What a delightful recipe I have to share with you today. This delicious gluten free date and walnut traybake topped with lightly whipped coffee buttercream, a sprinkle of chopped walnuts and finished with a dusting of cocoa, really is the perfect afternoon treat. It’s also another really simple recipe to pop together and smells AMAZING […]
Category Archives: Cakes and traybakes
Bringing you a SPLENDID selection of delicious easy to make, gluten free cake and traybake recipes. Lots of step by step pictures to ‘compare notes’ too. Happy baking x
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Jul
Jul
Another mighty fine recipe to share with you! This gluten free lemon drizzle cake recipe is a joy to make and smells incredible whilst it’s baking. The light buttery sponge, is delicately flavoured with fresh lemon zest and finished with a classic lemon drizzle topping.
12
Jul
Jul
I’ve loved making this gluten free Russian sandwich cake and writing the recipe up to share with you. My grandma was rather partial to this cake too. And I used to love treating to her to one from our local bakery. I’m sorry that she won’t ever get to taste my gluten free version of […]
03
Jul
Jul
I’ve discovered another great recipe that works really well as a gluten free version. This rhubarb and custard cake (the original recipe is from BBC good food, and has tons of great reviews) is lovely! It’s nice and easy to make too, and it’s a perfect way of using rhubarb, that is in season at […]
02
May
May
Updated 16th August 2022 I was a little late to the gluten free chocolate brownie party. But after tasting a great homemade one whilst working at Off The Wheaten Track, I knew I needed to hunt down a good recipe that I could share with you on the blog.
06
Apr
Apr
Updated 7th March 2023 I’ve got this delightful gluten free tea loaf recipe to share with you. It’s something I used to make a lot when I worked as a cook, in a rather wonderful nursing home. This tea loaf is nice and easy to make and is delicious; especially when buttered, and enjoyed with […]
17
Aug
Aug
Updated 12th May 2023 Gluten free Swiss roll is one of the many recipes that’s been on my LONG list of things I wanted to share with you. So here it is! At first glance, Swiss roll may seem a little fiddly to make, but it really isn’t. And miraculously, this delicious, light and airy […]
17
May
May
It’s year ago today since my blog went live, so I thought it would be nice to pop together a special cake to mark the 1st Birthday of Coeliac by Design! There are a quite a few things that have only become popular since I have diagnosed with coeliac disease. One of them is red velvet […]
04
May
May
Updated 21st October 2021 Popped together this gorgeous, gluten free chocolate cake last weekend. The recipe I used, and ever so slightly adapted to make it gluten free, was listed as a ‘Birthday cake’ in Nigella Lawson’s book How To Eat. I love this book so much. Nigella’s writing style is awesome and since writing […]
16
Apr
Apr
I’m so chuffed to be sharing this gluten free chocolate marble Easter cake with you. As not only does it look rather cute and tastes great, it was also lovely to have an opportunity to use a savarin tin which had belonged to my mum, to make the cake. And the meaningful tin, with its […]