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Gluten-free emergency!

  • 24-06-2011 8:49am
    #1
    xoaudhep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭


    Ok so I have to make some kind of cake or dessert thing for a Coeliac..and they are a very important coeliac so it is of utmost importance that they are impressed by my baking skills :P
    I wanted to make something with chocolate, but preferably a cake or some muffins or something as I heard them saying they are sick of bland-tasting gluten free products.
    I have a chocolate cake recipe that I bake a lot but it requires 170g of plain flour. Could I use this recipe and just substitute the flour for gluten free flour? Helllp...Thank you!


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  • #2
    Faith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    Moved to Nutrition & Diet because you'll probably get quicker answers here :).


  • #3
    Eviledna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭Eviledna


    How about something a little different?
    Gram/chickpea flour shortbread:

    http://sponsored.uwa.edu.au/clima/schools/beanfiles/episodes/episode20/shortbread

    you could toss in some choc chips too if you'd like!


  • #4
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    The easiest thing is to top out to Tesco, buy a few of their gluten free chocolate muffins (all my children wolf them, not just the celiac), nuke them in the microwave for 30 seconds and serve with a rich chocolate sauce.

    If you are feeling ambitious, you could try this http://anyoneforseconds.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/chocolate-roulade-gluten-free/


  • #5
    Daisy M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭Daisy M


    Probably too late for you on this occasion but keep in mind for the next time, a pavlova really easy to make or a chocolate mousse. Pavlova is a big fav look up you tube for videos if your unsure how much you need to mix it.


  • #6
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Tritamyl flour (pink packaged one) is wheat and gluten free, and is great for sauces and baking, but not pastry. Doves farm do a good wheat and gluten free flour too which bakes very well. The only difference can be that cakes can be drier, and go stale quicker so allow for that.


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  • #7
    Ophiopogon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Ophiopogon


    What about the flourless choc cake from the cooking club..

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056186314

    Looks good and you could serve it with raspberries or strawberry and cream?


  • #8
    Red Cortina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Red Cortina


    Dunno if you got sorted or not but I got this recipe from the indo (I think). Makes a lovely GF cake for special occasions.:)

    Warm Chocolate Cinnamon Torte with Orange Blossom Mascarpone Cream

    225g Butter
    225g Caster Sugar
    8 eggs, separated
    225g plain chocolate, melted
    225g Ground Almonds
    1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
    2 tbsp brandy
    Icing sugar, to dust
    For the orange mascarpone cream:
    100g icing sugar
    500g mascarpone cheese
    1-2 teaspoons prange flower water
    Orange zest, to garnish

    Preheat oven to 180degC. Beat together the butter and sugar until light and creamy. Add the egg yolks one at a time, beating. Add the chocolate, almonds, cinnamon and brandy. Whisk the egg whites to soft peaks.

    Fold in to the chocolate mixture. Pour into a greased and floured 24cm loose-bottomed cake tine and bake for 45 mins. To make the cream, sift the icing sugar into a bowl and beat together with the mascarpone and the orange flower water.

    Serve the warm cake with the cream scattered with some orange zest.


  • #9
    xoaudhep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭xoaudhep


    Thanks everyone! Dont have to make it till the end of this week so maybe I'll test drive a few of these! :rolleyes:


  • #10
    Clen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭Clen


    Banana, mars bar + vanilla ice cream. If that doesn't get your juices running nowt will.

    (slice banana lengthways chop yup Mars insert it, wrap in tin foil and heat in the oven 190degrees for five minutes. unwrap and fie a load of ice cream on. HMMMMM)


  • #11
    Red Cortina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Red Cortina


    Clen wrote: »
    Banana, mars bar + vanilla ice cream. If that doesn't get your juices running nowt will.

    (slice banana lengthways chop yup Mars insert it, wrap in tin foil and heat in the oven 190degrees for five minutes. unwrap and fie a load of ice cream on. HMMMMM)
    I'm pretty sure that Mars bars are not gluten free. Think they contain some kind of malt so you'd better check the label...


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  • #12
    watna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    This is probably too late for you but for next time, my close friend is a Coeliac and I make her chocolate brownies on a regular basis. I use this really simple recipe:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/richchocolatebrownie_1933

    and substitute rice flour for the wheat flour (I much prefer the texture of rice flour with these, they're actually not as nice made with normal flour). Also, some cocoa is not gluten free (at least in NZ) so you need to check that. I also substitute caramel chocolate for the dark chocolate. We have quite a few gluten free people at work and I always get asked for the recipe when I make these!


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