Flourless chocolate cake from kingarthurflour.com.

westsider, I would love it, unfortunately my guests aren't big fans of chocolate.

I have made gluten free crisp but use quinoa flakes and rice flour. My son's GF is celiac. But having said that, not all quinoa flakes are guaranteed GF just the same as oat flakes. Now it has been a few years since I checked but at the time it was easier to get GF guinoa than oat flakes.

I'm sorry to all. That website is kingarthurflour.com. D, just a thought. Enjoy your guests.

Strawberry slices mixed with blueberries with whipped cream on the side.

Since it is pear season, I'd do poached pears. Simple but quite elegant and gluten-free. I like the ones poached in red wine but you can opt for an alcohol free version if you prefer.

Several members of my family have gluten sensitivities but I have found that using a 1 for 1 gluten-free flour (Bob's Red Mill), I can convert any baked dessert to a gluten-free version very easily. And so far, no one has been able to tell them apart from the 'standard' version. This removes all the need for mixing various gluten-free flours, xanthan gum, etc. - it is ready to go and sub for any AP wheat flour. I always have some on hand.

There are some crustless pies that are quite good. I have tried coconut, pecan, and pumpkin crustless and enjoyed them all. They are a good candidate for someone not interested in purchasing flours. This is the crustless pecan pie that I made recently. I used maple syrup and reduced the sugar 1/2 a cup. Most mousse recipes are gluten free, that is another option.

I've had this GF apple crisp bookmarked for a while but haven't made it yet. It gets good reviews on the site: https://cookieandkate.com/2014/healthy-gluten-free-apple-crisp/

I also like the berries and cream idea. Or macerated strawberries and balsamic with ice cream. Orange sherbet with a couple of table spoons of amaretto poured over the top. Grilled fruit.

I've served rice pudding which I make in the crock pot. Or a dish of ice cream with something nice on top and GF cookies on the side. Such as coffee ice cream drizzled with maple syrup and chopped walnuts, or vanilla with limoncello, or sometimes I do a scoop of vanilla ice cream with a scoop of lemon sorbet and the limoncello. I serve the ice cream in margarita glasses and no matter what you put in it, it looks fancy.

If the GF guest actually has Celiac disease, most are also lactose intolerant.

We have lots of Celiac's in my family--luckily none of them are also Lactose intolerant--but I do know it is common. Cheese cake is what I usually serve. I make the crust with gluten free cereal.

Why does a dessert have to contain grains at all?

What about a custard, sorbet or ice cream w/ a sauce & fresh or macerated fruit? Parfaits? Flan?

And there are a number of recipes for crusts made from nuts instead of grains...

I have two favorites, though the Clementine Cake might be considered too expensive, given the price of almonds these days:

The white chocolate frozen berry dessert is fabulous and easy to put together last minute. I just start with my already frozen berries as opposed to buying fresh and freezing them like the recipe suggests.

Barefoot Contessa Frozen Berries with Hot White Chocolate

Nigella Lawson's Clementine cake

Has anyone made/eaten Nigella's Clementine Cake? Her method of cooking and processing the ENTIRE clementine is intriguing.

I have not made the Nigella recipe but I have made this paleo orange-almond flour cake. We enjoyed it. In addition to celiac disease, my daughter is a type 1 diabetic so we are conscious of carb intake. I have not made the cake in a while but really should soon.

I've made them many times. It is delicious! I buy organic clementines (or a similar SEEDLESS orange) since it uses the peel. I really was stunned the first time I made it as to how good it is!

I'm fascinated by the clementine cake. Reviewers on the Food Network site and suggesting that you microwave the clementines.

I've always boiled them...it's a little confusing to me, unless Clementines are something different in England because they are always seedless. I'm conflicted about buying them because I believe the growers kill pollinators in their orchards to keep them seedless (I'm hoping organically grown have other methods). eta, I think I'll try the microwave next time - it seems like a great shortcut and would keep all the juices and flavors for the cake.

I guess you could use other small oranges/tangerines/mandarins that do have seeds, but that would be too much work for me! Lazy cook.

Difference between Clementines, mandarins, etc.

Oly, let me disabuse you of the notion that Clementine growers kill all of the pollinators. That is wholly false. Clementines are genetically sterile, the result of the hybridization between a mandrin and a sweet orange. This means that they can produce fruits without pollination.

Commercial growers isolate their clementines with citrus that do not produce pollen (Navals) or other tree fruit genera. It takes a lot of planning.

Oh, and there's that Federal law thing that's been in place for a very long time to protect honeybees.

Hybrids of many kinds of plants are sterile. So feel free to buy these luscious little fruits guilt free!

Thanks rhizo. Your post sent me looking for the information I'd seen about clementines (mandarins) and how they are kept seedless. This is one article that explains that if the seedless varieties are pollinated, they produce seeds, so growers try to isolate their groves from other types of oranges being grown that need pollinators - thus orange blossom honey, in order to set fruit. The info I found seemed to indicate that European growers of clementines do use insecticides to kill pollinators. In California, the growers just tried to ban bees! With the tough go bees are having these days, buying seedless fruit seems unethical to me (same with seedless grapes, I believe).

If you find a seed in your seedless mandarin, it's because a pollinator got to it.
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