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Valentines Inspired Free-from Sweets for Your Sweet

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 What do you give to the free-from love in your life who can’t eat anything?  Over the last 4 years we’ve covered a lot of free-from options for almost every occasion… but it only just occurred to me (this morning!) that we’ve never covered Valentines day. When I think of Valentines day inspired sweets, I … Continue reading Valentines Inspired Free-from Sweets for Your Sweet →

Making a biscuit base for cheesecakes, slices and tarts.

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The buttery biscuit base in a cheesecake, slice and tarts is my favourite bit of the cake to be honest, but how can you achieve this when your diet is gluten, dairy or soy free? There are 2 main parts to making the biscuit base : The biscuit which adds the bulk of the volume, … Continue reading Making a biscuit base for cheesecakes, slices and tarts. →

The icing on the dairy, gluten, soy and egg-free cake

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  A few weeks ago I had to create a chocolate/ ganache/ icing recipe on the fly.  While it’s not something I generally recommend (because it can go wrong. very very wrong), sometimes it just happens that way. You run out of time, and you’ve got a combo of ingredients, and you realise you didn’t … Continue reading The icing on the dairy, gluten, soy and egg-free cake →