Cashew butter meringues - Gluten Free - Recipe

Cashew Butter Meringues

Gluten Free

I love meringues and these have the addition of cashew butter to add extra chewy yumminess! They are a very impressive dinner party dessert that can be made the day before. You can use other nut butters as well.

Cashew Butter Meringues

4 egg whites at room temperature

1 cup caster sugar

1 Tablespoon cornflour

1 Tablespoon lemon juice

½ cup cashew nut butter (or another type of nut butter)

Topping

¾ cup thick plain yoghurt

Fruit and or berries to decorate

Preheat the oven to 100 degrees C

Whisk the egg whites to soft peaks then gradually add the sugar a tablespoon at a time. Beat until thick and glossy and the sugar is dissolved. Undissolved sugar will cause the meringue to weep.

Using a large metal spoon, fold in the cornflour, lemon juice and the nutmeg. Spoon 8 x 8 cm circles or meringue, about 3 cm apart, onto a lined baking tray. Stir the butter until it is very smooth then dot teaspoons of it over each meringue. Using a skewer, gently draw the nut butter through the meringue to give a lightly marbled effect. Don’t spend too much time doing this. 

Bake for 1 hour or until the meringues will lift off the paper easily, then turn off the heat and leave the meringues in the oven to cool.

Decorate with yoghurt and fruit.

Maison de Crepes - Cafe Christchurch - Gluten Free Options

Maison de Crepes

2 Papanui Road

Christchurch 
New Zealand

GF, Vegan, Vegetarian, Dairy Free, Egg Free and Sugar Free Options

I love crepes and have wanted to visit Maison de Crepes for a long time - I see it everyday I go to work. So we decided that my birthday breakfast was a good time! What a nice surprise to find all their savoury crepes are gluten free, made with buckwheat  flour, so Pete was very happy! They have egg free, dairy free, sugar free, vegetarian and vegan options. They have a day and evening menu with a wide range of fillings. It was extremely hard to choose!

In the end I chose Le French Toast Crepe with bacon, caramelised banana, cinnamon and maple syrup. Pete chose Le Vegetarian that came with mushrooms, baked beans, spinach, caramelised onions and feta.

Yum!

Berry Friands - Gluten Free - Recipe

Berry Friands

Gluten Free

Many cafes have friands as a gluten free option as they are made with ground almonds and they are very yummy! Berry ones are common but there are also other flavours like blueberries, passionfruit and lemon curd!

1 ½ cups Icing sugar – gluten free

½ cup Rice flour

1 cup Ground almonds

6 Egg whites

1 tsp Vanilla

150 g Butter

1 cup Berries – fresh or frozen (no need to defrost)

Heat oven to 180 degrees C.  Grease 12 oval-shaped friand or muffins pans. Place sifted icing sugar, sifted rice flour and ground almonds in a bowl. 
Make a well in the centre and pour in lightly beaten egg whites, vanilla essence and melted butter, then stir briefly to just combine.

Divide mixture between prepared pans to two-thirds full. Top each friand with a sprinkling of berries.

Bake for 25 minutes until golden brown. Remove from oven and leave to stand in pans for 5 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack.

mini friands

Apple Crumble Pie - Product - Gluten Free

Apple Crumble Pie

Gluten Free

Wow! This was an awesome find! New World are making these gluten free Apple Crumble Pies and they are divine. The pastry is very shortcake like, lots of apple and a crumble topping that has a slight bit of chew to it. We teamed it up with dairy free Kapiti Summer Berries Sorbet.

You can find these in the frozen section in the bakery area of New World. Cost is $11.99.