to ask for your tried and tested gluten free baking recipes?

[Tinklewinkle]

DD1 is coeliac.

She hates most of the GF bread/treat stuff you can buy so we do a lot of baking.

We have a bread maker and make a lot of rolls/bread/pizza dough, etc and bake a lot of cake stuff.

We thought we’d have a bit of a bake up over the weekend and try some new stuff - she really misses croissants so tried a couple of recipes but they were a complete disaster.

We’ve never really mastered nice baguettes

She loves brownies, but they are my baking nemesis

We’ve got bread/rolls/pizza dough and stuff like chocolate muffins/lemon drizzle cake mastered.

But stuff like brownies, chewy chocolate chip cookies, croissants, chocolate eclairs - we’ve tried what feels like a million recipes over the years but they never come out quite right so wondered if anyone had some foolproof recipes they could share please

Thanks!

...and this recipe -but you must watch the video to get it right-makes great pastry. I won a taste test with it! Recipe and video here: www.glutafin.co.uk/recipes/pastry/gluten-free-select-shortcrust-pastry/

For bread, I'm going to try this pressure cooker one: mommyoverwork.com/instant-pot-bread/

mumw across the country, gluten free prescriptions have been stopped. Even for those with diagnosed coeliac. It's a funding issue. I've been diagnosed for nearly ten years, and haven't been able to get gf prescribed for nearly half that. The nhs just don't have the money anymore.

I much prefer Schar bread products to any other make, (the frozen crisp rolls are lovely) although I've just discovered Befree bake-at -home baguettes, which are also good. I don't like the chalky aftertaste of Doves Farm flour - Asda's own brand or M & S is much better. The BBC food's Best Ever Brownies work perfectly with just GF flour - no other adaptations needed. I never know how much Xantham Gum to use - can anyone help?

Try Mary Berry's lemon drizzle traybake recipe just substituting the flour for g/f self raising and g/f baking powder. It works a treat. I mean really really nice. You wouldn't know it was gluten free

Thanks for all the suggestions - we’re going to have a bake up this weekend.

Xantham gum - there’s a guide on the side of the tub as to how much to use per grams of flour

I bought her some of the frozen GF donuts from ASDA last night - they’re not jam ones but she’s says they’re really nice so we’ve got a winner there

She dismisses most GF stuff as horrid, but there’s been a big improvement recently I think. Will have to give them all a try again

Thanks!

My usual never fail brownies (non-gluten free) - 125g butter melted with 125g dark chocolate. Whisk together two eggs and 140g sugar. Stir melted butter and chocolate into egg mixture, then fold in 75g plain flour and half a Terry's Chocolate Orange, broken into pieces. Bake in a 7" square tin for about 25 to 30 mins at Gas mark 4.

To turn these into gluten free brownies, I first tried using Dove's gluten free plain flour, but that tasted like it hadn't cooked out. I then tried CHICKPEA or gram flour - 75g, but with one tbsp swapped for one tbsp of cocoa. The chickpea flour tastes quite strong when not cooked (my DS won't scrape out the bowl if I've made the chickpea brownies), but taste absolutely fine when baked, but the added cocoa is just to make sure they taste of chocolate and not chickpeas.

As they contain chickpeas, do these brownies count as one of your five a day? Two if you count the chocolate orange?