Sno Balls

Name: Sno Balls
Yield: makes 12
Ingredients: 1 cup unsweetened coconut; 1 1/2 tablespoons India Tree natural red food coloring; 3/4 cup white or brown rice flour; 1/2 cup sorghum flour; 1/2 cup potato starch; 1/4 cup arrowroot; 1 tablespoon baking powder; 1/4 teaspoon baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum; 1 teaspoon salt; 2/3 cup agave nectar; 1/2 cup melted refined coconut oil or canola oil; 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce; 1/4 cup vanilla extract; 1 teaspoon lemon extract; 1/2 cup hot water; 1 1/2 cups Ricemellow Crème (see page 17)

December 9, 2011

Like bubble-gum ice cream, Sno Balls were one of those grocery-store items I coveted as a very young girl. All I knew was that they looked like Barbie food and that was precisely what I wanted and needed. And then I tried one. Absolutely awful. Like, terrible. I wondered how something so pretty could taste so wretched. And then, when it came time to write this book, I decided, No, something so adorable need not be so incredibly foul-tasting. So I reworked them. In the process, I stumbled on a new bakery favorite. What’s more, you get two recipes in the process of making a batch of these; head over to the recipe for Bread Pudding (page 102) and see just one idea for what you can do with the unused part of a cupcake.

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