about 25g CHO for this shebang. Is there a sugar-free syrup that a person would want to eat? (Smuckers and Hungry Jack have been rejected.)

 

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Again, he did not notice any difference. The batter was so, so gaggingly eggy. They smelled and looked normal once they were cooked.

Dexcom result:

Is that kind of something? How quickly the BG dropped after the pancake oomph? A rolling hill would feel better to a person, I imagine.

Is that kind of something? How quickly the BG dropped after the pancake oomph? A rolling hill would feel better to a person, I imagine.

Tomorrow try: just egg, 2T almond flour, dribble coconut milk, butter, T maple syrup. Just for experiment.

Dexcom Shape Game. Turn on side, maybe Quentin Blake-inspired sketch of Bermuda Bobby.

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A Bobby wouldn’t really wear this shade of lipstick, but I couldn’t figure out how else to indicate “this is what I was thinking could be the mouth.”

Moron Pancakes II

Today Phase I lower-carb pancake extravaganza: same egg, half as much everything else as original Satisfactory Pancake.

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Phase I formula

Batter felt too eggy against whisk in Bigfoot bowl. Brain felt sure Bubs find repulsive.

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It globbed off of the spoon like little omelets. And then I put one white chocolate chip into each mini-omelet. Gross and grosser.

Au contraire! Even when badgered w. leading questions, Bubs not bother articulate difference. Do these taste different? No. Are they kind of eggy? No. They taste good. They are the same. Do you think it seems like fewer pancakes? I don’t know. Do you like them? Yes. I think you should move your pump. I’m not sure it’s maple syrup-proof. Okay.

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Nice things about silver dollars: easy to flip. No fork required. 2g CHO per extremely eggy pancake.

Dexcom report. Here we go:

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30-ish minutes after eating; 40-ish after bolus: no signs of anything.

Seven minutes later:

Where plateau? Such suspense:

It's over.

I called game over at 8:20.

Here’s the latest Dexcom fashion in our house: Tallygear across the chest.

Across the chest and under the arm, as people on cruises are taught to wear their passports, in order to outfox pickpockets.

Like a bandolier. Or a defensive traveler with a passport case strapped on in a complicated manner, in order to outfox pickpockets.

Summary: results + schemes.

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Slouching toward paleo. You can make a crumpet, waffle, or pancake with zero carbs—just eggs, almond flour, and baking powder. But it will probably be too gross to eat, right? Imagine if you had morning sickness and someone gave you eggs with white chocolate chips. Stop. Don’t imagine it. I am sorry.

Good Things IX

La la love you.

La la love you. Don’t mean maybe.

Dexcom G4

OMG. Now over one week CGM. Still love. LOVE!

  • ACCURATE: Wake up BG 105, CGM show 106 <—typical
  • APPROPRIATELY ANNOYING: Vibration mode wake up parent no doubt. Frequency = whiny baby + aggressive, evil junebug
  • TRUSTY: so far never miss low BG
  • PARENTS SLEEP SO WELL! Trust little buzzy as if $30,000 Hypoglycemia Dog. Last night bedtime 198 w. straight arrow. BG meter 203. Bigfoot give 1/2 unit correction for drop approx. 40 points, then sleep until 6:30AM. Because know will wake up if Bubs approach low. Before CGM: 1/2 unit correction, stay awake read diabetes blogs/watch Netflix/Hulu 2 hours make sure drop/not drop too much. With CGM just sleep. Wake up refreshed, make Important Decisions/focaccia dough before 9AM
  • MARITAL AID: B. Spouse develop new seduction technique: CGM says 115 with a straight arrow and they just started watching Arrested Development
  • MEAL/CARB TRAINING: can see how assorted foods poke BG. Oatmeal = spike. Half oatmeal = no spike. Mini bagel cream cheese = no spike. Two mini bagel cream cheese = also no spike. CGM teach Bigfoot best way feed child for maximum not-miss-class-for-visit-nurse-w-spike-drop-low-feeling-but-not-low mid-morning @ school. Miss less class, feel better health during school, etc.
  • NO DRAWBACK FOR CHILD: Bubs like CGM too. Part is excitement new gadget. Part is not notice/mind sensor

Tennis 

photo-1So far Spring 2013 little dreary Rhode Island. But any time not snow/rain, Bubs ask Tennis? One mile bike ride to tennis courts. So far tennis = no drama. Fun sans bad sportsmanship! Exercise sans low! (Poss. because no one Bigfoot family very good @tennis. More like walk around court pick up balls w. occasional racquet swing.) So far perfect balance = 10g CHO watery drink before bike back home, numbers drop little bit but no biggies.

