Autumn Oatmeal Cake Tips - Gluten Free Baking

So, I thought I would share some of my fall oatmeal cake and cookie recipe experiments because we had some good results. Did you like daddy's oatmeal cakes this summer? This fall? You did? Good. Um, this is Anastasia with me. Um, so some key tips that I learned. Uh first of all um grind half of the oatmeal in a coffee grinder and leave the other hole. And that will give you some uh that uh turning the oatmeal into flour will allow you to make a good sponge that will rise nicely. And the other um whole oat flakes will create some texture to the bread. All right, second tip. Add a teaspoon of corn starch to the oatmeal cake and that will uh help keep it moist. And I think that's a great idea for any um baking project. What do you think, Tupi? >> Great. >> All right. Um next tip. I like to make a meringue. I put a ton of eggs in my oatmeal cakes and the reason for that um is that increases the protein in the oatmeal cake and makes it a more nutritious meal. So I put five eggs in my oatmeal cake batter, which is basically a you know a half casserole. Oh, you dropped your shoe. Which is basically a half casserole. And um and so five eggs is a lot for that. Uh and what I did is I separated the yolks from the egg whites and that uh and then made the egg whites into a meringue. The meringue is a great idea uh because it gives a really good rise to the oatmeal cake. All right. So, corn starch, lots of eggs, make the whites into a meringue, and then um I like to garnish it with some pecans. Again, giving some more texture variation and uh and also some more protein and uh and nutritional variety to it. Uh on one occasion I chopped up some apples and put that in the batter and that helped uh retain a lot of moisture. On another example I put in about a cup of sour cream and that helped it stay moist and the sourness uh has a good effect of keeping it moist. I put a lot of cinnamon in my oatmeal cake and uh and that uh and then and in one example I melted some butter, mixed it with sugar and uh cinnamon and kind of folded that in almost to get a cinnamon bun spiral effect and that worked out uh really well. So those are some options for gluten-free oatmeal uh cake uh baking. experiment with it on your own. Some cloves might help, pumpkin spice, uh ginger, uh think of various different uh combinations there. Uh and that uh and happy baking. >> Happy baking.