Bread
Vegan Gluten Free Hot Cross Buns Recipe
These delightful hot cross buns are a perfect springtime treat! Enjoy them fresh on Easter morning! Perfect with a bit of butter or jam, or just enjoy their succulent sweetness all by themselves. Oh, and did we mention these hot cross buns are perfect for the whole family? They’re free of gluten, dairy, soy, corn, […]
Breakfast
Gluten Free Mushroom Quiche Recipe
Oh, quiche. A simple way to make mornings so much more elegant. Make this one ahead and refrigerate or freeze for a scrumptious way to wake up after a nice weekend sleep-in! Our recipe makes enough enough filling for two 9″ pie crusts, so treat the whole family! Ingredients: 2 gluten free pie crusts (get […]
Cakes
Coconut Tres Leches Cake Recipe
This scrumptious treat has been one of the favorites in the cake cabinet since the day we opened. Tiers of fresh baked white cake soaked in coconut milk are sandwiched between thick layers of fluffy whipped coconut cream. This is a truly heavenly cake, and now you can enjoy it fresh from your own kitchen! […]
Cookies
Christmas Cutout Cookies
Some of my favorite childhood memories are of decorating freshly baked cookies with the family, and really what is Christmas without some sprinkles? We’ve modified the traditional sugar cookie recipe to be very allergy friendly – These gluten free delights are also free of dairy and soy, so the whole family can partake! Make a […]
Desserts
Christmas Sangria Recipe
Sangria is typically seen as a summer-time drink, but just because the temperatures have dropped doesn’t meant you have to give up this delicious celebratory drink! We just made a few festive modifications, and there you have it – Christmas Sangria! Make a batch for the adults, then swap out the wine for cranberry juice […]
Frosting & Glaze
Golden Syrup Recipe
If you’ve been perusing the recipes on our site, you may have noticed that quite a few of them call for something called “Golden Syrup.” In Australia, we could buy commercially-made golden syrup on just about every street corner! So imagine our surprise when we arrived in the U.S. to find that not only do […]
Lunch/ Dinner
Personal Gluten Free Mushroom Chicken Pies
In keeping with our international theme this week, today we are going to feature an Australian favorite: the meat pie! We shared our gluten free lamb pie a while back, so today it’s time for a new flavor – chicken and mushroom! This recipe is a gluten free, dairy free adaptation of an original recipe […]
Meals
Gluten Free Pigs in a Blanket
A quick, easy, and delicious dinner idea that the whole family can enjoy! Also great for appetizers at parties – and you don’t even have to let anyone know that they’re 100% free of the top ten food allergens! This recipe makes 12 pigs in a blanket. Ingredients: gluten free Texan Biscuit Mix (one packet […]
Other Sweets
Gluten Free Buñuelos (Fried Dough)
For those of you not familiar with this amazing creation, a buñuelo is a traditional Mexican dessert. Basically, it is a big sugary round of fried dough. Even though we’ve now lived in a state bordering with Mexico for over a decade, we have sadly never gotten the chance to try an authentic buñuelo (you […]
Pastries
Gluten Free Mucky-Mouth Pie Recipe
I’m really into the English Heritage thing this week – here’s another awesome pie treat from the old country! While the old Englanders may not have had a penchant for naming their food in any sort of way that would make you actually want to eat any of it, they do know how to make […]
Pies
Gluten Free Spinach Quiche Recipe
Oh, quiche. How decadent you make mornings feel. You are, too, the perfect companion for showers and housewarmings and potluck gatherings. It’s incredible: the elegance you portray with such a simple assembly. How to make you, oh quiche… *** SPINACH QUICHE yields enough filling for two 9″ pie crusts Prepare your perfect, buttery gluten-free pie […]
Recipes
Paleo Ketchup Recipe
We’ve been posting quite a few gluten free pie recipes this week, including some Australian favorites – the chicken pie and the lamb pie. But every true Aussie knows that a good meat pie just isn’t complete without plenty of sauce (aka “ketchup”). Sadly, so much of the ketchup available in stores today is laden […]
Sandwiches and Wraps
Aussie Sanger (Gluten Free Sandwich)
Go on a flavor vacation with this sandwich! A slathering of peanut butter with crisp, fresh vegetables, and your choice of meat and cheese. Easily adapted for vegetarians: simply omit the meat! and Vegans or Dairy-Free folk: use dairy free (DF) substitutes or omit them altogether! — To Prepare: 1. On a tortilla wrap or […]
Sauces & Spreads
Paleo Cilantro Pesto Recipe
So we’ve all heard of basil pesto, and we do have to admit that it is pretty tasty. But after a while it can get a little boring to have the same old stuff all the time. Plus, traditional recipes usually have cheese and/or nuts–neither of which are very friendly to an allergy-free diet. After […]
Sauces and Spreads
Easy All-Natural, Homemade Pizza Sauce
—Guaranteed to make any pizza delicious!!— To Create! (Click on any ingredient to be linked to our favorite brand) IN BLENDER: 1. Blend 6 cloves of fresh garlic 2. Add slowly: 1 cup light-flavored oil and continue to blend 3. Add 1 can (10 oz) of Rotel®, 1 can (6 oz.) tomato paste, and ½ […]
Sides & Appetizers
Easy Bruschetta Recipe (Gluten-Free)
We recently launched a new product at the bakery, our gluten-free version of Melba Toast. It was a huge hit amongst everyone here, but most especially with Steve. Steve works in the prep area and is generally one of those people who is so quiet that you almost forget he’s there. Well, not today! Steve […]
More Articles
A Diabetic’s guide to enjoying real cake.
