Wednesday, December 22, 2010

By the way, the tapioca stll hasn't turned out right. The scones, however, are unerringly good.

Gluten- Free scones
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2 cups of gluten free flour (I use half cocnut and half quinoa or teff with some tapioca starch)
1/3 cup sucanat or dark brown sugar or whatever
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum (this is *not* optional)

stir all that together in a mixing bowl.

Then--> use a cheese grater to grate 6 Tablespoons of butter (most of a stick) into the flour mixture, and stir that up and try to break the butter up more if you can. The butter needs to be cold in order to grate well.

Stir in 1/2 cup chocolate chips or currants or nuts or berries or whatever if you feel like it.

Whisk together in another bowl:

3/4 cup unsweetened coconut cream/coconut milk
1 egg

and add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir them until it clumps together. Then make a cohesive mass of it using your hands, sort of like kneading. If you need to, add more coconut milk to get it to stick together. It's okay if the dough is kind of sticky.

The oven should be preheated to 425 degrees F

Now pat the dough out on a clean surface, into a disk about an inch high and cut it into pie shaped wedges. Arrange these on a cookie sheet or baking sheet (doesn't need to be greased) with an inch of space between them, more space if you like them crunchier. Bake them for 10-12 minutes.
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I like to use the coconut flour, chocolate chips, and the coconut cream (you can use dairy cream if you want to, but I always have coconut milk and never have cream, sooo). I keep meaning to try the almond flour but the coconut flour tastes so right that I just haven't tried any other yet!

2 comments:

WinikEnEkE Leaf said...

The stores on Kauai island, have Coconut CREAM. coconut anything! coconut meat, coconut cold, with a drilled hole and a straw! yum! and a huge, immune booster. some here, have come from the mainlands, and have healed numerous conditions, just by merely living here. you have jungle herbs, fruits you NEVER heard of, and lot's of fresh, enzymatic raw, fish. mango trees, papaya trees and every other kind of fruit, with bizarre and exotic fruits, even i never heard of. and tasty avacados 2-4 pounders, hit like a thud, when they fall in the winter time. i have had the best lemons in the world, lemons are actually SWEET, here. lime trees by the thousands, orange trees everywhere. mangosteen bushes, Lilikoi trees. lychee trees, YUM! PASSION FRUIT, Rebekah, my first wife! guava everywhere, and so gooood. and don't forget, the best honey, and millions of bees everywhere. flowers in December, beautiful flowers, dear Becky. make a lei out of passion flowers, hang it on your neck when you get here, to paradise, the ancient gardens of lemuria. alo^haaaaaaaaaaaa~~~~~~~~~~~VW

chamoisee said...

Dude, I am *not* coming there.

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