Since launching the gluten-free rough puff pastry mix, I’ve had quite a few requests from people purchasing it asking me if I do lessons on how to make it. Unfortunately I am not in a position to run classes at the moment. So I have put together this short pictorial guide on how to make rough puff pastry using the…
I’m next level Geeky McGeekFace when it comes to the ins and outs of gluten-free baking. I just love all the science-y stuff behind it. But I realise that not everybody is! Which is why I put together this simple six-step process to help you be the best baker you can be. Yes, even if you’re not interested in learning…
A ridiculously easy no-bake recipe for vanilla cookie dough balls with double the sprinkles - both inside and out!
If you want to make edible cookie dough or any other no-bake treat that has flour in the recipe, you MUST use heat-treated flour. This is to ensure that any bacteria living in the flour (which would ordinarily be killed when used in a baked recipe) is destroyed. Eating raw flour that has not been heat-treated has the potential to…
Gluten-free bagels are not overly difficult to make. But is there a best way to shape them? As gluten-free bakers we are working with dough that is a lot more fragile than dough made from wheat flour so sometimes the traditional methods of working with bread dough need to be modified. Below are two different ways in which you can…
Fellow pie afficionados and MasterChef fans... Were you as outraged as me at the sight of two this-is-not-a-pie-pies rearing their ugly, half-dressed faces on the pie challenge set by Jay Rayner on last night’s MasterChef? I mean, come on. REFEREE! In fairness, Pete was pulled up on his Vietnamese beef stew with a puff pastry lid and Shreya was mildly…
Here are some top tips to help you up your baking game...from someone who has made every single baking mistake in the book (and a few more besides) and would love to help you avoid them!
Ten bakers, three challenges and one judge who knows *everything* about bread . On your marks. Get set. BAKE! **** SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the outcomes of each of the challenges, this week’s star baker and the third of The Class of 2023 to go home. Please don’t read on if you have yet to watch the…
Bake Yourself Happy at Home® with a batch of these wonderfully light, crisp, melt-in-the-mouth and totally moreish empire biscuits. My recipe is nice and simple and can be made in just under an hour...
If checking labels for sources of gluten, worrying about cross-contamination and interrogating ingredient lists isn't a daily occurence for you (as it is for coeliacs) then it is completely understandable that you may feel a little daunted about baking for someone with coeliac disease. I have written this article to help those of you who may be thinking of baking…