I love molasses. For two reasons: Reason number one: It looks like chocolate drizzle. And I like chocolate drizzle. If you think it looks like chocolate drizzle too, go ahead and give it a taste. You're in for a surprise! My granola recipes are simple. For two reasons. Reason number one: I might just be a bit simple myself. Reason number two: Simplicity is easy (don't pay attention to the circular reasoning there). Everyone likes to have things simple. There ya go. ...
Gluten Free Pancakes/Waffles
I made these for breakfast this morning. They are probably some of the best gluten-free pancakes and waffles I've had. Definitely blog worthy. These are nice and fluffy with plenty of rise and a perfect consistency. DRY INGREDIENTS ¼ cup rice flour 1/3 cup GF oat flour (you can replace with rice flour if you don't have this) ¼ cup potato starch ¼ cup cornstarch ¼ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon xanthan gum 2 tablespoons sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder Pinch ...
Fruit & Nut Granola
Another yummy breakfast granola recipe. When eating this, we like to add some fresh, uncooked fruits: Blueberries, strawberries, or raspberries. Fresh ones are best. Ingredients 1 cup pecans 1 cup sliced almonds ½ cup currants (or raisins) ¾ cup (1 large) apple, finely chopped ½ cup finely chopped fresh strawberries or raspberries 5 cups whole GF oats 2 eggs 1 cup (2 sticks) butter ½ teaspoon cinnamon ½ teaspoon cloves ½ cup honey OR brown ...
Gluten-Free Chocolate Roll
Hey, guess what? There's a newer version of this recipe! Check it out here. Chocolate Rolls are delicious. If you like chocolate, this is a great recipe for you! I was even going to enter this recipe in the Fair last year. You're wondering why I didn't? The honest reason is that I was too late. Didn't get the entry in in time. Sad, huh? Well, it wasn't so sad. Because we ate that chocolate roll. And it isn't fun to make something delicious and give it to the judges to eat. ...
Apple Cinnamon Granola
This makes a nice, flavorful gluten free granola. We eat it for breakfast and for snacks, which has helped make breakfast quick and easy time and time again! I have several other flavor variations which I will post. To those who don't have gluten-free oats: SOLUTION! You can find a "oat free granola" recipe in the "Breakfast" section or through the search bar. If you don't eat grains at all, I have a grain-free & vegan granola recipe in the grain-free, dairy-free, gluten-free ...
Rosemary Yeast Bread
This bread is quick, easy, and delicious. I've made it several times now, when I don't want to wait for the bread-maker kneading cycle. This is a great recipe if you don't have a bread-maker. There is another variation of this bread that is just a basic sandwich bread, instead of a seasoned bread. I love the way rosemary tastes, but some of my sisters and my Mom are not so keen on the idea! Dry ingredients 1 1/2 cups GF oat flour or rice flour 1 cup potato starch (I use ...
Bread Maker Pizza Crust
Gluten Free Pizza The usual birthday meal demands at our house involve lots of gluten free pizza. Since we don’t have pizza often (it’s a lot of work no matter how easy to you make it), it’s always a treat. This recipe should make it as easy and fast as possible, since all the kneading is done in your bread maker! This recipe makes 2 large pizzas. Since I’m cooking for a family of nine, I usually double the recipe! Wet Ingredients 3 large eggs 1/2 cup olive or grapeseed oil 1 cup milk 1/2 ...
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
The chocolate flavor in these is very light. If you use dark dutch cocoa it makes for darker chocolate cookies and a much deeper chocolate flavor. If you use regular cocoa you will have a peanut butter cookie with a delicious trace of chocolate. If you prefer a very chocolatey cookie, add an extra ½ cup cocoa. It will make for a dark and delicious peanut/chocolate combo. If you can't decide which variation to try, try them both! Ingredients 1 cup sugar ¼ teaspoon salt ½ cup ...
