Find healthy, scrumptious gluten-free dessert recipes, in the food and diet experts at EatingWell.
Flourless Honey-Almond Cake
Honey and almonds flavor this straightforward (and gluten-free) cake. It's lovely for mid-day tea or perhaps a spring holiday dessert. Take care not to overbeat the egg-whites--they must be white-colored and incredibly foamy, but by no means stiff or in a position to hold peaks. Should you beat them as well much, the wedding cake may sink in the centre because it cools.
Glazed Sour Orange & Coconut Cakes
This pudding-like gluten-free coconut cake recipe will get its amazing flavor and texture from pureed oranges. Sour oranges (also known as Seville oranges) are perfect during these healthy coconut cakes due to their acidity and thin skin, but many lemon or lime works. Coconut flour has elevated levels of fiber and absorbent, which makes it a fantastic choice for moist desserts. Almond flour adds fabulous texture and nutty flavor. Search for gluten-free flours in natural-foods markets.
Gluten-Free Mocha Yule Log
A b -ûche de Noël--a cake decorated just like a yule log--is really a traditional dessert offered around Christmastime in France, Belgium, Canada and a few other French-speaking countries. Our gluten-free recipe, which is equally as tasty offered cold because it is at 70 degrees, is lighter than air. The chocolate brown-butter génoise cake is simple to roll-up also it's engrossed in a billowy espresso-spiked 7-minute frosting. We've substituted agave nectar for white-colored sugar within the frosting. It's pretty garnished with meringue mushrooms and sugared rosemary oil.
Gluten-Free Pumpkin Cheesecake with Gingersnap-Walnut Crust
We brought out a couple of in our favorite EatingWell methods to attain lots of creaminess within our pumpkin cheesecake without all of the saturated fats of the recipe: nutrient-packed canned pumpkin and pureed nonfat cottage type cheese replace a few of the cream cheese. A little pumpkin cake spice gets warm the taste. For that crust, shop natural-foods section for gluten-free gingersnaps with no hydrogenated oil. Simple toasted walnuts are a stylish garnish. Or try making candied walnuts. Just take care not to eat these before they reach the wedding cake!
Strawberry Meringue Cake
This light, flourless cake recipe features crispy, soft models of almond meringue layered with bananas and whipped cream. To find the best results, avoid making the meringue layers with an excessively damp or wet day. The moisture prevents proper crisping.
Chocolate-Raspberry Icebox Torte
Layers of hazelnut-and-chocolate meringue meld with refreshing raspberry sorbet. This cake ought to be made yesterday serving.
Mango Sorbet Torte
Almond-coconut meringue layers are capped with mango sorbet within this pretty frozen torte.