Gluten Free Mini Orange Coconut and Cranberry Loaves

First time at making these today and they turned out quite well. They are supposed to have a coconut frosting as well but I haven't made that yet and even without it the loaves taste yummo.




















Ingredients:

125gr Butter, Melted
2 1/2 Cups GF Self Raising Flour (I used GF Plain and added Baking powder)
3/4 Cup castor sugar
1/2 Cup shredded coconut
3/4 Cup buttermilk (I didn't have any so used a substitute)
2 Eggs, Lightly beaten
2 Teaspoons finely grated orange zest (I omitted as I hate orange peel in cooking lol)
1/4 Cup freshly squeezed orange juice (I used bottled juice)
1/2 Cup dried sweetened cranberries

Method:

1. Preheat your oven to 180 degrees and lightly grease mini loaf pans (I think the pan I used is a friand tray judging by the shape? I used this twice as I only had one)
2. Sift flour into a large bowl. Stir in sugar and 1/2 cup coconut.
3. Whisk buttermilk, egg, melted butter, zest and juice in another bowl. Add to flour mixture and stir until just combined.
Add 1/2 cup of cranberries; Stir until just combined. Spoon mixture into prepared pans and tap tray gently on bench to even out into the tray (I found my mix was just a tad thick so tapping on the bench evened the mixture out)
Bake for 20-25 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Remove from the oven, Stand for 5 minutes then place onto a wire rack to cool.
Ice with a yummy coconut icing or eat plain. We ate ours plain as little darling children were apparently starving lol

Gluten Free Pasta Carbonara

I got creative for dinner last night and made pasta carbonara but instead of using cream I made a white cheese sauce.

Ingredients:
Desired amount of GF dry pasta
50 grams butter
50 grams GF flour
400mls milk
125gr grated cheese
4 Rashers bacon
1 Whole brown onion, Diced.

Method:

1. Begin to cook your pasta in a pot of boiling water
2. In a separate saucepan saute` the onion for a few minutes then add the bacon. Remove from pan and set aside once cooked.
3. Melt the 50 grams of butter in the saucepan and then add the 50grams of flour, Stirring until combined well.
4. Slowly add the milk and whisk until mix boils and thickens. Add the cheese and stir until all melted.
5. Add the bacon and onion mix to the cheese sauce mix and stir until combined. Serve over cooked pasta :)

Gluten Free Chocolate and Zucchini muffins

Sooo yummy and an easy way to hide a vegetable if needed :)




















Ingredients:

1/2 Cup butter
1 1/2 Cup sugar
2 Eggs
1 Teaspoon vanilla
1/2 Cup milk
2 1/2 Cups GF plain flour
4 Tablespoons cocoa
1 Tspn bicarbonate soda
1/2 Tspn cinnamon
1/2 Tspn salt
2 Cups shredded zucchini

Method:

1. Preheat your oven to 180 degrees and grease your muffin tray
2. Cream the butter and sugar and beat in eggs
3. Add milk and vanilla and the sifted dry ingredients
4. Stir in the zucchini and then spoon mixture into your muffins trays. This made 16 for me.
5. Bake for around 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.

Gluten Free Cornbread

First time I have cooked this and I was quite impressed. The kids even ate it!
No photo for this one as upon removing from the baking pan some of the top ripped off so it wasn't photo "worthy" lol

Ingredients:

1 1/4 Cup GF plain flour
3/4 Cup corn meal (I used polenta)
1/4 Cup sugar
2 Tspn GF baking powder
1/2 Tspn salt
1 Cup milk
1/4 Cup vegetable oil
1 Egg

Method:

1. Preheat your oven (180 degrees) and grease a loaf pan or alternatively you can use a muffin tray for muffins.
2 Combine flour, Cornmeal, Sugar, Baking powder and salt into a bowl. Combine well.
3. In a small bowl stir together milk, Oil and egg.
4. Pour liquid mixture over the dry ingredients and mix well.
5. Place batter into your prepared pan and bake for 20-25 minutes or until light golden brown and an inserted knife tip comes out clean.
6. Serve warm.

**Recipe is compliments of 'Cook IT allergy free' for iphone application.

Gluten Free Mallee Quiche

An old favorite of mine which I have now adjusted to being GF.

Ingredients:

4 Eggs
1 Onion
1 Cup grated cheese
1 Rasher diced bacon
1/2 Cup GF SR flour*
1 Cup milk

*I only had GF plain flour so used 1/2 a cup of that and added 1 teaspoon of GF baking powder to make it SR.

For different variations you can add grated zucchini or corn kernels. Anything that you like.

Method:

Mix all ingredients together and place into a greased quiche dish and bake in a preheated moderate oven for approx 30minutes or until set.

Gluten Free Anzac Biscuits

I just baked these, Crossing my fingers the whole time that they would turn out ok!



















Ingredients:

1 Cup gluten free plain flour
1 Cup rolled rice flakes
1 Cup dessicated coconut
3/4 Cup brown sugar
135Gr melted butter
2 Tbsp golden syrup (I added a tiny bit more)
1 Tsp bicarbonate soda

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees and grease your baking trays
2. Sift the flour into a large mixing bowl. Stir in the rice flakes, Coconut, Brown sugar and Bicarb soda
3. Melt your butter with the golden syrup and pour over the flour mix and stir until well combined.
4. Roll mixture into balls and place on the trays about 5cm apart.
5. Bake for approx 10 minutes or until golden brown. When cooked, Let cool until firm. (The tops of mine were very soft for a few minutes)

Gluten Free Herb and Cheese Bread

I did this in our bread maker and it made a 750gr loaf and I used the gluten/yeast free setting on the maker.

Ingredients:
(Place into bread maker in this order)
Water - 600ml
Margarine - 1 tablespoon
Salt - 1 1/2 tsp
Sugar - 1 tablespoon
Skim Milk Powder - 1 tablespoon
GF Plain Flour - 600gr (3 3/4 cups)
Xanthum gum - 1 1/2 teaspoons
Yeast - 1 1/2 teaspoons

In the fruit and nut dispenser add 75grams of motzarella or parmesan cheese and 2 teaspoons of desired herbs (I like herbs so am always heavy handed lol)
If your machine doesn't have a fruit and nut dispenser add the cheese and herbs into the kneading cycle and gently fold them into the wet mix

Method:

Place all into the bread maker canister and put onto gluten free/yeast free setting and allow to cook.
When cooked take out of the machine and allow to cool in the pan for 7 minutes and then remove from the pan.