I’d recommend avoiding a food processor to make this as it’s not great for whisking and a little overkill for this recipe. Segsations: individual segments of chocolate in different flavours, including: milk chocolate, puffed rice, honeycomb, cornflake and a "double seg" of layered milk and dark chocolate, all flavoured with orange oil.

What you will need however is a 9″ square baking tin – here’s the one I use. Apart from that, you’ll just need a little baking paper too! Can I make this recipe without xanthan gum? You’ll see xanthan gum in a lot of my recipes as it’s an essential ingredient in gluten free baking – in cakes and biscuits, it helps to replace gluten by binding the texture together. Likewise with the mini egg topping - I'll admit I went a bit "extra" and heaped over two bags. Feel free to reduce the amount to suit your taste and budget.

Terrys Chocolate Orange Mini Eggs 80g

For the flavouring of my Easter chocolate orange cheesecake filling I used two terry’s milk chocolate orange’s because they are classic and my favourite, but the dark or white if you can find them work just as well. You can use Cadbury chocolate orange buttons, or milk chocolate with orange extract for example!

But on the bright side, this gives you loads of time to practise and enjoy baking my gluten free Easter chocolate orange brownies recipe. Almost half the year in fact!I didn’t add chopped mini eggs to the recipe like I do in my Mini Egg cheesecake because I found the recipe already had enough chocolate orange flavour – but you can add them if you wish! I do find the orange colour from the shells does leak badly though after some time. If you want dairy free, moo free can always be relied upon as usual they have a few different eggs on offer all gluten free.

As usual, M&S remains the place where you’ll find the most unique Easter eggs that can’t be found anywhere else! Who doesn't love mini eggs? Those and many other Cadbury easter eggs are gluten free, if you miss Cadbury caramel bars you may be delighted to know that caramel eggs are gluten free unlike the bars. As usual M&S totally out strip everywhere else with their gluten free easter eggs, most are gluten free but odd ones aren't safe - a couple contain "wheat fibre" too this year, I have missed them off the list though they do make a statement on the box about it being gluten free but use your own judgement on that one. The shells are quite a bit harder than the original mini eggs. The eggs are bright orange in colour which transferred slightly to the cheesecake turning it into a pastel orange - very fitting for Easter.Terry's chocolate orange has 8 syns for four segments making it high in syns taking over half of your daily syn allowance, we recommend having this chocolate in moderation on the plan to avoid using too many syns. Oh and here’s a few tips and frequently asked questions to make sure you make the perfect gluten free Easter chocolate orange brownies every time: Can I make this recipe gluten free? Is it suitable for Coeliacs? As soon as they decided to bring out terry’s chocolate orange themed mini eggs I knew I would be buying tonnes of them – they just taste SO good, and they are habitually encouraging my love for terry’s daily. I love them – and they look cute too. I toyed with the idea of adding orange flavouring to the recipe but I'm glad I didn't because the mini eggs are strong enough to flavour the entire cheesecake. No-Bake Deep-Filled Cheesecake

At the time of writing (Jan 2020) they have no gluten-containing ingredients and no ‘may contain’ warning for gluten etc. Hooray! How long can I keep your gluten free Easter chocolate orange brownies for? Sadly, because of the high dairy content in the Terry’s chocolate orange mini eggs, this recipe isn’t low FODMAP. Easter chocolate seems to turn up in supermarkets so early these days – they might as well just embrace it and make Christmas Easter eggs ? If you are shopping at Asda this year there are a few gluten free choices in easter eggs you can choice from though most of them are part of the free from range so dairy free too. Terry's chocolate orange comes in a few different varieties and types, to help you compare syns, we've listed a few of their options down below.I then mix in melted butter – you can use baking spread, but sometimes this makes it greasy. If you find your biscuit bases are a little hard, you can reduce the butter to about 100g. Also, if you want to use a chocolate covered biscuit, filled biscuit, light biscuit, or buttery biscuit like shortbread you need to use 100g of butter as well as they require less. Step Six: Using a sharp knife (or freezer bag and rolling pin) cut the mini eggs up. Pour the mini eggs into the cheesecake filling and fold gently until they are evenly dispersed. Here’s some more info from Coeliac UK on identifying safe gluten free products. Can I make your gluten free Easter chocolate orange brownies recipe dairy free? Still perfectly edible, but not much of a brownie. Also, make sure you use dark chocolate ALWAYS and never use milk chocolate to make brownies – they won’t work! My brownies are really wet in the middle instead of being fudgy. What did I do? Storage:leftovers should be stored in the fridge and will keep for 3-4 days. Mini Egg Cheesecake freezes well (without any decoration) for up to 3 months.