Whimsical spelt madeleines flavoured with fragrant rosewater and decorated with delicate edible rose petals are a delicious afternoon tea time treat as well as being made with no refined sugar, so feature high up on the healthy bake stakes!

Spelt Madeleines with Rosewater

Gavin Wren Baking, No Added Sugar, Recipes, Spelt & ancient grains

Today’s recipe is dedicated to Maryam at www.thepersianfusion.com for her amazing recipes that she produces on a regular basis. If you’ve not seen her blog then I strongly recommend you go and have a look at the amazing food she has to offer. After seeing her post a test recipe for rhubarb and rosewater cake served with chantilly cream and rosewater on Twitter I just had to go and get my rosewater out of the …

Perfect spelt pizza bases made with spelt flour to create crispy, thin crust, beautiful homemade pizzas that any Italian would be proud of to top how you like or enjoy the beauty of a margherita, perfect for the summer weather and a meal that everyone can get involved in.

Spelt Pizza Bases: A Guide to Perfect Pizza

Gavin Wren Baking, Dairy free baking, Main Dishes, Recipes, Spelt & ancient grains, Vegetarian

Making homemade spelt pizza is an utter joy, once you know how to ‘Do It Right’. It’s about three years since my first highly unsuccessful attempt to make a spelt pizza, and about 7 years since I first tried homemade pizzas, so I now fully understand all of the details required to make a light, crispy, delicious spelt pizza base, without causing utter carnage in the kitchen, spilling toppings all over the place or ending …

Golden, light and flaky vegetarian sausage rolls made with spelt rough puff pastry and filled with onion, garlic, mushrooms, thyme and oozing, molten Comté cheese. Perfect for the dinner table or the picnic basket.

Vegetarian Sausage Rolls with Mushroom and Comté

Gavin Wren Baking, Side dishes, Small Bites, Spelt & ancient grains, Starters, Vegetarian

Sausage rolls. This recipe presented me with a very complex, difficult and hard to resolve problem. It demonstrated the depths of philosophical wrangling that I have to endure, just to bring to you what seems, on the surface, a simple recipe. Take this particular little gem. It’s got 8 ingredients, an average amount by most standards, half of those being day to day ‘store cupboard’ items. There are no complicated process involved and if you …

If you're looking for a wheat alternative pancake recipe, try these 'shrove Tuesday special’ white spelt pancakes (or crepes) which are simple and dairy free, using oat milk or any other dairy free milk and are perfect slathered with maple syrup or lemon juice and sugar.

Spelt Pancakes – Dairy Free – Video Recipe

Gavin Wren Dairy free baking, Desserts, Recipes, Spelt & ancient grains

So, how was that spelt? I seem to have developed a decidedly healthy infatuation, something which flashed through my consciousness like a crisp spring morning and makes a welcome change from trying to un-develop decidedly unhealthy infatuations, yes, I’m looking at you 81% cocoa dark chocolate. I realised just last week, as though it were hidden in plain sight, that every. single. time. I’ve used flour on this blog, it’s been spelt. That’s 18 months …

Dark and fiery spelt and rye ginger cake

Dark & fiery ginger cake

Gavin Wren Baking, No Added Sugar, Recipes, Spelt & ancient grains, Writing, YouTube Food Videos

This cake is an absolute winner. A real, bona fide winner. It’s because of this cake that I won the Blognix Retreat Scholarship competition, being the recipient of a free ticket to the weekend blogger conference/retreat which is held at a spa hotel in Northamptonshire during February next year. The competition simply asked entrants to make a video only 90 seconds or less, explaining why they should win the scholarship. In an underhand tactic, I …

hot melt sun-dried tomato and mozzarella muffins

Hot melt sun-dried tomato and mozzarella muffins

Gavin Wren Baking, Breakfast, Recipes, Small Bites, Spelt & ancient grains

I’ve got a muffin hangover today. In fact, that’s a lie, I deserve to have a muffin hangover today, because I ate… errr, six muffins last night, instead of my dinner. If that had been six of the supermarket’s in-store bakery, not-quite the finest double chocolate efforts I might not be so chipper about it, but the muffins I ate were actually really wholesome, soft, crumbly little cakes with very little sugar or unhealthy bits, …