Hersey's Recipes

[RoxyFan]

So a friend of mine sent me this link where you can find recipes made with Hersey's products.
Im new to the world of GF food and i already miss my baking of sweets! There is a recipe that i would like to do, here are the ingredients. My questions are:
1)Is this duable (finding the substitions)? Or not worth my time?
2)If duable, what would be the substitution?
*I have translated the recipe since it was in french. Hope it makes sense. 'tasses' is cups.

2 1/2 tasses (625 mL) all purpose flour
2/3 tasse (150 mL) granulated sugar
1 tasse (250 mL) soft butter
2 eggs
1 boîte (300 mL) condensed milk
1 tasse (250 mL) White chocolate CHIPITS®
1 tasse (250 mL) dried cranberry
1 paquet (200 g) shredded coconut
1/2 tasse (125 mL) semi-sweet chocolate chips CHIPITS®

Thanks for the help!

[heartofcooking]

Hi,
If you just want to make it gluten-free, this would be pretty easy by just using white rice flour or almond flour to substitute the regular flour. You will also need to make sure the chocolate chips are gluten-free - I honestly don't know because I don't use them.

Good luck!
Sarah
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[The Edifying Conscience]

I completely disagree with Heart of Cooking. I would never suggest using only one GF flour as a sub for all purpose flour. In my experience that is a guaranteed way to have a baking failure.

Tassies generally are itty bitty pies made in mini-muffin tins. I would suggest using your favorite GF pie recipe for the crust. In the event you don't have one I'll bump mine up in the recipe folder.

As for the other ingredients, it's very easy to get GF equivalents of all of those products. I'm not sure of Canadian brands though.

[heartofcooking]

Hi,
I would normally agree with Edifying Conscience. I usually use blends of all sorts when baking GF. However, almond flour is one flour that does stand alone in GF baking. Elana at Elana's Pantry uses it almost exclusively in her baking. It does not need any other flour to make it work very well. It is refined almond flour, not almond meal though.

Her website is http://www.elanaspantry.com/. Check it out. She also uses coconut flour by itself but it usually is for baking muffins and required a lot of eggs.

The Hershy's recipe in the post would work very well with the almond flour. As for the rice flour, I made some delicious cupcakes just yesterday with just rice flour. And they were moist, springy, and delicious. I am discovering that with some recipes that it is possible to use just one GF flour but it does depend upon the recipe.

Here is the link: http://www.heartofcooking.com/2009/07/best-ever-dairy-free-gluten-free-sugar-free-soy-free-egg-free/

As for using rice flour in this recipe, looking at it I thought it may work but I really am not certain. I also wasn't clear that it was a mini pie so this does may all the difference. I thought it was a cookie recipe. I think using a pie crust recipe would work well.

Ultimately, converting any recipe is an experiment and I hope that your's turns out well!
sincerely,
Sarah
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[The Edifying Conscience]

[heartofcooking]

Like I said, it is not the regular almond meal that many of us are used to. I said it was refined but actually it is called blanched almond flour. Regular almond meal is much coarser and does not make the same results.

Here is a link to the description of the flour:

http://store.honeyvillegrain.com/blanchedalmondflour5lb.aspx

As for making a whole loaf of bread with it, I have never done this so I did a search on elana's website and she has a couple of recipes for breads with almond flour. However, they do have some arrowroot and flax meal in them as well. It is mostly for desserts such as cakes, cookies and muffins that you can use the almond flour by itself.

Here is a recipe from Elana for shortbread cookies that only use the blanched almond flour:

http://www.elanaspantry.com/pecan-shortbread-cookies/

"These cookies are so good my friend Elizabeth tells me they're addictive. Go ahead, bake these buttery treats and see for yourself."

Pecan Shortbread Cookies
2½ cups blanched almond flour
¼ teaspoon celtic sea salt
¼ teaspoon baking soda
1 cup pecans, toasted and chopped
5 tablespoons agave nectar
½ cup salted butter, melted
1 tablespoon vanilla extract

1. In a large bowl combine almond flour, salt, baking soda and pecans
2. In a smaller bowl, mix together agave, butter and vanilla
3. Mix wet ingredients into dry
4. Place dough in the center of a large piece of parchment paper and form into a large log approximately 2½ inches in diameter
5. Place in freezer for one hour, until firm, unwrap and cut into ⅛ inch thick slices
6. Place slices on a parchment lined baking sheet
7. Bake at 350° until lightly golden, 7-10 minutes
8. Cool and serve

Makes 24 cookies

Enjoy these gluten-free pecan shortbread cookies!

comment for “Pecan Shortbread Cookies”

"I made these last weekend and they are delicious! I made half the batch the weekend before last and kept the other half of the dough in the freezer. I was able to just take the rest of the dough out and let it sit for a few minutes then pop them into the oven this weekend for a quick treat! I used half Agave and half stevia powder and they were perfectly sweet!

"Thank you so much for all of your fantastic recipes, Elana! You have helped me feel as though I can eat like a ‘real person’ again! "

I highly recommend everyone to check out her website. Baking GF can become so complicated when you have a zillion different flours. If you're just starting out, it's so much easier to know you can just use one or two and you're done!
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