I have a cake dilemma. I found a gluten free, paleo recipe for cranberry bliss bars which appealed. I bought all the ingredients except almond butter. I'm avoiding nuts, so I figured I'd just substitute the almond butter with real butter. Ok, I'm not a good cook generally and I'm still getting used to GF baking.
anyhoo, I get to the end of the mixing and realise that there's no flour. The almond butter was a substitute for butter and flour in the original recipe. Given the amount of butter (450gm) with 2 eggs, I threw in 3/4 cup of coconut flour and hoped that would be enough. I whacked it in a slice pan and into the oven and baked it for about 30 min. It smelt delicious - it used honey instead of sugar. The outside was crisp and almost burning and the inside was still wet. I put it back in on a lower temperature. It eventually mostly cooked right through and I got bored of waiting. It tasted great, except for the burnt bits on the outside.
rather than throw it out, I covered it with cream cheese icing, sprinkled it with cranberries and lemon zest and tried to cut it. It crumbles so I can't really cut it into bars. It's delicious creamed cheese covered crumbs really.
Normally with my baking, I eat some and then try to give most of it away so I don't eat it all. My dilemma is, I can't give this away. So unless I eat it all myself, I'm going to need to throw it, which I would feel bad about.
Do I:
a) eat myself sick
b) chalk it up to experience, adjust the recipe next time and throw it out, or
c) create a new fad - icing covered crumbly bits
it's really yummy, so it definitely has potential if I tweak the recipe some.
*sushee/rouge- will we call this the development or testing environment? :)
