Recipe for gluten free cake to decorate

[tubsywubsy]

Can anyone help me? I have been looking for a recipe to make a celebration cake for a gluten free friend. I'm trying to find something like a classic sponge or madeira cake that I can sandwich with butter icing, cover with fondant icing and decorate. She loves the Nigella clementine cake, but I'm not sure that it would ice well. Does anyone have any ideas?

My theory on this is the best cake for a gluten free person is ice cream. Seriously, gf cakes, esp of the spongey variety, are basically awful. How about something with meringue? Or a roulade?

The Dove Farm gluten free flour has a recipie for a victoria sponge I think. Did last time a brought it but that was a while ago.

On iPad so can't post links but search easy vanilla cake on the BBC good food website. It has a vanilla syrup that you pour over it. I've done this with doves farm wheat free flour on three occasions & no one has ever noticed the difference.

I've made that easy vanilla cake with gf flour too.
Turned out ok. Did not rise as much as normal, but once decorated it was fine.

Bella, strangely that's my basic cake recipe when I do celebration cakes! I didn't
think of just substituting the flour (slaps forehead!), I'll do a test run and see how it turns out.

All my gf sponges turn out beautifully - I just use Doves farm SR flour, and add a teaspoon of glycerine for moistness, and an extra 1/2 tsp of baking powder. I've not found a cake recipe that didn't work perfectly this way.

CMOT, I did mean to post a disclaimer to say this was mainly based on shop-bought 'goodies' as I don't do baking. You're right about adding extra moistness in, though.

Theres certainly some grim gf products out there. They have generally improved over the 14 years I've been gf, but you have to question why some people think that stuff is worth selling

I guess low expectations plus an easy market (thinking specifically of supermarket own gf shite stuff - where the supermarkets have systematically pushed out the decent stuff in favour of their own brands, knowing people will buy them out of convenience).