With pavlova, fruit and Christmas in mind, we’re offering our cocktail party friends a delicate mouthful of meringue dotted with Christmas-y cranberries and served with a big bowl of Crème Chantilly for dipping or dolloping ….
CHOCOLATE, CHRISTMAS MINCE AND GANACHE SQUARES
Our Chocolate, Christmas Mince and Ganache Squares make the perfect end to a festive cocktail party.Perfect … well they’re very chocolatey, deliciously chewy, fragrantly Christmasy, delightfully easy to make and best of all, they can be made well ahead and frozen for up to a month or stored in the fridge for up to a week ....
BALLYMALOE TARTS
These simple but delicious almond toffee tarts were famously made by the Irish culinary legend Myrtle Allen, in the 1980s at Ballymaloe House, County Cork. cApparently, they were so popular it was essential to order them at the beginning of a meal to avoid missing out when it was time for dessert ….
PEAR, GINGER AND HONEY CAKE
A ripe pear is notoriously difficult to purchase so we always seem to have a number, in various degrees of ripeness, sitting in our fruit bowl …. just in case. This week a few rapidly ripening offenders were put to very good use in our Pear, Ginger and Honey Cake which we topped with Pears Poached in Mead ....
PASSIONFRUIT PUDDING
QUINCE AND ALMOND CREAM CAKE
PEAR, CHOCOLATE AND VANILLA CAKE
Easy to whip up and even easier to devour, our gluten-free, Pear, Chocolate and Vanilla Cake is as delicious eaten warm as it is at room temperature. But don’t be put off by its modest appearance. A slice will deliver wafts of vanilla, sweet and juicy slices of pear and bursts of chocolate all in a moist, sweet gluten-free cake ….
PEAR TARTE TATIN
FRESH DATE AND VANILLA TART
GAFGHAN BISCUITS
VALENTINE'S DAY LIME AND ROSE CHEESECAKE
CHESTNUT MONT BLANC CAKE
CARAMEL ALMOND BUCKWHEAT TART
Most of our recipes for pastry - and we do have a few of them on the blog – are made with a blend of flours that work together to replicate the characteristics of wheat flour. This one is unusual because it uses only buckwheat flour, along with the usual butter, sugar, egg, etc. Whether it’s serendipity, chemistry or both, the buckwheat flour behaves beautifully, just like wheat ….
ORANGE, ALMOND AND VANILLA BISCUITS
These Orange, Almond and Vanilla biscuits are delicious and can be made in any shape and iced in any way for any occasion. However, we at The Coeliac’s Revenge have produced them in ‘YES’ shapes and in the colours of Aboriginal Australia to show our support for a YES outcome in our upcoming vote for constitutional change in Australia ….
GINGER HAZELNUT CRUNCH
f you’re on the lookout for a sweet little chunk of gluten-free deliciousness, and you’re partial to ginger, whip up some of this Ginger Hazelnut Crunch. Each small bite has a layer of smooth ginger topping on a crunchy hazelnut biscuit base, which makes it great company for a coffee or to round off a good meal ….
PISTACHIO AND LIME CAKE
APPLE AND POPPY SEED TART
RHUBARB AND WHITE CHOCOLATE CAKE
CHOCOLATE, HAZELNUT AND SOUR CHERRY CAKE
I’ve been making this cake for many years now and I can’t quite remember from where the recipe originated. What I do know is that it is very well liked and often ‘just another small slice, please’ is guiltily requested. To decorate, either go the full bling by applying some gold leaf to the ganache frosting or simply dust with icing sugar ….