Stacked Potatoes
This was an experimental idea I came up with about three years ago. It is a great gourmet potato with lots of seasonings. We sometimes call these 'Diced, Sliced, and Grated Potatoes'. This recipe is set up to serve 8. You can use whole rosemary leaves, but then keep the saucepan on the burner for longer until the rosemary leaves are softened. Ingredients 6 medium sized red or white potatoes 1 tablespoon ground rosemary 1 tablespoon rubbed sage 1 teaspoon thyme ¼ ...
Rich Chocolate Cake
In case it isn't already obvious, I'm one of those hopeless chocolate lovers. So, of course, I had to come up with yet another chocolate cake recipe. But the more I adjust chocolate cake, the better it seems to get. Other than the chocolate zucchini cake (which just can't be beat), this is definitely the best so far. It's a great cake to make in the winter when there's no fresh garden zucchini. The potato starch can be substituted with cornstarch, but it takes a deal of lightness away from the ...
No Bake Cookies
I remember before we discovered we were gluten intolerant, we used to make no-bake cookies. Now, we have them again. The oats can be either whole or quick-cooking; we prefer whole oats in our cookies but I have used quick-cooking ones and they turn out just as well. Ingredients 2 cups white sugar ½ cup butter ½ cup milk 4 tablespoons cocoa powder 3 cups GF oats (I use Quaker oats and we have no reaction, but if you are very sensitive I would advise ...
Gluten-Free Mayonnaise
This mayonnaise tastes almost exactly the same as store-bought mayo, except that it is healthier and Gluten-Free. Most mayonnaise you buy in stores has white vinegar in it, which contains wheat. This mayo can be stored in a glass jar (with a lid on top) in the refrigerator for about eight days. INGREDIENTS: 2 eggs 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar ½ a teaspoon salt, or to taste ½ a teaspoon pepper (white pepper will be invisible in the mayo, but black pepper is fine) 1 to 2 ...
Multigrain Vanilla Waffles
Recipe makes about 15 waffles; so if you have a small family you may want to half the ingredients. Dry Ingredients 1 ½ cups cornstarch 1 cup GF oat flour ¾ cup rice flour ½ cup corn flour or fine ground cornmeal ½ cup potato starch 1 tablespoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon xanthan gum 1/3 cup sugar Wet Ingredients 1 ¾ cups milk 3 eggs 1 cup olive oil 1 tablespoon vanilla extract If your waffle maker isn't ...
Double Boilers, and How they are Used
I use a double boiler in a number of recipes, especially ones that contain cream cheese, since cream cheese would be burned if melted in a saucepan on the stove-top. “Mom's Cream Cheese Frosting” uses a double boiler, as well as the “Gluten-Free Cheesecake.” Another thing that you would want to melt in a double-boiler is chocolate, which can burn fairly easily. Though there are actual 'double boilers' you can buy, there is a simpler, less-expensive, homemade version: Place water in a small ...
Gluten-Free Carrot Cake
Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Print Prep time 20 mins Cook time 45 mins Total time 1 hour 5 mins This is moist and delicious, and is perfect with Mom's Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe below). I just put the carrots in our blender to grind them up, which makes nice, fine carrot pieces, but they can also be grated. Author: Linnaea Recipe type: Dessert Cuisine: Cake Serves: 1 2 layer 9-inch cake Ingredients 1 ½ cups cornstarch 1 cup gluten-free oat flour ½ cup rice ...
Gluten-Free Easy Ketchup
Most ketchup has white vinegar in it, which contains gluten. Below is a recipe for ketchup that can be made in less than fifteen minutes at home and stored in the refrigerator. Ingredients 1 12 oz can tomato paste ¼ cup water ½ teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground rosemary 1 teaspoon ground sage ¼ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon spaghetti seasonings (you can use any italian/spaghetti seasoning mix you'll find at the grocery store for this, or a combination of basil, oregano, red ...
