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Sometimes gluten-free desserts can taste a little weird, but this flour substitute will have you trying all your favourite baked goods in gluten-free versions
You can have your gluten-free tart and eat it too, by substituting equal parts Cloud 9 Specialty Bakery’s gluten-free all-purpose baking mix for flour
On my way back from the Okanagan a few weeks ago I picked up some fresh, local peaches. They were the best peaches I’ve ever had – juicy, full of flavour and perfectly ripe.
Shortly after that, we had dinner with friends and I was in charge of dessert (and appetizers – see last week’s post). I knew it would include peaches and I was leaning toward pastry. I’d been waiting to try Cloud 9 Specialty Bakery’s gluten-free all-purpose baking mix so I decided on peach tarts.
I’ve tried a few of the prepared gluten-free baked goods from Cloud 9 and they were incredibly, surprisingly good. The Piccolo Buns, which are like ciabatta bread, are out of this world, and the chocolate chip cookies are fantastic too.
Plus, they benefit a wonderful local company called Karma Exchange, with 10 percent of chocolate chip cookie sales going to the Savelugu Girls’ Education Project.
The pastry recipe is from one of my favourite cookbooks, The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook. The recipe is for tarte tartin but I used peaches instead of the apple mixture for the filling, and I made individual tarts instead of one big one.
Cloud 9’s baking mix can be substituted for the exact amount of flour in any recipe. Easy!
The tarts turned out really great and the gluten-free baking mix tasted similar to whole wheat flour – delicious and healthy. Well, as healthy as a peach tart is ever going to get.
Next, I’m going to make gluten-free versions of my chocolate chip cookies, banana bread and carrot cake with Cloud 9’s baking mix. My dad can’t eat gluten so it will be nice to still be able to share my favourite dessert recipes with him.
Let us know how your gluten-free recipes turn out!
Ingredients
Makes 12 tarts
Instructions