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Dairy Free Biscuits Made with Water

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Dairy Free Biscuits Made with Water (no milk).

I make a lot of dairy free recipes due to someone having a milk dairy allergy that I cook for. I hate to use recipes that call for weird kinds of milk that I never buy so I try to use water instead. Like my dairy free pancake recipe this biscuit recipe calls for water as a substitute. I think they turn out even better tasting with water!

      

Above are some photos of the process. We cut them pretty thick, about 1″ high. We placed them close together on the cookie sheet in rows of 2. My sister is better at making these then me so I had her help. You will have some scrap dough after cutting the biscuits out, you can smoosh it together and cut some more biscuit shapes they just won’t look as pretty.


Dairy Free Biscuits Made with Water
 
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Recipe type: Breakfast
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • 2 cup all purpose flour
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ⅓ cup vegetable oil
  • ⅔ cup water
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 450 F.
  2. Grease a baking sheet or line with nonstick baking mat.
  3. Mix flour, baking powder and salt together in bowl. Create a hole in the center, add vegetable oil and water. Mix until it forms a loose dough. (Don't over mix).
  4. Knead the dough by hand in the mixing bowl about 5 times, folding the dough over and repeating about 5 times.
  5. On a lightly floured surface gently pat down dough until about 1" thick. Use a biscuit cutter to cut into round circles. Place next to each other on baking sheet.
  6. Bake on greased cookie sheet for about 12-15 minutes or until edges are just starting to brown.

 

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Coffee Cake

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Coffee Cake.

Another Coffee Cake recipe! We have a variety of coffee cake recipes posted on our blog. My sister even has a Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake recipe posted if you are a chocolate lover. Cinnamon coffee cakes are my favorite and crumb cakes.

This recipe makes a square 8×8″ pan of coffee cake which I usually cut into 9 square pieces to serve.

Coffee Cake
 
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Ingredients
  • -For The Cake-
  • 1¼ cups all purpose flour
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • pinch of salt
  • 6 tablespoons salted butter, softened
  • 1 egg
  • 1 egg yolk
  • ⅓ cup plain (or vanilla) yogurt or buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • -Topping-
  • 3 Tablespoons brown sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons white sugar
  • 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Instructions
  1. Make the topping: In a small bowl combine sugars and cinnamon; stir well. Set aside.
  2. Preheat oven to 325. Grease an 8x8" baking dish.
  3. Using an electric mixer mix flour, sugar, salt, & baking soda together. Add butter & mix. Mixture will become crumbly looking & a little dry. Add egg, egg yolk, yogurt/buttermilk, & vanilla. Beat until light & fluffy.
  4. Pour mixture into greased baking pan using a rubber spatula to smooth it out.
  5. Add cinnamon topping by sprinkling it over the top.
  6. Bake for 30-35 minutes, until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
  7. Let cool for 30 minutes

 

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Pancake Bread

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Pancake Breakfast Bread.

Pancake Bread Trader Joe’s copycat Recipe. You could serve this buttered with maple syrup drizzled on top like pancakes!


I was recently shopping at a Trader Joe’s grocery store. I don’t have one in town so it is always a treat to be able to go to one when I’m out of town! I love to look at their unique items. This time I noticed something called Pancake Bread in the bread aisle and it looked like a coffee cake style bread and piqued my curiosity. I love coffee cakes, I have quite a few recipes posted for different types on this blog.

I tried to make this recipe using everyday ingredients because I hate making recipes that require a special trip to the grocery store for an item I will probably not be able to use up before it expires. I know a lot of the copycat recipes call for malted milk powder but that is something I’d never even heard of so I avoided using it. Forgive me if it doesn’t taste like Trader Joe’s without it but I was trying to keep it simple.

I baked this in a Pyrex 1.5 quart glass baking dish(affiliate link), about 9×5″.

Pancake Bread
 
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Ingredients
  • -Crumb Topping-
  • 2 Tablespoons salted butter (melted)
  • 1½ Tablespoons sugar
  • 1½ Tablespoons packed brown sugar
  • ⅓ cup + 1 Tablespoon all purpose flour
  • ⅛ teaspoon cinnamon
  • -Bread-
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ⅓ cup salted butter (softened)
  • 1 large egg
  • ½ cup whole milk (or buttermilk)
  • ¼ cup real maple syrup
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1½ cups All-Purpose Flour (I used King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose)
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • pinch of salt
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 F. degrees. Grease a 9x5 loaf pan and set aside.
  2. Prepare the crumb topping by melting the butter and pouring it into a bowl with the sugar, brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon. Mix until it becomes crumbly. Set aside.
  3. Prepare the bread batter by mixing the softened butter and sugar together in a bowl. Mix in egg and vanilla. Mix in milk and maple syrup.
  4. Add flour, salt and baking soda and stir well.
  5. Pour bread batter into prepared loaf pan.
  6. Take the crumb topping and sprinkle over the top of the batter evenly.
  7. Bake for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean.
  8. Cool in pan for at least 15 minutes then gently remove. Optional: Serve with butter & maple syrup.

