Prompt: FREE SPACE

[runpunkrun]

Have a gluten-free question, comment, request, suggestion, brag, or defeat? Have an article or resource to share? Just want to do a quick product recommendation? Just want to post a gluten-free link and flee the scene?

Anything goes! Just make sure your comments follow the community guidelines and don't contain unsolicited medical advice or details about your health. You folks have been great about both rules, but I just want to repeat them in case we've got some new community members.

Pop into the comments and do your thing. Content can be about GF stuff or the comm itself.

Comments

[runpunkrun]

I should make muffins today because I'm running low, but I can't decide whether to do cranberry or blueberry. I want blueberry, but I just bought fresh cranberries.

I might try making this cranberry apple cake, but as muffins because when I tried to make it as a cake it would not cook in the middle, but the edges were tasty so it's worth another try.

Or this spiced winter cake with cranberries looks amazing, though I haven't made it before and I'd have to mess with the ingredients.

[jesse_the_k]

The winter cake looks wonderful -- what changing would it require?

[runpunkrun]

I'd sub out the melted butter for oil--easy enough--but I'm in the process of discovering what spices I can and can't tolerate, so that's a problem. I could drop them all just to be safe, but I do like some spice in my spice cake. :/

Muffin Update

[runpunkrun]

I made the cranberry apple cake as muffins, and they turned out better this time--they cooked--but they still scared me when I tried to take them out of the muffin tins because they felt very soft like they were still soupy inside.

They weren't, but they're very moist and kind of pudding-y from all the apples. If I make them again, I'm going to cut down on the apples. I've decided two cups of chopped apple to two cups of flour is not ideal for muffins.

Also they're sweet, like tiny, soft coffee cakes, so not really what I'd consider a muffin, but part of that might be because I used orange juice in them instead of milk.