Pa’s Home Baked Gluten Free Biscuits - Blueberry Hearts, truly delicious

   Some very munchy  cookies for you today and gluten free as well
    With all the wholesome goodness I have been cooking and eating lately I really felt the need for just some tasty biscuits to go with my cup of tea and these fit the bill just right. Working with gluten free flour again and that means you really have to pack flavour in.
    So that is what I have done and now I share my step by step recipe with you. It is very simple so please join me

collected pictures 1

    Hi been a long time and as you might have noticed I have gone gluten free and started a new gluten free blog.
    So I am just uploading collected pictures of baking since we last spoke to tidy up so to speak.
Who knows what the future may bring?

  

Chocolate tart

Blueberry cookies

A small slice of chocolate tart

    Here is a short selection of my diet as it was, in July 2012 if I am reading the mobile date correctly.
    Doesn't it look healthy and fairly minimal gluten by coincidence.
    As a matter of interest, if anyone is interested, I have gone down from 95k to 85k now. That is weight, not salary unfortunately.
    So here is some good looking tray bakes and other snacks. I will leave out the plates of egg, chips and beans and bars of chocolate that interrupted my perfect diet hee hee.

   
    A nice little before and after tray bake featuring sweet potatoes and butternut squash if memory serves me.

Tasty looking tray bake

 

Before

After

    

Another tasty wholesome before and after tray bake

    Now for some tasty sandwiches, 

I'm going to have to practice my bread making to get a good gluten-free sandwich loaf.

Do I know how to make a great sarnie or what?

Home made jam! Apple and blueberry if memory serves me well

Another great sandwich from Pa

     And some nice fruity snacks to cleanse the palate

    Self explanatory I think but I'm getting peckish just posting it. 

    A little bit of fun to finish today I think.

Playing with your food is great fun

     Well if anyone finds and reads this thanks for looking and remember to taste and enjoy whatever you eat.

    Love Life Laughs

          from Pa 

    Just found most of these pictures in previous post DOH!

Introduction

Hi and welcome to my blog a whole new world for me and you!

I hope to share my thoughts and ideas on vegetarian food, cookery, and  food related  interests PLUS

This is my first attempt at blogging and getting this far has exhausted me so i leave you with a picture and recipe for c c c c cookies, my latest attempt at baking bikkies and fully intend to be back with you regularly.

As you can see they are slightly overdone, not the most auspicious start to my blog. Unfortunately, i was pleasantly interrupted just as i thought they could do with a few more minutes and lost track.
Be warned!!!

                             C C C C Cookies   makes @ 36 


               Ingredients

600g Flour  (for these cookies i used gram flour to please a
                    coeliac  friend, the result was pleasantly
                    interesting but a little stodgy. Wheat flour works
                    as well)

50g   Sugar

100g Golden Syrup 

300g Sunflower Oil

100g Dessicated Coconut

50g   Sultanas    (blueberries, if available, are great) 

50g   Root Ginger   (peeled, chopped into 3-4mm cubes)

50ml Water

2 tsp Ground Cumin

1 tsp Ground Coriander

1 tsp Ground Cinnamon

1 tsp Salt

2 tsp Baking Powder

2       Free Range Eggs 

Extra plate of dessicated coconut

              Method

First preheat fan oven to 200C (adjust to your own oven) 

Add oil syrup and sugar to a heat proof bowl and mix. At this point heating really helps the mixing, i pop in the microwave on full blast for a few minutes. Take out and mix. Stand to one side.

Add baking powder to water and stir.

Sieve flour into mixing bowl
Add spices and mix.
Add coconut, ginger and sultanas and mix thoroughly.

Beat eggs together in mug.

Add baking powder mix to flour mix,
Stir up oil, mix well, add to flour mix, mix thoroughly.
Add beaten egg mix to the rest and really mix it up.

Line your baking tray with foil to save on washing up. 


Wash your hands!


Take out @ walnut sized piece of dough/batter, mould, flatten slightly and drop into plate of coconut. then place on baking tray, coconut side up, @ 1-2 inches apart.


At this stages they will seem to be quite oily, don't worry about it.


Put baking tray in top half of oven for 12-15 minutes. 
Keep an eye as nearing end, may need extra few minutes but they always seem darker at the bottom than top.


When you are happy remove from oven and put cookies on wire rack to cool.


Enjoy warm or cold.


These are low in added sugars but with plenty of natural sugar in coconut and sultanas but the flavour is aromatic and spicy.


Try them and let me know what you think.


Thanks for reading

          Love from Pa