Monthly Archive: August 2020

August 24, 2020

Gluten-Free Coffee Cake, But With No Coffee

I learned something new yesterday…coffee cake doesn’t actually have coffee in it. It’s called that because it complements coffee so well! I mean I’ve had coffee cake before but I guess I always assumed it had coffee in it…huh. Anyway, made a great gluten-free coffee cake with fruit from a recipe right on the back of this box of liveGfree Pancake and Baking Mix that I recently bought at Aldi’s. Never tried it before, but I saw this recipe on the back of the box and it looked good, so why not! Unfortunately, I don’t see the recipe online anywhere...

Hello! My name is Jennifer and I've been gluten-free for over 18 years now. Shortly after the birth of my second child, I had stomach issues nonstop, headaches, hives, anxiety, and a lot of brain fog for the better part of a year. I went to see an allergist, a naturalist, and an herbalist. I tried many elimination diets, used tons of herbs, and still couldn't figure out what was wrong. I tried eliminating dairy and yeast and finally tried eliminating gluten. Hallelujah!! After a few months, I felt so much better. I did at the time see a GI doctor and had my blood tested for celiac, but he couldn't tell me with 100% certainty if I did have celiac because I had started eating gluten-free a month earlier and there was nooooo way I was going back to feeling horrible, so I consider myself as having non-celiac gluten sensitivity and haven't eaten gluten ever since.