Gluten and dairy free dessert suggestions needed please!

[LakieLady]

My stepdaughter in law and her 10YO are coming for dinner on Saturday and SDIL is gluten and dairy intolerant.

I'd forgotten that she couldn't eat dairy as well as gluten, and was planning to make a fantastic dark chocolate mousse, and I'm a bit out of inspiration. The best I've been able to come up with pears in red wine, and I'm not sure that's approriate for a 10YO.

Meringue, with a cream alternative and fruit/nuts
sorbet
an almond or polenta cake made with oil, not butter.
Fruit salad and a dark chocolate dip.
Greek style almond biscuits, can flavour with orange/rose eater/lemon
Jelly
Vegan ice cream
Rice pudding made with coconut milk

DF/GF brownies and DF Icecream
DF/GF melt in the middle chocolate puddings with DF cream.

I make this regularly with dairy free margarine (stork) and Sainsbury's free from flour. It comes out well every time and could be served with dairy free cream/ice-cream or a coulis/sorbet. I usually make as a traybake and make more icing.
https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/pink-lemonade-loaf-cake.html

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Microwave Gluten free syrup or jam sponge pudding and alpro custard.

https://glutenfreecuppatea.co.uk/2018/12/29/microwaveable-gluten-free-jam-sponge-pudding-recipe-dairy-free/

Apple crumble works fine with dairy free spread as well. I like to mix ground almonds in with mine for an extra crunchy and tasty toppings.

Can you tell I like school dinner puddings.

Soya yogurt, preferably coconut and mango frozen - pop in blender to make instant ice desert

Alpro caramel puddings are nice. We buy them because of lactose intolerance in the family. They also come in chocolate and vanilla

Sorbet selection?

Becky Excell's recipes are usually great, they're all GF and she then gives DF alternatives for some of them too. Worth having a look through her website

https://glutenfreecuppatea.co.uk/category/recipes/baking/desserts/

What is in your mousse recipe that isn't dairy free?

We have similar restrictions and often have chocolate mousse with M&S raspberry sorbet.

Or M&S raspberry meringues with raspberry sorbet

@LakieLady you can still make the mousse and make it dairy and gluten free. I do for my dd. I also have to make it cocoa free as my other dd is allergic to cocoa, even cocoa butter! Just buy dairy free cream, Cocolab double cream is excellent, and check the chocolate is dairy free. Most are but just check the ingredients.
I make a really nice chocolate and cardamon coffee mousse, more custard like than airy, which goes down very well

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/coffee_and_chocolate_52759

Caramelised oranges are delicious - nigella has a recipe. Also, her chocolate olive oil cake is gluten and dairy free. I reckon they’d be good together…
www.nigella.com/recipes/chilled-caramelised-oranges-with-greek-yoghurt
www.nigella.com/recipes/chocolate-olive-oil-cake

Spanish orange cake is my go to for this combination

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/user/3096421/recipe/spanish-orange-and-almond-cake

Meringues and fruit also work.

I'm gluten and dairy free and my fave dessert is what my MIL gives me... Meringue, fresh fruit, Swedish glace ice cream (the best dairy free) and dairy free cream. Lush

Cream!

Nigella's chocolate olive oil cake is GF and dairy free (contains eggs though). I serve with creme fraiche or ice cream for a dessert but you could use a DF alternative or just eat on its own. It keeps well too. I often find that plainer sponge cakes using bought GF flour can start to go dry by the next day unless they contain some kind of fruit to help keep them moist.

No idea why this posted three times!

Second duplicate post, sorry!

Raymond blanc chocolate mousse, so good

https://www.raymondblanc.com/recipes/chocolate-mousse/

Thank you all so much! There are some brilliant recipes on here. And I'd completely forgotten about using ground almonds instead of flour, despite using a recipe that does just that for my lemon drizzle cake.

I was completely thrown by this earlier, as I'd planned to make a mousse, but all my recipes involve cream. And me and the late Mr L would eat almost anything at least once, so I'm not used to having to cater for these sensitivities (despite having been hospitalised due to a severe allergic reaction when I first had prawns, which I avoided for years until I ate a prawn vol au vent by mistake and only got a tingly face for a few minutes!).

But my panic is over now and I very much appreciate all your suggestions, and will be bookmarking a fair few of them.

You can get some very good cream alternatives, the coconut lab one is particularly good, which are dairy free. If you are worried they might not get thick enough you can add a tiny bit of xanthum gum to it as you whisk it, just a quarter tsp, and put it in as you start whisking otherwise you get lumps.