Gluten Free Soda Bread

My Mother has, quite sweetly, adapted her Soda Bread recipe for me. I know you are thinking that Irish Soda Bread is more of a March treat but she made over half a dozen loaves of the regular variety for a local bake and I got jealous. She also created a g-free version for me and it tastes as good so I thought I's share the new recipe with all of you.

Ingredients:

2 cups Gluten Free all purpose baking flour

1 tsp. Baking soda

1 ½ cup raisins

2 tsp. Caraway seeds (optional and I personally have never used them)

½ tsp. Salt

4 tbsp. sugar

1 cup buttermilk

Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl then gradually add buttermilk and using a large spoon mix all together (dough will be sticky). Add a little of the flour onto a board and shape into two small (or one large) round loaves. After shaping make a cross in the middle on top of each loaf. Spray a cookie sheet and place loaf on top and bake for 35-40 minutes in a 350-degree oven. Test with a toothpick and be sure that it comes out clean.

Gluten Free Chocolate Chips

Last night, after weeks of my mother's suggesting, I decided to attempt baking g-free chocolate chips.  I love baking cookies and not being able to eat my creations is sad.  That said, I had a bad experience attempting to eat a homemade g-free cinnamon muffin and, with the price of gluten free alternatives being higher, I was a little trigger shy.

I choose to make the Betty Crocker brand, it only needs the edition of a stick of butter(melt it, they say not to but it works best partially melted) and vanilla.   I made the delicious decision to add extra chips- semi-sweet.  Not only could you not tell the cookies were gluten free but they were some of the most delectable cookies I've ever had!!!

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