Christmas Baking

[foxyfire24]

Hi Everyone! This Is My First Christmas being gluten-free and i was wondering if any of you out there have great christmas cookie recipes?? Is there a replacement for using all purpose flour in a "normal" recipe? Do I have to modify a "normal" recipe in order for it to turn out right?? HELP!!!! I have to be the one to bring the christmas goodies this year to the office.

[ryebaby0]

I was thinking about this too! I know one thing we will be making is the gluten-free pantry mix for Old Fashioned Cookies. Mix them up and roll them in colored sugar (red/green) to look festive, they are great cookies and NOBODY will know they are gluten-free. (We are egg-free too, so I make them with silken tofu!) Another thing could be melted white chocolate bark, with candied red/green maraschino cherries (cut up tiny) mixed in for a holiday look. Cheese is gluten-free, put it on toothpicks with those little cellophane decorative tops..... fruit is always good too, on skewers. Danielle's chocolate cake, or the Gluten-Free Kitchen cookbook (by Roben Ryberg) has a recipe for peanut butter cookies and if you were realllll careful you might be able to get a hershey kiss pressed in the center....

I just try our "old" recipes with gluten-free flour mixes. The best one so far has been Bob's Red Mill, but I also use Pamela's pancake mix as flour and it has been okay for some things.

joanna

[LisaP]

I went to a gluten-free cooking class @ Market Street Supermarkets in Collyville, Texas and Ann Brown was the chef. She does the following to translate gluten-free flour for regular flour and her stuff looks identical and her bread is the first I have tasted that had the texture of what I remember wheat bread tasting like.

Ann Browns Flour Mixture:

6c Rice Flour (regular)

2c Potato Starch

1c Tapioca Starch

Take out 1 T per cup and sift 3 times. If she is making some cakes or biscuits she will mix her flour mix with eqaul parts of Bette Hagmans Featherweight Flour Mix. I think you just have to experiment with the recipe you have to see which mixture works best.

I plan on using these when I bake for the holidays.

Hope this helps.

[foxyfire24]

Thanx Guys!!!! I'll take your suggestions and work with what i have so far. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!