The Goode Life is written by a fellow military mom, and her toddler has VLCAD (Very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase) deficiency, which sounds rougher than LPLD in some ways (I hope she writes up his diagnosis story some day, but it will be a hard and emotional thing for her to put into words, I think). Anyway, judging from the recipes she has on her blog, she has put a lot of effort into cooking beautiful and delicious food, even though her child is only a toddler! I admit, sometimes I don't put all that much effort into trying new recipes for my girls, since I figure they are so young. They won't miss cinnamon rolls since they don't remember them, right? But she inspired me to try her recipe for Easter, and I'm so glad I did!
I followed her recipe posted here but since I like to soak my grains and use my bread maker, I combined the milk, apple sauce, flour, egg whites, and sugar and combined them in the bread machine bowl with 2 Tablespoons of non fat yogurt. I put 1/4 cup white flour on top, and put the yeast and salt on top of the dry flour. I let the whole thing sit in the breadmaker overnight, with the maker set to automatically finish the 'dough' cycle by the time I would be up for Easter morning. That morning, I took the finished bread dough out and ended up having to mix another whole cup of white flour in to make a good doughy texture, and then placed it in a bowl greased with a little coconut oil like she recommends, to rise for an hour in a warm oven, covered with a damp, clean towel. I used a pastry brush to paint the melted coconut oil onto the bowl, to keep it to a minimum.
I followed the rest of her directions for the inside filling and baking and the frosting, and topped them all with raisins (which were carefully picked off and avoided anyway, oh well.
Both my girls loved them!
Happy Easter!!!
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