experimenting…

Well, I tried baking something the other day… and I don’t exactly know what it was… or what really happened to it… Certainly, it was not a disaster, but I’m still working on it, so although I’m posting it now, I wouldn’t recommend trying this recipe just yet.

1/4 cup rice flour
1/4 cup brown rice flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
2 tbsp. tapioca starch
2 tbps. quinoa flour
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup applesauce
1 cup sugar
2 eggs (I used egg replacer because of our allergies)
2 tbsp tangerine juice (NOT using this again, and don’t ever try to even get its zest.)
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
small handful of chocolate chips (I let my sister put it in, her small hands are perfect…)
banana

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Spray a nine inch cake pan. Mix the flours, brown sugar, and applesauce. Pour into pan, spread evenly, and bake for 10 minutes. Mix granulated sugar, eggs (or replacer), tangerine juice (hah!), cocoa, baking powder, and salt. Pour over base, sprinkle on chocolate chips. Bake for 5 minutes. Arrange sliced bananas on top. Bake for another 25 minutes. Take out of oven and let cool for ten minutes. Chill in ref on a rack for at least 2 hours. Enjoy! (Well… kinda…)

THE RESULTS!!!!
Oh boyy…. Ahehe so… my experiment… was edible. And not in the least bit disgusting. It actually turned out quite well, though not at all what I had in mind. It was basically like a very thin fudgy-type thing, with a chocolate sauce, and bananas.

I have every intention of going back to this recipe and trying to improve, and here are my ideas:

I will double the base recipe, and perhaps alter the flours, still using mostly rice flour, but less of it; I might even want the cocoa powder to dominate, but though I might put in more quinoa flour, I’ve no intention of adding more tapioca starch; I mean to keep it at 2 tbsp even after I’ve doubled the recipe.

I’ll simply bake the base by itself, and maybe put the bananas on top right before the last five minutes in the oven.

Then, the topping ingredients? I’ll mix them over the stove in a saucepan, instead, since a sauce is basically what it turned out as, anyway, and then I’ll let the fudge cool, and then pour the hot sauce over it!

How does that sound? LOL… I love baking…