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Goodie Girl cookies are so quietly gluten-free I have looked at them multiple times at my local Kroger before finding them in Walmart's GF section, picking them up to take a good look, and finally seeing the tiny little certified GF logo on the lower corner of the box. They have a Girl Scout cookie vibe with colorful boxes and playful flavors and even have a thin mint analogue. More on that later.

I started my journey with their S'mores Sandwich Cookies: One chocolate cookie, one cinnamon graham cookie, with sweet vanilla creme filling between. They don't taste like a S'more, exactly, but they are tasty and you can at least see where they're coming from. One box contains 24 cookies, but they're all in a single sleeve and only stayed fresh about ten days, so by the time I finished them the cookies were getting a bit soft, but they still tasted good. I liked these so much I bought them again and took a page from the Girl Scout Handbook and froze the next box to see if it would stop them from getting stale, but they basically became just as soft in the freezer. Still good though.

Certified GF, vegan, and kosher.
Current Ingredients: cane sugar, gluten free whole grain oat flour, rice flour, palm oil, high oleic sunflower oil (or canola oil), tapioca starch, invert sugar. Contains less than 2% each of the following: cocoa (processed with alkali), soy lecithin, corn starch, inulin, baking soda, xanthan gum, salt, cinnamon, natural flavors, organic maltodextrin, tricalcium phosphate, ammonium bicarbonate.
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I bought some brown coconut sugar, and this recipe on the back of the package turned out pretty good, despite only approximately following it (see notes). I might try smaller amounts as a mug cake sometime.

Ingredients
4 large eggs
1 cup brown coconut sugar
1 cup cacao powder
1/4 cup + 1 tsp coconut oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/8 tsp sea salt

Quick brownies )

Notes
I imagine other kinds of brown sugar would work too. I had slightly less than a cup left of the coconut sugar so I put in a little less cocoa as well. Which by the way is not the same thing as cacao - I didn't notice this said cacao until typing it in now. Since I was changing amounts anyway, I eyeballed the extra tsp of coconut oil rather than fussing with the measurement.
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Nature's Bakery Fig Bar: Raspberry: I mostly gave these a try because they had ingredients I could eat. I was pleasantly surprised by how soft and tender the cookie part is, though I can't say it has a flavor beyond being pleasantly whole grain. The filling is sweet and crunchy with fig seeds, and I could really taste the raspberries. Could I taste the figs? Maybe, in that they were toning the raspberry flavor down in an earthy kind of way.

This is called a bar, but really it's a Fig Newtonesque cookie, two per package, with six packages in a box. I found them at Target in the granola/protein/snack bar aisle, but they're too sweet for me to be anything but a dessert. They're also marked "low sodium" (70 mg for two cookies), but they always make me very thirsty, so idk.

In addition to Raspberry, they come in Blueberry and Pomegranate. If you're in the market for a GF Fig Newton analogue, you might give these a try. Though for whatever reason they don't have one that's just fig.

Certified GF, vegan, kosher, non-GMO. Made in a dedicated peanut and tree nut free facility.
Current Ingredients: Brown Rice Flour, Brown Rice Syrup, Fig Paste, Raspberry Jam (Naturally Milled Sugar, Cane Sugar, Glycerin, Rice Starch, Raspberries, Apple Powder, Natural Flavor, Pectin, Citric Acid, Locust Bean Gum), Canola Oil, Cane Sugar, Gluten Free Five Grain Flour (Amaranth, Quinoa, Millet, Sorghum, Teff), Date Paste, Whole Grain Oats, Glycerin, Flaxseed, Leavening (Monocalcium Phosphate, Baking Soda), Sea Salt, Xanthan Gum, Natural Flavor, Citric Acid.
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Flat, sticky, limp, burnt, wobbly, dry, gritty cookies? Fearless Dining has you covered with Gluten Free Cookie Baking Disasters and How to Fix Them, offering multiple causes for each problem and detailed advice on how to fix it. For when you just can't give up on a recipe.

I found this site because I recently made some really abysmally flat chocolate chip cookies, like suuuuuper flat, and angrily went looking for answers. In my case, the answer was: GF flour mixes all perform differently (I knew this and thus normally avoid recipes that call for a generic "GF flour mix"), and flour mixes with a higher starch content spread more (not sure I knew this), and those with milk powder really spread (whoops).