I was going to call this article “Eldorado, unicorns, sugarless low to no carb cakes and other mythical creatures.” Well before the little Aussie closed last year we started getting requests for cakes for diabetics, while not really an allergy issue to create a cake that would work well for a diabetic was not […]
10 Uses for a Can of Coconut Milk
We’ve always been 100% gluten free here at the Little Aussie Bakery & Cafe, but back in 2011 we decided to cut out dairy for a while and see what happened. We were blown away by the results – we had more energy, we got sick less often, and we even had fewer cravings! The […]
16 Reasons to Eat More Caraway Bread (or, the Health Benefits of Caraway Seeds)
Here at the Little Aussie Bakery & Café, we have recently re-launched one of our healthiest breads under a brand new name – gluten free caraway bread. This bread itself is an old staple with us, and has been selling at our bakery and at local grocery stores under the name “gluten free rye bread” […]
Why You Should Eat (Real GF) Sourdough Bread
After many months of experimentation and a few false starts, we are very excited over at the Little Aussie Bakery & Cafe to announce the introduction of our latest gluten free bread product – REAL gluten free sourdough loaves! Sourdough bread is truly a miracle of bread both in terms of healthy qualities and in […]
Tuesday Tip: How to flour baking surfaces
The bane of any baker’s day is the huge mess created from flour flying all over the place! At least at the Little Aussie Bakery & Cafe, you don’t ever have to worry about any of that flour containing any nasty gluten, because we only use 100% gluten free ingredients. Nevertheless, we still prefer not […]
Tuesday Tip: Read the Whole Recipe
Today’s Tuesday Tip may seem a bit obvious, but you might be surprised with the number of people who ask us for advice with their recipes before even reading the entire thing! Ninety-nine percent of the time, the pressing question could have been answered if the person had just finished reading the recipe. So, save […]
Tuesday Tip: How to Frost a Cake Smoothly
Happy Tuesday y’all! How’s my Texan accent coming along? 🙂 Today’s Tuesday tip is going to be short and sweet, but just as useful! Want your cakes to have that smooth, professional finish? Cheat a little by blowing your frosted cake with a warm hairdryer to slightly melt the frosting. It will even out and […]
Tuesday Tip: How to Make Iced Coffee (without watering it down)
Hello excellent readers! Today’s Tuesday Tip is brought to you by early mornings and hot Texan summers. Seriously, when you have to get up and start baking at 3:00am, you really can’t forgo the coffee. But then there’s the whole “it’s already 100 degrees in the middle of the night in San Antonio and now […]
Gallo Pizzeria offers gluten free and vegan pizzas
This week’s featured restaurant partner is Gallo Pizzeria, owned and operated by Jeremiah “Mack” and Stephanie Alejandro McMillan. As you may have guessed by the name, it is a pizzeria. But this isn’t just any old pizza place. First of all, how many other pizza places do you know that have a pizza full of […]
Tuesday Tip: How to Peel Ginger
Today’s Tuesday Tip is brought to you by the letter “G” for ginger! Ginger is arguably one of the most important ingredients in a chef’s arsenal – it can be added to savory dishes for a great kick or sweetened and added to desserts for just a touch of class. It can even be just […]
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