Baguette

Baguette

We’ve always loved fresh baguette, and this is the closest we’ve come to it and it’s delicious! For some reason baguette is a thing for my family on Christmas Eve with the other foods we eat, so there was a great push to make a good recipe!

Of course it tastes best fresh, but toasting them later works, too. It does help to get a baguette form for this one. And I want to make sure you noticed you need to put the dough into the COLD oven, so no pre-heating with this recipe.

Ingredients:

1.5 cups almond flour (we like half blanched, half not)

3/4 cup potato starch

1/2 cup arrowroot starch

1/4 cup tapioca starch (actually tapioca, not cassava which is the whole root)

1/2 teaspoon salt

2/3 cup warm water

Knife tip worth of honey (yes, a tiny amount, and it’s so the honey feeds the yeast when the dough rises later)

5 teaspoons dry instant yeast

3 large egg WHITES

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar

Directions:

Warm the water, stir in the honey, add yeast

Combine dry ingredients in a bowl

Add olive oil and egg WHITES, mix until combined

Add water, honey, yeast, and vinegar and beat for 2 minutes

Mix everything together now, it should be relatively runny

Split the dough into two baguette forms

Let dough rise for 30 minutes

Put the baguettes into the cold oven, set the oven for 400 F, bake for 40 minutes

Enjoy!