Since it was too late to adjust the dough by adding a bit more flour I solved my problem by baking off the rest of my cookies in silicon muffin cups, which created a delicious deep dish choc chip cookie type situation. Not a fix suggested by this website, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
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This pumpkin bread from Snixy Kitchen bakes up into a lovely brown loaf with warm spices and a tender, moist crumb.

I got serious and bought a metal 9 x 5 inch loaf pan for this one, since glass conducts heat differently and can dry out the crust of a quick bread, which did seem to be the case for the last pumpkin bread I made. I used Libby's canned pumpkin again and followed the recipe exactly—except I used apple cider in place of the milk component, and I again left out the cinnamon for reasons—and I was very happy with the results. In the metal pan, the outside of the loaf turned a deep brown (next time I might give it an aluminum foil tent near the end of the cooking time), but didn't get tough. I cooked it 65 minutes, let it cool on a rack for 20 minutes, and then removed it from the pan to cool completely.

Compared to the Pumpkin Bread with Maple Glaze from The Bojon Gourmet that I brought you last month (and baked in a glass pan, which might have contributed to some of the textural differences):

  • both are gum-free, nut-free, soy-free, and dairy-free
  • both use oat flour, sweet rice flour, and tapioca starch, then teff flour (Snixy) or millet flour (Bojon)
  • both offer some substitutions, including for the oat flour, but both rely on the sweet rice flour and eggs
  • slightly different spice mixes, Snixy has cloves instead of allspice, and no turmeric
  • a slice of the Snixy is softer than the Bojon, which is more dense and easier to pick up
  • Snixy did not bake up as impressively tall
  • Snixy makes a darker, browner loaf, while Bojon is lighter and oranger

Both are easy to make, bake up well, store nicely in the fridge (and freezer!), are undetectably gluten free, and have good flavor and texture, but I think the Snixy might be my new favorite due to its almost squishy softness and gingerbread vibes. The Snixy recipe doesn't have an accompanying glaze, so I made one with powdered sugar, orange juice, and a splash of vanilla. Next time I might do something more like Bojon's maple glaze (with maybe less maple syrup), which, since it has (vegan) butter in it, is thicker, sets better, and has a more appealing look when poured over the loaf.

Anyway, I'm thrilled that after years of going without pumpkin bread I now have two really great recipes for it. AMAAPB (Ask Me Anything About Pumpkin Bread).

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It's spooky season! Which means I've collected a bunch of spooky recipes...mostly from Texanerin. All descriptions come straight from the recipes, as I've made none of these, just liked the looks of them.

Black Ice Cream: This black ice cream is an easy, egg-free recipe that's free of food coloring and super simple – you just blend everything in a blender! It tastes like an Oreo wafer, thanks to black cocoa, and can be made traditionally with heavy cream and sugar, but it can also be made vegan, keto and paleo.

Spiderweb Brownies: These spiderweb brownies are super fudgy when refrigerated, gooey at room temperature, and topped off with chocolate ganache and white chocolate spiderwebs. Includes several well-tested gluten-free options. They're also easy to make dairy-free, if desired.

Jack Skellington Cake: This Jack Skellington cake has an ultra-moist chocolate cake base with vanilla cream cheese and black cocoa cream cheese frosting. The stripes are surprisingly easy for someone with no decorating skills, as is the Jack Skellington face. Has a tested gluten free option.

Mummy Cookies: These mummy cookies get their black color and Oreo flavor from black cocoa and not food coloring! They're naturally eggless but have a fantastic texture. With two gluten-free options.

Edible Googly Eyes: Homemade vegan eyeballs for decorating cookies, cupcakes and more!

Halloween Popcorn Mix: This SPOOKY mix of popcorn and candy is perfect for your next Halloween gathering!
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This Pumpkin Bread with Maple Glaze from The Bojon Gourmet bakes up properly tall like a regular quick bread, which was shocking enough, but it also has a lovely moist crumb and slices well. It's also dairy-free, nut-free, and gum-free!

I followed the instructions exactly...except I didn't sift the dry ingredients because in my experience when you sift oat flour it just clumps up again on the other side. Instead I mixed the dry ingredients together in one bowl and the wet in another and then mixed them together and it was fine. But if you follow the instructions, this only take one bowl.

I used Libby's canned pumpkin. Word on the street is that different brands have different liquid contents, and organic canned pumpkin puree can sometimes be more liquidy than conventional and might throw off a recipe developed for a thicker puree. It sounds like Taylor-Tobin used an organic, but thick, puree, and the Libby's worked well here. I used a glass 9 x 5 inch loaf pan and cooked the bread for a full hour. It rose to lofty heights, browned a bit, and developed some rustic cracks along the top.

