GF biscuit recipes anyone?

[Seaweed]

dd#2 is going on school camp & they have asked us to send a tin of home made biscuits. GF where possible. We are GF but I never bother making biscuits. I do have a recipe for chocolate buckwheat biscuits which are really yummy but they take a whole big bar of chocolate & are probably overkill for school camp. Does anyone have a tried & tested GF biscuit recipes they can share? I am going to try modifying the urban legend choc chip cookie recipe & will report back on that as well.

[Wonder-Full]

Nope not me either. We're GF but I don't bake unless it's for a birthday cake. Would like to have something on hand though for similar instances... Actually a friend gave us the recipe for a quite nice rice flour biscuit that used golden syrup and it gave them a much nicer texture than crumbly ones I've tried from the supermarket at times. will have a hunt around for it...

[justine]

Sophie gray has a has a cookbook called ENJOY. There are lots of GF and dairy free recipies including Gigerbread. pg 105.

good luck.

[Seaweed]

Honey is good for sticking things together. I do have the honey nut bars I can fall back on if all else fails but they are not very dip in your milk type cookies.
http://www.thenourishinggourmet.com/2009/07/delicious-honey-nut-bars-dairy-sugar-gluten-and-grain-free.html

[Wonder-Full]

Here is the recipe...rather sugar laden...

125gm butter
1/2 cup raw sugar
2 tablespoons golden syrup
1 cup ground rice
1 tsp baking soda
1tbs ground ginger (I use fresh grated ginger at least a tablespoon andcardamom spice)

Melt butter,sugar and golden syrup together. Mix in the rest of ingredients.Roll into balls and then flatten. Bake 180 for 10 - 15 min.

[Seaweed]

You could sub honey or rice syrup for the golden syrup & rapadura or shakur sugar for the sugar & then they would not be too bad. Probably no worse than any other cookie. Interesting there are no eggs. I almost have enuf in the pantry to try them out but I only have a tinsy bit of honey left & no sugar so we will have to wait till shopping day. I will report back as these look like they could be good.

[Wonder-Full]

Have just put some in to bake as I write. I used honey and had some organic raw sugar in the cupboard so used that. Hmmm, hope the absense of egg wasn't a typo lol. I just cut and paste her email in here.

[Wonder-Full]

Well, the cookies completely spread flat over the tray (just as well for lip on the sides). I found 10mins to be enough. I probably should have left them to cool on the tray rather than try to remove them to a plate as they crumbled a bit as they were really soft and floppy. They hardened up though but do seem a bit crumbly - but then since I don't bake I can't really say what's normal and what's not! I've never really been one for dry biscuits no matter how they're cooked.

[Seaweed]

I managed to acquire some honey so I tried these. I only put in 1/4c of sugar as they tasted sweet enuf just with the honey to me. I am sure I put an extra 1/2 c of flour in as they looked to gooey. I had melted the butter as I could not be bothered to cream it & was making dinner so I was not really paying attention. I used rice & tapioca flour as I only had a smidgen of rice left. I then baked them in a loaf tin as my baking tray had dinner in. They set well in the middle, maybe a tad crumbly on the edges but the kids are well into them. Now I need to work out how to turn them into cookies or I may do a double recipe & send them as slices. I wonder too if the amount of butter effects how they stick together when they are cold as they are almost shortbready type proportions? To stop the crumblyness, I may try adding an extra tbsp of honey & knock out the sugar & maybe ditch the baking soda? I never know what it actually does in biscuits as they always seem to turn out the same even without it.

[Wonder-Full]

Kids loved the biscuits and they did hold together fine. The edges were a bit on the crispy side, but the middle was fine. I think I could definitely drop the sugar and the spices seem to make up plenty of flavour.

[TanyaL]

This is clearly a bit late, but in case anyone needs a recipe at some future date, and assuming that biscuit means what I, as an American, would call a cookie, I've been leaning toward just making a flour-less nut butter cookie. This is the recipe I've used and enjoyed, though the solution is problematic when feeding large groups if there are peanut or tree nut allergies.

http://www.thenourishinggourmet.com/2008/08/flourless-nut-butter-cookies.html

[Seaweed]

I have tried these & they were quite yummy. I think the problematic bit for me was affording all that almond butter!
I have another spanner to throw in the works as it needs to be CF as well. I got some deodourised coconut oil from the supermarket this week which we did a test banana cake with & that was OK. So I am going to try cookies soon.

[Seaweed]

Updating this. In the end I made these

http://www.recipezaar.com/Gluten-Free-Tollhouse-Chocolate-Chip-Mimicry-329214

I could not find any choc chips which were both CF & GF so I used raisins & did not bother with the pecans. I ditched the xanthan gum & used buckwheat instead of sorghum. I made a double qty & used like half the sugar & they were way sweet enuf. I used deodourised coconut oil instead of butter as well. They came out really tasty so we will definitely make them again.

[gilima]

Tanya those cookies look awesome, we are gluten free and I'm always on the lookout for less "starchy" cookies.
my daughter just make a batch of gluten free linzer cookies which look and tasted amazing, but they are definitely not hassle free:giggle:

[Seaweed]

bumping this as we are back on school camp again in 2 days & i have to take cookies. i am doing choc chip cookies from that recipe i posted the link to above. maybe a banana cake. anyone got a good recipe for gf linzer cookies?

[Seaweed]

I've currently got a gf version of this
http://neo-homesteading.blogspot.com/2010/10/vegan-banana-cake-go-bananas-part-2.html
in the oven as we have some vegans from Chch coming to camp with us. i used deodorised coconut oil instead of marg & i used coconut cream instead of almond milk. fingers crossed it will be ok as it has been made with what i have in the house at short notice. not sure what i am gonna ice it with as i usually make icing with a big bar of milk chocolate, honey & cream. none of which are vegan. in the house i have cocoa, no nut butter or nuts either. i've got coconut oil & sugar so i may be able to do a choc fudge type thing with the rest of the coconut cream & that.

[Seaweed]

reporting back on the banana cake. i flagged the icing altogether. the cake was pretty soggy & moist but we had half for morning tea the first day before the vegans got there. by we, i mean the school kids who are very definitely not vegan or even that used to home baking. it all disappeared & there was none in the compost bin. following day they were all still out wandering around as the younger kids went at a different time to us & then everyone was late so we had to rush to get the boat home, but it all got eaten again. so i would say, if you need a gf vegan cake, it is prob worth a try. it may be worth trying with the almond milk as it could come out lighter tho' which is what i would do if i ever have to make it again & had the opportunity to go shopping first.

[Seaweed]

adding a GF anzac cookie recipe in as we had to do some at school

http://en.petitchef.com/recipes/gluten-free-anzac-biscuits-cookies-fid-247197

i only had honey so what i did was boiled up the honey & the butter for a while to make the honey fudge itself. they were still a tad crumbly but def tasted fine to non GF ppl.