Jul
13
Can Anybody Help Me With Gluten Free Recipes?
ByQuestion by Millie J: Can anybody help me with gluten free recipes?
Can anybody give me some fantastic gluten free recipes for an afternoon tea sort of thing? I’m having a 12year-old girl over for a cooking afternoon, and she has celiac disease. We want to bake something like cookies and a fancy cake with coffee.
It needs to be fun and exciting! (preferably something that she can take home aswell)
Thanks
Best answer:
Answer by Jenni H
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You can make chocolate chip cookies using rice flour and xanthan gum in place of wheat flour. Use about 1 tsp of xanthan gum to each cup of flour. They taste about the same, but a little different texture.
My sister can’t have gluten either. To make cookies you have to buy gluten free flour. Nestle chocolate chips work great too. The cookies taste different obviously but the more chocolate chips the less you can tell.
check this out i am Celiac this work for me it help change other recipes as well
http://www.csaceliacs.org/recipes.php
Here are two recipes from my book, Gluten Free-Easy:
Café crème gateau
8 Servings unless you’re greedy
125g (4 oz) ground almonds
250g (8 oz) caster sugar
2 level tblsp instant coffee or a shot of espresso
4 egg whites
275ml (1?2 UK pint, 11?4 US cups) double (heavy) cream, whipped
icing sugar
Preheat oven to 190°C (375°F, gas mark 5).
If using instant coffee, dissolve in the least amount of boiling water possible. Stir ground almonds and sugar into coffee and mix well.
Whisk egg whites until stiff, fold in the almond and coffee mixture.
Divide between two 18cm (7″) loose bottomed cake tins. Level off.
Bake for 3?4-1 hour.
Cool.
Sandwich together with the cream, sprinkle with icing sugar and serve.
Almond cookies (Macaroons)
Makes 16
1 egg white
75g (3 oz) ground almonds
100g (31?2 oz) caster sugar
1?4 tsp almond essence
16 whole blanched almonds
rice paper
Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F, gas mark 4). Line a couple of large baking sheets with rice paper. If you can’t get rice paper, just dust lightly with rice flour.
Whisk the egg whites until very stiff. Fold in the ground almonds and almond essence.
Spoon small mounds (about 2.5cm/1” in size) spaced well apart to allow for spreading onto the rice paper. Top each with an almond.
Bake for 20-25 minutes until a pale gold or dark cream color.
Lift the whole sheet onto a rack to cool.
When cold, tear apart, remove excess paper and discard. Pack cookies in an airtight container or serve.
Some advice –
How long has she been GF? Factor that in.
Ask her and her mom what she would like.
And If you don’t have experience cooking Gluten Free – get pre-made mixes to use.
The Chemistry of cooking gluten free can be tricky (have you ever used Xanthum gum before ….or does she like the taste of garbonzo bean flour or chestnut flour better) Again – Get a pre made mix.
Pamela’s is a brand that I have great luck with. It tastes great and produces tasty things.
There are also many recipes on their website….I use the pancake mix to make blueberry muffins & strawberry and banana bread that are all great. Pamela’s also makes cake mixes too.
The GF Chocolate cake mixes are usually better than the GF vanilla’s.
http://www.pamelasproducts.com/recipe_frames.html
Some gluten free stuff can taste like sand…trial and error work best…to find a brand you like.
But I can tell you Pamela’s is great and it’s sold at Kroger’s and amazon.
Have you ever made pasta…I mean homemade noodles. That is a fun activity…but again I would reccomend using a mix. I’ve had good luck with Pamela’s bread mix to make noodles – just use it like you wold semolina and find an eg noodle recipe you like. It’s messy and very involved and lots of fun – but it’s not as “proper” as tea. But it tastes great and i;v not met a kid that doesnt love to make noodles….. Hand cut strips of taglitelle are best mmmmmmnnnn.
Good with a Meatsauce or Chicken Noodle soup.