I need a birthday cake: egg and gluten free!

[spinach]

can anyone suggest what i could make? Have tried cakes before but they taste horrid? what could i make as a birthday cake? please?!!!! dd really wants a cake this year!

[Judessis]

Doves rice flour works brilliantly in place of normal flour for gluten free (use as plain flour so you'll need a raising agent as well) and is available from tescos and waitrose - am sure i know of an egg free recipe so will have a look when I get home (I'm at work) and post later if I find one.

[Judessis]

Found one on line - www.recipezaar.com/153730

Its in American, but www.deliaonline.com/cookery-school/conversions/ has a conversion system for cups. Hope it tastes nice!

[spinach]

thank you! I will give that a go... i'm a terrible baker at the best of times, i find this gluten free thing a nightmare!

[mymama]

Boiled Chocolate Cake

1 cup sugar
125gm butter
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 cup water
2 eggs (use egg replacement)
1 1/2 cups Self Raising flour (use replacement)
1/2 teaspoon baking/bicarbonate soda

Place sugar, water, butter, cocoa and baking soda in pan on low heat until melts - then simmer for a few mins. Let Cool. Mix in beaten eggs (replacement) and flour. Turn into 7 inch round cake tin (greased or baking paper). Bake at 170 degrees celcius for 45 mins approx. Ice when cold.

I have made this cake with soya flour and Orgran egg replacer and dairy free marg and it still turns out fab. Because it is boiled it is quite moist like a mud cake. For ds2's first birthday I iced with green butter icing and placed lollipops all over. I have also used 1 pureed banana or 1/2 cup apple puree to replace the eggs. Lovely!!

[threebob]

You must let this cake cool before adding gluten free flour (especially tapioca or potato based flours) - I was impatient and made a very tasty chocolate mash potato!

[Judessis]

Spinach, try the coeliac society - they can give advice and support, and also advise on what products are gluten free. Would also ask to see menus and information in restuarants - I know from personal experience that Beefeaters have an "allergy file" that lists whether products have the ingredient actually in it, in the supply chain, in the factory where the ingredient is processed etc so it makes it a bit easier and you can then be as picky as you need to be about what DS eats. Mymama that cake sounds GORGEOUS!!

[spinach]

thanks ladies... have tried both those recipes.. both tasted nice in cake mix form, baked well, turned out looking like great cakes, but have an awful taste... quite soda-ry if that makes sense... will try again with soya flour.. any ideas what i can do? or what i'm doinf wrong?

[thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat]

This is not advertised, as it were, as gluten free, but unless there's gluten in almonds it must be. It does, unfortunatley, have eggs in it - perhaps you could experiment with an egg subsitute? - not sure what's available. It's very rich - very much a grown up cake - dds didn't really like it - so not much good for a kids birthday cake but if it's for adults - it's lush. It's very moist and dense - almost like a brownie type texture
180g 70 per cent cocoa dark chocolate
175g softened butter
125g unrefined sugar
200g ground almonds
4 eggs, seperated

heat oven to 150 c
line 25 cm cake tin with baking parchment
cream butter and sugar til soft and creamy
melt choc in bain marie
add almonds, eggs yolks and melted choc to thebutter and sugar and beat until evenly blended
whisk egg whites til stiff
fold into cake mixture with large metal spoon
bake for 35 mins

ice with 100g dark choc, melted with 50g butter

[thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat]

doh - just noticed you so want it for dd.

[thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat]

so was meant to be do.

[Chandra]

In case it has not been mentioned, Dietary Specials produces a nice glutten free chocolate cake and some rice flour based blueberry muffins which can be reconverted to cake with the right tin, and they taste not bad (nothing taste the same, I know, but sometimes it has to be like that to insure things are safe).

I use rice milk in the place of milk and bananas & orange juice, or Orgran egg replacer, instead of eggs.

[spinach]

thanks ladies.... not sure the egg substitute works well if you need to whisk whites...
the dietry specials stuff normally has potato flour in.. dd is also allergic to potato!
I'll try recipes again with soya flour and see what happens