Showing posts with label vegan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vegan. Show all posts

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Gluten Free & Vegan Gingerbread Rollout Cookies


Tools: scale, mixer, 2 bowls, Rolling Pin, baking mat, cookie cutters
Oven Temperature: 350 degrees F
Weight: by grams

In your mixing bowl mix:
40   Flax seed Meal
100   Lukewarm Water

Let sit for 5-10 minutes while you prepare the other ingredients.

Whisk Dry ingredients together in a bowl and set aside:
350 Brown Rice Flour
60   Tapioca Starch
50   Coconut Flour
40   Potato Starch
15   Ground Ginger
10   Cinnamon
1/2 tsp. Ground Cloves (this amount doesn't register on my scale)
5     Salt
5     Xanthan Gum
5     Baking Soda


In your mixing bowl, mix together the following ingredients with the flax seed meal and water until they are all evenly combined:
450 White Sugar
50   Molasses
150  Coconut Oil or Shortening
50    Unsweetened Apple Sauce

Add the dry mix to the mixing bowl and mix for 3-5 minutes on medium speed.

Rollout on a silicon mat to 3/4" in thick, if you will be pressing a pattern into them like the ones I have pictured. Do 1/2" if you are not doing a pressed pattern on top. Dust with brown rice flour as needed. Do the fun part of cutting out cookies! Then place them on you cookie sheet that has been covered my parchment paper or a silicon baking mat. Thinner cookies will make harder cookies, so if you are making houses, you can do that, or just bake longer.

Bake at 350 degrees F for 18-20 minutes.

When they come out let them cool for a few minutes before you transfer them to the cooling rack.
When they have cooled put them in an air tight container.  

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Egg-Free Lemon Royal Icing

So, I am very happy with myself. This recipe is ridiculously easy and now I can get fancy with my sugar cookies. I was worried it wouldn't taste very good and just be fun for decorating, but it IS good (well, if you like lemon flavored things). Here it is!

3 Tablespoons Energ-E gluten-free egg replacer
1/2 Cup lemon juice

Whisk together until frothy, then add:

4 Cups powdered sugar

Mix together for a few minutes.

Then you can add more powdered sugar or more lemon juice to get the consistency that you like to work with. Working with royal icing is tricky and takes practice, but so fun! I let mine dry over night before serving them.