Gluten Free Vegan Living

Gluten Free baking can be a challenge — that is why I love it when I find some great sounding Gluten Free Muffins (or other baked goodies) like this Gluten Free and Vegan Apricot Muffins!

If you have never baked Gluten Free, you need to know that non-gluten flours do not react the same as traditional gluten flours.  Gluten is very forgiving in recipes … you can substitute, change and even make mistakes with gluten flour and you baked goods may still turn out delicious.  Not so with Gluten Free flours!!  Care must be taken to make sure your measurements are accurate, your ingredients are all at room temperatures, your oven temperature is set correctly …. and you follow the recipe instructions carefully.

Don’t let the precision of Gluten Free baking scare you away.  Baking your own Gluten Free goodies can still be fun and rewarding.

So on to our featured recipe …

Gluten Free, Vegan Apricot Almond Muffins (or Scuffins)

Yields 12

2 cups GF flour
1 cup almond flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/4 cup almond milk
1 tbsp flax + 1/4 cup warm water, whisked together
1/2 cup applesauce
1/3 cup agave OR 1/4 cup agave + 1 tsp stevia (you can use more of either sweetener if you need to)
2 tbsp coconut oil (melted)
1 cup chopped, dried apricots (organic if possible!)

12 almonds (optional)

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A good Gluten Free flour to use in this recipe is Jules Gluten Free flour.  I find that Jules flour has just the right mix of flours to create the very best taste and texture on sweets, cookies, muffins and the other similar baked goods.  You might want to check out Jules website as she has lots of good recipes.  Sign up for her newsletter and you will receive email specials on her flour mixes.