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  • Gluten Free Christmas Fruit Cake 1
    Sweets & Snacks,  Gluten Free

    Gluten Free Christmas Fruit Cake

    Today’s Christmas Inspired recipe is for my Gluten Free Christmas Fruit Cake, which is packed full of fruit booze and flavour.  Let’s get real here, fruitcake is one of those desserts that you either love the taste of or it makes you gag. I have always fallen into the first category and in fact, fruitcake formed a large part of my families Christmas celebrations. It is very easy to make and if you follow my instructions there really won’t be too many hurdles to overcome.😉 Gluten Free Christmas Fruit Cake Bake this festive fruitcake in advance of Christmas and feed it regularly with rum, brandy or whisky to build the…

  • Gluten Free Brownies with Tahini Swirls
    Sweets & Snacks,  Gluten Free

    Gluten Free Brownies with Tahini Swirls

    Today, in partnership with Checkers, I am sharing a recipe for these Gluten Free Brownies with Tahini Swirls which are made with almond flour, cocoa powder, butter and caster sugar. These moist and fudgy chocolate brownies have generous swirls of tahini, which is a paste made from sesame seeds and gives these brownies a rich nutty flavour. Tips for making these Brownies Almond flour works a bit differently than traditional flour. Since it’s high in fat, it makes baked foods like brownies super moist and tender. When measuring almond flour, I advise using a scale Whisk the eggs and sugar until they pass the “ribbon test.” When you whisk them…

  • Best Ever Gluten Free Chocolate Drop Cookies
    Sweets & Snacks,  Gluten Free

    Best Ever Gluten Free Chocolate Drop Cookies

    This is my recipe for the Best Ever Gluten Free Chocolate Drop Cookies which are super chocolatey, fudgy in the middle, have a crispy top and are best eaten straight out of the oven. I swear, I could never get tired of chocolate, especially if it is the good quality kind that I recently purchased from The Kate Tin. Kate has her own range of baking chocolate and so I decided to buy every single variant to test. For this cookie recipe, I used her milk chocolate drops, which melt so well and create the most dreamy swirls. Best Ever Gluten Free Chocolate Drop Cookies For these cookies, you will…

  • Lemon and Poppy Seed Muffins with Frosting
    Breakfast,  Gluten Free,  Sweets & Snacks

    Lemon and Poppy Seed Muffins with Frosting

    These gluten free Lemon and Poppy Seed Muffins with Frosting are the perfect cupcake/muffin hybrid and are moist and bursting with a fresh lemon zing, which is sweetened out by the frosting topping. I recently found out the Nature’s Choice launched an online shop, so I was keen to try out the shopping experience and order some goodies for my baking. I went with their Gluten Free Flour blend as well as their Almond Flour as I wanted to make a batch of Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins. Why a Cupcake / Muffin Hybrid There is a saying that a muffin is basically a cupcake without frosting, so I decided –…

  • Cassava Chocolate Banana Bread 19
    Sweets & Snacks,  Gluten Free

    Cassava Chocolate Banana Bread

    A recipe for a gluten-free Cassava Chocolate Banana Bread that is super moist and filled with pops of milk chocolate.  I am super excited to share this Cassava Chocolate Banana Bread recipe with you today. I have been testing the recipe for a few weeks and it is finally perfection. It is probably the best gluten-free banana bread ever…if you like chocolate. But who doesn’t like chocolate? Measuring your Ingredients I have written out ingredients in grams as you need to be very precise. Try not to substitute any of the ingredients I included here, this was meant to be a gluten-free bread. 🙂 You can get your cassava flour…

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