Irish Soda Bread!

This recipe is from Elana over at  elanaspantry.com And it’s a good one.

Ingredients

• 2 3/4 cups Blanched Almond Flour
• 1/4 tsp Celtic Sea Salt
• 1 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/2 cup Raisins
• 2 Large Eggs
• 2 Tbs Apple Cider Vinegar
• 2 Tbs Agave Nectar
• pinch Caraway Seeds

Directions

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F
• Mix together the Blanched Almond Flour, Celtic Sea Salt, Baking Soda and Raisins in one medium bowl.
• Wisk together the Eggs, Apple Cider Vinegar, and Agave Nectar in a small bowl
• Combine the wet into the dry ingredients. (if you let it sit for a moment, the vinegar will react to the baking soda and will froth a little bit. It’s pretty cool)
• Mix well
• Sprinkle with pinch of Caraway Seeds
• Grease a pan with a dab of Grapeseed Oil
• Plop the dough on the pan and mold it into a 8 inch circle that’s about 1 1/2 inch deep
• Using a serrated knife, score a cross into the dough that’s about 1/2 inch deep.
• Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees F
• Turn the oven off, but leave the bread in the oven for 10 more minutes
• When it’s been a total of 30 minutes (20 with the oven on, 10 with the oven off) Take the loaf out of the oven and let it cool for 30 minutes.
• Eat!

Leftovers

• It turns out that I don’t like caraway seeds, so I’ve been making this bread without any and I like it better. It wont rise very much, and the texture is more like a fabulous scone than it is a real “bread”. It’s crispy on the outside, moist on the inside, a little rich, and not terribly sweet. I’ve been eating it as a quick snack all week.
• A quick plug! Elana has a new cookbook coming out! It’s called “Gluten-free Cupcakes” and it’s FABULOUS. If you like cupcakes I can’t recommend it enough. You can pre-order it on Amazon right now (it comes out next week). She keeps thing simple. Which I appreciate since I can get overwhelmed if recipes are too complicated. I’d like to say that that’s a hazard of making things for the first time on camera all the time, but I think it’s also that I’m just not terribly detail oriented. Which is nicer way of saying that I’m impatient.
• I highly recommend this Irish Soda Bread. It’s delicious. Make it! This recipe is from elanaspantry.com Thank you Elana!

Good Luck!!!

Lovelillian

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