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Bigfoot sure as learn more re artificial sweet effect on insulin, become more confused diet drink OK/no OK. Know people say diet soda bad bc stimulate insulin, but for T1D person, maybe kind of moot point. No? Anyway, Bubs like this new sugar-free rootbeer. Very tasty.

Cauliflower Mash

Every low carb person recommend put cauliflower where potato belong. Bigfoot family never big mashed potato consumer but last night try one fist-size Yukon Gold potato + human head-size (incl. stem) cauliflower. Steam all until soft, mash with olive oil, salt. Add butter/sour cream for children for make more potato-y. Bubs, Bigfoot, Bigfoot Spouse love! Jack refrain.

Try Half + Adhere + OK Cracker

Day one with half oatmeal. Tiny hump.

Day one with half oatmeal. Tiny hump. Shoowump.

Aim small, miss small.

Whirlwind romance CGM continue. Even though CGM reveal—Darling, I hate to be the one break it to you, but I knew you would want to know—consistent post-oatmeal spike (double arrow up over 200ish, then swoop down).

Bubs’s usual oatmeal = 1/2c raw oats, 1 stevia packet, pinch salt, cook in water, add 1T maple syrup, 1/4 c milk on top = 45g CHO.

Day 2 half oatmeal.

Day 2 half oatmeal. A bigger hump but a nice, gentle descent. Blooomp. (During the red part he was actually in the 80′s-90′s.) (For my DCYF record.)

Promise not starve child, but try half portion same oatmeal formula w. same I:C ratio —> no spike. Two days in row.

Bubs not notice less food in bowl. Es precocupado? Bigfoot Would you like more to eat? Bubs: Why? No. I am full. Bigfoot I only gave you half of the normal amount. Bubs: You did?

Sticky

Day 5 CGM: sensor fell out. Despite many layers tape.

From basketball court Mom? My thing fell off. I can see the string sticking out and it won’t go back in. Bubs attempt push sensor wire back into belly by hand? Gah. Remove. Sensor wire approximately 7 inches long. Gah! Bigfoot eyes! All around sensor: original adhesive, clear IV adhesive patch from specialty pharmacy, also first aid tape, also 2nd clear IV thing from specialty pharmacy, also (this courtesy Bigfoot spouse) five “flexible fabric” band-aids in careful pentagon formation. Bigfoot family attempts adhesive not exemplary. Look here. Look here. Look HERE! Really need Flexifix Opsite. Or Skin-tac. (All links = beautiful stickjobs/proper info.) Maybe arrive tomorrow. Please, Easter Bunny.

Meanwhile, visit CVS medical adhesive department. Find paper tape, assorted widths (useful to no one/person v. relaxed standard adhesive performance?), tape for Cesarean incision site (sound serious heavy-duty but too narrow) + tape for hold sides of knife-fight wound closed while on lam (too little). Choose 2 x 2″ window bandage, 8 pieces for $8. Seem work OK but for safety, not permit Bubs bathe.

This time (Sensor #2) alcohol swab site area, then IV Prep Pad for extra sticky. Must leave skin that will be pierced clear of IV Prep goop. That tricky. Mark w. pen? But ink not sterile. This time Bigfoot line up poker with pale freckle. Bubs not many freckles. Not sure how aim next time.

OK Cracker

We ate these crackers with the jalapeno-cilantro humus from Engine2. The children declined this offer.

We ate these crackers with the jalapeno-cilantro hummus from Engine 2. The children declined this offer.

Same low carb lavash quesadilla/pizza make fine cracker. (Recipe: place 1 sheet lavash on a sheet pan, brush or drizzle w. olive oil, sprinkle on flaky salt, bake in oven @350 until toasty brown.) (Break into 20 pieces, approx 1/3g CHO per piece.) Similar Stacy’s pita chip, but less delicious for easy self control.

