Tag: Nut free

Shortbread biscuits

*** Dairy free, egg free and gluten free shortbread biscuits ***

100g plain flour (any type of flour)
100g cornflour
150g Dairy free butter
75g icing sugar (powder sugar)

Method
• Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
• Cream the butter and sugar together
• Sieve in the flours
• Mix well until the ingredients come together
• Roll it out on a floured surface and cut into required shapes.
• Bake for 12 to 15 minutes

Birthday cake – chocolate

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Vegan Chocolate cake

*** Dairy free, soya free, egg free and wheat free ***

Ingredients

  • Dry ingredients

280g self raising flour

70g caster sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder

Half teaspoon bicarbonate soda

Pinch of salt

  • Wet ingredients

375ml dairy free milk

120ml coconut oil melted

180ml apple puree

180ml golden syrup

2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar

Method

  • Preheat the oven 180 degrees Celsius.
  • Mix the dry ingredients together
  • Put the wet ingredients in a separate bowl and whisk.
  • Add the wet ingredients to dry ingredients, mixing constantly.
  • Immediately put into lined cake tin (or split between 2 tins if you want to make a sandwich cake)
  • Bake for 28 minutes, less time if you bake in 2 halves (sandwich cake). Be careful not to over bake.

Rainbow buns

*** Rainbow buns ***

Dairy free, egg free and gluten free

Ingredients
250g self raising flour (I use Aldi gluten free self raising flour)
1 tsp baking powder
125g sugar
60ml sunflower oil
200ml milk (any alternative milk)
20ml golden syrup
Food colouring
Method
  • Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
  • Sieve flour and baking soda together. Add the sugar.
  • In another bowl whisk the milk, oil and syrup together. (this is really important)
  • Add the liquid to dry ingredients and mix well but don’t over mix.
  • Split the mix in 3. Add about a teaspoon of food colouring to 2 of the portions.
  • Spoon separately into bun cases.
  • Bake at 180 degrees celsius for 12/15 minutes.

Healthy Vegetable muffins

*** Vegan gluten free vegetable muffins ***

Dairy free, soya free, egg free and gluten free healthy savoury muffins

1 medium courgette – finely grated
1 medium carrot – finely grated
30g peas
30g sweet corn
100ml any milk
60ml yogurt
60ml flavourless oil
1 well mashed banana
250 plain flour
3 tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt

*** Method ***

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
• Mix the vegetables, milk, yogurt, oil and banana well together
• Slowly add the flour, baking powder and salt. Make sure it’s fully mixed but do not over mix.
• Spoon in to bun cases
• Bake for 15/18 minutes

TIPS

  • Rice milk is the best alternative milk for baking
  • I use coconut yogurt (koko)
  • If you use fruit flavoured yogurt it adds a variation to the flavour
  • I used rapeseed oil but sunflower or vegetable oil also works
  • If there is any of the vegetables you do not wish to use, add more of a different vegetable.
  • I used Aldi Gluten free flour
  • If you remove the juice from the grated vegetables then add 30ml extra milk.
  • If you are not gluten free then this recipe works well with half plain flour and half Wholemeal flour.
  • They freeze well so handy for lunch box.

Simple Buns/Fairy cakes/cupcakes

*** Simple plain buns ***
Dairy free, egg free and gluten free
Ingredients
250g/1&half cups gluten free self raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
100g/half cup sugar
60ml/quarter cup flavourless oil (sunflower oil, vegetable oil, rapeseed oil)
200ml/three quarter cup milk (any alternative milk)
15ml/1 tbsp golden syrup/maple syrup
1 tsp cider vinegar
Half tsp vanilla essence
Method
• Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
• Sieve flour and baking powder together. Add the sugar. Mix together.
• In another bowl whisk the milk, oil, vanilla, syrup and cider vinegar together. (this is really important)
• Add the liquid to dry ingredients and mix well but don’t over mix.

• Put in bun cases (makes 10 cupcakes) immediately and get them into the oven as quick as possible .

• Bake at 180 degrees celsius for 15 minutes.
If you double the quantities, you can make a sandwich cake, bake for 35/40 minutes. Put buttercream in the middle. https://freefromyummies.ie/2018/11/14/dairy-free-butter-cream/
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Golden syrup
A question regularly asked is what is golden syrup? The following information is taken directly from Wikipedia.
Golden syrup or light treacle is a thick amber-coloured form of inverted sugar syrup made in the process of refining sugar cane or sugar beet juice into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid. It is used in a variety of baking recipes and desserts. It has an appearance similar to honey and is often used as a substitute where honey is unavailable or prohibitively expensive.
It is not to be confused with amber corn syrup or amber refined sugar. Regular molasses, or dark treacle, has both a richer colour and a strong, distinctive flavour.
A common brand used is Lyle Golden Syrup.

Chocolate chunk biscuits

Chocolate chunk biscuits
**Egg free, dairy free & gluten free **

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***Ingredients ***

100g/half cup dairy free butter (soft)
50g/quarter cup caster sugar
100g/half cup brown sugar
225g/1&half cup any plain flour (sieved)
1 tsp baking powder
Half tsp bicarbonate soda
1 tbsp oil
2 tbsp water
2 tbsp golden syrup/maple syrup/corn syrup
100g/1 cup chopped chocolate

**Method**
– Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
– Cream the butter and sugar together
– Add the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate soda and mix well.
– While mixer is going, add the water, oil and syrup.
– Fold in the chocolate.
– Roll into balls, place on lined baking tray and bake for 12/14 minutes.

– Careful not to over bake.
– Half way through baking, remove from oven and tap on worktop. Do this again at end of bake.
– Leave on tray for 5 minutes and move to wired tray to fully cool.