Showing posts with label gluten-free. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gluten-free. Show all posts

Sunday, May 3, 2009

My Best Brioche


This is the Vanilla Quinoa Brioche from Gluten-Free Gourmet Desserts and Baked Goods by Valerie Cupillard-one of my favorite gf baking books. It is simple to make; just mix together yogurt, olive oil, rice flour, quinoa flour, vanilla, etc. and bake it in a regular sized bread pan. It tastes great on its own, but when cut in thick slices, it also holds well for french toast.
More on this particular cookbook- it uses no dairy products, and lots of the recipies use soy cream and soy yogurt. Since I use the dairy versions of those, I substitute them and they work fine. For those of you who are mastering gluten-free, vegan baking, this book might be helpful because all you have to substitute are the eggs and honey.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Many Mini Loaves


This is the Basic Bread from Carol Fenster's Gluten-Free 101.
I rely on this book for a lot of simple baked goods, and while I was first reluctant to buy the three mini loaf pans required for all of her bread recipes, I always end up with thoroughly cooked, consistently fluffy adorable little slices of bread.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

The Not-Quite-Best-Ever....

This morning I made zucchini quick bread from The Best-Ever Wheat-And-Gluten-Free Baking Book, by Mary Ann Wenniger with Mace Wenniger. It was a pretty simple recipe; a grated zucchini, rice flour, oil, honey, eggs, zanthan gum, cinnamon, etc. The bread turned out OK...it tastes great but did not rise that much so it's a little dense.
I am not sure how this cookbook got the "Best-Ever" in the title. I am never entirely happy with how the recipes turn out-that is when I have enough ingredients for a recipe, since throughout the book, at least 20 different flours are used, and most are difficult to find and/or expensive.
Until I develop my own recipes and find better baking books though, I am dependent on this book for its wide variety of recipes-there an entire chapter on pancakes and waffles, and while some of them are tedious and some of them don't turn out at all, I appreciate that there are so many recipes to try out, and I learn something from each one.