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20 min. Yeast-Free, Gluten-Free Italian Bread & Easy Mezzetta Olive Tapenade

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My favorite holiday memories are of having lots of family and friends over for big meals. I love doing the cooking, preparing holiday recipes, the noise and laughter in the house, and of course, eating the food. I've happily adapted most of my old recipes to gluten-free but I had one more challenge. I was missing crusty chewy   Italian bread that I could make into Crostini! I've always loved warm toasted chewy bites of Italian bread at holiday parties. Topped with Tapenade or made into Bruschetta, they are my favorite appetizers, but I hadn't quite found the right gluten-free flour blend to achieve that wonderful chewiness, until now! I'm so excited to share my NEW 20-minute Gluten-free, Yeast-free, Egg-Free, and Xanthan Gum-Free Italian Bread Rolls with you and did I say, they only take 20 minutes? No yeast, no rising and so easy to make. This amazing dough is also perfect patted out thin for flatbread or pizza crust. Scroll down to see my new Pizza crust u
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Gluten Free Low Carb Chocolate Chunk Cookies, bean flour

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I've been working on recipes for my new Gluten Free Low Carb diet and wanted to make really good cookies that are high in protein, lower in carbs, inexpensive and healthy!

I  like the affordability and high protein of bean flour and hoped that it would make a good cookie.
This is not a tasty dough that you can munch on raw, but the cookies are wonderful.  No bean flavor at all after they bake.  I also like that they are lower in fat and calories than cookies made with just almond flour.

Makes 20 cookies

Ingredients:
  • 1 cup almond or pecan meal, not flour-  I grind mine in a coffee mill
  • 1 cup gluten free garbanzo bean flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 6 tablespoons butter or coconut oil, room temperature
  • 1 cup Truvia Stevia baking blend or Splenda or sugar free alternative of choice
  • 10 drops Liquid Stevia
  • 1 large organic egg
  • 2 tablespoons molasses
  • 1 tablespoon pure gluten free vanilla extract
  • 8 ounces gluten free dark chocolate, chopped  or sugarfree chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
Instructions:
  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. 
  2. In a bowl whisk the dry ingredients together.
  3. In the large bowl of your mixer, cream together the butter and sugars, scraping down the sides often. Add the egg and beat well, scraping down again often.  Add the molasses and vanilla and stir. 
  4. Add the flour mixture now and beat until fully incorporated, scraping down sides.
  5. Add in the chocolate and nuts and stir. 
  6. Scoop or spoon cookies onto your large greased baking sheet. 
  7. Bake for apx 11-13 minutes or until bottoms are lightly brown
  8. Remove to a cooling rack. 

Comments

  1. DarleneJanuary 7, 2013 at 1:22 PM

    Could you please tell me about Stevia baking blend and where one might find it? Thanks!

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    1. Ali the Skinny GF ChefJanuary 10, 2013 at 3:02 PM

      Hi Darlene, I buy it from my grocery store. It's called Truvia. I think you can also get it from Amazon and I will post the link in the recipe for you. Thanks for commenting. I hope to hear how you like the cookies!

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