Gluten-Free Cookery: The Complete Guide for Gluten-Free or Wheat-Free Diets

My daughter's guests for a Halloween party included a child on the GFCF diet. My challenge was to find an easy, quick gluten-free cake recipe for children that didn't taste like chalk. Ann's Sticky Chocolate Cake became the "vampire cake" (something to sink your fangs into). All of the parents requested the recipe source, and the cake was gobbled up before midnight. Preparation took only 20 minutes. I substituted non-dairy margarine for butter and used an ordinary cake pan. Note: if you want to use measuring cups rather than a kitchen scale, 4 oz = 1/2 cup.

When I was told to put my autistic son on a dairy and gluten free diet 6 years ago I did not have a clue, I had never seen the point in baking a cake or a loaf of bread if you could buy it! Although we can get staples on prescription the book has made birthday cakes and treats a pleasure and surprise for all my children and the breads and pancake mixes vary his diet, the recipes are easy to adopt to dairy free if necessary.I have tried other books for variety, one used chickpea flour in everything which tasted wierd, I wonder if the recipes were tested! Others just specify a proprietory GF flour which seems pointless, and expensive if you cannot get them on prescription. Faced with the challenge of putting a family member on this diet, if you can get hold of this book it will be the only one you'll ever need, ours is reinforced with sticky tape and covered in food stains!

I never cooked for myself before, but this book told me exactly what to do. Now I'm enjoying my food again. My meals had gotten much the same, but now I'm trying all the different things and putting weight back on.