This recipe is so delicious. It's easy to whip together, too! I took my easy French baguettes recipe and tweaked them a bit. A bit of cocoa and honey and GF oats sprinkled on top turns them into these delicious, soft brown bread loaves. They remind me of the Cheesecake Factory-style Brown Bread they serve that I haven't tasted in many many years.  Helpful tip: they sell egg whites in a carton near the eggs at the grocery store, which makes baking these even easier. Enjoy!

Fresh from the oven Cheesecake Factory-style Brown Bread Loaves - gluten free!

I've sliced them, like so, but you can slice them in little coins to serve with butter.

Yummy sandwich, ready to eat!

Cheesecake Factory-style Brown Bread Loaves

Makes ~8-9 loaves

Preheat oven to 375 F or convection 350 F. Line two pans with parchment paper.  

Mix together in a large mixer: 

2 cups tapioca starch

1 1/2 cups brown rice flour

6 Tbsp potato starch

3 Tbsp cocoa powder

1 Tbsp xanthan gum

1 Tbsp quick-rise/rapid-rise yeast

1 1/2 tsp salt

(optional) 1/2 cup GF steel cut oats (add 1/2 cup warm water if using the steel cut oats)

Add and beat 3-4 minutes: 

1 1/4 cup warm water (or 1 3/4 cup warm water if using GF steel cut oats)

1 cup egg whites

6 Tbsp honey

1/4 cup oil (avocado or olive are nice)

2 tsp apple cider vinegar

Place batter into a freezer ziploc. Snip 1 - 1 1/2" from the corner.  Pipe loaves onto the parchment-lined pans. You want to have a bit of space between loaves to leave room for rising and puffing a bit during baking.  

Piped onto parchment paper-lined pans. 

Sprinkle the top of the loaves with: 

GF rolled oats

Topped with GF oats, ready to cover and rise!

Cover the loaves with upside down cookie sheets. Rise in a warm location ~40 minutes.  I find they puff, but don't fully double in size.  

After removing the upside down cookie sheets, ready for baking!

Bake at 375 F (350 convection) for 40-45 minutes.  Place baked loaves on a cooling rack. Slice once fully cooled. Slice and freeze these for perfect easy loaves to use later.  Delicious for sandwiches, toasted with butter and garlic as a garlic bread, with homemade egg salad or tuna salad and lettuce. Enjoy!  

Fresh from the oven! 

Nice and airy, with a delicious rich taste.

Cheesecake Factory-style Brown Bread Loaves Recipe by Successfully Gluten Free!

 A delicious variation on the plain English Muffins I'd posted. I grew up getting cinnamon raisin English muffins every so often, and I loved toasting them and eating them for breakfast with a bit of butter. However, since going gluten-free, I hadn't been able to enjoy a yummy English muffin, with that delicious crunchy edge. That's been remedied now. Hooray for homemade GF English muffins! Enjoy!

Fresh from the oven - GF cinnamon raisin English muffins!

Cinnamon Raisin English Muffins!

Preheat oven to 375 F. Line a pan with parchment paper.

Mix together in a mixer: 

3 cups Kristin's Gluten-Free Flour Mix 

1 tsp xanthan gum (in addition to the 1 tsp in the mix)

2 tsp rapid rise/quick yeast

1 Tbsp sugar

1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp salt

Add and let beat 3 minutes, until nice and smooth: 

2 cups milk, warmed (I usually heat 1 min in the microwave)

2 eggs

1 tsp apple cider vinegar

Fold in: 

1/2 cup raisins

On a small plate, place: 

1/2 cup cornmeal

Heat a nonstick pan over medium to medium-high heat.  Use a large scoop, grab a scoop of batter. Dip the scoop in cornmeal, then put cornmeal side down on pan.  Sprinkle additional cornmeal on top and gently flatten with fingertips.  Cook on each side until nicely browned.  Remove from pan to a parchment-lined pan.  Continue until all batter has been cooked on both sides.  

After pan frying on both sides, ready to pop into the oven for the bake which will finish the cooking.

Bake in the oven at 375 F for 27-30 minutes, until nicely browned.  I find if I cook less time than this they will collapse/loose air, which I don't want to happen. I want them to stay nice and puffy.  

Straight out of the oven, ready to transfer to a wire rack to cool. Usually one doesn't make it and ends up popped straight on a plate to eat.

Hot or cooled English muffins can just be pulled apart by hand! No knife needed!  Once cooled, I like to pull apart the English muffins, then freeze the leftovers. They reheat perfectly in a toaster oven or regular oven.  

A pulled apart English muffin. Pulling apart an English muffin, rather than slicing it cleanly, lends to the charm of this type of bread.

Cinnamon Raisin English Muffins Recipe by Successfully Gluten Free!