Bonus: something nice

Matchy-matchy.

So matchy! Check out 3PM. What what.

School nurse very interested CGM. Throughout day, keeps notes on #s. Bigfoot love. Until buy old PC, not able download CGM data, not able see specific #s. Very treasure nurse notes.

Thursday Day 4. Numbers so matching. This thing awesome.

Meanwhile, when calibrate sensor #2 w. two BGs rapid succession, VerioIQ report 86 + 112. Guess that +/-…some small-enough % for FDA approve. But so dishearten. Not recommend rapid succession BG test for true believer.

Good Things VIII

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80-ish before dinner, 120-ish 3h pp.

80-ish before dinner, 120-ish 3h pp. This is probably how it will always be from now on.

Spike-free Taco

1.65 (meat) tacos (plain), 7 sugar snap peas, water, Hoodsie. Total 30g CHO. Wait for spike. No spike.

Clues for possible repeat BG success story: dinner < 40g CHO + boys bike around block after dinner/before Hoodsie.

Babybel looks good in green.

Babybel looks good in green.

Green Cheese

Babybel now available in green wrapper! Not matter what variety. Even if cute new green indicate painful habanero flavor, Bigfoot buy. But green = blandy-bland mozzarella! Lunchbox thrill.

Green Beans

Addictive green beans. Sweet-spicy-salty. Bigfoot new hobby green bean evangelist. It recipe:

Heat a big wok until it is almost smoking. Swirl 1T peanut oil (or whatever high-heat oil) into the pan and add 1 pound of trimmed green beans (fatter American kind preferable to haricot verts). Stir frequently for about 5 minutes, until brown in spots. Add 2 scallions (sliced–white and green parts), 3 cloves garlic (minced), 1T minced or grated ginger, 2T tamari or liquid aminos, 1 tsp. red pepper flakes, and 1 tsp. agave or honey. Stir it all around until the beans are lightly coated in sauce. Devour.

Approx. 1/2g CHO per bean.

Old School Pharmacy

Road trip specialty pharmacy, seek Flexifix Opsite for CGM sensor tape-down. Not available. Instead see many other inducements take good care self:

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Powerful enough to anesthetize a horse. In the toothpaste aisle

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Pro Series “bouffant style,” found across from the bunion splints

Knitted tubes, available by the yard for a variety of needs. Could be nice as arm warmers.

Knitted tubes, available by the yard for a variety of needs. Could be nice as arm warmers.

This pharmacy owned by gentleman w. Type 1 (Medtronic pump, uses integrated CGM), run by T1 Gent’s wife + T1GW’s identical twin sister.

Confusing! Until realize one sister has white lab coat, other has Talbots gray wool pants, both patent leather tassel loafers, pretty frosted bangs.

Coat sister able place special Flexifix order w. $5 home delivery.

Ahhh, he got the velcro: unisex Mary Janes in the diabetes department

Awww, he got the velcro: unisex Mary Janes in the diabetes department. The styles are timeless! I hope this is because our generation of D-people have such good technology they never get the foot things.

Patience

137 w. straight arrow. Reading a bedtime story, an audio-visual book by Matt Groening

137 w. straight arrow. Reading a bedtime story, an audio-visual book by Matt Groening

All night Dexcom buzz low warning. Bubs ride too close edge. (Edge currently = 85mg/dL.)

Around midnight. Buzz alarm LOW. 56. FIFTY-SIX! Finger prick: 80. Juicy Juice 15g CHO. Wait for arrow up. Wait wait wait. Wait years. Arrow straight. More orange dot, more buzz. Finger prick: 82. Wait. Just wait. No more juice. Finally, 45 minutes, arrow up 85.

Not need finger prick confirm; faith in arrow.

85 and arrow up---out of the warning zone.

On the up, but not too up.

Whither Mini-Luna?

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Just like the real Luna: a cookie with some hazy credibility that makes it potentially a not completely embarrassing meal instead of just a 1979 dessert

Long story short then long: not able acquire mini-size Luna bar. No more Target. No more Amazon. (This 11g CHO mini size perfect for close-to-maybe-low BG before recess.)

