Gluten-Free Cupcakes: 50 Irresistible Recipes Made with Almond and Coconut Flour Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's Elana Amsterdam Page | Language: English | ISBN:
158761166X | Format: PDF, EPUB
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“Elana Amsterdam’s recipes are always beautiful and irresistible, and her gorgeous cupcakes are no exception. Everyone—gluten-free and otherwise—will love this collection of recipes.”
—Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman
“Elana’s lovely book full of wonderful gluten-free cupcake recipes is a must-have for anyone with celiac disease--enjoy these cupcakes!”
—Peter H. R. Green, MD, Director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University
About the Author
ELANA AMSTERDAM is the popular food blogger of Elana’s Pantry, where she has written about gluten-free cooking and baking since 2006 after she and her son were both diagnosed with celiac disease. Elana’s first book, The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook, was named one of the Denver Post’s top cookbooks of 2009. Her writing has appeared in diverse publications including Shape, Natural Solutions, Delicious Living, and Delight magazine. She lives with her family in Boulder, Colorado. Visit www.elanaspantry.com.
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- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Celestial Arts (April 26, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 158761166X
- ISBN-13: 978-1587611667
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 7.1 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Ok, so the first thing anyone who buys this book HAS to know, is that EVERY SINGLE RECIPE uses agave nectar instead of sugar, and that the book DOES NOT EXPLAIN HOW TO SUBSTITUTE regular sugar for the agave.
[*UPDATE* As several people have asked about this in the comments, I want to clarify that AGAVE NECTAR DOES NOT CONTAIN GLUTEN, and it was never my intention to claim that it does. My problem with it has to do with the fact that I don't normally use it or have it in the house, and that I understand it is quite controversial for other reasons. However, it is gluten free **End Update** ]
Frankly, this is pretty annoying, and it is particularly annoying because this was in no way made clear in the advertising for the book. There is one line in the blurb about the recipes "not containing any refined sugar", which is easy to miss and a little ambivalent. Other than that, it really isn't stated clearly anywhere. It really would have been nice if in the front cover, where it says "recipes with almond meal and coconut flour", it would have also said "and agave nectar", to make it clearer to the potential buyers. The recipes also, by the way, use grapeseed oil, but that really isn't a big deal considering that you can easily replace it with canola or vegetable oils or any other relatively flavorless oil.
Ok, so I got this book, realized that it was all agave and debated if to just return it outright to Amazon, since I have no intention of starting to regularly bake with agave. After consulting with some people, however, I decided to give it a try using regular sugar.
Due to my health condition and food allergies, I must eat grain-free and dairy-free and am thus limited to nut flours and coconut flour. While others love almond flour, I only like it somewhat, and it is very expensive. So, I was very interested in starting to cook with coconut flour. From what I have read, coconut flour is quite healthy. It has a high fiber content and decent protein content. It is also less expensive than almond flour. Finally, coconut flour seems healthier to me than the (high-glycemic index) rice-flour, potato starch, gum combinations that so many gluten-free individuals can turn to. My digestive system cannot function with the typical gluten-free rice flour mixes anyway.
I wondered how the coconut flour would taste. I think that its flavor is very subtle and not like that of coconut, but rather it has a very caramel(ized) flavor, which is delicious. The `cupcakes' (I prefer the word muffin...since I don't frost them) are extremely moist. Yes, they are slightly denser that what you might have been used to with wheat-flour muffins/cupcakes. But they are also moister. A definite plus, in my opinion. As I read in another cookbook, one has to stop expecting non-wheat products to taste like wheat-products. Wheat has a taste that we are used to and other flours will not have that taste.
So far, I have made the following recipes from the book (I am an experienced baker):
-Lime cupcakes (but I substituted lemon zest for the lime zest and added poppy seeds). The recipe was a ? almond flour, ? coconut flour recipe. Very good. One of my favorites.
-Chocolate banana cupcakes. A coconut flour only recipe. Very moist and good. I am not sure that I love this flavor combination, though.
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