Desserts You Can Eat If Allergic To Wheat

When you’re allergic to wheat, you go through a period of time where you think the whole world is against you.

Everything has wheat in it. That is, all the good desserts like tiramisu, cheesecake, pies, cakes, cupcakes, muffins, and even some ice creams that use wheat as a thickening agent.

Although more and more companies are creating dessert foods that are wheat-free, what I’ve found over the last 20 years of eating a wheat-free diet is that making my own desserts is much better. You can become creative in the process and invent all types of desserts that taste a lot better than store-bought desserts while amazing your dinner guests at the same time.

Here are some desserts you can start making at home today.

Wheat Free Pumpkin Pie

There’s no reason why you can’t have pumpkin pie! Simply make a wheat free recipe. Modify the ingredients to fit your needs. If maple syrup is too sweet for you, modify the recipe by adding 1 cup unsweetened applesauce instead.

Yield: 1 pie

Ingredients
1 cup pumpkin puree (can be canned)
3 eggs, beaten
1 cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1 cup chopped nuts (pecans)

Crust
1 cup finely ground almonds
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
Water to moisten

Directions

1. (Crust) Mix finely ground almonds with cinnamon. Add 2 tablespoons water, working it into the mixture. Continue adding water tablespoon by tablespoon until mixture is moistened enough to press into a pie pan.

2. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Press crust mixture into pie pan.

3. Bake at 300 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes.

4. Remove crust from oven and set aside.

5. (Pie Filling) With a small mixer, blend pumpkin with eggs, maple syrup, vanilla, cinnamon and salt.

6. Fold in chopped nuts.

7. Pour in cooled pie crust.

8. Bake at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 45 minutes or until knife inserted in middle comes out clean.

Mesquite Almond Carrot Cake

Yield: 1 cake

The mesquite flour in this recipe gives the carrot cake an extra rich flavor as well as a greater amount of nutrients. Coconut flour and almond flour provide additional fiber.

Ingredients
1 cup honey
1 cup milk
1/3 cup applesauce
1/2 cup raisins
1-1/2 cup grated carrots
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon sea salt
2 teaspoons water
1 cup blanched almond flour
1 cup coconut flour
1/2 cup mesquite flour
2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1 teaspoon coconut oil