Find recipe. Make. Too sweet! Argh! Bigfoot teeth! Make again. Too crumbly. Mess! Make again. Little crumble but perfect otherwise.

BIGFOOT: It’s supposed to be like a Luna bar. Do you think it’s like a Luna bar?

BUBS: Mmmm

JACK: I don’t know. But it’s really good

Pull these out of your standard medium-brow pantry: brown rice krispies, cocoa powder, protein powder, unsweetened coconut, ground flax, coconut oil, coconut nectar, almond butter, milk chocolate chips

Pull these out of your latte-sipping/volvo-driving pantry: brown rice krispies, cocoa powder, protein powder, unsweetened coconut, ground flax, coconut oil, coconut nectar**, almond butter, milk chocolate chips

Amounts + carb math:

The mathematical proof for 9g CHO per sixteenth.

The mathematical proof for 9g CHO per sixteenth.

Soy protein powder skeeve Bigfoot out little bit but no apparent flavor upon enter bar.

Faux Mini Luna Bars

in the style of chocolate dipped coconut Luna bars

Line an 8 x 8 dish with parchment paper.

In a large bowl, combine 2c (60g) brown rice cereal, 1/2 c (50g) ground flax, 1/2 c (40g) unsweetened coconut, one ounce (one scoop/ 28g) protein powder, and 1T (5g) cocoa powder. Mix this all up with your hands and squeeze hard to smash some of the crispy cereal until less than half of the cereal pieces are still puffed up. Obviously at this point you’ll want to rinse off your hands.

In a small saucepan, melt together 1T coconut oil, 6T (100g) almond butter, and 1/4 c (75g) coconut nectar. Stir around until everything is melted together, then scrape every last bit of it into the dry ingredients and fold it all together with a rubber scraper until everything is combined. Press this firmly into the parchment-lined dish.

Without washing the saucepan, melt together 1 tsp. coconut oil and 1/4c (60g) chocolate chips. The coconut oil will make the melted chocolate nice and runny so you can spread it easily over the bars. Spread the melted chocolate (easily) over the bars and freeze for one hour. Use a sharp knife or bench scraper to cut 16 bars and tell everyone they have 9g each if you trust my math. Store in an airtight container in the fridge or freezer.

After neatly labeling and sealing up and closing the freezer door, realize you could have purchased Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Luna bars and cut them into smaller pieces.

Sprinkling coconut over the melted chocolate was kind of a dick move. Real Luna bars don't have anything like that going on.

Sprinkling coconut over the melted chocolate was kind of a dick move. Real Luna bars don’t have anything like that going on.

**Coconut nectar: allegedly low glycemic index.

Ten

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Chewbacca scares me every time I enter the house, even if WHILE ENTERING I am thinking out loud, “Remember the Chewbacca. Remember the Chewbacca.”

Yesterday Birthday #10: Bubs very fine outlook, always find good part.

After open birthday card contain check: Alli sent me thirty bucks! Woo-hoooo!

After open birthday card contain signature from sender: Great Grandma always chooses the best cards for me! Look: she must have remembered that I liked Spiderman when I was little. And there are stars on the envelope; look, isn’t this such a nice envelope? Can we save the envelope AND the card?

And this, all sincere: Woo-hooo! My 2nd birthday with diabetes! Now I’m pretty professional!

This tome has a description of each episode of The Simpsons, Seasons 1 - 20.

This tome has a description of each episode of The Simpsons, Seasons 1 – 20. Happy birthday!

Sure, son pretty professional. Meanwhile, parent still surprised BG 394 1.5hr. pp. Surprised despite breakfast = Bubs’s favorite cake = Bundt cake. But whole wheat applesauce cake—could be health food 1983. But one ton brown sugar. But not many carbs more than usual oatmeal/maple syrup.

Very curious peek Ping history see if Bubs really entered bolus or maybe forgot in birthday excitement? Seriously: 394 w. insulin seem…? Impossible?

Same time, wish evolve into person not need figure everything out, learn let go, learn not need investigate every, every thing. Not think 394: that’s probably abrading his retinas**. Om.