Contrary to the instructions, which I followed remember, the loaf needs to cool more than an hour before it's ready to glaze. Mine was still warm at that point and the glaze started to melt. Next time I'll give it more like three hours to cool completely. If you don't have that kind of time, or want a loaf that's less sweet, it's perfectly tasty without the glaze. I also left out the turmeric because while that golden color is seductive, I didn't want to risk being able to taste it, but I'm sensitive to flavors. Others might not notice it. I also, for reasons, had to leave out the cinnamon, and I imagine this is even better with it, but it's still very good without.

In short, this is an easy recipe that doesn't take a lot of time or special skills to put together and has great results. I highly recommend it.
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Trader Joe's Gluten Free Madeleine Cookies: These tender little cakes are moist without being greasy and dense without being heavy. Plump and light with that distinct madeleine shape, including the bump on the back, these are as good as any madeleine I've ever had from a package. They're also dairy free, but still taste buttery and rich. There is a slightly starchy aftertaste/mouthfeel, but it's barely enough to mention. I'll buy these again.

Individually wrapped. Labeled gluten free, but not certified GF. Made in France.
Current Ingredients: egg, sunflower oil, sugar, rice flour, water, potato starch, glycerin, dried glucose syrup, corn flour, glucose syrup, guar gum, rice starch, rapeseed lecithin, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate), sea salt, natural flavors, xanthan gum, mixed tocopherols (to preserve).

May contain almond, hazelnut.
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 I have only found these products in one small town Hannaford store, in their own gluten-free freezer (by the deli, not by the other freezers) so I don't know how widely they are distributed. But they must be available wider since they are in this store. Looking at the website, it seems that only certain chains of grocery stores will carry them and in my area, it is Hannaford. But Wegmans and Whole Foods also apparently carries them. 

They are Abilyn Frozen Bakery Gluten Free Ice Cream Cakes and I've tried the Cookies & Cream and the Vanilla & Chocolate. 

The Cookies & Cream were the first one I tried and it was very mixed. I don't know if the cake had been in the freezer a long time, but the frosting was horrible. It had hardened to solid and I could chip it off the ice cream in sections. Once I removed the frosting, the ice cream was decent, and it was the first gluten free cookies and cream ice cream that I had found. 

I just picked up the Vanilla & Chocolate a few days ago, and it is great! I love ice cream cake, and this is as good as any ice cream cake that I've had in the past. The frosting is smooth and creamy, the ice cream is tasty and good and the chocolate crumbles in the middle are crunchy. 

I'm super happy I gave them another try because now I can have ice cream cake that's good! I think the main thing would be to check the best by date since they may have been in the freezer for a bit. 
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For this recipe, I experimented with the cottage cheese ice cream recipe that went viral on tiktok.
GF, can be keto-friendly, gum-free

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Continuing my small series of gum-free ice cream recipes. This one doesn't need an ice cream machine.
GF, keto-friendly.
Servings: 10 (1 scoop per serve)
Source: ketoserts

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Ice creams, both commercial and many home made recipes, often have gums in them, so I'll be posting three that don't. This one is best made with an ice cream maker, but the next two don't need that. Treat all the flavourings as pretty much interchangeable between the recipes.

GF, Vegan, gum-free, dairy-free
Serves: 10 (1 scoop per serve)
Source - Gaz Oakley

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I needed to use up some aging lemons, and some rolled oats. Adapted this recipe and it's a winner!
Makes about 16 squares. GF, low GI, and can be dairy free & vegan.

Ingredients:
Oatmeal crumble:
1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled to lukewarm
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup oat flour (can make it from more rolled oats, in a blender)
1 tablespoon psyllium powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup dried coconut (shredded or flaked)
3/4 cup golden erythritol/brown sugar
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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Crumbly sticky oatmeal slice, golden brown.


