Let the Yeast Free Baking Begin
January 30th, 2010 | 
Author: It is about 9:35 AM on Saturday, January 30 here in New Jersey and my yeast free baking has been underway for almost an hour and a half. I am two dishes in with my first batch of corn muffins completed and my sesame rolls underway. Additionally, I have poppy seeds soaking in a container of soy milk in the refridgerator for a poppy seed cake that I will try this afternoon. I will let the kids help me bake this one. They will not be able to eat it because I the soy milk and I did not feel like rice milk would be a adequate substitute but I am sure that they would still enjoy helping. They are still asleep now and that is the main reason I was able to get two dishes in so early. Once they get up the day usually takes on a life of its own but if I plan to let them help me bake later in the day this is seen as an activity to look forward to rather than something that is distracting mommy.
So I have found so many great recipes and I am going to try out as many as I can this weekend. It is rare that I have a weekend with only one commitment, coaching a youth basketball game, and I am going to capitalize on this. I feel the biggest challenge with yeast free baking is the inability to duplicate the powerful taste of regular sugar. I use stevia in my yeast free baking and while I feel this is a good substitute I am not delusional and realize that it does not taste like sugar. I think that this is the where re-training your brain a bit comes in. Maybe we can’t think of using stevia as replacing sugar, but maybe we have to learn to accept the new taste of our baked goods without comparing it. Stevia is sweet in it’s own right and is great for baking. I will write a post about each dish that I bake and provide links to those posts below throughout the weekend, so please check back. If you are looking for candida diet baking recipes I hope that these will help you discover a world of new tasty treats.
Tennille
Corn Muffin or Cornbread – Candida Diet Recipe
Poppy Seed Cake – Candida Diet Recipe
Pumpkin Cookie Recipe – Candida Diet Recipe
Sesame Seed Rolls -Candida Diet Recipe
Posted in Candida Diet Recipes
Have you tried Swerve? I’ve only been able to find it on their website (http://www.swervesweetener.com/) and Amazon.com. But I’ve used it in a couple of recipes and it it a better ‘dry’ substitute for sugar in place of stevia and it substitutes cup for cup…but I haven’t had enough experience with it yet to know if it is worth the price.
Hi Jamie,
Thanks for bringing Swerve to my attention. I actually have never heard of it. I like the fact that it measures cup for cup in place of sugar. I find it annoying when trying to calculate how much stevia to use in place of sugar in a recipe. I am going to look into this for later baking. Thanks for the great idea.
Tennille