This not medical advice: try this cake + see if BG turn freaky:

Little Birthday Bundt Cake

This doesn’t sound like much, and it’s very easy to make, and it is B’s favorite cake. This year I found half-size Bundt pans and so hooray: we had just 8 slices. Just right because I don’t want half of a cake sitting around screaming my name all day. 1/8th of this recipe has 55g CHO. To make a normal-size Bundt cake, obviously you’d need a standard-size Bundt pan and to double the amounts of everything.

measure into a sifter on a plate:

1.5c white whole wheat flour, 2tsp. cinnamon, 1 tsp. ginger, 1/4 tsp nutmeg (about 1/5th of a nutmeg), ½ tsp. baking soda, 1/4 tsp. salt, and 1/4 tsp. baking powder

whisk together into a large mixing bowl:

½c sugar, 3/4 c brown sugar, 1/2c grapeseed oil (or whatever neutral oil), 2 medium eggs (or 1.5 large eggs), 1T vanilla, 1c applesauce (preferably at room temperature)

I love cake.

I love cake.

  1. Heat oven to 350. Very very thoroughly butter and flour (or spray with Baker’s Joy) the adorable 1/2-size Bundt pan
  2. Sift the dry ingredients into the sugar-vanilla-applesauce bowl
  3. Gently mix until just combined
  4. Pour and scrape the batter into the prepared pan
  5. Bake for 45 minutes. It should be dark brown and firm to the touch. If it’s not, bake ten minutes more and check again. And so on. This cake usually takes much longer to bake than I think it’s going to
  6. Cool the baked cake on a rack in the pan for five minutes; remove from pan and cool completely
  7. Pretty: dust with confectioner’s sugar before serving
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Have a friend over after school to eat some cake I mean play Minecraft.

8-slice cake perfect this birthday. Breakfast: family of 4 one slice each. Have friend over after school: 3 boys one slice each. Remaining slice: halve. Half for lunch box, half for lunch box next day or for lord over brother then magnanimous give to brother.

**It is extremely unlikely that this is how things happen—I’m still not reading about those parts of this

MORE CAKE SCIENCE:

Laura make same cake.

Leighann make same cake, accidentally leave out all brown sugar, report cake still delicious!

Bigfoot make again, omit granulated sugar, use brown sugar only = just as good as original. AMAZE!

This Could Be It…….What We Have Been Waiting For Since Diagnosis: Raspberry Bars!!!!

Double raspberry

Double raspberry

Celebrate Yesterday’s Cure News w. new favorite raspberry bars.

Start w. this recipe. Decrease sugar. Replace flour w. almond flour. Mix all in Cuisinart for avoid wash bowl. Bake approximately 2x as long as original. Cool to room temperature, then chill in fridge for easier cutting. Still kind of delicate. Almond flour not so sturdy. Real Simple original recipe report 22g CHO per 1/16th recipe. This version  CHO13g.

If I weren't me, I wouldn't trust my math so I thought I should show my work.

If I weren’t me, I wouldn’t trust my math so I thought I should show my work.

Raspberry Bars
(Makes 16, 13g CHO each)

Preheat oven to 375F.

In a food processor, or in a bowl with a pastry cutter/two knives, combine 120g/1c. almond flour, 80g sugar (that is less than 1/2 cup but more than 1/3 cup), 1/4 tsp. plain saltand 10T butter, cut into chunks. Mix until the combo resembles wet sand.

If using a food processor, briefly pulse in 70g (3/4c) oats. You want to leave them pretty much whole. If using a bowl, knead them in with your hands until evenly distributed.

photo(1)-1Set 1/2 cup of this yum aside. Press the rest into a buttered 9×9″ pan. Spread 1/2 cup of raspberry jam all the way to the edges. Then smash on with a fork 1c fresh or frozen raspberries. Next sprinkle the remaining buttery/oaty crust on top. Bake for 45 minutes or until golden brown on top and baked-looking around the edges.

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Before baking. Stay cool.

Cool to room temperature, then put the whole pan in the fridge. Once cold, slice into 16 squares or triangles.

Next time Bigfoot try less sugar, think 50g OK. Realize this not actual low carb food, more like: if forced gunpoint eat raspberry bar, this excellent choice.

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In case it’s not clear, the US quarter is there to indicate size.

Bigfoot say other thing

Bigfoot sure this not right placement Pinterest button

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