Recipe Round-Up: Gluten Free Desserts

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Whenever I have guests who are  gluten-free coming to my home, I tend to panic and worry about what I can prepare for a sweet treat.  I shouldn’t because I have made many delicious gluten-free desserts over the years.  I thought it would be easier to find these recipes if they were all corralled in one place, hence this 16-recipe round-up.  From virtuous pistachio-encrusted chocolate-dipped dried apricots, to a decadent, show-stopping flourless chocolate torte, these desserts have been tested and are crave-worthy.  Click on the highlighted link to access the recipes.

1-  Frozen Banana Cherry Ice Cream  

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Flourless Clementine Cake

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“Let them eat cake.” Marie Antoinette

This Nigella Lawson cake was popular about 15 years ago and I had forgotten all about it.  Unfortunate since, as far as cakes go, this one is a simple 5-ingredient recipe,  full of healthy ingredients with no added fat and  little sugar. And soooo good!  The batter is made up of ground almonds and whole clementines.  Nigella says to cook the clementines for 2 hours. I made the cake twice this month, once by cooking the oranges as directed and a second time by just bringing them to a boil and cooking them 10 minutes in roiling water.  The result was the same as far as taste, texture, moisture of the cake with a huge time saving. I also made it in a bundt pan the first time and it was impossible to separate.  The springform is a must with this recipe.  This is a totally delicious unfussy snacking cake that is super fast to make.  I served mine with a dollop of yogurt.  Variations on the theme: substitute lemons or Meyer lemons for the clementines.  Everyone loved it!

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