Bake Seriously Good Gluten And Dairy-Free Treats With Phil Vickery And Squires Kitchen
Are you struggling to bake delicious gluten- or dairy-free treats that all the family can enjoy? Perhaps you can't get your special-diet bakes to taste as good as traditional recipes.
Help is now at hand from one of Britain's favourite chefs, Phil Vickery, who has teamed up with Squires Kitchen to create Seriously Good!™ gluten- and dairy-free cookie and cupcake mixes.
The Seriously Good!™ Gluten- and Dairy-Free Chocolate Chunk Cookie Mix makes 10 irresistible cookies that are sensational warm from the oven.
Just follow the simple recipe on the box to create cookies that are just as chewy and gooey as traditional recipes. The pack includes 1 x sachet of dry cookie mix with chocolate chunks, RRP £3.99.
The Seriously Good!™ Gluten- and Dairy-Free Vanilla and Raspberry Cupcake Mix contains everything you need to bake and decorate fabulous special-diet cupcakes.
Simply bake following the recipe on the box for gluten-free cupcakes that taste just like traditional cupcakes.
The kit also includes silver foil cases, raspberry fondant icing mix and glitter sprinkles to make your cupcakes look as good as they taste. The pack includes 1 x sugar sachet, 1 x dry cake mix sachet, 1 x fondant icing mix, 12 x silver foil cupcake cases, 1 x glitter sprinkles sachet, RRP £5.99.
An active ambassador for Coeliac UK and author of several gluten-free cookery books, Phil has used his wealth of experience to create mixes that make it easy for anyone to bake delicious gluten-free cookies and cupcakes time after time. 
These brand new, high-quality mixes will make it easier than ever before to bake special-diet treats that all your family and friends will love.
Both mixes are also available in larger size packs which are ideal if you are catering for a large party or an event.
The mixes are available from www.squires-shop.com
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Tried & Tested
We were really excited to try these kits for ourselves, to see if we could make our own 'fuss-free' goodies that were also gluten- and dairy-free.
The recipes on both packs were incredibly simple to follow. For the cookies we needed to add our own eggs and vegetable oil to complete the mix, while the cupcakes also needed an additional amount of milk (or dairy-free alternative).
With the cookies we made a soft dough that we should have been able to roll and form into the required shapes. Unfortunately the mix became rather tacky and stuck to our hands so we ended up with some misshapen cookies that were a little softer inside than expected but they tasted divine.
With a little less oil and a bit more practise we think we could get these as good as Mr Vickery!
The cupcakes proved a lot easier. A quick mix together of the ingredients, then poured into the cases that were supplied in the pack and popped into the oven for 20 minutes. Once cooled we poured over the icing and sprinkled on the sugar sparkles.
The cakes had quite a heavy texture to the sponge that maybe would have benefited from a good whisking to add some more air. Taste wise they worked and the 'icing on the cake' really was just that - packed full of raspberry flavour and certainly one to fight over when it comes to licking the bowl.
If an empty plate is a good judge on flavour then ours were all gone by the next morning. As a quick and easy way to get some free-from goodies on the table then these packets are worth a try.
They may be a little bit more expensive than your average ready-to-make cake mixes but with the cupcakes average out at around 50p each and the cookies 40p, when it comes to gluten- and dairy- free that's pretty good.
For more information visit www.squires-shop.com