This is a light, versatile chocolate cake recipe. I sometimes make it as a sheet cake, topped with simple chocolate icing or a sprinkling of icing sugar, as a treat for picnics. I have also baked it as a layer cake for a birthday, deliciously iced with whipped chocolate ganache. The instructions here are for… Continue reading Chocolate Cake (Gluten Free)
Tag: Cakes and cupcakes
Peanut Butter and Honey Icing
When my son told me that he wanted a chocolate cake with peanut butter and honey between the layers for his birthday, I was not at all convinced. But then I thought about how to adapt his preference into a flavoured icing and this light, fluffy, dreamy icing ended up coming together and working beautifully… Continue reading Peanut Butter and Honey Icing
Gluten Free Brownies
I am very aware that brownies are a staple of gluten free baking and another recipe is probably not required. However, I am going to pop my recipe here so I don’t lose it in the future and because I like it – it has a crispy top, a squidgy middle and only requires cocoa… Continue reading Gluten Free Brownies
Gluten-Free Vanilla Birthday Cake
EDIT: I have changed the recipe below with slightly with a new, improved version. My family has complained more than once that I will make something tasty and then never make it again because I am on an endless quest to improve my baking or just get distracted with wanting to try turn new ideas… Continue reading Gluten-Free Vanilla Birthday Cake
Vanilla Cupcakes (Gluten-Free)
Cake flour (by which I mean wheat-filled, gluten-filled cake flour) is a low protein flour that is great for making cakes because overmixing flour in cake batter can result in harder, less fluffy cakes. That means less gluten can actually be better for cakes. As a coeliac that makes me think that going gluten free… Continue reading Vanilla Cupcakes (Gluten-Free)