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Drinks & Smoothies
Christmas Cranberry Gin Cocktails
Here’s an easy and festive cocktail to make this December – Christmas Cranberry Gin Cocktails. For these cocktails, you could really use either gin or vodka, whatever you have available. If you can’t find cranberry, cherry juice works just as well. Enjoy! Here are some of my favourite gins: Dullstroom Gin Tonic’s Motherfluffer Pink Gin Innveroche Amber Gin Christmas Cranberry Gin Cocktails Here's an easy and festive cocktail to make this December - Christmas Cranberry Gin Cocktails. For these cocktails you could really use either gin or vodka, whatever you have available. If you cant find cranberry, cherry juice works just as well. Enjoy! Other cocktails: Rose Gold Valentines Gin…
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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…
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Sweets & Snacks, Gluten Free
Gluten Free Christmas Gingerbread Cookies
Today I am sharing this foolproof recipe to make Gluten Free Christmas Gingerbread Cookies. These gingerbread cookies are gluten free and contain muscovado sugar and molasses, which give the cookies their deep and dark rich flavour, as well as fragrant spices including cinnamon and ginger. To decorate, I use a simple mixture of 250g of icing sugar mixed with 5 or so tablespoons of water to make a glace icing. I then fill a ziplock bag with this icing mixture, cut a tiny hole and pipe my cookies. This batch of dough will make 20 – 30 cookies, depending on what type of cutter you use. They taste even better…
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Sweets & Snacks
Healthy Gluten-Free Fruit Cake
Today’s Christmas Inspired recipe is for my Healthy Gluten-Free Fruit Cake, which is packed full of fruit, seeds 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. My Family & Christmas Eve My Aunt Trudi would always make her famous Fruit Cake in a Bundt pan every year for Christmas Eve. The house would be decked in beautiful lights inside and out (a time before load shedding), the most delicious smells would waft from…
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Sweets & Snacks
Gluten-Free Cinnamon and Sugar Doughnuts
Yes, you read that right- a recipe to make Gluten-Free Cinnamon and Sugar Doughnuts. Sound too good to be true? Well, it’s possible, because I have used coconut flour instead! ❄ Today’s Christmas recipe is a yummy snack or dessert table idea for your upcoming Christmas party. The secret to these Gluten-Free Cinnamon and Sugar Doughnuts Traditionally, doughnuts are deep-fried and they absorb a lot of cooking oil in the cooking process. In addition, many bakeries cook their doughnuts in shortening, a fat often loaded with trans-fats. The solution – delicious baked doughnuts that are cooked in the oven with just a little bit of coconut oil and no added…
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