For most Celiacs, the most difficult replacement food to find is a good gluten free bread.  I’ve always found that sometimes adding something with taste can make all the difference in improving the flavor, or at least making the bread edible!  

Here is a gluten free recipe I found for honey flax bread or rolls that you might enjoy.   If you try it, let us know how it turned out in the comments below!

Gluten Free Honey Flax Bread Recipe

Bread Ingredients:

• 1¼ cup warm water
• 1 Tbsp. yeast
• 1 tsp. sugar or honey
• 2½ cups Almond Blend Flour
• ¾ cup ground golden flaxseed
• 1½ tsp. xanthan gum
• 1 tsp. sea salt
• ¼ cup butter or dairy free margarine, melted
• 3 Tbsp. honey
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp. cider vinegar
• Egg white for basting rolls (optional)

General Directions:

1. Mix together warm water, yeast and sugar. Set aside until foamy.
2. In a mixing bowl combine flour, flax, xanthan gum, and salt.
3. With mixer running on low speed, pour in yeast mixture.
4. Add butter, honey, eggs and vinegar.
5. Beat on high speed for 2 minutes.

Do you want bread or rolls?  Pick the appropriate instructions below!

Bread Directions:

1. Spray bread pan with cooking spray. 
2. Spread batter evenly into pan.
3. Smooth out top with rubber scraper.
4. Cover with towel and allow to rise 1½-2 hours.
5. Bake at 400° for 1 hour.
6. Cover bread the last half hour to prevent over-browning.
7. Allow to cool for 30 minutes before slicing.

Rolls Directions:

1. Spray 6-4 inch cake pans with cooking spray.
2. Measure out heaping ? cup portions into pans.
3. Smooth out tops with rubber scraper.
4. Cover with towel to rise for 1½-2 hours.
5. Baste tops with egg white. Bake at 375° for 22-25minutes.

[Recipe Courtesy of Gluten Free Mama's Blog]

With both Halloween and Thanksgiving coming up, chances are you’ll be looking to make some homemade pumpkin bread soon.   Here is a recipe I discovered to make a gluten free pumpkin bread.  Enjoy!

Gluten Free Pumpkin Bread Recipe

Pumpkin Bread Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup brown rice flour
• 1/2 cup sorghum flour
• 1/2 cup potato starch flour
• 1 and 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon xanthum gum
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup unsweetened pumpkin puree
• 1/3 cup water

Pumpkin Bread Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Whisk together the brown rice flour, sorghum flour, potato starch flour, 11/2 cups sugar, baking powder, baking soda, sea salt, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg and xanthum gum.
2. In a separate bowl, cream together remaining 11/2 cups of sugar and the vegetable oil. Add eggs, unsweetened pumpkin puree and water. Add flour mixture to batter and mix until well-blended. Stir in the pecans and raisins. Put mixture in a Silicon loaf pan or regular pan lined with parchment paper.
3. Bake for about 1 hour and 15 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pan for about 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack.

[Recipe Courtesy of The Indianapolis Star]

Have some bananas and/or zucchini to use up?  Debra of Gluten-Recipes recently shared with us a great recipe for a gluten free zucchini banana bread, which I figured I would promote here.

Gluten Free Zucchini Banana Bread Recipe

Bread Ingredients:

• 2 c. grated zucchini
• 1 c. mashed bananas
• 3 eggs
• 1/3 c. sour cream
• 1 tsp. salt
• 2 c. sugar
• ½ c. vegetable oil
• 3 c. gluten free flour
• 1½ tsp. baking powder
• 1½ tsp. baking soda
• 3/4 tsp. cinnamon
• ½ tsp. nutmeg
• ¼ tsp allspice
• 1½ tsp. vanilla
• 1½ c. raisins, optional (I’ve also used blueberries — very good)

Bread Directions:

1. Shred zucchini and set aside. (I rinse it, then try to press out all the liquid)
2. Mash bananas and set aside.
3. In large mixing bowl, combine eggs, sour cream, salt, sugar and oil.
4. In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice.
5. Stir into egg mixture.
6. Add vanilla and raisins.
7. Add zucchini and bananas and continue to mix until blended.
8. Pour into 2 greased and floured loaf pans.
9. Bake in 350 degree oven for 45-55 minutes.
10. Cool on wire rack for 10 minutes, then remove from pan to completely cool on wire rack.

