My Icing Looks Like Oatmeal…..

My Icing looks like Oatmeal…..

I have had many challenges in creating food my family will eat in spite of all of our many food sensitivities and allergies. Birthdays being the worst offenders because I am not an excellent cook or baker but still want my kids to have a birthday cake or cupcakes that they feel “celebrate” their day. Instead, we have had many parties where the icing has flopped, the cake has crumbled or sunk, and I feel all the work has been in vain.

As the kids have gotten better and are food allergies have improved, we have added in goat’s milk products succesfully. Well, the addition of goat’s butter transformed our entire world and gave me new found hope for birthday treats.

I began making an icing recipe recently with goat’s butter and organic powdered sugar and palm shortening. It has turned out a half a dozen times, but not this day. I’m talking to some friends who are over and am calmly mixing the frosting and realize that my bowl looks more like oatmeal than icing.

I had no more powdered sugar, but felt confident it needed more sugar to fix its lumpiness. Nope. That’s not it. I quickly put it in the refrigerator, thinking maybe I softened the butter too much and it needed to harden a bit. Nope. Just colder oatmeal looking icing.

Finally, one of my friends, saved my hide by calling in reinforcements (her dad who is a great cook) to ask how to save the lumpy oatmeal frosting…….milk. Yep. This did it.

Now, I might have tried a half a dozen other things and still had lumpy oatmeal icing, but asking someone who knows better than I was priceless. It saved the icing and saved the day.

In Lyme, we must all share in the load and burden and SHARE information and support. I wouldn’t have survived this illness without the support of others in the battle with me. Technology and treatments are changing and adapting everyday. New doctors are learning and joining in the fight.

We must also share in the small successes along our journey. It might seem like a small win to get icing right or have a great dye free, gluten free, dairy free cake – but in my world it is a “win”. Each small win is closer to the final goal of beating this thing.

Use your experience to help someone else acheive success and healing also.

Otherwise, we’ll all end up with lumpy oatmeal.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity. (Proverbs 17:17)

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Blessings to you all.

Sidenote: I don’t have to do birthday’s anymore. I have an incredible heart friend who is a fabulous baker and has learned how to make delicious cake creations – i just give her my bag of ingredients and -wa lah – a fantastic birthday cake. Its a whole new season for me, I can’t believe the freedom of being released from weird birthday cake ingredient duty!! This photo is her creation and it was delicious and got devoured quickly.