 

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Homemade Bagels in the Bread Machine

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Homemade Bagels made in a Bread Machine or with a stand mixer fitted with dough hook.

These are pretty easy to make if you have a bread machine. You could also use a kitchenaid mixer with the dough hook. They are WAY better than store bought. Make sure you boil them in the honey or they will not be good!

These make medium size bagels (smaller than store). You can make larger ones but they will take a few more minutes in the oven.

Your dough should look like this after it mixes a few minutes. If it’s too dry add water by the tablespoon until it’s right or do the same thing with flour if it’s too wet.

   


Homemade Bagels in the Bread Machine
 
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Recipe type: bread
Serves: 18
Ingredients
  • 1¼ cups warm water
  • 2¼ teaspoons rapid rise yeast
  • 4¼ cups flour
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons oil
  • For Boiling:
  • 4 cups water
  • ¼ cup honey
Instructions
  1. Add warm water and yeast to bread machine, let sit for 2 mins. Then add all the rest of the ingredients (except the 4 C of water and the honey) and set to dough cycle.
  2. Once dough is done, put out of floured surface and preheat oven to 475 degrees. Line 3 pans with parchment or non stick sheet. Divide dough into 18 pieces. Roll them out into a log shape and press the ends together. Let them rise for 15 mins.
  3. Put 4 cups of water and the honey in small medium pan and get to a boil. Drop 2-3 dough circles into the boiling mixture for 45 seconds flipping half way, and then place on the baking pans.
  4. Bake at 475 degrees for 9-11 mins. make sure you don't over bake.

 

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Coffee Cake Muffins

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Coffee Cake Muffins.

I love cinnamon so I crave coffee cake quite often. I have a wide variety of different types of coffee and crumb cakes that I make. This recipe I am sharing with you below is one that I also use to make Coffee Cake Baked Donuts. It is a quick and easy muffin recipe that uses sour cream but you can also use yogurt as a substitute. Recipes makes about 8 muffins.


Coffee Cake Muffins
 
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Ingredients
  • -Topping-
  • ⅓ cup + 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
  • 2½ tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 2½ tablespoons packed brown sugar
  • 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • 2½ tablespoons butter, melted (I used salted)
  • -Muffins-
  • 2 tbsp. butter, softened (I used salted)
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ tsp. baking powder
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • pinch of salt
  • ½ cup sour cream
  • ½ tsp. vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. Make the topping first. In a small mixing bowl mix flour, sugar, brown sugar, & cinnamon together. Add melted butter & mix until dry crumb mixture forms. If it's not very crumbly add in a little extra flour.
  2. Preheat oven to 350 F. degrees. Grease muffin pans.
  3. Make the cake batter: In a mixing bowl stir butter & sugar together. Add in egg. Mix sour cream & vanilla in. In another bowl sift flour, baking powder, & baking soda together.
  4. Add flour mixture to the sour cream/liquid mixture & mix until smooth.
  5. Spoon into prepared muffin pans filling half full, about 2 tablespoons per muffin tin. Take the crumb topping and crumble between your fingers onto the top of each muffin.
  6. Bake for 20 minutes or until tops are starting to turn a slight golden brown and top is springy to the touch or until a toothpick inserted in center of one comes out clean.

 

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Banana Muffins with Crumb Topping

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Banana Muffins with Crumb Topping.

(Disclaimer: I was provided compensation for a link in this post. All thoughts & opinions expressed herein are my own.)

I love banana bread but honestly it takes a long time to bake which can be hard if you are not home for long periods of time. I made these banana bread muffins with a crumb topping because they are quick to bake, mine were done at the 18 minute mark. I don’t know why but I love a hint of cinnamon with banana bread/muffins so there is cinnamon in the topping and you can also add it to the batter if you are a big cinnamon fan. I always buy my cinnamon at Swanson Vitamins. I usually get the 1lb bag of organic cinnamon, it lasts me quite a while.

Recipe makes about 12-14 muffins.

I used a medium sized cookie scoop to fill the muffin tins, it scoops about 2 1/2 Tablespoons. I love it because it is less messy for me and then each muffin is approximately the same size. If you are not using salted butter then I recommend adding 1/8 teaspoon of salt to the recipe.

Banana Muffins with Crumb Topping
 
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Ingredients
  • 1½ cups all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 3 ripe mashed bananas
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • ⅓ cup salted butter (5 Tablespoons) softened
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • -TOPPING-
  • 1 Tablespoon melted salted butter
  • ⅛ teaspoon cinnamon
  • 2 Tablespoons flour
  • ⅓ cup brown sugar packed
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 F. degrees. Grease or line muffin pan with muffin cups.
  2. In a large mixing bowl combine flour, baking soda, and baking powdered together.
  3. In another mixing bowl mash the ripe bananas, add sugar, egg, softened butter and vanilla together.
  4. Add banana mixture to flour mixture and gently stir together by hand until combined.
  5. Scoop about 2.5 Tablespoons of batter into each muffin cup filling it about half full.
  6. Make the crumb topping by mixing it together. Sprinkle over the tops of muffins.
  7. Bake for 17-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into center of one comes out clean or if the top springs back when touched.

 

 

 

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