Gluten free recipes please - biscuits & cakes

[Laura032004]

We've now run out of our supplies of Tru-free custard creams and bourbon biscuits so I'm going to have a go at making some. Does anybody have any good recipes?

I can get hold of rice flour, and a flour which is supposed to be very similar to normal flour (plain and self-raising).

I can use either rice milk or lactose-free milk if required.

Looking forward to lots of lovely recipes!

i want to know the same thing laura! Ds is one next month and i'd love to make him a gluten free dairy free [and preferably egg free] birthday cake. Hmm..tall order...

WigWamBam's recipe from another thread. Just about to make it now... will report back on how it goes!

My friend's dd has coeliac disease and she makes her this cake - it's eggless as well.

450g/1lb rice flour
6 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
300g/10oz caster sugar
125ml/4fl oz vegetable oil
300ml/½ pint water
2 tsp vanilla extract
whipped cream, to decorate
For the icing:
dark chocolate spread
OR
225g/8oz icing sugar
25g/1oz unsweetened cocoa powder
75g/3oz butter, diced
1 tbsp golden syrup
4 tbsp milk

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda into a large bowl and stir in the sugar.
2. Combine all the wet ingredients in another bowl. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients all at once and beat until smooth.
3. Pour the batter into a greased 23cm/9in springform cake tin and bake for about 1 hour, until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean (place a sheet of foil over the top of the cake if it becomes too dark). Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin.
4. Turn the cake out of the tin and spread the chocolate spread over the top. Or, if you are making your own icing, sift the icing sugar and cocoa powder into a bowl and make a well in the centre.
5. Gently heat the butter, golden syrup and milk until the butter has melted, then pour into the well in the dry ingredients and stir until smooth.
6. Beat with a wooden spoon until the icing has cooled and thickened slightly. Spread the icing over the top and sides of the cake with a palette knife. Decorate with whipped cream.

good luck - i'd love to know if its nice!

Hi, I've got a book that has quite a few gluten free recipes. I'd be happy to write some out for you. Let me know if you're interested in any of the following;

Rice crispy treats
chocolate cornflake cake
double chocolate chip cookies
viennese biscuits
vanilla and almond cookies
ginger cookies
chocolate brownies
scones
shortbread
american muffins
basic victoria sponge

All use ingredients that are sold in supermarkets, although not sure about xanthan gum.

i've got a great choc cake recipe that's made with ground almonds instead of flour that I cold find for you if you like...

I'd love the recipes for vanilla and almond cookies & ginger cookies please macwoozy. What is the name of the book? It sounds great.

Does the chocolate cake include actual chocolate tassis? (Stupid question I know, but sometimes it's cocoa). If so, do you think you could substitute dairy free chocolate? I'd like the recipe please - sounds different to anything we've ever tried before. Have you made it?

It's called Diet Intervention and Autism by Marilyn Le Breton. It was really helpful for me when my son was put on a Gluten and Casein free diet. There are many recipes and a big directory of different suppliers.

Vanilla and Almond Cookies.

This recipe makes 25 biscuits.

2 cups gf flour mix
1 1/2 tsps xanthan gum
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/3 cup of castor sugar, 6 oz cf margarine
1/2 tsp gf almond extract 1/2 gf vanilla extract

Mix all the dry ingredients together well.
Cream in the softened margarine, until all the ingredients are well combined.
Add the almond and vanilla extracts and mix in well.
Divide the mixture into 25 and shape into rough balls.
Place the dough balls on baking tray and squash slightly.
Bake for 12 - 15 mins at gas mark 5.

Ginger cookies.
Makes 20 cookies.

4 oz cf margarine
1 tbsp golden syrup
6 oz gf flour mix
1 1/2 tsps xanthum gum
1 tsp gf baking powder, 1/2 tsp gf ground ginger
3 oz caster sugar

Melt together the marg and golden syrup in glass bowl above a pan of hot water.
Add all the rest of ingredients and mix well, to form a firm dough.
Chill the mixture in airtight container for at least 1 hour in fridge..
Roll out mixture and cut with medium sized cookie cutter, put on baking tray.
Bake at gas mark 5 for 10 - 12 mins.

If you end up buying the book you'll find alot of biscuit and cake recipes often use these ingredients.

Hope they're tasty.

macwoozy my son is on the same diet but i haven't tried`hom with nuts yet. but it will try to get that book, thanks.

Thanks for those recipes MW. What is Casein by the way? Is that a milk protein? I'll have to try and get some xanthan gum and have a go at them. Will report back!

Have just baked the chocolate cake as per WWB's recipe. Result - it's OK. Not as good as Tesco free from chocolate cake slices, but OK. Considering the price (not sure how much rice flour is in the UK, but it's only 30p a bag here in Cyprus (staying with my parents for a few weeks), I'd definitely make it again. Will have a go at freezing some of it, as it's massive.

I didn't have a proper cake tin, so used a baking tray that we use for roast potatoes. Hence it's bigger and flatter than it prob should be.

It took longer than an hour to bake in our gas oven (which is new, but the bottle is going so maybe not as hot as it should have been).

Have had to cut the 'crusts' off, as middle is moister and nicer, so if baked in a smaller tin, there would probably be more middle IYKWIM!

Also, I made the batter, and then had to go out, so it spent the night in the fridge before cooking. Might have been nicer if it hadn't! The mixture was reallllllyyyy thick, so don't be surprised by this. Mixer on top level struggled, so don't try this by hand!

Good luck if you try it!

thanks for the feedback laura, how lovely to be in cyprus! yes casein is a milk protein.

ruty, TBH I didn't see any real change in my ds when I put him on that diet, although I do know others have found to have some real positive results. I found it such a struggle restricting his diet so much, really hard work. Maybe one day I will try the diet again.I've never been one for cooking so I found that Tesco's had the greatest range of gluten and casein free foods. I got that book on Amazon by the way.