Well, no Easter egg for me today (I clearly don't deserve one!) but we did finally taste the plain flour that came in the Gluten Free Trial pack from Freebake. You may remember that we have previously tested their pizza base mix, the bread mix and the cake mix, with mostly positive results. We put the plain flour to use in the Simnel cake we … [Read more...]
Gluten Free Easter Eggs
In case you still haven't bought Easter Eggs - here's the link to the Coeliac UK list of gluten free Easter Eggs for 2007 in the UK. (This is a PDF, but quite a small one). Here's the list for Ireland ... I haven't been able to find a summary list for the US - does anyone know of one? For my three, I've bought eggs from Thorntons, who keep a … [Read more...]
Gluten Free Sachertorte
A classic cake for Easter - what is it about Easter and chocolate? Ingredients - for the cake 200g or 7oz of dark chocolate (use a good one - say 72% cocoa solids) 5 eggs 250g or 8oz caster sugar 2 tsps instant coffee (dissolved in 2 tblsps hot water) 150g or 5oz ground almonds Ingredients - for the icing 150g or 5oz dark chocolate as … [Read more...]
