Delicious Dessert

Having a house full of visitors, I decided to try out a couple of new recipes I found on the web and created a fancy dessert of Chocolate Brownie and Feijoa Sorbet.

The Sorbet was so easy to make, but it does take a while to set.  Firstly bring to the boil 1 Cup of water and 1 Cup of sugar and boil for about 5 minutes until all the sugar is well dissolved.  Then mix in 2 cups of Feijoa and the juice of 1 lemon.  I used my stick blender to puree it all up, then it goes in the freezer.  Every couple of hours give it a mix then when it is frozen ( I left it over night) put it in the food processor and whizz it up.  Then it goes back in the freezer until hard and then whizz it up again.  It has the texture of ice cream and tasted fantastic.

The Brownie recipe was also really easy

2 Cups Apple puree
1/2 C cocoa

1 1/2 C flour

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

11/2 C sugar

1/2 C choc chips

Gently mix the sifted dry ingredients into the apple puree, then fold in the chocolate chips gently.

Bake 150C Fan Bake for 20-25 minutes. ( I turned the oven off after 20 mins and left it in for 5 mins)

Everyone thought the dessert was fantastic and the flavours really complemented each other.  You couldnt tell it was egg and dairy free.  The brownie was moist and chocolatey

Today's Baking

Being school holidays and raining and all, I decided that cup-cakes where the treat of the day.

I use Sophie Gray's recipe from Enjoy - Egg & Dairy Free cupcakes

1 1/2 Cups self raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup sugar
pinch of salt
50g Olivani
1 cup rice milk
1 tsp vanilla essence

Sift dry ingredients into a bowl.
Melt Olivani and mix with milk and vanilla.
Gently fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.
Bake at 190C for about 10-15 minutes until golden.

The kids iced them with non-butter cream icing.

50g Olivani
1 Cup icing sugar
a few drops vanilla
1 tbsp rice milk

Cream Olivani until light then add the sifted icing sugar slowly mixing well after each addition.
Carefully mix in the vanilla and milk until you get a nice spreading consistancy.

The kids then decorated them with crushed up lollies, sprinkles, choc drops and silver balls.

They had fun, the cupcakes tasted great and Emma could eat them.

Finally starting a blog

After spending a lot of time looking up information to try and feed my lovely allergy kid, Emma, I decided I would start my own blog where I can share recipes and information in the hope that it might help someone else who is dealing with multiple allergies like us.

Emma has had severe eczema from birth and after much pushing by me we finally got her allergy tested when she was about 18 months.  She was only tested for Egg, Dairy and Peanuts and they all came back strongly positive (4+).  After two scary nut encounters we made our house completely nut free and Emma became the proud owner of an emergency kit containing an Epi-pen which goes with her where ever she goes.  When she was about 4 we finally went to see an allergy specialist (Jan Sinclair) as she still had severe eczema, had developed asthma and had constant stomach pains.  Emma's blood was tested for just about everything and just about everything came back positive.  Strong allergies to all nuts, egg, dairy, soy, kiwifruit, sesame, shell fish, as well as cats, dogs, dust, pollens.  The only good news was that she was fine with cod fish and tuna fish.

All my initial fears had been confirmed, Emma really is allergic to almost everything.  We are so greatful that although she tested positive to wheat, a food challenge proved it was okay for her to eat it.  But this started my ongoing challenge of how to create wonderful food for my lovely to eat, that everyone else would enjoy as well.