Gluten-free recipes

Please post your favourite gluten-free recipes here for me! And also comment on whether you like to buy all-purpose gluten freeh flour or use separate ones (tapioca, rice, etc)

I'm looking for biscuits for now, and also pancakes although I think I've found one online. All the different flours is making me cross-eyed though! I guess it might work best with pre-mixed GF flour to start with but I'd prefer to make my own - figure out how it all works and save some $$ too.

I just use the Healtheries simple range (no, I don't work for them!). I tried potato flour once, it was such a disaster. I use the baking mix one wherever I'd use standard flour, including in crumbles, although it does have baking powder. If the BP is a problem, I'd just use the bread mix flour. I don't have any problems with it as it's a relatively low amount. You could probably also use almond meal in place of flour for crumbles, but it's expensive.   I also make crumble with GF cereal.

I score the Foodtown range GF pancakes when they're on special and throw them in the freezer.

I haven't tried this myself, but it's from the Allergy NZ cookbook.

Special Mix Pancakes and Waffles
GF Flour Mix (makes 9C)
6C white rice flour
2C potato flour
1C tapioca flour

Pancake and Waffle Mix
4C GF Flour Mix as above
1C soy milk powder or coconut cream powder
1/4C sugar (optional)
11/2tsp salt
4tsp GF baking powder
2tsp baking soda
4tsp egg replacer

Pancakes
2 eggs or 2 tsp egg replacer
1C water
2Tbsp oil
11/3C pancake mix as above

Beat together eggs, water and oil (add egg replacer to dry ingredients if using). Add mixture to pancake mix and beat until smooth. Don't overmix.
Makes about 12-14.

Sorry Teresa, I've been terribly slack about going through my recipes for you. I was looking at old posts on here though and found this one from Bizzy. gluten free recipes

I'll have a look at cookbooks tonight. Is it just general baked stuff you want?

Not a recipe but 4EverFree do a gluten , wheat, dairy & peanut free Ginger & Date Cake which is scrummy.
Stays moist even after a few days of being opened.

Gluten free cheese scones

Mix 2 cups GF bread mix (I use healtheries) with 2t baking powder and 1/2t salt.  Add 75g grated cheese and mix in 1 1/4 cups milk.

knead briefly on a floured board and shape into a large square. 

cut into 8 - 10 pieces and sprinkle more grated cheese on each

place on a floured tray and bake at 215C for 10 mins

(for alternative flavour try adding paprika or mustard powder to dry ingredients)

Let me know if you need other recipes/ideas and I'll get back to you in few weeks

 

am sincerely sorry about the delay in posting these

 

ETA: for pancakes I use the pikelet recipe from my edmonds cookbook and just replace the flour with Gluten Free baking mix

Edited by MrsMojo

Does anyone have a good gluten free cupcake recipe? Does icing have gluten in it?

I'm going to make some cupcakes for Capreces wee playcentre party but there are a few gluten free kids so thought I'd just make gluten free for everyone.

When I make cupcakes I usually cheat and buy the Basco Gluten free butter cake mix.  I do have a recipe but I've never tried it.  Here it is anyway.

 

Flower fairy cakes

75g gluten free flour

50g ground almonds (or another 50g of GF flour and omit the almonds)

1t baking powder

125g butter, softened

125g caster sugar

2 eggs

finely grated rind of 1 lemon plus 3T of lemon juice

225g icing sugar

orange and yellow food colouring

 

method:

Line tarlet trays with 18 paper cases

Put flour, almonds, baking powder, butter, sugar, eggs and lemon rind in a large bowl. Beat with electric whisk for about 2 mins.

Using teaspoons divide mixture amoung the paper cases and bake in a preheated oven at 180C for 20-25 mins until golden and just firm to touch. Transfer to wire rack to cool.

To decorate put lemon juice in a bowl and mix with icing sugar to make a smooth paste.  Transfer half to another bowl and colour one half orange and the other half yellow.

Ice half of the cupcakes with orange icing and half with yellow icing then using a piping bag pipe flowers over the cupcakes in the contrast coloured icing.

Edited by MrsMojo

There was a gluten free cupcake recipe in the Sunday Star times. It looked delish - for hummingbird cupcakes - had pineapple and coconut - and to make it totally irresitable they had cream cheese icing...I'll see if I can find it.