Gluten free chocolate roulade and sherry trifle!

Well Christmas day came and went so quickly! we enjoyed a gorgeous gluten free dinner finished off with two decadently rich gluten free desserts.

First a gluten free sherry trifle (I just made my own GF sponge) and secondly a gluten free rich chocolate roulade (swiss roll to you and me!) and oh my was that gorgeous! I used a Leith’s recipe which is naturally gluten free since it only contains chocolate, eggs, sugar, coffee and cream. I added raspberries to ours as the acidity helps to cut through the sweetness a little!

It was a little tricky to roll, but I managed to do so without cracking it (no mean feat! make sure you have non stick baking paper!) and possibly added to much cream, but it tastes wonderful, another “you’d never guess it was gluten free” moment! I think this might be my new favourite GF recipe!

Here’s a couple of pictures:

A list of Mars confectionary gluten free products

I emailed Mars a while back to enquire about gluten in their products since they aren't in the Coeliac UK directory and my son was forever asking to eat some of their chocolate. They quickly replied and sent me a list of all of their gluten free products:

Bounty - Milk & Dark
Galaxy - Minstrels
Galaxy - Ripple
Galaxy - Smooth Milk Chocolate
Galaxy - Smooth Dark Chocolate
Galaxy Pieces - Milk Chocolate & Caramel
M&M's - Choco & Peanut
Milky Way - Magic Stars
Treets - Peanut Treets
 
Christmas 

Galaxy Mistletoe Kisses
 
Ice Cream
 
Bounty Chocolate Ice Cream stick
Bounty Ice Cream bar
Galaxy Caramel Swirls Ice Cream stick
Galaxy Vanilla Heaven Ice Cream bar
Snickers Ice Cream bar

Are pringles gluten free?

I've been reading a little bit on the internet about pringles and gluten recently, we currently have about 6 packs of them in house (buy one get one free!) for Christmas. A couple of nights ago Seb woke up crying complaining he felt really sick and had a tummy ache - my immediate thought was "oh no, please no norovirus for Christmas!".

Anyway, some lemonade and cuddles later he went back to sleep and woke up fine the next day, but with *really* smelly breath, a sure sign he's been "gluttoned". Since he's at home on school holidays at the moment and we are a 100% gluten free house I was wracking my brains to work out what had done it, then I realised he had demolished at least half a pack of barbeque pringles and began to wonder, now I know pringles contain codex wheat starch, but he isn't sensitive to (non gluten containing) wheat and they have always been labelled as "gluten free". Still I got out the pack to check and the "gluten free" labelling had gone, same with the cheese and chive ones too, although the ready salted pack still had the gluten free labelling. Confused.com I emailed Pringles to check, they speedily helpfully replied with the following:

"Hello Sarah, thanks for your email.

Except from the ‘Original’ variant, Pringles has removed the “gluten free” claim from the labels of all its products. In 2012 a new EU regulation comes into force that will set the threshold for respective labeling at below 20ppm gluten.  Current Pringles ‘Original’ already contains less than 20ppm gluten.  The decision to remove the “gluten free” claim from all other Pringles packaging now has been taken in anticipation of the coming new EU regulation and to take advantage of a recent routine artwork change.

I hope this helps but please contact me again if you have any further enquiries.

Kind regards, "

So it seems that nothing has actually changed, Seb's always been OK with them before so maybe it was just a fluke, in any case I'll be steering clear of them now I think and sticking to just the ready salted flavour.

Seb was not impressed at this news so I sought an alternative and came up with Lays Stax, a US product that is natually gluten free and they have a BBQ flavour too, you can only buy them in the UK as (expensive!) imports, but I've bookmarked this for special occassions:

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