Chocolate Coffee Brownies
This is a softer, richer version of the Basic Brownie. Probably not a good idea for kids anywhere near 9:00 at night, but they are perfect for a sugar/energy snack or an easy and quick thing to make when guests are coming over. NOTE: Do not replace the rice flour with oat flour; I find that the oat flour gives far too grainy a texture. Ingredients: 2 ½ cups sugar 1 cup cocoa ½ cup rice flour 1 cup gluten-free cornstarch 1 cup (2 sticks) butter 4 ...
A Quick Way for Softening Butter
To cream butter, you are going to need soft butter that is just a little bit colder than room temperature (see 'creaming butter'). It is easiest to put the butter on the counter and soften it ahead of time, but sometimes I just don't plan that far ahead. Here's a quicker method. Cover your work surface with piece of wax paper about 10x10”. You don't have to go by this exact measurement. This is just to give you an idea of how large a piece you'll need. Set another piece of wax paper ...
How to tell if the Cake is Cooked
I’ve had this problem again and again, and I still suffer from it. One thing to remember is that your cake keeps cooking for a minute or two after you take it out of the oven. Also, a cake that is firm to the touch is not what you are looking for. How to tell if your cake is fully cooked: The edges should pull away from the pan just a little bit The surface of the cake should feel soft and springy to the touch but not firm. If the surface breaks when you touch it the cake is obviously ...
Chocolate Coffee Cake / Cupcakes
This is tasty. Anything with coffee and chocolate combined would be. The key is not to over cook it. This recipe can be used for cupcakes or cake. If you want, you can add ½ cup chocolate chips to the batter. Dry Ingredients ¾ cup rice flour, or GF oat flour ¾ cup GF cornstarch ¾ cup cocoa powder 1 cup pure granulated white sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder ½ teaspoon xanthan gum ½ teaspoon salt Wet Ingredients ½ cup lukewarm coffee 3 tablespoons olive ...
Gluten-Free Chocolate Cookies
Rich and chocolatey, these have the classic chocolate cookie taste and the perfect consistency. ½ cup butter (1 stick), softened but still cold ¾ cup white granulated sugar 2 eggs 3 tablespoons plain yogurt 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (I use super-dark dutch cocoa to make especially rich chocolate cookies) ½ cup oat flour (check for gluten-free) ¼ cup cornstarch (check for gluten-free) 1 tablespoon baking powder ½ teaspoons salt 1 ½ teaspoons ...
Gluten-Free Dumplings
These dumplings are delicious. We eat them with berry sauce, apple sauce, or chicken soup. Leftover berry sauce can be used on pancakes the next morning. Yum! Notes: When making dumplings, first start the sauce, and while it is heating, make and roll out the dumpling dough. If making apple dumplings, add ¼ a teaspoon cinnamon to the dough for extra flavor. 2 cups rice flour or oat flour ½ cup sugar or ¼ cup if you are making chicken dumplings instead of dessert ...
Gluten-Free Yeast Rolls
Of all the ways of making gluten-free bread, I have found the bread maker works the best. I don't know what I would do without it! These rolls, kneaded in the bread maker, nearly double in size. They have that soft, melt-in-your-mouth consistency that everyone remembers in wheat bread. You will notice that they are almost exactly the same recipe as the bread-maker bread, except for the addition of cornstarch instead of potato starch and tapioca starch. I have found that this works better in the ...
Gluten-Free Vanilla Cupcakes
Sweet, yummy, and absolutely delicious. These little treats are quick and can be used for all sorts of occasions. When I first made them, they were an immediate success. Note: You can make chocolate-bottomed vanilla cupcakes by simply separating ½ a cup of dough from the rest of the dough and stirring in 2 tablespoons cocoa. Then place the remainder of your vanilla cupcake mix inside of the cupcake casings and add a teaspoon of chocolate-mix on top of this. The ...
