Tag: nut free

Chocolate Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting

Chocolate Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting

There’s something about the flavor combination of chocolate and strawberry that seems perfect for Valentine’s Day, or any day for that matter,   We do our best to eat seasonally here at 1840 Farm.  Eating seasonally during February in New England dictates that fresh strawberries are Read More

Peanut-less Brittle

Peanut-less Brittle

It was many years ago that a peanut allergy came home to roost at 1840 Farm.  Since then, we’ve become a nut free house.  We’ve been creative and learned how to modify some of our family’s favorite recipes to exclude nuts and still include great Read More

Chocolate Malt Cupcakes with Malted Buttercream Frosting

Chocolate Malt Cupcakes with Malted Buttercream Frosting

Many of the birthdays and holidays celebrated at 1840 Farm during the year depend on these cupcakes to mark the occasion as special. They are a wonderful combination of chocolate, vanilla, and malt flavors that merge to provide a depth of flavor not usually found Read More

Chocolate Chip Gooey Butter Cake

Chocolate Chip Gooey Butter Cake

Legend has it that Gooey Butter Cake happened by way of a baker’s accident. The story places a German baker in or around St. Louis in the 1930s or 1940s. While making a cake, the baker accidentally reversed the proportion of butter and flour in Read More

Cookie Memories – Chocolate Malt Crinkle Cookies

Cookie Memories – Chocolate Malt Crinkle Cookies

We have been baking a lot of cookies lately.  No one here at 1840 Farm seems to mind.  So far we’ve had chocolate crinkles, chocolate mint meltaways, oatmeal white chocolate chip, coconut macaroons, espresso chocolate chip shortbread, and Mr.1840 Farm’s famous chocolate chip.  When I Read More

Raspberry Crumble Bars

We’re deep into raspberry season here at 1840 Farm.  Every day for the past few weeks, we have found ourselves out in the raspberry patch reaching into the brambles to pluck the ripe berries and tenderly place them in their berry baskets.  It’s not a Read More