The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren chose Gluten-Free Graham Wafers and Nanaimo Bars as the challenge for the month. The sources she based her recipe on are 101 Cookbooks and www.nanaimo.ca.
Homemade Gluten-Free Graham CrackersI made 1/2 of the recipe from 101 Cookbooks, but replaced the wheat flour with rice flour and oats. Since I was making the dough in the food processor anyway I didn't bother to use oat flour.
1 cup rice flour
1/3 cup oats
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
3 1/2 Tbs cold butter
1/6 cup honey
3 1/2 Tbs milk
1 tsp vanilla
Blend the flours, add the sugar and soda and blend again. Add the butter and blend. Will turn into sand. Finish by adding the honey, milk and vanilla.
Chill the sticky mess (1 hour+). Roll out. Cook on baking paper 350f or 175c for 15 min or until light brown.
I was out of baking paper so I used foil. I hate rolling and cutting cookies, but the Nanaimo bar need broken cookies so i didn't worry about what they looked like.
I used Food Network's recipe for the Peanut Butter Nanaimo Bars, but used walnuts in the base not almonds. Very rice so we enjoyed these bars in very small bites. Was much more like candy then cookie.
