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Gluten-free chocolate chip cookies

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I’ve been doing a lot more gluten-free baking lately because my boyfriend suffers from Crohn’s disease so he is sensitive to wheat. Gluten-free baking has been easy for me to adapt – I just have to play around with the proportion of gluten-free flour to cornflour to almond meal to get the texture that I want. However, he is also sensitive to dairy products which is going to be a major challenge because I can’t use butter anymore. I’ve yet to experiment with vegetable shortening but I’m sure that it won’t be as good as using butter. Anyway, these cookies are unfortunately/fortunately not dairy free but they are gluten-free and definitely tastes as good as my non gluten-free chocolate chip cookies. Enjoy! Ingredients 120g unsalted butter (room temperature) 80g raw sugar 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla essence 1/2 tsp baking powder 50g cornflour 150g gluten-free flour Directions Preparation time: 15 min Baking time: 10-15 min Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy Add in the egg and vanilla essence and continue to cream Sieve in …

Gluten free double chocolate chip cookies

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These gluten-free double chocolate chip cookies tasted as good as my non gluten-free version. They were so addictive that I could easily eat at least 10 in one go. This has got to be my favourite gluten-free cookie recipe. Remember to leave the dough to rest in the fridge for at least a day before baking it. This helps to enhance the flavour and it creates a crispier texture. Ingredients 120g unsalted butter (softened to room temperature) 120g dark brown sugar 1 large egg 1 tsp vanilla extract 75g gluten-free flour 50g almond meal 50g unsweetened natural cocoa powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt 30g white chocolate chunks 30g milk chocolate chunks 30g dark chocolate chunks Directions Preparation time: 15 min Baking time: 10-15 min Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy Add in the egg and vanilla essence and continue to cream Sieve in the gluten-free flour, almond meal, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda into the mixture Mix the dough well then cling wrap it and leave it in the fridge …

Gluten free peanut butter Nutella cookies

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It has been a while since I’ve posted a recipe. I was so busy with placement for the last five weeks that I could not find time to bake. It feels so good to be almost done with Uni and to be back in my baking therapy. I was experimenting with peanut butter and Nutella today. I’ve decided to marry two of my favourite ingredients to make cookies. This recipe is really simple. All you need is peanut butter (non-natural ones), Nutella, bicarbonate soda, egg and chocolate chips. Ingredients 250g peanut butter (I used Bega Smooth peanut butter) 100g Nutella 1 tsp bicarbonate soda 1 egg 50g chocolate chips or cashew nuts Directions  Preparation time: 15 min Baking time: 8-10min or when the cookie turns brown Using a stand mixer, whisk the peanut butter together with Nutella until a uniform mixture Turn the speed down to low and add in the egg and bicarbonate soda and continue to whisk for 1 minute Scrape down the sides and mix everything together until it forms a dough …

Coffee walnut cookies

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Using my favourite cookie dough recipe, I’ve decided to make coffee walnut cookies today. Once you have a good cookie dough recipe, you can pretty much make anything with your favourite ingredients. The thing I like about this cookie dough recipe is that it does not expand much when baking and it maintains the shape of the cookie cutter so I get prettily shaped cookies. I would always leave my dough to rest overnight in the refrigerator because it helps to enhance the flavour and texture of the dough. What I usually do when I’m free is to make a batch of cookie dough and freeze it. It can be left frozen in the freezer for up to three months. So whenever I feel like making cookies, I have a variety of cookie doughs to choose from! Ingredients 140g unsalted butter (room temperature) 100g caster sugar 2 egg yolks 2 tsp coffee essence 240g plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 50g walnuts 50g chocolate chips Directions Preparation time: 10min Baking time: 15-20min or when the …