Do you know any really good celiac desserts? I’m trying to find a decent recipe for a cake or cookies or some shit. (I guess it doesn’t really matter how complex the recipes are, just as long as they aren’t god awful like a lot of the ones I’ve made.)

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Culturally, western people have a lot of focus on sweet cakes and baked goods being your dessert, but as long as you consider that thing a treat, I think it counts.  (I consider eating artichoke hearts to be dessert. They’re expensive and I love them, so it counts, so there) 

Flan is caramelized sugar and milk products

A lot of East Asian desserts use rice flour – Asian stores sell “glutinous rice”  – It doesn’t actually have gluten in it, it’s just a specific type of sweet and sticky rice. So Glutinous rice flour doesn’t actually have gluten – it’s named ‘Glutinous’ because it is glue-like and sticky and opaque white.  

Which means you can have all sorts of east Asian rice-flour desserts. 
Mochi, rice flour chocolate cupcakes… 
As well as anything primarily fruit, cream, and syrup-based. 
Or rice flour pancakes, and drown them in maple syrup and pecans or strawberries. 
or Carioca
Sweet rice pudding. 

Corn normally doesn’t have the type of gluten that bothers celiacs, so that opens up ALL SORTS of South American and Mexican desserts. 
Plus just… straight up, normal cornbread is gluten-free. 

Chocolate pudding. 
A billion variations of cream cheese spread to go on fruit, rice crackers, other cheese, bits of meat, etc. 

I feel like a lot of people, when they realize they need a special diet, try to keep their original diet with ‘replacement’ or ‘substitute’ parts. 

Like a new vegetarian asking “Which vegetable is the meat?” There is no meat. You don’t need to eat faux-turkey or faux-steak – your meal will be SO much better without leaning on the ghost of what-could-be. – Enjoy what is open to you, luxuriate in the billions of flavors you can have. Removing gluten really hasn’t removed THAT many options, out of the INNUMERABLE HOARDE OF FOOD ITEMS AVAILABLE. 

Just… try desserts that naturally don’t have gluten. There are TONS. TONS AND TONS AND TONS. 

Don’t try to limit yourself to “Fake cookies” and just because cookies are familiar. 

Gluten-free brownies are usually good.

For simple cookies, mix one cup peanut butter, one cup sugar, one egg, and one teaspoon vanilla, form into inch-wide balls, smush gently into cookie shape with a fork, and bake at about 325 degrees for around 12 minutes. You can also add chocolate chips or other mix-ins and bake for more like 15 minutes. The cookies are very soft when first baked and then firm up, and you’d never guess they only have the four ingredients.