Christmas (Wheat-free) Baking Project Experiment: With Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook

Deanna — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:15:20 +0000

The Christmas season is here, and I have nearly finished marking final exams, and I have no experiments or major research to do over the holidays. Therefore it is time to do my own experiments at home, and buy some baking cookbooks and make use of my oven and baking supplies.

My baking cupboards are full of all the fixings to make healthy, organic and wheat-free baked goods, and there isn’t an abundance of wheat-free baking cookbooks on the market. I don’t really bake that often due to that. What should I do?

Well, I went out and got the Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook. No, she doesn’t have some magical book that accommodates vegans, celiacs or wheat-free foodies, but I have a plan! I am going to revise some of the recipes in the book to suit my wheat-free needs, and write about whether they are fabulous or a flop.

Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook

This will be a fun and and hopefully tasty experiment. Instead of wheat flour, I will be using spelt, corn, rice, kamut, rye and other non-wheat flours.

I will even try to make my revisions as gluten-free as possible, though that can be tough as any celiac will tell you. I may end up ruining some of the recipes, but then at least I will know what works and what doesn’t.

To start I am trying to decide between the following items: scones, rugelach, cookies or coffee cake. Any suggestions?

Wish me luck! I will start posting upcoming baking experiments through the next couple weeks.

~Deanna

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Christmas (Wheat-free) Baking Project Experiment: With Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook