First Recipe

Just a note on my personal baking:  After trying several alternative flours, the combination that worked best for me is approximately equal proportions of sorghum, oats, and soy.  The oat and soy flours I use are gluten free, but I understand that these flours can still be an issue to some.  If anyone does try these recipes with other flour blends, I would be interested in hearing how they turn out.

During my years of baking I have found recipes that I really enjoy, so one of the main goals in my recipe experimentation is to see if I can come up with GF versions of some of my favorites.  Here is one of them:

  

Chocolate Cupcakes

1/3 cup sorghum flour
1/3 cup oat flour
1/3 cup soy flour
   or other desired flour blend

2/3 cup sugar
3 Tablespoons cocoa
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 Tablespoon milled flaxseed
1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum

2/3 cup water
1/4 cup oil
1 Tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Combine dry ingredients, mixing thoroughly.  Combine wet ingredients separately and stir into dry mixture.  Mix until thoroughly blended.  Spoon batter into a paper-lined muffin tin, filling them 2/3 full.  Bake for 18 minutes or until the cupcakes test done.  Made 11 cupcakes. 

Since this recipe uses soda and vinegar, it is important to have the oven preheated so the batter doesn't sit before baking.  I am also finding that since GF baked goods don't rise as well as their wheat counterparts that baking in small amounts (cupcakes instead of a cake) works better.