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This wonderful cake has a sweet and spicy, robust flavor with the slightest apple tang finish. It is perfect for breakfast with coffee or as dessert anytime. Provides protein, vitamin A, iron, potassium, riboflavin and minerals like calcium and magnesium in the nuts.

Ingredients

• 2 cups white rice flour
• 1/3 cup tapioca flour or cornstarch
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 ½ teaspoons GF baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon xanthan gum
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• ½ cup oil
• 1/4 cup fructose
• ¼ cup honey
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon GF vanilla
• 1 cup applesauce

Equipment

Springform cake pan or bundt pan. Oven.

Process

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.  Grease then dust with rice flour a 9 inch springform cake pan with straight sides and fluted insert (see picture) for maximum rise.  Or use a bundt pan. 

In a large bowl, add the flours, salt, baking powder, baking soda, xanthan gum, and cinnamon.  Sift with a wire whip to thoroughly combine.  Set aside.

In a medium bowl, beat together the fructose, honey, eggs, vanilla, and oil until light and fluffy.  Scrape mixture into bowl with dry ingredients.  Mix lightly just until smooth.  Fold in applesauce.  Scrape mixture into prepared pan and bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Cream cheese frosting: beat 2 oz. cream cheese with ¼ cup fructose or honey.  Top with chopped walnuts.

Luscious and so good for you! you can make this smooth, mouthwatering custard in 10 minutes. Whether you make it to fill this pie or as a quick dessert without the pie shell, keep the bananas for an unbeatable treat for all ages. Provides protein, iron, potassium, magnesium, vitamin B6, pantothenic acid, vitamin A, zinc and riboflavin. Adding coconut lifts it up to the next level of taste and nutrition, adding fiber and more protein, iron and zinc.

Ingredients

• 1 gluten-free baked pie shell, or use recipe below
• 3 medium bananas, sliced to line pie shell
• 1 banana, sliced on the diagonal for topping
• ¼ cup cornstarch
• ½ cup fructose
• 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
• 1 2/3 cup gluten-free vanilla rice milk or substitute
• 1 tablespoon gluten-free margarine
• 2 large egg yolks, lightly beaten
• 1 ½ teaspoons gluten-free vanilla (not artificial vanillin)
• 1 cup shredded coconut for the topping

Equipment

Oven.
9" pie plate.
Medium size pot with heavy bottom.
Large wooden spoon.

Process

Prepare pie shell, if making the pie. When cool, line the shell bottom with 2 rows of bananas. Set aside.  In a heavy-bottom medium pot, use a large wooden spoon to mix cornstarch and fructose then stir in 2/3 of rice milk to blend. Stir in remaining rice milk and margarine.

Bring mixture to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly to prevent sticking or use a double boiler pot. Turn down heat and continue cooking and stirring until mixture thickens. Bubbles will be very large and slow to break when cooked. Stir in egg yolks and cook another minute. Stir in vanilla. 

Right away, turn custard into prepared pie shell.  Arrange bananas sliced on the diagonal to form a circle around the crust and press them in. Sprinkle coconut over the center. (Can also be turned into serving dishes over fruit instead of pie shell).

Pie crust recipe:

1 ½ cup rice flour

½ teaspoon xanthan gum

½ teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon fructose

½ cup shortening or margarine, cooled

2 large eggs, cold

In a medium mixing bowl, blend rice flour, millet flour, xanthan gum, salt and baking powder together. With a pastry blender or mixer, slowly mix in shortening or margarine. Mix in eggs. Dough will be soft. Divide dough in 2, then sprinkle surface lightly with rice flour and flatten each between sheets of plastic wrap. Refrigerate 10 minutes to chill. Roll out to fit 2 pie pans or rewrap the extra one for the freezer.

Bake crust at 350 degrees F for 12 to 15 minutes until golden.

Serves 8.

When Apple Dumplings are baking, their unmistakable aroma fills the air. Much more satisfying than apple pie, everyone is sure to appreciate them.

Ingredients

• Pastry for 2 pie shells (see below)
• 6 medium tart apples (Jonathon, Pink Lady, Winesap, Granny)
• 2/3 cup raisins
• 2/3 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
• 6 tablespoons fructose or honey
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3 teaspoons butter (optional)

Ingredients for syrup

• 2 cups apple juice
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves

Equipment

• 13x9x2 inch glass baking dish.

Process

1. Heat oven to 425 degrees.  Lightly grease bottom of baking dish.
2. Make the syrup: in a medium pot, mix together the apple juice, honey, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and clove.  Bring to boil, then turn down to low and cook 3 minutes.  Set aside.
3. Prepare the pastry dough, or see below for our recipe. Divide pastry into 6 balls, then chill.
4. Pare and core apples.  Mix together raisins, nuts, fructose or honey, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon. Evenly fill apples with this mixture and add a half teaspoon of butter. 
5. Make the dumplings.  One at a time, roll each pastry ball between 2 sheets of plastic wrap to form an 8 inch circle.  Remove the top piece of plastic and place an apple in the center of the circle.  Bring the edges of the pastry to the top of the apple to enclose it, then press to seal.   Peel away the bottom piece of plastic.  Repeat with the remaining 5 apples. Space the dumplings evenly in the baking dish and pour the syrup over each one. 
6. Bake 40 minutes or until crust is golden and syrup has lightly carmelized or thickened. 

Pie pastry from our recipe file:

• 1 1/4 cup white rice flour
• 1/4 cup GF millet four or sorghum flour
• 1/2 tsp xanthan gum
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup non-hydrogenated shortening
• 2 large eggs, beaten

Blend dry ingredients – flours, xanthan gum, baking powder and salt.  With a pastry blender, mix in the shortening till it resembles coarse meal.  Lightly mix in the beaten eggs just until the dough pulls together. Makes 6 dumplings.