Gluten-Free Chocolate Zucchini Cake or Cupcakes
This is a great way to use up all those overgrown garden zucchinis. Who knew that mashed up green vegetables could taste so good? CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI CAKE Serves: 10 Time: 30 minutes active, 45 minutes cooking. Cream Together (check 'tips' section for directions on 'creaming butter') 1 stick (½ cup) butter, soft but still cold 1 2/3 white granulated sugar Add and beat well: 2 large eggs Add and beat in: 3/4 cup rice flour 1/4 cup almond flour ½ cup ...
Strawberry Pie Filling
This pie is delicious and easy. It tastes very good with rhubarb. If you would like a rhubarb pie, add ½ cup chopped rhubarb to the mixture in the saucepan. One gluten free pie shell (see pie shell recipe) ½ cup sugar 2 tablespoons tapioca starch 1 pound strawberries Place the pie shell in a pie pan. Set aside. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and position rack in center of oven. Slice strawberries into fourths. Place strawberries, sugar, and tapioca in a medium ...
How to Prevent Crumbly Gluten-Free Foods
Sometimes you might get sick of dry, crumbly breads that won't hold together or cakes that fall apart as you cut them. Here are some ways to prevent those issues. Xanthan Gum and Guar Gum Derived from corn sugar, xanthan gum is used as a thickener, stabilizer, and emulsifier. Xanthan gum can act as gluten does in a gluten bread. Gluten will add stretch, holding the bubbles and causing bread to rise, and add a sort of 'stickiness' that keeps the bread together. Xanthan gum or guar gum ...
What is Separating Eggs and How is it Done?
Set two small bowls on your work surface. Crack the egg gently on the side of the bowl or on the counter. It is best to get the egg to crack right in the center. Working over one of the two bowls, carefully pry the halves apart with your thumbs. Hold one half of the egg so that the yolk settles in that half. Let the egg white run over the edges and into your bowl. When this is done, drop the egg yolk into the other bowl. The important thing is to make sure none of the egg yolk gets in with ...
What is Creaming Butter and How is it Done?
Creaming butter is basically beating it together until it is lighter in color. With white sugar, the final color will be yellowish white. With brown sugar, the final color will be a sort of tan. An electric mixer is the best tool for creaming butter. The purpose of the creaming is so that air may be incorporated into the butter to add a 'fluffy' consistency to the final product. Creaming the butter will also soften it and make it easier to blend with other ingredients. To get the best result, ...
Gluten Free Flours and How to Use Them
I hate to break it to you: Gluten free flours aren’t like gluten. Now that we have that out of the way, here’s why they aren’t like gluten: Obviously, they don’t contain that “stretchy” quality that gluten can produce in your dough. The most noticeable difference between gf flours and gluten can be seen in bread dough. If you try to make bread the gluten way, you’re going to fail and cry and probably need counseling before you can be happy again. Here’s my post on making gf yeast ...
Mom’s Cream Cheese Frosting
Mom's Cream Cheese Frosting Print Prep time 10 mins Total time 10 mins This is my mom's frosting recipe, and it tastes perfect on almost every type of cake. Add food coloring or cocoa for variations. The picture at the side is of this frosting on the Gluten-Free Carrot Cake. Author: Linnaea Recipe type: Dessert Cuisine: Frosting Serves: Enough for 1 9 inch cake or 1 dozen cupcakes Ingredients 4 ounces, (½ a stick) cream cheese ¼ cup (½ a stick) butter 1 teaspoon ...
Delicious Gluten-Free Chocolate Cake
We have used this recipe many times for birthdays, holidays, and normal desserts. It is delicious with frosting, or without, and it would also be very good with chocolate chips or nuts. Ingredients: ¼ cup salted butter, melted ¾ cup sugar 2 eggs ½ cup plain yogurt 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 cup cornstarch, potato starch, or half-half potato starch/ rice flour, or cornstarch/rice flour mix, whichever is available. Rice flour will make cake grittier and slightly ...