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Here's a variation on my earlier stewed tamarillo recipe. Also a low carb one, even if not completely keto. Very yummy!
Servings: 4
cooks in 2 -3 hours plus chilling

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Obviously you can use any stewed fruit, like berries, rhubarb, apples, etc. For it to be fairly low carb, sweeten the fruit with a sweetener like allulose or stevia. Either cook the stewed fruit down until it thickens naturally, or if it's a bit wet, add ~1 tablespoon psyllium powder at the end, to thicken it. Cooling to room temp will also help you see if it needs thickening. If it's too wet your pie will have a soggy bottom and you won't win the GBBO. 😊
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I made this recently and it was very delicious! Forgot to take a photo so I've used one from the online recipe.
Takes 3-4 hours to make, mostly to chill it once made.
Servings: makes 16 squares in a 9" x 9" pan

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Customising it:

Use any berries, not just blueberries
Use walnuts or almonds instead of pecans, or a mix.
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Simple Truth Dairy Free Sweet Caramel Frozen Dessert Bars: These bars are a Kroger house brand and delicious. The caramel ice cream is smooth and sweet and creamy and has a hint of coconut to it that melds really well with the caramel, which tastes absolutely real and not at all like "caramel flavor." There's a little caramel swirl in the ice cream that you can't really appreciate until the chocolate shell snaps off in huge sheets, which, let's be real, it will. Though the shell is made of actual chocolate, it can be a bit greasy if you get too much of it in your mouth at once, but it's thin enough to bite into easily and the toffee bits embedded in it are crunchy and good. I'd buy these again.
Current Ingredients: Caramel Frozen Dessert: Water, Sugar, Coconut Oil, Soluble Maize Fiber, Coconut Cream (Coconut Extract, Water), Pea Protein, Inulin, Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids (Emulsifier), Stabilizers (Locust Bean Gum, Guar Gum), Natural Flavors, Caramelized Sugar Syrup, Beta Carotene (Color), Caramel Flavored Sauce: Sugar, Glucose Fructose Syrup, Water, Caramelized Sugar, Salt, Pectin (Gelling Agent), Sodium Citrate (Acidity Regulator), Natural Flavor, Sweet Chocolate and Vegetable Fat Coating: Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Coconut Oil, Sunflower Lecithin (Emulsifier), Natural Vanilla Flavoring, Caramelized Sugar Pieces: Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Invert Sugar, Sodium Bicarbonate.
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I made this recently. It isn't keto but it's lower carb than regular ice cream, and doesn't cause gaseous eruptions like keto ice creams tend to, as they're made with high doses of "fake sugar" sweeteners that mess with your gut.

serves 2-4, depending how much they like ice cream and whether it's on its own as a dessert. If making a larger amount, do it in two lots, as it's hard work for your food processor.

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So Delicious S'mores Oatmilk Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert: Mmm, non-dairy frozen dessert, but for reals, this stuff tastes like the real thing as far as I can remember. I actually felt a little suspicious while I was eating it, like, are you surrrre there's no dairy in here? But there isn't! No soy either, and the only nut ingredient is the coconut, which isn't technically a tree nut. The carton does warn it may contain tree nuts and its derivatives as this product is manufactured in a facility that also processes tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, and soy, but this tub is certified gluten free and So Delicious claims to have a "rigorous allergen testing program and apply strict quality control measures in an effort to prevent contamination by undeclared food allergens."

Anyway, this is delicious, true to its name. The ice cream is creamy and smooth, not gritty or icy at all, and tastes exactly like a graham cracker. The chocolate is in lovely little bittersweet drops and isn't waxy or greasy. The marshmallow is represented by swirls of vanilla CocoWhip topping and the texture is pleasing, silky and fluffy, though the swirls aren't really big enough to make them stand out from the ice cream, but that's probably for the best as they're quite sweet.

All in all a really successful dairy-free ice cream with no detectable coconut flavor. I'm excited to try their other products.
Current Ingredients: Oatmilk (Filtered Water, Whole Oat Flour), Organic Cane Sugar, Organic Coconut Oil, Organic Tapioca Syrup, Cane Sugar, Cocoa, Pea Protein, Apple Juice Concentrate (for Color), Chocolate Liquor, Natural Flavor, Guar Gum, Locust Bean Gum, Sea Salt, Sunflower Lecithin, Xanthan Gum.
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It’s Autumn in NZ and tamarillo season - my favourite stewed fruit. They came from South America and when I was a kid we called them tree tomatoes but later they were rebranded to sound classier. They grow well here and are cheap - not sure how common they are elsewhere?
This is how I make stewed tamarillos. It's a bit fussy but totally worth it. For the following I used 3 bags with about 6-8 per bag, so about 20 tamarillos.

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Delicious with ice cream or Greek yoghurt.
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One of my favorite winter squash dishes is a Moroccan butternut squash casserole spiced with ras el hanout.
This recipe for Ras El Hanout and Chocolate Chunk Pumpkin Bread sounded amazing, so I took a shot at adapting it to be gluten-free and roughly paleo-compliant using ingredients I had on hand. My conversions are also rough and approximate.

