wheat/dairy free cakes or biscuits?

[MamaChris]

I would like to bake something sweet for a friend who's coming round, but who can't eat wheat or dairy. About all I can think of is a flapjack, but there must be someone on MN who can think of something better? Straightforward recipes preferred, as baking is a task shared between myself and ds (2.5).

Found a recipe for Pear Fairy Cakes.

To be honest I would just take a good recipe, replace the flour with Doves Gluten Free flour and replace the butter with Pure Spread (Tesco's sell it) unless it is a recipe that really needs the butter content it should be fine.

BTW, some people who are gluten free cant have oats either so flapjack might not be ok.

there's a great recipe for spelt and cinnamon biscuits on the back of the dove's farm spelt flour packet, and it's really easy (but above comment on gluten applies with spelt i think)

or chocolate macaroons (green and black's book leaving out ganache filling)

those are my two staples

Is she ok with eggs? If so I've got a dead easy almond cake recipe (eggs, ground almonds, sugar) I could give you.

yes, eggs are fine. almond cake sounds lovely :)

macaroons seemed a good idea, but they need milk. if she says she can't eat wheat, is it definitely the gluten part that's the problem? ie will she definitely be ok on gluten free? I don't want to keep going back to her and asking "but is this ok?" because it will make it sound like she's awkward, when she's not.

I'll dig you up the almond cake recipe when I get home.

Ok, here it is.
Heat oven to 170C. Grease and line a 20cm tin.
Separate 4 eggs.
Beat yolks with 165g caster sugar.
Whisk whites and fold into yolks.
Fold in 225g ground almonds and 1 tsp baking powder.
Bake for 35/40mins.
Decorate with raspberries/icing sugar.
From the excellent Usborne Children's book of Baking. (please don't sue me Usborne)

THanks Dilys, that sounds fantastic. Yummmmm :)