Hi everybody,
So sorry for taking so long to get back to this blog, blame the Summer, Daniel heading to College and a very busy time baking and teaching gluten free cooking classes.
Last week I had my first cooking class in Whisk Kitchen Store in Cary. What a great set up! A lovely new kitchen specially set up for teaching with counter top, cameras, the whole shebang!
I was very encouraged to have thirteen participants and really enjoyed the class. We talked about the different gluten free flours and how they should be used, we sampled some of gluten free food we will be making in future classes and finally, we made delicious, light and airy cheesy, garlic biscuits!
I have to admit that at that stage of the evening I was a little tired and without the reminders of the class we would have had cheeseless, garlicless biscuits! Luckily, they were more attentive than I was and everything worked out great in the end.
I promised the class that I would put the recipe for the apple cake we sampled on the blog for them to try at home so here it is. This is a recipe I got from the Silvana Nardone on her website DishTowelDiaries.com
Enjoy!
Apple Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake
1 cup GF Flour Mix
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1/4 cup mini chocolate chips (dairy free if necessary)
1/2 chopped walnuts
1 tsp cinnamon
2 large eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 large apples, peeled, cored and cut into 1/2 inch pieces
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Lightly great a 9- inch springform pan or round cake pan. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt.
In a small bowl, toss together 2 tsp flour, 1/2 cup brown sugar, chocolate chips, walnuts and cinnamon.
In another small bowl, whisk together the eggs, sugar and remaining 1/4 cup of brown sugar until smooth. Whisk in the oil and vanilla. Stir into the flour mixture until just combined.
Pour half the batter into the prepared pan and top with half the apples and half the chocolate chip mixture. Repeat with the remaining batter, apples and chocolate chip mixture. Bake the cake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Let cool in the pan set on a wire rack.
