Last spring I took a poll on my Facebook page asking what kind of GF recipes people wanted to see on my blog. I had some really intense challenges set before me, things that were highly technical and required a steep learning curve. You know, the kinds of challenges that I love to take on. Nine batches of croissants later at 22 hours per batch, and I had my first recipe challenge completed. That was only the beginning. I quickly realized that a whole new flour formula would be needed. Croissants, technically, are a bread, not a pastry, and the ultimate request came from my mom, who wanted Danishes. Who can deny their mom cheese Danishes?
My gluten-free challenges last year made for some really prolific recipe invention. I made a bread flour blend, learned how to make laminated pastries, and made the best-looking, fluffiest, hole-i-est gluten-free baguettes you've ever seen.
Here was the list of gluten-free recipes requested last spring:
- Bread
- Flour Tortillas
- Bagels
- Croissants
- Cinnamon Rolls
- Cheese Danishes
- Dinner rolls
- Sugar Cookies
I got six out of eight of those checked off the list. The remaining two get moved to my new list, which is growing.
Recipe Request List:
Cinnamon Rolls
Bagels
Easy crescent rolls
Popovers
Soft Pretzels
Pain au Chocolat
As an added bonus, I'll promise to post a requested recipe next Wednesday - or at least a humorous status report on my failure to produce instant results.
4 comments:
Fluffy breakfast biscuits -- the buttermilk biscuit variety. I've tried a couple of mixes, but they've all had that sort of metallic, I-know-this-is-gluten-free, yucky sort of aftertaste.
Biscuits! That's a good one. That will definitely go on the list.
Yes yes yes biscuits please! Would love a recipe for soft fluffy hamburger buns.
I'm thinking biscuits might be near the top of the list. I made hamburger buns once, but they were just okay. Not blog-worthy yet. I'll work on that one too!
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