This gluten-free amaretti recipe (from taste.com.au) looked almost too easy to be true – egg whites, almond meal, caster sugar and vanilla – simply stirred together, shaped and baked. These aren’t the light, crisp amaretti that we used in Dorie’s Fifteen Minute Torte, but rather the chewy, marzipanny ones that you buy at Italian cafés. [...]
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Christmas Fruit and Nut Cakes
Posted in Gluten Free, Recipes, tagged Celebration cookbook, Christmas gifts, easy Christmas cake, fruit and nut cake, ground almond cake, Women's Weekly recipe on November 4, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Pete chastised me for feeding some of this cake to Ellen tonight. As we’re making these for Christmas, he told me I was “telegraphing my punches”. I suspect he’s forgotten that I was planning to post the recipe here. Do me a favour – if you get one of these from us this Christmas, act [...]
Ricotta Cake #2: Gluten Free
Posted in Gluten Free, Recipes, tagged crustless ricotta cake, crustless ricotta cheese cake, Pasticceria Papa ricotta cake, ricotta cake, ricotta cake recipe, ricotta cheese cake on September 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Still experimenting, I made a crustless ricotta cake for Pete A, who can always use another gluten free dessert. As I’m unable to ever change just a single parameter (very unscientific of me, I know), I also tried making this with normal (wet) ricotta, which had been drained in a sieve. It worked very well, [...]
Almond Rochers
Posted in Gluten Free, Recipes, tagged almond rocher, almond rocher recipe, chocolate almond slivers, chocolate rocher on August 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I made these almond rochers with the leftover tempered chocolate from the truffles. They’re a little too easy, both to make AND eat! 150g almond slivers 1 Tbsp Kirsch 1/3 cup pure icing sugar 1. Preheat the oven to 175C. In a small bowl, combine the almonds, Kirsch and sifted icing sugar. 2. Line a [...]
Chocolate Truffles
Posted in Food & Friends, Gluten Free, tagged chocolate truffles, dipping chocolate truffles, ganache centers for truffles, homemade chocolate truffles, how to make chocolate truffles, make your own chocolate truffles, making chocolate truffles on July 23, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Learn how to make perfect chocolate truffles from scratch!

