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These wickedly decadent cookies by award-winning pastry chef Tamara Jane will have you and your friends salivating.
It’s not easy going gluten-free. There are so many delightful things that you simply aren’t allowed to have! So we’re super delighted that Tamara Jane’s latest book, Decadent Gluten-free Treats, offers delicious solutions. This irresistible array of cakes and slices have been created especially to cater for people on a restricted diet. There are also recipes that are free from eggs or dairy and some that are suitable for vegans. Feel confident in creating delicious treats that everyone can enjoy.
As an added bonus the book includes a Decorations section with step-by-step instructions on how to create pretty butterflies, flowers and ribbons from icing.
Recipe extracted with permission from Decadent Gluten-free Treats: With tempting vegan & dairy-free options by Tamara Jane, with photography by Devin Hart. Published by New Holland, $34.99.
Double Chocolate and Raspberry Cookies
{Gluten-free}
MAKES 24
125g butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
¾ cup tapioca flour
½ cup rice flour
1 teaspoon gluten-free baking powder
¼ cup cocoa
30g freeze-dried raspberries, crushed
100g white chocolate chips
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line two baking trays with baking paper.
Soften the butter and place in a bowl with the brown sugar and the egg. Using electric beaters, beat together until light and creamy.
Stir in the sifted flours, baking powder and cocoa, then add the raspberries and white chocolate chips. Mix until well combined, ensuring there are no lumps of flour in the mixture.
Use a spoon to place heaped mounds onto the prepared trays. Leave about 5cm between each cookie to allow for spreading.
Bake for about 15 minutes, until the edges are beginning to turn a darker brown. This can be difficult to judge, but you will see a distinct dark rim appear around the edge.
Allow to cool on the tray.
Store in an airtight container.
** BOOK GIVEAWAY **
We have 1 copy of Decadent Gluten-free Treats to give away.
To ENTER THE DRAW TO WIN A COPY simply post a comment below. Anything will do. You can just say hello, if you like. Or you could share your best cooking tip.
COMPETITION CLOSES ON 8 JANUAURY, 2014 at 11.59PM.
I’m new to gluten-free and love picking up new recipes to try – it seems to be working well for me, too, as I have tons more energy than I’ve had for years.
Oh my! This book looks like a real treat – would be a fabulous addition to my collection 🙂
I am an avid baker and with so many of my friends turning gluten-free this book would be incredibly handy!!!!
Yum – those cookies look delicious – might make some this weekend 🙂
I would really like to give this to my wife – she loves to bake but is finding it a little hard at the moment because so many visitors that pop round are gluten intolerant. I know she would find this book incredibly helpful. Oh and my best baking tip – stay out of the kitchen…..I always tend to ruin anything I touch 😉
Thanks for yet another cool giveaway – count me in.
this looks like a good bok yes please
I’m new to GF too. This recipe sounds great as it doesn’t contain a thousand ingredients like many of them do!
What a treat it would be to win this book!
I love baking but with a couple of friends and family members now going gluten free I never know what to bake.The gluten flours are so expensive to buy so I like the above recipe that just tells you which flours to use instead
My little boy is gluten free so this recipe book would come in very handy
I have just started to get this email and love the recipes.
Hubby has just lost a lot of weight, and I am enjoying making more healthy meals for both of us….lol…I am lot losing the weight tho…..
This sounds like a great book to use
Great to be able to create treats for my gluten free son. Sound delicious.
Awesome