Gluten free dairy free children’s birthday cake

[Tolleshunt]

I need to make a birthday cake for a gluten free, dairy free child.

Does anybody know a good recipe that results in something that seems close to a normal birthday cake? Maybe using the Dove’s Farm flour?

There are a few recipes online, but none of them are grabbing me, and I only have time for one trial run, so am hoping somebody may be able to steer me towards a good recipe.

clementine cake

For GF, DF, then I'd do a victoria sponge with Doves Farm GF SR, df marg and buttercream made with a mix of df block marg and df marg (it has a much better texture than just soft marg imo).

If you can get it, and it is normally in the cake decorating section, use a teaspoonful of glycerine in the cake mixture, add a little extra milk for the correct 'plopping' consistency as normal (depends on the marg) and half a teaspoon of baking powder.

No one has ever noticed when I do a gf/df cake like this, and comment on how nice the cake is.

I like a clementine cake, but its no childrens birthday cake imo

We do a standard Victoria sponge mix ( 6oz fat/ flour and sugar and 3 eggs) using pure spread ( best tasting imo) and dove's farm flour but then add a generous slug of Madagascan vanilla essence.

Buttercream 50/50 with block marg and pure again with a good slug of the vanilla.

This layer cake lexiscleankitchen.com/gluten-free-layer-birthday-cake/

Or if you’d rather go for chocolate, then this one theloopywhisk.com/2018/02/07/gluten-free-vegan-chocolate-cake/ I’ve also made this one with great success. It doesn’t require xantham gum like the first chocolate cake link, but I prefer the flavour of the first. realfood.tesco.com/recipes/vegan-chocolate-cake.html

Wow, so many great ideas, thanks so much!

I might give a Victoria sponge a whirl tomorrow, and use the ideas here. Though the chocolate one sounds great too.....

For decoration (for which I have no experience whatsoever...), I was thinking of doing either glacé icing or buttercream, and getting some cake decorations. Hopefully a group of 4 year olds won’t notice it’s amateur hour!

Flora dairy free is great for baking and buttercream and just add a drop of oat milk if the doves farm makes the batter too thick (also a drop of Madagascan vanilla paste brings out the flavour)

Mmmm the clementine cake does it for me

These all work pretty well with gf flour.