Gluten free cake recipe please!

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Am having a friend over on Tuesday who has Coeliac Disease and so am needing to bake something she can eat.

Only problem is, I'm in Belgium, and have seen gf flour in the supermaket, but don't know where to get things like rice flour or xanthan gum (sp?).

Anyone got a good recipe I could use that's relatively simple and yet tastes okay?

Thank you!

i saw a recipe for a lemon cake with polenta in a magazine, it looked yummy i could type it out if you are intereested?

Oooh yes please that does sound interesting! Thank you

How about this from the Green & Black's cookery book? It's amazing and as you're in Belgium, getting good quality chocolate shouldn't be a problem :

Dark Chocolate Mousse Cake

Prep time 10 mins
Cooking time 35-45 mins
You need 20cm or 23cm cake tin with removable base

1tbsp ground almonds plus extra for dusting the tin
300g dark chocolate (min 60% cocoa solids) or 200g dark choc and 100g Maya Gold (or other good quality dark orange chocolate) broken into pieces
275g caster sugar
165g unsalted butter
pinch of sea salt
5 large eggs
icing sugar or gold dust

Preheat oven to 180c/350f. Brush the tin with a little melted butter and dust with the ground almonds, shaking off any excess.

Melt the chocolate, caster sugar, butter and salt in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of barely simmering water, then remove from the heat.

Whisk the eggs with the ground almonds and fold into the chocolate mixture. The mixture will thicken after a few minutes. Pour into the cake tin and bake for 35-40 mins.

Remove the sides of the tin and leave the cake on the base to cool then dust with a fine sieve with icing sugar or brush with edible gold dust.

I made this for New Year's Eve dinner and it was a massive hit. We had it with a dollop of creme fraiche flavoured with a bit of lemon on the side, but you can eat it as a cake.

Ooh, thought I should just add what it says at the bottom of the recipe:

HINT: this cake will not rise much - it should be rich and thin. If chilled overnight, it will be dense fudgey and wicked!

BTW, my DDs are all coeliac and this was fine for them.

Thanks so much tkband That sounds delicious! And yes, your are right re the chocolate
Is great that it can be made the night before too!

Might end up getting carried away with the baking if I get more recipes. Shall prepare a wonderful spread!

Hi tkband3

Oh. My. God. Am in heaven after tasting that cake mixture! It's in the oven now, but am sure it will be just as nice afterwards as it was before it went in

Thank you sooo much for the recipe! Hope you're having a lovely Easter weekend x

Just a point but my friend is coeliac and she can't have polenta, as its made from semolina . the choccie cake sounds fab tho.

Thanks flossie, that's good to know
The cake's almost done now and it smells divine! Goodness knows how I'm going to be able to save it until tomorrow

It does fill the kitchen with a wonderfully wicked aroma doesn't it? .

Hope it tastes as good as it smells .

Polenta is fine - it is made from corn, so no problem.

This gluten free lemon drizzle cake is amazing - sooo moist, and although the mashed potato sounds weird, you would never know

That looks yummy CMOTdibbler, thank you! The potato does sound weird, but I shall make it, not tell anyone and see if they can guess what it is

tk, will post later after friend has been round... By the way, the cake cracked on the top - it looks fine, and very homemade, but not sure what I did wrong! Maybe I whisked the eggs too much/too little? Won't impact on the taste though am sure

Those choc mousse cakes often crack on top. I find a nice blob of whipped cream hides it perfectly...

Mine cracked on top as well - and I did the same as CMOTdibbler with the whipped cream .

I've made Marslady's lemon drizzle cake very successfully with gluten free flour, but this one with mashed potato sounds fab - will definitely give it a try.

Thanks tk it was a huge hit Friend has now gone, and taken half of it with her, and I am stood here cramming remains into my mouth YUM!

Think the crack adds a lovely look of 'homemade-ness' to it doesn't it I just plonked a physalis in the middle of mine for that sophisticated look They thought it was shop bought!

Oh glad you all liked it - it's quite rich, but amazing how much you can manage in one go . I kept going back to the fridge for a sneaky mouthful - I couldn't make it at the moment...it's much too dangerous for my waistline .