Ingredients:

1 cup almond flour
1/2 cup coconut flour
heaping 1/2 cup Pamela's Pancake and Baking Mix (largely a rice flour blend)
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp ras el hanout
1 tsp salt
3/4 cup coconut sugar
2 eggs
1 cup butter, melted
1/4 cup black tea
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 15oz can pumpkin puree
1/2 cup chocolate chips

Instructions )
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Andrew Rea at Basics with Babish takes a scientific dive into "My Ultimate [Chocolate Chip] Cookie." He makes control cookie batches! While his samples all use standard flours, I’ve seen recipes posted here that match with his insights:five great ideas and two terrible ones )

Full recipe and directions at his site: https://basicswithbabish.co/basicsepisodes/ultimate-cookie

The YouTube video with pro captions: )

Please share your cookie wisdom.

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A friend with a prolific Meyer lemon tree gave me a whole bag of lemons, so I decided to search the internet for a lemon curd recipe made with coconut milk. Along the way I also found a lemon bar recipe that has closer to the shortbread crust I remember, both from jessicainthekitchen.com. Recommended, and see notes.

Easy Vegan Lemon Bars

Easy Vegan Lemon Curd

Lemon Bar notes:
- The recipes call for Coconut Cream, not Milk, although you can take the solid part from a can of Coconut Milk and call it good. I happened to notice that Trader Joe's carries cans of Coconut Cream, so I got one to experiment with. Trader Joe's has inexpensive maple syrup, too.
- Turns out my square pan is 9x9 rather than 8x8. I looked at how much coverage I got from one crust recipe and promptly made another full recipe to cover the rest. I think it's supposed to be thinner than I made it (around 1/4 inch) but I would still have needed 1.5 recipes. I liked the thicker crust and it baked more quickly than I expected, starting to toast around the edges at 12 min.
- I had hazelnuts, not cashews, so I used those instead. Worked fine.
- I only had olive oil, no "neutral" oil. That worked better than I expected, but a neutral oil would be better.
- I used four lemons to get 1/2 cup of lemon juice. I took the zest from two lemons to pack a half-tsp, but that made the bars a little bitter. The zest from one lemon is plenty.
- I accidentally got rid of all my parchment paper when I moved. Fortunately the bars still came out of the pan easily. (You can cut them just fine when they're warm, despite the recipe's warnings.)
- I forgot I had gotten rid of my vanilla extract when I moved! An additional trip to Trader Joe's fixed that.

Lemon Curd notes:
Then I had half a can of coconut cream and more lemons, so I tried the lemon curd.
- The recipe sounds like you're stirring for a long time, but it went faster than I expected.
- I used tapioca starch instead of cornstarch, and it thickened some but not as much as I wanted, so I added another tbsp halfway through. This was not ideal for consistency but worked out ok.
- I have brown sugar. It turns the lemon curd darker than expected, but tastes great.
- It didn't have the consistency I wanted with 1/4 cup coconut cream, so I added another 1/4 cup. Yummy! And I was trying to use it up anyway.
- Tastes great over apples!

In summary, I modified the recipes a lot (as usual) and everything turned out fine. And I still have more lemons!
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These peanut butter cookies have a crisp, crunchy edge and a dense, chewy middle, and—because they're flourless—an intense peanut butter flavor.

Ingredients:

1 cup natural peanut butter (256 grams)
3/4 cup granulated sugar (150 grams)
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 large egg (50 grams out of shell)

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Questions? Ask 'em!
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Pavlova and a keto pav option
In NZ pavlova is a holiday standby, for Christmas dinners. The anti-chef (Jamie, who also does funny vids where he works his way through Julia Childs's cookbooks) had a go at making a pav, here. (note that to make it low carb you need to sub the sugar for powdered Swerve or erythritol, NOT allulose as allulose makes crumble toppings and meringues go soft)

That one's not specifically low carb but here's a recipe that is

Keto Hot Cross Buns
Here's a video that looks good: keto hot cross buns

Keto Pumpkin Pie Battle - testing two recipes, is here.
 

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Christmas dinners in NZ's summer are often in a "more the merrier" spirit, combining totally inappropriate roast meals and hot Christmas pudding with salads, cold ham, strawberries and pavlovas. A seasonal favourite of mine is trifle, but trifle can be boring unless you tart it up a bit. This is a simple and delicious recipe, followed by a similar low carb version.

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