Gluten Free Baking, A Journey into New Territory

Gluten-Free meals are taking their place on the earth today. We’re all turning into extra conscious of gluten, gluten intolerance, celiac (or coeliac) illness, and what this implies for thus many individuals. Whereas I’m not gluten illiberal, I typically prepare dinner and bake for features, regionally. Final yr I used to be requested to offer little treats for a Princess Occasion, placed on by the Dacotah Prairie Museum. Accompanied by a queen, little ladies from tots to teenagers had been invited, to study in regards to the lives of actual princesses. They had been taught methods to wave correctly, and curtsey.

Little ladies hear the phrase princess and go dreamy-eyed. This system was bought out. I made plenty of little treats, however discovered one of many little princesses and her queen had been gluten illiberal, and couldn’t partake of lots of the little treats. This was an insupportable state of affairs. I made a decision I wanted to find out about this illness, concentrate on what was concerned, and supply options that will be tasty and thrilling.

Over the previous yr, I’ve been making an attempt out completely different gluten-free flour mixtures, and making plenty of goodies, primarily from my very own regular recipes, transformed by merely substituting gluten-free flour and including xanthan gum. In the primary, they’ve been a whopping success. In my sincere opinion, as somebody who has been baking for 42 years, a few of the desserts, fruit or nut loaves end up extra moist and tender than when made with wheat flour, a really blissful discovery, surely. The queen talked about above, works on the museum, so I took a day to speak with this younger girl and study extra about what was concerned. I additionally had baked one in every of my favourite coffeecake recipes, gluten-free and took it for her and the museum employees to strive. All of them cherished it, moist and tender and stuffed with taste. The younger girl was pleased with my experiment, as was I.

One other nice assist alongside the way in which was discovering Shauna Aherns Gluten Free Woman web site. I’ve studied her website extensively and discovered all kinds of issues there. I blended up her gluten-free flour combination to experiment with, in addition to making an attempt out one in every of her bread recipes; one other success. I took a few of the bread for the girl on the museum to pattern, in addition to a slice I slathered with do-it-yourself pesto and cheese and broiled. She exclaimed, That is the perfect bread I’ve tasted since going gluten free.

This coffeecake recipe was given to me by my finest good friend of 54 years, and is a terrific recipe, regardless of which flour you select. That is the unique recipe, for gluten-free, I substituted a gluten-free flour combination made up of 6 cups brown rice flour, 2 cups potato starch and 1 cup tapioca starch. I used this combination measure for measure on this recipe, and added 1 teaspoon of xanthan gum to the sifted dry components. You’ll want to verify the labels of components for hidden wheat when making this Gluten Free.

Bundt Coffeecake

1 cup unsalted butter

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 eggs

1 cup bitter cream

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup chopped nuts; walnuts or pecans are good

2 teaspoons sugar

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350 levels. Cream the butter and sugar till mild. Add the eggs, bitter cream and vanilla and blend properly. Sift collectively flour, soda, baking powder and salt. Add the dry components to the moist and blend properly. Grease a 10-inch tube or bundt pan.

Combine collectively the chopped nuts, the two teaspoons sugar and the cinnamon. Sprinkle 1/2 of this topping into the greased pan. Put in half the batter – this requires plopping small spoonfuls of the batter into the pan because the batter may be very thick. Then rigorously easy it to fill in any gaps. Tapping the pan on the countertop helps. Pour on the remainder of the topping and once more plop spoonfuls into the pan until all batter is used.

Bake for 1 hour, or till a knife inserted within the heart comes out clear. Permit to chill on a rack for 10 minutes earlier than eradicating from pan. Sprinkle powdered sugar over the cake if desired. Serves 12 to 16.

GLUTEN-FREE OPTION: Change the flour along with your most well-liked gluten-free flour combination and add in 1 teaspoon xanthan gum. Combine and bake as directed. Generally baking is somewhat bit longer than regular, however because the texture and moistness is so fantastic, I can wait these few extra minutes.

Do that recipe, both means, and you’ll not be sorry.

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