Browsing Category Desserts

Ladyfingers Cake

  Ladyfingers or should I call it biscuit pudding cake? This is one of those instant recipes, where you can buy all ingredients. You need biscuits, whipping cream, milk, pudding, chocolate … all these ingredients can contain gluten, so be careful when you decide to make this cake. All products must be gluten free! When you get all ingredients, the procedure won’t be too much complicated.  Ingredients: 200g…

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Energy Bars

Energy bars are great snack, but usually they contain grains that I can’t eat. Sometimes when I find gluten free variant of energy bars in a market they are quite expensive, and I don’t have idea why. I love to prepare it at home, and the ingredients are not that expensive. This snack is healthy, it gives you extra energy and one what is most important it…

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Chocolate Macarons

Macarons are very popular sweets these days. Given that I have celiac disease, I was very skeptic when someone tells me that they are gluten free, so I refused to try them in restaurants. Until one month ago, when I saw them in one candy store with gluten free mark. It was very delicious. I tried many flavors, but all of them had something in common, some…

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St Valentine’s cookies

  Any cookie can be St. Valentine’s day cookie. The most important thing is to be made with love. In 18th-century England, St. Valentine’s day evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other. In Europe, St. Valentine’s Keys are given to lovers as a romantic symbol and an invitation to unlock their heart. Sweets are, in my opinion, much better way to express your…

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Christmas Cookies

It is all about the spices. When you think about Christmas cookies you can imagine the smell of the cinnamon and orange, ginger or chocolate. It can put you back to childhood, remind you of some beautiful memories or people. Every day brings new memories, so let’s connect some special moments with delicious tastes and unforgettable smells. Combination of spices and ingredients depending on your taste. This…

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Baklava

History of baklava is not well documented, but there is evidence that its current form was developed in the imperial kitchen of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. Today that privilege called Baklava, can have every house, even a gluten free one. Like many other traditional recipes, this one is also modified during the time. Here is my variation of baklava.. As you know, it is…

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Slovenian Potica

This time I did something unusual for my kitchen. I tried an original recipe – traditional Slovenian Potica. Potica or nut roll is a pastry consisting of a sweet dough and nut filling. Instead of nuts you can put poppy seeds or chocolate, be creative relative to your taste. I made it for the first time in my life, and I can say that it is…

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Peach/Plum Choco Pie

 Like most of my recipes, this one was created completely accidentally. I was making a peach syrup and was left with too many cooked peaches. Ideas immediately started popping up. Earlier that day, I was planning to make a plum pie with chocolate, because I had fresh organic plums from mums garden. Imagining the combination of hot chocolate and soft plums, was enough to get me…

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Banana Cookies

If you didn’t try to add a banana in a dough, it is about time to discover that perfection.   Ingredients: 250g flour 50g whole almonds 2 bananas 150g sugar 100g chocolate 1 egg 100g butter Use an electric mixer to mix bananas, egg, butter, and sugar together. Add flour, roasted almonds, smashed chocolate and mix all ingredients with big spoon until you get the dough…

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Plum dumplings

First of all, you will need fresh plums! Then you can do the rest. The dough is made of mashed potatoes, eggs and flour. For around 14 plum dumplings you will need: 2 boiled potatoes, 1 egg and flour (add flour until you get soft, compact dough).    Now everything depends on your taste. If you like more dough, you will use more dough for one…

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