Gluten Free Desserts Index – Recipes I Would Eat Myself

Here are the best gluten free desserts to be found. Since a lot of desserts have gluten in them I thought it would be helpful to give you a lot of gluten free desserts recipes. These gluten free desserts actually taste good even though some of them may not taste exactly like the desserts you are used to. You’ll be thankful you found them because you won’t feel dessert deprived anymore.

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Yes, I tried to choose gluten free desserts that I would make myself. If I found that a recipe looked like too much work, I said no way to it. If I won’t make it, most people won’t. I’m pretty lazy when it comes to cooking, if I can get away with it.

Actually dessert is the one thing I usually skip just because it’s too much work to make another dish for dinner. If you are more ambitious than I am and love to make desserts, that’s great. You’re going to love all of these gluten free desserts. By the way I do make dessert for special occasions like birthday parties and extended family dinners.

We have a lot of birthday parties and holiday parties with all of my brothers and sisters and their children and my parents and my aunts and uncles. Our parties usually include about 30 people and it’s still growing. It’s really a lot of fun.

Being on a gluten free diet can really not be so much fun when you are used to eating a lot of desserts and you love them. You might think that would mean no more cake or cookies or pie for you. You might even think it could mean no bread for you. But that isn’t true.

There are so many different kind of gluten-free flours in the world. You can’t even imagine all of the different nuts and plants that flour can be made out of that tastes really good. One of the most popular kinds of gluten-free flour is almond flour. Yes it’s just ground up almonds. You probably already know you love almonds, so it’s natural to just try it.

Some other kinds of gluten-free flours that are used a lot in gluten-free desserts are quinoa flour, coconut flour and oatmeal can be blended in a blender into oat flour. More kinds of gluten-free flour include several different kinds of rice flour, arrowroot flour and buckwheat flour. Don’t get confused, just because buckwheat has the word wheat in it, it is NOT a grain, it is actually a seed that originated in Asia.

Additional kinds of gluten-free flour are ground flax, sorghum flour, tapioca flour and hazelnut flour. Dried white mulberries can also be used to replace flour grain and some of these recipes include dates that are used in place of flour. That can be an advantage because they also add a lot of natural sweetness so you can use less or no sugar.

That’s a big advantage for me since I can’t eat sugar anymore. Some gluten-free desserts don’t have any kind of flour at all, they are usually called raw, I have some recipes like that, you will be surprised how good they taste.

FYI, spelt flour is not gluten-free but a lot of people who can’t eat regular wheat flour can eat spelt flour. The kind of gluten in spelt flour doesn’t bother them. I, for example, can tolerate spelt flour and I eat spelt bread all the time. It is a good flour to use because it is easy to find in stores and can usually be substituted straight across with most wheat flour recipes.

Another flour that fits into the same category as spelt is Einkorn. It is an ancient flour and supposedly the first original flour on the earth. So it isn’t modified and contaminated. It’s actually my favorite flour and I eat it all the time.

Just in case you are wondering, a package of flour you buy in the store that is labeled gluten-free flour is usually made from a combination of several different kinds of gluten-free flours mixed together to make a good flour that works well together.

Different kinds of gluten-free flour are, of course, different in texture and the amount of liquid they soak up and their weight is different. Some gluten-free flours raise very well while others do not and will forever be heavy and flat. That’s why a combination of flours work well.

You need to just try several of these recipes and see which flours you like the best and which recipes work best for you and your situation.

I forgot to mention that you really can’t just substitute one kind of flour for a different kind of flour straight across for the same recipe. It just doesn’t work that way. The only time you might be able to do that is if you buy a bag of flour off of the shelf in the grocery store that says it’s gluten-free and you substitute it straight across for a regular recipe that calls for wheat flour. I’m not guaranteeing it will work though, I can’t say that I’ve done that.

Those gluten-free flours off of the shelf are a lot of the time made with garbanzo bean flour, corn flour, rice flour or potato flour all which have a lot of carbs and starch in them, which I try to avoid. The very best flour in my opinion and the most popular you will find is almond flour. A lot of these recipes are made with almond flour. Almond flour is much healthier but it may or maybe not be more expensive too, shop around.

What I do know is when a recipe calls for wheat flour or almond flour you cannot substitute it straight across for coconut flour. Coconut flour absorbs a lot of moisture so it takes a lot less coconut flour in a recipe than it does any other kind of gluten-free flour. Experimenting really isn’t a good idea. You need to follow recipes exactly or they won’t turn out very good.

The most asked question I find from followers on my blog are about whether this or that can be substituted for that or this. The answer is a big resounding NO you can’t if you want it to taste good. I don’t know why so many people want to do that. If you don’t have a certain ingredient either go buy it or don’t make that recipe until you have all of the ingredients.

If you are having a hard time finding alternative flours to buy in your local store my suggestion is to go to Winco. Our local Winco has every kind of flour I have ever wanted to buy. I really like that because if I just want to try a certain gluten-free flour I can buy as little as I want. I don’t have to buy a big bag of it if it turns out that I don’t like it. I don’t feel too bad about throwing a cup of flour away whereas I would mind throwing 5 pounds of flour away.

The other place I buy a lot of my gluten-free flours is on Amazon. I like Amazon because I don’t have to go to the store and waste time driving there and standing in line etc. Of course I can’t buy just a little bit and of course I do have to wait for it to be delivered. My suggestion would be to buy small amounts at Winco and then if you like it but don’t have time to shop you can buy larger amounts on Amazon.

On all of my original recipes, I have links straight to Amazon where you can buy them. I have found though that it isn’t hard to find gluten-free flours to buy on Amazon just search in the grocery and gourmet food category for the kind of flour you want and a whole bunch of them should come up.

I say to you go ahead be adventurous and try as many of these gluten-free desserts recipes as you can and discover what works for you and what you like the most.

Have fun, gluten-free desserts are a lot of fun especially if you haven’t been able to have dessert for a while. I hope these explanations are helpful to you and I hope you realize that you can still have all of the cake, pies and cookies and any other desserts you want and like, just in a little different way, that’s all. You’ll be a lot healthier in the long run. Enjoy!