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 ...
Gluten Free Recipes
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 ...
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 ...
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 buy ...
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 ...
Almond Toffee
This toffee, like most toffees, is very sweet and delicious. It has become one of our family's favorite travel foods,(because we can't eat in restaurants)because not only does it keep well, but it is a nice treat, and is very quick to prepare. 1 cup butter 1 cup brown sugar 2 ½ cups almonds, (sliced) 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly butter a 13 by 9 by 2” baking pan. Set aside. Combine butter and brown sugar in a saucepan, and bring to a boil at medium ...
Gluten-Free Biscuits
Gluten-Free Biscuits Print Prep time 10 mins Cook time 15 mins Total time 25 mins These are a favorite to eat with soups and when I don't have time to make rolls. They are quick and easy, and as a biscuit should be---Soft and buttery. Author: Linnaea Recipe type: Baked Good Serves: 10 Ingredients 2 cups tapioca flour 2 cups potato starch flour 2 cups rice flour 3 ½ teaspoons xanthan gum 3 tablespoons baking powder 2 tablespoons sugar 3 teaspoons salt 2 sticks ...
Gluten-Free Cheesecake
You'll need softened (room temperature) cream cheese in this recipe. If you don't have enough time for it to get soft, you can soften it in a double boiler. This can be a chocolate cheesecake as well as a regular one, simply add 1 tablespoon cocoa powder. Note to the Grain-Freers: No. You didn't free any grain. Instead, you are free of grain. This almond crust has rice flour in it. If you do not want to use any grain at all, use pecan or almond flour instead. If you are fine with starches, ...