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Sweets & Snacks, Gluten Free
Gluten-Free Hot Cross Buns
Today’s recipe is for my Gluten-Free Hot Cross Buns – just in time for your Easter baking. There’s nothing better than the aroma of hot cross buns wafting through the air. Especially when they have been toasted and lovingly smothered with butter. But before we get to that, let me be honest with you – it took three attempts to get this recipe right. It is never easy to cook with gluten-free flours, especially when creating doughs because yeast needs gluten to rise. No gluten = very little rise, meaning very dense crumbly buns. However, there is a way around this problem. A few tweaks to a recipe can help the…
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Sweets & Snacks, Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Vegan
How to Make Maple Tahini Paste
On my last visit to the Zero Waste Store, The Refillery, I filled up one of their brown paper bags with some sesame seeds with one blog post in mind – How to Make Maple Tahini Paste. Now I love tahini – it is almost like peanut butter, but slightly richer and has a mild bitter tang. It is quite a versatile sauce and is used to make hummus and baba ganoush, but it can also be used in some not so obvious ways – such as drizzled over ice cream, salad or a bowl of granola. Tahini is naturally vegan and gluten-free, tastes nutty and is dead simple to…
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Gluten Free, Sweets & Snacks
Kayla Itsines Peanut Butter Protein Cookies
Today’s recipe is for these Peanut Butter Protein Cookies, from the Kayla Itsines Cookbook. I modified the recipe slightly as I used Eat Naked Peanut Butter, which contains raw honey for sweetness, so I didn’t need as much sugar as the recipe calls for. But, before we jump into the recipe, I wanted to take a moment to let you know that it is my blogs 1 year birthday! So to celebrate – I am hosting 7 days of giveaways on Instagram, so make sure you are following me to enter. You can read all about One Year of Le Famished Cat here. Now for the cookies! Peanut Butter Protein…
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Lifestyle, Sweets & Snacks
Cadbury Dairy Milk – Easter Range
You guys must know by now that I have a severe weakness for chocolate. So I just HAD to let you know that Cadbury Dairy Milk has a new easter egg range. There are three different easter egg variants to choose from, including these Hollow Eggs that are filled with Astros and Whispers…😍 What’s more exciting than eating chocolate only to discover more chocolate hidden inside? And the best part, (in my opinion anyway) Cadbury Dairy Milk has now introduced marshmallow eggs called Fluffies! They come in a box of 30 or at some stores, you can find the individual marshmallow eggs. Let’s talk about these Fluffies. First off, the…
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Sweets & Snacks, Gluten Free
Blue Matcha and Chocolate Cupcakes
I have been experimenting with all things blue this week and today is no exception and I have created a recipe for these Blue Matcha and Chocolate Cupcakes. These Blue Matcha and Chocolate Cupcakes cupcakes are: Made with Gluten-Free Flour Make exactly two big cupcakes or three small cupcakes Contain Blue Matcha, a 100% Natural food colouring The icing and decoration The icing for these Blue Matcha and Chocolate Cupcakes is made with butter, icing sugar, cocoa powder, and some more matcha powder. I piped the icing with a star tip and topped with blue matcha petals. What is Blue Matcha? Blue matcha is a speciality blue tea, made from organic Butterfly…
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