Thursday, February 2, 2012

Blueberry Cake


You can use any berries such as aronia berries, blackberries or other berries, not just blueberries.
Using gluten-free flour makes this recipe good for people who have allergic reaction to gluten. You can make your own gluten-free flour or purchase it at a health food store. If you do not want to make your blueberry cake gluten-free just use regular flour. The use of Fructevia in place of sugar makes this a good desert for diabetics.
  • 2 cups gluten-free flour
  • 2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup blueberries (frozen is fine)
  • 2 tablespoons gluten-free flour
  • 1/2 cup coconut oil or real butter
  • 1/2 cup frictevia
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup warm milk
  • 1/8 cup fructevia
  • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray olive oil or other lubricant on a 9-inch-square pan.
Mix the flour, baking powder and salt together in a bowl and set aside. Use 2 tablespoons gluten-free flour to coat blueberries and set it aside. Mix real butter or coconut oil and fructevia in a bowl; add eggs and beat well. Add milk to the dry ingredients and mix then add the blueberries. Put mixture into the prepared pan. Mix furctevia and cinnamon together and sprinkle over the top of the cake. Bake 35 to 40 minutes.
A couple examples of gluten-free flour recipe you can use to make your own flour by grinding your own using a mill such as the Wonder Mill are as follows:
  • 3 cups combined bean flour
  • 3 cups cornstarch
  • 3 cups tapioca starch flour
  • 3 cup rice flour
  • 1/2 tsp. xanthan gum
Another recipe that is not as heavy as the above is:
  • 1 cup rice flour
  • 1/2-3/4 cup potato starch
  • 1/4 cup tapioca starch/flour or corn flour
This is good for coating fried chicken for example.
Milling your own flour is possible using a mill such as a Wonder Mill. There are many reasons you should/would want to grind your own flour for bread baking.
First if you have a mill it you can mill grains and save money. Flours are cheaper when ground at home.
Secondly the quality and flavor you get from home ground flour is better. The flavor simply cannot be duplicated with any commercially available flour.
A third reason you should consider grinding your own grain flours is for the health benefits. All commercially made grain flours have had the germ removed. The germ is the part of the grain that contains healthy nutritious oils.
A fourth reason to consider making your own flour is this will give you access to flours that you might not be able to get otherwise.

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