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Monday, May 7, 2012

Easy Gluten-Free Cinnamon Pull-Aparts

I'm pretty sure I read this one online, but I've made it so many times now, that I can just recite the recipe from memory.

Ingredients:
1 package of GF bread mix
1 cube of butter (margarine is OK if you're dairy free like me, but butter is best)
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon

Directions:
1. Prepare bread mix, following directions on the package, but don't let the bread dough rise and don't put it in the oven yet.
2. Set up a series of bowls in your work space:

  • bowl #1 = lukewarm water
  • bowl #2 = bread dough
  • bowl #3 = melted butter or margarine
  • bowl #4 = sugars and cinnamon thoroughly mixed together

3. Have your bread pan close by. It needs to be sprayed with cooking spray, just like it would be for regular bread.
4. Dip your hands in the lukewarm water. By covering your hands in water, you'll find it easier to handle the bread dough without getting all sticky.
5. Scoop out a palm-sized hunk of GF bread dough and roll it in a ball. If you're having trouble making it into a ball because it's sticking, get your hands wetter.
6. Drop the dough ball in the butter or margarine. Make sure butter covers the whole ball.
7. Drop the dough ball into the sugar-cinnamon mix. This time you only want a light coating. Don't let it get too lumpy from excess water and butter.
8. Place the dough ball into the greased bread pan. Repeat steps 4-8 until all the bread dough is in the bread pan.
9. It's possible to use a bunt cake pan for this instead of a bread pan. In fact, I usually find my bread pan can't hold all the pull-aparts, so sometimes I make two bread pans of pull-aparts from one box of bread mix.
10. Allow this bread to rise, just as you would if it were a normal loaf of bread. Bake it in the oven for the same amount of time that it says on the bread mix's package--well, give or take five or ten minutes--check it toward the end. If I use a smaller loaf (like I split the dough in half) then it usually takes a few minutes less than it says on the package. I use the temperature that's listed on the package for this.

Give it a try. You'll LOVE this one!

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