Easter Gluten Freeness

I was trotting up the local high street yesterday and spotted eastery goodness in the bakers. Seeing all those cakes and yellow fluffy chicks reminded me how we used to make those cornflake and chocolate nests for Easter as kids. Well Kellogg's cornflakes, like a lot of Kellogg's products, have barley extract on them, so their brand of corn flakes are not gluten free. Whole Earth to the rescue! Whole Earth Organic Corn Flakes are naturally gluten free, and very nice too. The flakes are a bit thinner, but taste just as good. I'm going to give you the Easter nests recipe I used yesterday to make mine, but you can't go wrong really.

milk chocolate 100gms

dark chocolate 100gms

butter 25gms

golden syrup 1tbsp

gluten free corn flakes 200gms

Melt the chocolate, butter and golden syrup in a bowl over some hot water. Mix in the corn flakes. Mix very well till its all coated. Press into 12 little bun cases (pop these in a bun baking tray for support). Shape into nests a bit with a spoon and decorate with eastery things.

Traditionally at our house Cadburys mini eggs are used to decorate, which according to the website are gluten free, eggcellent!

I like easter a lot, its a lovely introduction to spring. All the bulbs are coming up, lambs are boinging around in the fields and the days are getting warmer. I don't have a massive sweet tooth, so often ask for a book or something instead of an egg at Easter. I have bought Dexter (our new baby) a totally unrelated gift of a bumbo seat for Easter. It's not like he can eat an egg anyway. Maybe we will have a turkey dinner, which is another tradition from home. Like a second Christmas really.

On the subject of Easter, apparently Sainsbury's are doing a gluten free Simnel cake for Easter, what a lovely treat! I think its the Trufree one.

Hope you all have a lovely gluten free Easter!