Saturday, May 26, 2012

Easy Brazilian Cheese Bread!

Run, don't walk, to your local health food or Latino grocery store and pick up some tapioca flour (yucca flour) so you can make this amazingly easy, light, and delicious GLUTEN-FREE popover-like bread! You mix it in the blender and can leave the batter in the fridge all week to make as much or as little as you want. To make it dairy-free I substituted Rice Dream organic rice milk instead of cow's milk, and herbs (onion powder, garlic powder, black pepper, and dried dill) instead of cheese. I also increased the salt to 1.5 teaspoons.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Easy Gluten-Free Dairy-Free Cream Puffs

I found this recipe for easy cream puffs in my Our Best Bites cookbook and substituted coconut oil for butter and tapioca flour for wheat flour, but they were too flat, so I added in some almond flour which perked them up and made them delicious. And they look exactly like regular cream puffs. I think they were still a little on the greasy side so next time I will use a little less coconut oil and a little more flour.

http://www.ourbestbites.com/2008/04/tutorial-cream-puffs/

The cream filling is coconut cream from the top of a can of Thai Kitchen Organic Coconut Milk, chilled, and whipped with a fork with a little organic honey and some Trader Joe's Pure Bourbon Vanilla Extract. I got the idea from this blog:

http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2012/01/16/chocolate-frosting-shots/

The ganache is organic honey (not much) and equal parts cocoa powder and coconut oil, microwaved to melt everything together, then chilled to harden it.