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This buttery and delicious caramel sauce is so good poured over fresh apples and even ice cream!  It would be even better drizzled over a fresh apple pice.  Using II Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!® cuts down on the fat, but not the flavor.  My grandparents loved I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!®  and most of my family still enjoys it.  While I love real butter, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!® holds many memories!  My grandparents would buy it back when it was in a round tub and melt it over fresh homemade batch of Pierogi.  To me Pierogi isn’t the same without I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!®.  I really love to have it and treasure those memories we had.  It’s funny how most of my memories only mom’s side are about food.  We’re definitely a foodie family.

It’s a cookie, it’s a scone, it’s Chocolate Chip Scone, Cookies!

I like scones, Kay likes cookies.  So I made a combination of the two and we’re both happy!  When we went to the Gluten and Allergen Free Expo at the beginning of the month we found a few chocolate brands that don’t contain soy.  We typically used Enjoy Life Foods whenever we made chocolate chip cookies, but this time we tried PASCHA chocolate this time.  PASCHA is free of the top allergens.  I fell in love with the coffee chocolate bar I bought at the expo.   Since Kay was diagnosed with FPIES we’ve found so many amazing products and options.

A delicious and creamy cheesecake topped with beautiful organic strawberries and allergen-free chocolate | Chocolate Covered Strawberry Vanilla Bean Cheesecake Recipe 

My daughter has never enjoyed a bite of cheesecake.  She’s two years old!  Obviously, with all her new food passes, we had to take it slow and we had a bunch of hiccups.  Cream cheese caused us a ton of confusion with her FPIES (what is fpies?) food allergy.

For awhile she would have a chronic reaction whenever she had cream cheese, but she’s never experienced a chronic reaction with any other food.  We waited quite a few months to try cream cheese again.  Just recently we also found a graham cracker that has NO soy!  Plus they’re non-gmo and even organic!

Kay loves to snack on these honey grahams, and as soon as we found these we knew we had to try cream cheese again.  Thankfully it went well and she can now safely eat cream cheese!  Of course, we had to rush and make a cheesecake.  Not just any cheesecake.. but a vanilla bean cheesecake.  Kay loves chocolate and berries so we obviously had to top with chocolate covered strawberries.  We’re not a fan of cooked down fruit so we just left them as is.

Recently we went to the Gluten and Allergen Free Expo in Secaucus, NJ.  Kay had an absolute blast.  We went last year and found Enjoy Life Foods Chocolate to trial, and has been by far our favorite food trial.  Thankfully Enjoy Life is free of most allergens and of course it’s soy free too!  Due to Kay’s FPIES she still cannot eat soy, chicken, or oatmeal.  They had a new crunchy cookie this year that we hadn’t tried yet, and Kay fell in love right away!  As soon as I tasted the Crunchy Double Chocolate Cookie, I thought.. COOKIES AND CREAM!  

Cupcake decorating, ooh fun! Now that Halloween is here there are an abundance of very fun “treat” ideas around and when I saw this Wilton Graveyard kit I totally had to get it! I made a: Graveyard of Parenting     I got this Graveyard set at Party City but I am sure they sell...

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