Flourless Cashew Bread (Recipe)

This is a gluten-free, grain-free, sugar-free recipe. It does have eggs and yogurt so it's not dairy-free. It was posted by GirlAlive on her blog, TheRighttoBeAlive. She made it with her fancy Thermomix machine, but the recipe works fine using old-fashioned mixing and stirring. I had grave reservations it would turn out as I'm not good at baked goods and I had to convert the measurements from grams to cups so I was afraid it would be a little off. All is good.

Ingredients:

1 3/4 cups cashew flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 egg yolks and 3 egg whites
1/2 cup plain yogurt
1/3 cup apple juice
coconut oil

If you can't find cashew flour, you can make it yourself by grinding raw cashews into a fine meal using a blender, grinder or food processor. Mix the cashew flour, baking soda and salt together in a bowl. Add egg yolks, yogurt and apple juice, mix completely. In a separate bowl, whip the egg whites into stiff peaks. Fold them into the batter, mix thoroughly.

Grease a pan with a little coconut (or other) oil. I used a 10" x 10" baking dish because it seemed like I had way too much batter for a small loaf pan, but the batter condenses while baking so a large loaf pan would work wonderfully. Pour batter into greased pan.

Bake at 300 degrees for one hour, then 10 minutes at 350 degrees for a golden brown.

For a gluten-free, grain-free bread, it has a lovely texture and wonderful taste. Because I used a larger pan, once I cut them into squares it was almost like eating soft cookies, but this bread is not sweet so don't let it fool you.

The only problem is you might be tempted to eat the whole thing in one sitting. Easy to do. I'm trying really hard not to do this right now!

Thanks, GirlAlive. Great recipe.

Yum.