Gluten-Free Polenta Cheese Pie

This pie is suitable for party, lunch or family celebration.   a slice is around  80- 100 kcal 

Ingredients for 6 persons

Medium size eggs	4
Butter	100g
Polenta	1 cup
Cottage cheese	450g
Milk	200ml
Baking soda	1 tsp
Sugar	100g
Honey	1 tbsp
Cinnamon	1tsp
Sliced apples	2 medium

Method:

·      Preheat the oven at 180⁰C

·      Butter an about 25 cm diameter pie dish

·      Cook the polenta in the milk about 6-7 minutes stirring it continuously

·      Mix the butter and the cooked polenta

·      Add the egg yolks, sugar and honey

·      Add the cottage cheese and the cinnamon, mix them well

·      Beat the egg whites and fold it to the cheese mixture

·      Transfer into the pie dish

·      Decorate the top with sliced apples

·      Place the pie into the preheated oven for another 40 minutes until it gets light brown.

It is a rich chocolate cake, which is highly suitable for any family celebration.

Cake

Ingredients 

7 7 120g 100g 100g 100g 1 tsp 1tbsp

Eggs yolk Eggs white Unsalted butter Dark chocolate Grated almond / walnut   Sugar/honey Vanilla extract Corn flour

For baking you should use baking tin with diameter of 20-25 cm.

Preparation of the tin:

·       If it is a non- sticky coated tin you oil it and after sieve little flour to cover the surface thinly.

·      If it is silicon baking tin you just oil it.

Set the oven 180 ⁰C

Method

·      Soften the chocolate in a bowl placed in water bath (pan with boiling water in it)

·      Whisk the egg whites in a bowl until you get a hard froth.

·      Beat the egg yolks with butter than add the sugar and vanilla extract.

·      Add the melted chocolate, almond/walnut and flour to the mixture.

·      Gently fold in the egg foam

·      Transfer the mixture into the tin.

·      Place the tin into the preheated 180 ⁰C oven. 

·      The baking takes approximately 35-40 minutes (you can check it with a fork, if the pastry does not stick to the fork it is ready)

·      When it is ready you empty the tin onto a kitchen towel finely covered with icing sugar (in this case the cake does not stick to the towel) and you cover the top of the cake with a damp kitchen towel.

·      Leave it to cool.

Cream

Ingredients

100g 100g 200g

Melted dark chocolate Icing sugar Mascarpone cheese

Method

• Soften the chocolate in a bowl placed in water bath
• Mix the sugar, mascarpone cheese and dark chocolate to a light cream

Finally:

Cut the cake horizontally into two.

Put the ¾ of the cream on one half.

Place the other half on it.

Decorate the top with the remaining cream and whole almonds or walnuts.

Summer apple and Cornmeal Cake

Ms H

It is a light gluten-free treat.

Ingredients:

Summer apple	16-18 small
Corn meal	250 ml
Honey	2 tbsp
Cinnamon	1 tsp
Egg	4
Butter	80g
Milk	250ml
Water	500ml
Salt	¼ tsp

Method:

·      Prepare the apples: half them and take the cork away

·      Cook the corn meal in water and milk stir it to avoid getting lumpy

·      Preheat the oven to 180⁰C

·      Butter a tin with the size about 20cm x 25 cm

·      Beat the eggs with honey

·      Add butter and the eggs to the cooked corn meal

·      Transfer it into the tin

·      Place the apples on the top

·      Place it into the preheated oven for 50 minutes