Goodie Goodie Gluten-Free®

I had to share this!  Recently I have been inspired to bake with the essence of flowers.  So many cakes and cookies use artificial flavorings and colorings that can have added hidden gluten.  It's always best to use natural. Icings, cakes, cookies galore: instead of artificial food coloring try veggies and fruit juices to get the color you desire.   Baby Cakes Vegan and GF Bakery uses Beet Juice, sometimes cherry juice to get the red color and other plant based foods to get other kinds of natural coloring.  I have used fresh Lemons and Oranges to get the flavor I desire and the frosting adapts to the color of the fruit.  Just a light tint.  But the taste is a WORLD of difference.  Instead of it tasting sugary, suppose you are using this for a buttercream icing, it tastes fresh, like I took a bite out of an orange.  It's quite lovely. Most recently I have been curious about cooking with flowers.  I bought two bundles of fresh lavender flowers at the Farmer's Marke