E = Easy Eggfree Dessert! (dairy free & gluten free too)!
Hello and welcome back to my A-Z challenge! Today was a bit of a tricky one to think of, with only eggplant and endive springing to mind (and not my mind either)! 😛
Anyway, I was playing with some ingredients and suddenly this idea jumped out at me! I know! Most All of my recipes are egg free so why a special post? Well, it’s still Easter weekend and traditionally it is therefore a time to be eating eggs! chocolate eggs to be precise! Not wanting anyone to feel left out and being as I love making DEGF foods, this seemed an ideal time to test something new! As I’d already posted hot cross buns and chocolates, I thought why not make a pudding! and OMGosh this! This ‘is’ a pudding! It was ready before I’d had breakfast so it became breakfast (because it’s healthy)! then I decided I was making something from another blog and while they were setting I just had to eat another slice! This has to be my favourite ‘free from’ dessert to date! I ate it as it was, but I can imagine it would be great with a custard, cream or ice cream 🙂 This is also a very easy recipe once you’ve soaked the oats for several hours (or overnight) as you literally just mix it all together! 🙂
Gather
- 100g porridge oats (GF if required)
- 200g unsweetened apple puree
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 30g date syrup
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 150ml unsweetened carton coconut milk
- 1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 15 (or so) almonds to decorate
- Sprinkle of coconut sugar
Prepare
- Mix the oats with the apple puree, level, cover and leave in the fridge for at least two hours (overnight is great).
© Life Diet Health 2015 - Add the cinnamon, date syrup, baking powder, milk and xanthan gum to the soaked oats
© Life Diet Health 2015and mix well to combine thoroughly.
- Pour into a greased dish (mine was 17cm) and level the top.
- Decorate with the almonds, lightly pressing them into the batter.
© Life Diet Health 2015 - Sprinkle with coconut sugar
© Life Diet Health 2015and bake at Gas 4 (350f / 180c) for 35-40 minutes.
- Leave to cool for 15-20 minutes before removing and cooling on a wire rack.
- Slice and serve!
- Enjoy!
Serve & Store
- I can’t think of anything to compare this to as the texture is between a cake and a pudding! So, you can eat it as it is or add custard, cream or ice cream!
- Its great warm but equally yummy cold!
- You might want to hide it so that there’s some left for you as this is sure to go walkabout!
- Store covered for 4-5 days (if you can resist it for that long!)
Apples, cinnamon, dates, coconut milk, almonds… sounds like a beautiful mix for a great breakfast or tea time snack. Add cream, chocolate layer and there you have a dessert! Love how versatile this recipe is! 🙂
Milica 🙂 I kind of had the munchies last night and almost finished this off! 😛 It is most certainly something to make again and play with… maybe a chocolate version 🙂 ooo… or your coconut base mix from your raw cupcakes on top now that would be amazing! 🙂
Hahah, those munchies can really be tough! I really like the idea of chocolate version and probably the raw coconut layer would work as well! For the weekend I made some not-so-presentable cupcakes and was feeling bad they didn’t turn out the way I wanted to, but I still kept munching them. Ooooops! 🙂
So long as they tasted yummy that’s the main thing! 🙂
Stopping by via the A-Z Challenge linky list. That looks delicious – I love oats, and baking with them, they made such a satisfying snack!
Annalisa, writing A-Z vignettes, at Wake Up, Eat, Write, Sleep
Hello Annalisa and welcome 🙂 I use oats quite a lot as they are often cheaper than other gluten free flours and are so versatile. Loving the A-Z challenge links! 🙂