Menu
Log in
Forgot password
Log in
How Much Sugar?

Friands - Fructose and Gluten free

  • 21 Oct 2009 2:31 AM
    Quote
    Message # 233066
    Deleted user
    These are easy and delicious - just tweeked a favourite recipe.

    Preheat oven to 180c

    In a large bowl mix together;
    *200gm almond meal
    *1 cup desicated coconut
    *1 1/2 cups glucose powder
    *1 teaspoon baking powder (choose gluton free if necessary)

    In a small saucepan melt
    *200gm unsalted butter
    Allow to cool a bit if very hot

    In a medium bowl whisk
    *4 whole eggs
    Continue whisking and add the luke warm butter and add
    *1 capful of vanilla essence (optional - lots of fructose but only using small amount)

    Pour wet ingrediants into dry and mix thoroughly

    Divide mix into 12 large muffin tins - either greased or lined with individual papers.

    Place 3 blueberries on top of each - again optional and you can use any berries.

    Bake without oven fan for 25 - 35 mins depending on oven - should be golden and brown - a skewer, once inserted, should come out clean.

    Remove friands from tins and cool on rack.

    Eat plain or serve with cream - warmed is nice.

    I have fed these to many people and everyone loved them. It occured to me that you could add lemon or orange zest to vary the flavour and this would eliminate the vanilla if you wanted. Chocaholics might try adding a couple of tablespoons of cocoa - I've not tried this but don't see why it wouldn't work.

    They freeze well - 1 minute on 'defrost' setting if you have a microwave to thaw.

    Enjoy!
  • 14 Nov 2009 7:10 PM
    Quote
    Reply # 244935 on 233066
    Deleted user

    I posted the comment below on the 'Sweet Poison' forum and then thought I should post it here also:

    Well it pays to read the packaging before wildly claiming something is fructose free (apart from the obvious optional ingrediants like vanilla and berries). This is something that never occurred to me with coconut - though I did realise there was some fructose in almonds. For those counting every gram, I discovered yesterday that the cup of coconut (at about 75gm) has 2 gm of fructose and the 200gm of almond meal has 4.4gm fructose. It's not all bad news though - the mix divides into 12 cakes and takes the total to about 0.6gm fructose for each one - I'll leave it to someone else to work out the berry and vanilla content!
    For those who don't keep a lot of baking ingrediants around, I forgot to put the baking powder into the last lot and it didn't seem to make any difference - the large quantity of eggs probably contributes nicely to the rising process.

    Cheers - Janet

    Last modified: 14 Nov 2009 7:10 PM | Deleted user
Powered by Wild Apricot Membership Software