My Adventure In Soft Foods

As you know, I recently had a tooth pulled and was banished from the world of food.
No hard foods, nothing that can break into pieces and find its way into the cavity of the non-existent tooth, nothing spicy, etc...
To remedy this, I made something I knew I could eat: Muffins! Muffins that are like doughnuts!





Doughnut Muffins by How To: Simplify

Ingredients: For the muffins:

• 1 3/4 cup flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/3 cup oil
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup milk

For the coating:

• 1/4 -1/2 cup butter, melted
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a muffin tin.
2. Combine flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon in a medium bowl.
3. Combine oil, sugar, egg and milk in a large bowl. Add dry ingredients and stir only to combine.
4. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes. While muffins are baking, melt butter in a small bowl. In another small bowl, combine the sugar and cinnamon.
5. Shake muffins out of the muffin tin while the muffins are still hot.
6. Dip muffins in the melted butter and then into the sugar and cinnamon mixture. Place on a wire rack and allow to cool.

These muffins are delicious! They're a perfect soft food and they're great for a grab and go fall breakfast or snack.

They even got the BF seal of approval/make again now please!


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Failure Friday

These just came out of the oven.
I failed at snickerdoodle blondies.
If you want to see how bad I failed, check out Brown Eyed Baker's post
That is how they are supposed to look.
I even followed the recipe perfectly.




This is all after something I was promised didn't turn out the way it was presented. To take my worries away I decided to bake something for a mini trip I am taking this weekend.
I bought flour, sugar, baking soda. Turns out I needed brown sugar so I had to go back to the store. Then I used all the butter so now we're out. Also I ran out of vanilla extract.
I also go egg shell in my batter. And burned my hand on the stove top. And burned the entire bottom of my blondies.
I am officially over today.
And i don't even have anything sweet to snack on.
Failure Friday, you win.


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Bread!!!

I miss bread.
I miss peanut butter and jelly.
i miss grilled cheese.
i miss toast.

When I found this recipe I got super excited for the possibility of a PB&J sandwich. I had most (not all) of the ingredients for this bread so I decided to go for it anyway.

Gluten Free Sandwich Bread
By Elana's Pantry

Ingredients

1 ½ cups blanched almond flour
¾ cup arrowroot powder (I used cornstarch)
¼ cup flax seed meal ( I used Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Biscuit Mix)
½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
½ teaspoon baking soda
4 eggs
1 teaspoon agave nectar
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar

Directions

1. In a medium bowl, combine almond flour, arrowroot, flax meal, salt and baking soda
2. In a larger bowl, blend eggs 3-5 minutes until frothy
3. Stir agave and vinegar into eggs
4. Mix dry ingredients into wet
5. Pour batter into a well greased 7.5" x 3.5" loaf pan
   
6. Bake at 350º for 30-35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of loaf comes out clean ( My loaf only took about 20 minutes)
   
7. Cool and serve

Makes 1 medium sized loaf of gluten-free bread

This loaf was the most beautiful thing ever. It wasn't the most moist bread I've ever had so next time I will try to put some oil in it. It sure is tasty though.

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You Can Do No Wrong

Betty Crocker... You are amazing.

Just thought I should put that out there although I think they already know.

What they don't know is I'm a 20-something broke, unemployed, college grad who has been playing with a gluten-free diet. Being broke I cannot afford the luxury of buy all sorts of fancy gluten-free flours and gums that are required for gluten-free baking. So, while wandering the mean baking aisles of the grocery store, I saw this.





I could not/would not pass the opportunity to snatch this super cheap all-in-one box up so I snatched and danced around the aisle and ran to BF all giddy-like (he is no longer alarmed or embarrassed by my excitement over baked goods). After self check out (I LOVE self check out) I took my purchase home where it sat on my shelf for a week or two. BUT! when I finally whipped these bad boys up... ooooohhh man. BEAUTIFUL! DELICIOUS! PERFECT!







Thank you Betty Crocker for making my gluten-free baking life that much easier.


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Sick of Staring at Dead Bananas

I don't remember if I mentioned that for my New Year's Resolution, I resolved to stop giving my GI tract problems and chose to go Gluten-Free. This hasn't been an easy feat. I miss pasta, grilled cheese sandwiches, cookies, cake, pie... I could go on forever. I do not have much support which makes it difficult at times. Also I am short on money so I can't go out and buy fancy flours and G-F products.
One day I splurged and bought Bob's Red Mill G-F Biscuit Mix. And this is what I made.

Truly Quick Banana Bread
Contributed by Dana Freeman

Ingredients

• 3 - 4 Bananas, very ripe
• 1/3 cup melted Butter
• 3/4 cup Sugar
• 1 Egg
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 1 1/2 cup GF Biscuit Mix
  
• 1/2 cup Walnuts-Baker's Pieces
  

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Whip ripened bananas in a mixer or by hand. Mix butter, sugar, egg and vanilla into the whipped bananas. Add in the baking mix and beat for 1 minute. Add the walnuts and mix just to incorporate. Pour mixture into a buttered loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour. Let cool and remove from pan. Makes 16 slices.

I'm totally going to buy this baking mix again.
It is totally worth this banana-y deliciousness.


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