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Chocolate fudge pudding

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Sauce on top before cooking and sauce underneath after cooking!

Preheat oven to 180c  / gas mark 4

Ingredients:

For the cake:                                                                                  For the sauce:

170 g gluten-free self-raising flour                                         1 tbsp cacao powder

150 g light muscovado sugar                                                    1 tbsp dark muscovado sugar

170 g softened butter                                                                  Boiling water

4 eggs (3 if using non gf fl)

2 tbsp cacao powder

Method:

Mix all cake ingredients until smooth and put in to an oven proof dish (about 20cm square).    Put the sauce ingredients in to a cup and add boiling water and stir. I fill the cup to about 3/4 full with boiling water. Pour the sauce over the top of the cake mixture. Bake in centre of oven for about 30 mins.

 

Buckwheat pancakes filled with roasted rhubarb

imageFresh rhubarb from the garden – sprinkled with light muscovado sugar and roasted until soft.

Buck wheat pancakes:

225 g buckwheat flour       1 large egg

1/4 tsp cinnamon

250 ml milk

Method:

Put the dry ingredients in to a bowl and make a well for the egg. Mix together and slowly add the milk and mix to create a smooth batter.

 

 

Coconut and chocolate brownies

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An afternoon of recipe testing resulted in these – passed the husband taste bud test!

20160522_200922Preheat the oven to 190c / Gas 5. Line a 20cm square brownie tin with baking paper

Ingredients:

115 g coconut oil                                                          1/2 tsp salt

2 large eggs                                                                   1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

150 g light muscovado sugar                                    60 g coconut flour

40 g buckwheat flour

100 g dark chocolate 85% chopped in to small pieces

Method:

If the coconut oil is not melted, place over a pan of simmering water to melt it.Put all ingredients (except chocolate) in to a bowl and mix thoroughly. Add the chocolate and gently stir in. Pour the mixture in to the tin. Bake for 20-25 mins, until risen and firm around the edges. cut when cold – if stored in the fridge the coconut oil will set into a truffle type consistency.

Stem ginger biscuits

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Latest round of recipe testing has resulted in these gluten-free stem ginger biscuits. They passed the work colleagues taste bud test today 🙂

Ingredients:

Preheat oven to 180c  / gas mark 4. Makes about 16 biscuits.

Ingredients:

200 g gluten-free self-raising flour

150 g light muscovado sugar

150 g butter

2 eggs (1 if using non gf fl)

1 tbsp ground ginger

35 g stem ginger chopped in to small pieces

Method:

Put the butter and sugar in to a pan on a low heat until butter melted. Remove from heat and add all remaining ingredients and mix well together. Place heaped desert spoonfuls of mixture evenly spaced on a greased  baking sheet. Press each mound down with the palm of your hand until about 1/2 cm thick. Put in centre of oven for 12-15 minutes or untill golden brown. Allow to cool slightly before transferring to cooling rack.

Perfect served with a cup of tea.

Blackcurrant cake (gluten free)/redcurrant

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Delicious on its own – hot or cold, or served with custard, Greek yoghurt, creme fraiche or vanilla ice-cream.

I don’t add additional sugar to the blackcurrants (only what is in the cake) as we like it quite ‘sharp’. You may want to add natural sweetener to the currants.

Ingredients:

Preheat oven to 180c  / gas mark 4

Ingredients:

170 g gluten-free self-raising flour

150 g light muscovado sugar

170 g softened butter

4 eggs (3 if using non gf fl)

1 cup of blackcurrants – topped if desired – I don’t!

Method:

Mix all ingredients (except blackcurrants) together until smooth.

Fold in blackcurrants.

Put in 20cm square tin. Bake in centre of oven for about 30 mins

 

Alternatively…use the same quantity of redcurrants instead and make a cake or muffins.

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Rhubarb gluten free sponge

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Preheat oven to 180c  / gas mark 4

Ingredients:

170 g gluten free self raising flour

150 g light muscovado sugar

170 g softened butter 

4 eggs (3 if using non gf fl)

2/3 stems of rhubarb chopped and softened by roasting in oven

Method:

Mix all ingredients (except rhubarb) together until smooth.

Fold in rhubarb.

Put in 20cm square tin. Bake in centre of oven for about 30 mins

 

Perfect as a pudding served with cream, yoghurt or custard.

Date and walnut cake

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Preheat oven to 180c / Gas 4

30 x 23 cm cake tin (12 x 9 inch) greased and lined

Ingredients:

250 g stoned and chopped dates

40 g butter

300 ml boiling water

3 large eggs (2 if using non gluten-free s r flour)

350 g gluten-free self-raising flour

150 g dark muscovado sugar

150 g chopped walnuts

125 g ground almonds

Method:

Soak the dates in the boiling water – allow to cool

Mix all other ingredients together and add the soaked dates (I don’t drain the liquid off)

Bake in the centre of the oven for 50 mins – 60 minutes or until cake is firm to touch

Turn out and cool.

I don’t add icing to my cakes but a lemon icing would taste good with this cake – topped with walnuts.

Fruit cake

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Prepare a 2lb / 900 g loaf tin

Preheat the oven to 150c / Gas 2

Ingredients:

225 g gluten free self-raising flour

175 g butter

160 g muscavado sugar

4 eggs ( 3 if non gf flour)

275 g mixed fruit

rind of lemon

1 tbsp milk if needed

Method:

Place all ingredients together in a bowl and mix thoroughly until well blended.

Turn in to the prepared tin and smooth the top. Bake in the oven for about 2 hours or until a skewer comes out clean. Allow to cool before turning out.

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Lemon drizzle cake

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Preheat oven to 180c / gas 4

Prepare a 20cm square tin

Ingredients:

175 g gluten free self-raising flour

175 g butter

160 g demerara sugar

4 eggs (3 if not using gf flour)

Rind of 1 lemon

1 1/2 tsps gf baking powder

Topping – juice of the lemon and 150g sugar

Method:

Put all the ingredients for the cake in to a bowl and mix well until smooth.

Turn mixture in to prepared tin.

Bake for about 35 mins – until skewer is clean.

Whilst the cake is still hot spoon the lemon/sugar mixture all over the top of the cake. Once cool remove the cake from the tin.

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Apple and cinnamon cake

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Ingredients:

170g gluten free self raising flour

150g dark muscovado sugar

170g butter

4 eggs

1tsp baking powder

2tsps ground cinnamon

2 cooking apples peeled, cored and chopped in to slices

Method:

Put all ingredients ( except apple) in to a bowl and mix. Once all blended stir in the apple slices.

Line a 20cm square tin and tip mix in.

Bake in the centre of the oven 180c / gas 4 for about 30 minutes 120416