Gluten-Free Easy Bread Maker Bread
This is an easy all-purpose bread recipe. It's so simple to just stick a bread in the bread-maker and have it come out risen and warm three hours later! Gluten-Free Easy Bread Maker Bread Print Prep time 15 mins Cook time 3 hours Total time 3 hours 15 mins This loaf of gluten-free bread is absolutely delightful and super easy to make. If you don't have a bread maker, I wholeheartedly recommend that you buy one! Author: Linnaea Recipe type: Bread Cuisine: ...
Gluten-Free Chocolate Cupcakes
These are rich, delicate, and sweet. They are good with or without frosting, and would also be great with nuts. dry ingredients: ½ cup rice flour or sorghum flour ½ cup cornstarch ¼ cup potato starch or cornstarch ¼ cup cocoa powder 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder ½ cup granulated sugar ¼ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon xanthan gum 2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips, optional Wet ingredients: 1 large egg 2/3 cup milk 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 teaspoons pure ...
Flavorful, Easy Sourdough Starter
Do not be scared away by the long list of directions, I had to make them precise, because one time, I checked on my sourdough starter to see that the lid, (I had the ring on,) had been completely blown off, and sourdough starter was everywhere. These careful directions should stop the same thing from happening to you, but please tell me if anything unexpected happens, I would be pleased to make some changes. The blown-off-lid incident may have been caused by our high elevation, and may not ...
Gluten-Free Sourdough Yeast Bread
Not only is this one of the easiest breads I have made gluten-free, it is also one of the tastiest. Enjoy! Note: Please put foil or cookie sheet under this bread before you even start to rise it, because it might overflow. Dry Ingredients 1 cup sorghum flour, -i use Bob Red Mill sorghum flour ½ cup bean flour of any kind, -also available from Bob's Red Mill 1 cup tapioca flour 1 ½ cups cornstarch 3 teaspoons xanthan ...
Cornmeal Muffins
These are a favorite in our family. Add dried currants or raisins for more flavor! Dry Ingredients: 3 cups rice flour 1 ½ cups cornmeal 2 ½ tablespoons baking powder 1 ½ teaspoons xathan gum ¾ cup sugar Wet Ingredients: 6 eggs, beaten 3 ¾ cups milk 1 ½ cups melted butter Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Butter or oil three twelve hole muffin pans. Set aside. Mix the dry ingredients all together, in a large mixing bowl. Set aside. Crack the eggs into another smaller bowl, and beat them ...
Moist Pizza Crust
If you want a seasoned pizza crust, add 2 ¼ teaspoons pizza seasoning to the dry ingredients. You have a choice between a thick crust and a thin crust. If you want a thin crust, use by 12” pans. If you would rather a thick crust, use 16 by 12” pans. Dry ingredients 2 ¾ cups rice flour 1 ¾ cups tapioca flour, plus two tablespoons 3 teaspoons xanthan gum 4 ½ tablespoons dry milk powder 1 ½ teaspoons salt yeast mix ½ cup sugar 1 ½ tablespoons yeast 2 ¼ cups warm water wet ingredients 6 ...
Peanut Butter Cookies
These cookies taste like the perfect peanut butter cookie made from wheat, but they are completely gluten-free. You get about 30 cookies out of this batch, so you may want to butter two pans, but I do my batches one at a time. Peanut Butter Cookies Print Prep time 10 mins Cook time 12 mins Total time 22 mins These cookies taste like the perfect peanut butter cookie made from wheat, but they are completely gluten-free. Author: Linnaea Recipe type: ...
Gluten Free Banana Bread
This gluten free banana bread recipe uses up all those spotted brown bananas in the kitchen. Add 1 cup of chocolate chips for extra amazingness! Banana Bread Print Prep time 15 mins Cook time 25 mins Total time 40 mins Soft and delicious gluten free banana bread. Author: Linnaea Recipe type: Bread Serves: 10 Ingredients 2 cups rice flour 1 cup cornstarch 3 teaspoons baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon cinnamon 2 eggs 5 bananas ½ cup sugar ½ ...