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 […]
Category Archives: Cakes and traybakes
An expansive selection of delicious tried and tested gluten free cake and traybake recipes. Accompanied with plenty of step by step pictures to help guide you.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’m here again with another childhood recipe to share with you. These chocolate picnic slices are as much a joy to make as they are to eat and are naturally gluten free.
Updated 7th May 2022 I’d been fancying making (and eating!) gluten free carrot cake cupcakes for ages and had been on the hunt for a recipe which I could use to rustle some up. After a bit of searching, I spotted this ‘standard’ carrot cake recipe by Mary Cadogan on the BBC Good Food website. […]