Yorkshire Life Magazine: Featuring my Rainbow Vegetable and Smokey Bacon Medley recipe (GF)
My gluten-free recipe called Rainbow Vegetable and Smokey Bacon features on the Yorkshire Life website. A great mid week family meal especially if you are short of time! Here is the link to the recipe: http://bit.ly/1phzBfQ
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Peachy Velvet Picnic Cakes (GF)
Makes: 8 Picnic Cakes
No lunch box or picnic would be complete without some kind of sweet treat. With a light and fluffy sponge and filled with juicy raspberries and a peach slice on top - everyone will be wanting a second!
Ingredients:
250g / 9oz gluten-free self-raising flour
2 teaspoons gluten-free baking powder
50g / 2oz ground almonds
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon nutmeg
140g / 5oz butter, softened
200g / 7oz soft brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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Oven Baked Root Vegetable Crisps (GF)
Makes: 4 Portions
These crisps feature in Eating & Living Gluten-Free magazine this month. They make a healthier alternative to crisps as we know them. Why not experiment with other vegetables such as carrots or turnips to create a colourful savoury picnic snack? A simple way to get your little ones to eat more vegetables.
Ingredients:
1 large sweet potato, peeled and sliced wafer thin
1 large beetroot, peeled and sliced wafer thin
1 parsnip, peeled and sliced wafer thin
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The Telegraph: Food and Drink featuring my gluten-free Chocolate, Orange and Ginger Box Cakes.
The Telegraph are currently featuring a gallery of Great British Bake Off inspired cakes made by its readers'. Here are my gluten-free Chocolate, Orange and Ginger Box Cakes (with edible flowers by Maddocks Farm Organics) made for my coeliac son. Here is the link to the Telegraph website: http://bit.ly/1kTWIMb
If you would like to make the cakes, the recipe can be found here: https://www.happyigloo.com/chocolate-orange-ginger-box-cakes-gf/
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Double Delight Berry Bite Cupcakes (GF)
Makes: 20, 4cm, (1½”) diameter
These gluten-free mini morsels are great if you lean towards indecision like me! The top sponge is flavoured with puréed raspberries, the bottom one flavoured with blackberries and sandwiched together with a delicate vanilla buttercream. Twice the flavours! The children enjoyed these on a recent picnic but they would also make great party food or squeezed into a lunch box for all ages.
Keep your fingers crossed as this is my entry into the Betta ...
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Vibrant Vegetable Rice Rolls (GF)
Makes: 8 Rice Rolls
Delicious finger food crammed full of a wide variety of seasonal vegetables. Either eat them on their own or pair them with gluten-free soy sauce or sweet chilli dipping sauce. They are teaming with vegetables and make a refreshingly healthy change to the fried variety and have become a family favourite in our household!
Ingredients:
50g / 2oz iceberg lettuce, finely sliced
1 small carrot, peeled and grated
½ spring onion, finely sliced
5cm / 2” ...
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The Guardian: Cook Supplement. Spotlight on gluten-free recipes.
My favourite recent gluten-free creation featured on The Guardian Witness social media site spotlighting gluten-free recipes. https://www.facebook.com/guardianwitness/posts/677648662319801 Got the seal of approval by my 4 year old coeliac! Chocolate, Orange and Ginger Box Cakes with edible flowers. Big thumbs up to seeing the focus on the rise and rise of all things gluten-free.
Here is my recipe: https://www.happyigloo.com/chocolate-orange-ginger-box-cakes-gf/
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The Guardian Witness, The Great British Bake Off and my Teddy Bears Picnic Cake.
As The Great British Bake Off begins to heat up, The Guardian Witness Weekly Highlights Blog have been showcasing "outrageous cake decorations" and my Teddy Bears Picnic cake currently features.
I love a challenge and made it for my daughters 1st birthday. It involved a large amount of patience in creating the sugar craft elements and everything is edible apart from the cutlery! I really enjoyed experimenting with sugar craft...another 2 children later though and time is a little less of ...
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Guest blog for Udi’s UK: Holiday tips for travelling abroad with gluten-free kids.
I was invited to write a guest blog for Udi's UK highlighting our experiences of travelling abroad as a family with a child that has coeliac disease. What was most daunting? Did the language barrier cause concern when dining out or shopping in the supermarket? Just a couple of the many questions that play on your mind when travelling abroad.
I hope some of my useful tips and our experiences help reassure and alleviate some of the apprehension of travelling gluten-free, allowing you to ...
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Center Parcs and Tots 100 Challenge!
So I noticed this evening that Center Parcs are having an Ice Lolly challenge and coincidentally we had just made our favourites today whilst on holiday, helping to keep the children hydrated. Great for my 4 year old coeliac and sibling tots - Here is my recipe that combines several different fruity flavours. As some cordials contain gluten I decided to go the whole hog and use freshly pureed fruits combined with yogurt. Yum!
Fruity Yogurt Pops
Makes: 10-12 Small Yogurt Pops
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