Gluten free biscuits that actually taste good
I found a recipe for the BEST GF biscuits I have ever had! I have made GF biscuits on several occasions, and they often leave a lot to be desired, whether they’re bitter because of the type of flour, flat because of the combo of flours, or are just plain off. These actually tasted the way I remember KFC biscuits. They’re a little on the flat side, but I look forward to making them again for making Biscuits and Gravy. I haven’t had Biscuits and Gravy in a long time. I might even make that for brunch this week. Oh, the possibilities!
But enough about me. This is the recipe I adapted for use with the ingredients I had on hand, and this is my adaptation:
Biscuits free of Gluten, Dairy, Eggs, and Soy
1 C. Millet Flour (This is the first time I’ve used millet flour, which is neither here nor there.)
1/2 C. Sweet Rice Flour
2 C. Corn Starch
1/2 C. Sorghum Flour
2 tsp. GF Baking Powder
2 tsp. Salt
1 1/2 tsp. Baking Soda
2 tsp. Xanthan Gum
1/2 C. Spectrum Organic Shortening (next time, I’ll try Earth Balance Soy Free Buttery Spread, which is yummy in place of butter)
1 1/4 C. Thai Kitchen Coconut Milk (regular)
1 1/4 C. Water
1 Tbsp. Vinegar (oops! I just realized I forgot to add the vinegar!)
Ener-G Egg Replacer and water for 1 egg, prepped according to instructions on the box
1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large mixing bowl, thoroughly combine the flours, baking powder, salt, baking soda, and xanthan gum.
3. Cut chilled shortening into flour mixture until the mix is basically smaller than pea sized chunks.
4. Add the coconut milk, water, vinegar (oops!), and egg replacer mixture.
5. Using a large spoon (I used a 1/4 C. measuring cup), drop the dough onto a greased pan to make about 16 biscuits.
6. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
* We baked ours for 20 – 25 minutes and they were still a tiny bit doughy, but mostly baked, which is more than I can say for most other recipes I’ve tried.
* I’ve read in the comments for the original recipe that the usual baking temp for biscuits is 450*. That might be part of it, but be careful about baking at a higher temp when omitting eggs as that can burn the outside and simply make the inside really warm though unbaked.
Thanks to the Gluten Free Cooking School for a very good recipe! 
Friday, frosting day
Buttercup* and I finished our cupcakes this morning. Aunt Guardian’s birthday is coming up so I thought it would be fun for Buttercup* to make her very own sweet treat to share since food challenged people get left out so often. Aunt Guardian has really bent over backwards to help Buttercup in many, many ways.
We made these cupcakes yesterday using the Namaste Chococlate Cake mix. Good stuff! Because I didn't want to doink up someone else's treat, we used the 3 eggs instead of egg replacer. Texture wise, they're almost exactly like the egg free version. They are slightly fluffier.
Buttercup* creaming the Spectrum Organic Shortening and Earth Balance Soy Free Natural Buttery Spread.
Buttercup* stirring the powdered sugar into the creamed fats so we wouldn't burn out the motor on my handheld wand mixer thingy.
So much frosting and so few fingers!
The finished product
Thursday
Buttercup and I made the cupcakes today. We’re making the frosting tomorrow (vegan buttercream). The camera is ready!
The main difference between these and the ones I made the other day is that I used eggs today. The height and texture is pretty much the same. For some reason, I thought they’d be fluffier.
I’ll post pics later.
Much better!
I haven’t accomplished everything I wanted to by now, but it looks a lot nicer in here. I still need to bake cupcakes, wash and cut up veggies, finish dusting and straightening the bookcase in the dining room, finish cleaning the kitchen, and get my church clothes ready.
I’m going to be making cupcakes with the Namaste Chocolate Cake Mix. I’ve done it a few times before and it’s a really good cake, especially for gluten free. I make cupcakes instead of cake because I use an egg substitute. There’s nothing quite like eggs for a cake. Nothing really leavens a potentially dense cake like eggs. EnerG Egg Replacer instead of eggs works best when a recipe or mix calls for 1 or 2 eggs. Any more than that and it’s hard to get anything but hot dough when making bread or cake. Cupcakes, otoh, turn out baked and yummy, though mine usually end up with a dent in the center. I’ll try to remember to take pictures.
Christmas Deco and Chores
I’ve gotten most of my Christmas stuff put away, but there are still a few things that need to be put away so that I can put the everyday things back into order. I’ve been dragging about taking care of that stuff for a couple of weeks now. I seem to be more dragging than motivated these days, but today’s the day it has to get done. We’re having friends over tomorrow, and while I do enjoy having company, I do not enjoy having my hands tied with finances being so tight that I can’t make certain things “just so”. I’m also a very slow moving person. It’s not that I mean to be slow, I just am these days, and it’s hard to overcome.
DH applied online for 15 jobs last night. He has decided to include experience from a small business he owned but didn’t think would count for anything since it wasn’t a huge success. He was also more detailed about some of his training and experience, which he thought would’ve been obvious before, but it may not have been.
In all of the financial hardship, God is faithful to us. I am so thankful that we have plenty of food in the freezer, that our utilities are paid, and that we’re not being foreclosed upon. I am also very thankful that dh knows enough about cars to keep ours limping along instead of completely dead in the driveway. You’d be surprised at the vastness of the difference between limping along and dead!
I’ve been reading in Exodus for a couple of days. Today, I read chapter 16, in which God provided for the most basic needs of Israel:
11 The LORD said to Moses, 12 “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’ “
13 That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. 14 When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. 15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was.
Moses said to them, “It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat. 16 This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. Take an omer [a] for each person you have in your tent.’ “
17 The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little. 18 And when they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little. Each one gathered as much as he needed.
I was impressed that everyone had exactly what they needed. Today, on yet another low energy, low motivation day, it impressed me that those who gathered little did not have too little. They went out and gathered, and in the end, they had exactly the amount that God told them they needed.
Well, I’d better get to work. Knowing that God is a need meeter, I feel better about getting busy with deliberate confidence that if something needs to get done today before my company comes tomorrow, He will give us what we need to accomplish it, otherwise it doesn’t matter. To God be the glory, whatever the house looks like tomorrow.
Philippians 4:19,20
19And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
20To our God and Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