[Recipe Courtesy of Gluten-Recipes]

If you are living both gluten free and casein free, here is a recipe that you should check out.  Though it isn’t the most nutritious biscuit recipe available, it is very tasty.

Gluten Free/Casein Free Biscuits Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Best Gluten-Free Flour Mix Ever
• 1 Tbsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/3 cup Butter-flavored Crisco
• 3/4 cup Mocha Mix liquid non-dairy creamer

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
2. In a large bowl, mix flour blend, baking powder and salt with a whisk.
3. Combine thoroughly.  With a pastry blender, cut in Butter-flavored Crisco until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
4. With a wooden spoon, stir in Mocha Mix, mix well.
5. The dough should not be sticky at this point.  Roll it out on my counter top, unfloured.  (If your dough is a tad sticky, do flour your counter top and rolling pin with more of the flour mix)
6. Onto your counter top, turn out the dough, and “knead” lightly.  Kneading non-gluten dough isn’t like kneading regular wheat dough.  You simply gather it together, pat it out a bit, turn it over double on itself, then pat out again.  The more times you turn the dough over on itself, the more of a ‘layered/flaky’ result your biscuits will have.
7. Use a rolling pin to bring your dough to about 1/2 inch thick.
8. With a 2 1/2 inch biscuit cutter (or sharp-edged cup), cut biscuits.
9. Use a spatula to transfer biscuits to ungreased baking sheet or pizza stone.  Let edges of unbaked biscuits barely touch.
10. Gather remaining dough scraps and repeat the “kneading” and rolling process until dough is used up.
11. Bake about 15 minutes, or until golden.

[Recipe Courtesy of Only Sometimes Clever]

What’s a hamburger without a bun?  Now you can make Gluten Free Hamburger Buns and enjoy hamburgers with your hands.  This recipe has sesame seeds making these buns like the ones you would get when eating out.  Fire up the grill.

Gluten Free Hamburger Buns Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup rice flour
• 1/4 cup potato starch
• 1/2 cup tapioca starch
• 2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/3 cup oil
• 1/2 cup milk

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. In large bowl combine dry ingredients.
3. In small bowl whisk liquid ingredients.
4. Stir wet ingredients into dry ingredients.
5. Spray spray inside of muffin rings with cooking spray.
6. Put two very large spoonfuls of batter in each.
7. Sprinkle with sesame seeds.
8. Bake immediately for 13-15 minutes, until buns are nice and golden-brown on top.
9. Don’t undercook or they will fall when cooling.
10. Take out of muffin rings and let cool completely.

[Recipe courtesy of Fitness and Freebies]

This gluten free bread has great taste and texture as it rises hand has air pockets just like regular wheat bread.  Despite having a lot of ingredients, this recipe is quite easy to make.  You can make it in a bread machine or in the oven.  if you use a bread machine, make sure it is a heavy duty one as with all gluten free dough, it is quite thick.

Alison’s Gluten Free Bread Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup egg whites
• 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
• 1/4 cup canola oil
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1 1/2 cups warm skim milk
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon xanthan gum
• 1/2 cup tapioca flour
• 1/4 cup garbanzo bean flour
• 1/4 cup millet flour
• 1 cup white rice flour
• 1 cup brown rice flour
• 1 tablespoon active dry yeast

Bread Machine Directions:

1. Place ingredients in the pan of the bread machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer.
2. Select cycle; press Start.
3. Five minutes into the cycle, check the consistency of the dough. Add additional rice flour or liquid if necessary.
4. When bread is finished, let cool for 10 to 15 minutes before removing from pan.

Oven Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Grease loaf pan.
3. In a large bowl mix egg, egg whites, vinegar, honey and milk.
4. In a seperate bowl mix salt, xanthum gum, tapioca flour, garbanzo bean flour, millet flour, white rice flour, brown rice flour and yeast.
5. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ones.
6. Bake approximately 1 hour, or until loaf is golden brown

[Recipe courtesy of Allrecipes.com]