Okay, not all of these will be suitable for tiering and serving as a wedding cake. I'll say which ones are and aren't. Some are my own, some are adapted from other people's.
Feel free to add your own!
My St Clement's Cake (not suitable for wedding cake, but great for afternoon tea etc)
Pre-heat oven to 180c (160c fan oven). Grease and line two 8" (20cm) round sandwich tins.
1. Weigh four eggs and note down how much they weigh. 2. Measure out the weight of those four eggs in dairy-free spread and caster sugar. 3. Cream together the butter and sugar (beat together until creamy and pale). 4. Measure out the weight of four eggs in Doves Farm Gluten Free Self Raising Flour. 5. Crack an egg into a separate bowl then add to the butter and sugar (to keep the shell out of the cake) 6. Add a couple of tablespoons of flour. Repeat for all remaining flour and eggs. 7. Grate lemon zest and add to cake batter along with candied peel and ground almonds. 8. Split cake batter between the sandwich tins and bake for 25-30 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. 9. Remove from tins and set on racks to cool.
Icing
100g dairy-free spread 200g approx icing sugar Juice of the lemon you zested earlier 1tbsp marmalade (ideally a chunkyish one)
1. Sieve the icing sugar. 2. Combine the spread, icing sugar and lemon juice (gently at first). 3. Add marmalade 4. Add extra icing sugar if it's too thin.
Finishing
Sandwich two halves of the cake together with icing and top with sieved icing sugar (or if you prefer you can totally cover the cake with buttercream as well as sandwiching it together).
CommentAuthorJilly17
Ooooh that sounds lovely! Rachel can we have this one first please? And dont forget to bookmark!!!! Nom nom!!!
CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
Great thread SS!!! Here's one, again not for wedding cake, but tasty nonetheless!
Soft Gingerbread
100g cornflour 100g rice flour (or I use the Doves Farm Gluten Free SR flour that SS mentions above and add 1ttsp of xanthum gum) 80g caster sugar 100g butter, chilled, cut into small cubes
For the gingerbread 150g demerera sugar 3 tbsp ground ginger 55g crystalised ginger, chopped 70g gluten free flour ½ tstp baking powder 55g golden syrup 55g black treacle 85g butter
Preheat the oven to 200c. Place cornflour, rice flour and caster sugar in food processor and blend well. Add butter and blitz until mix resembles fine breadcrumbs. Pour in 3-4 tbsp water and pulse til the mix starts to form a dough. Turn out and press into 20x30cm baking tin. Bake shortbread layer for about 15 mins until golden and leave to cool in the tin. Remove from the tin. Turn the oven down to 180c. Line the tin with baking parchment for the gingerbread. Place 300g of the cooled shortbread in a processor with the demerera sugar and process into fine crumbs. Add ground ginger, crystalised ginger, flour and baking pouder and pulse to mix well. In a large pan, warm the syrup, treacle and butter together until the butter is melted. Add the crumb mix and mix thoroughly using a large spoon. Press the mix into the lined tin and press down flat with the back of a spoon. Bake for 15 mins then cool in tin before cutting into small squares.
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CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
And here's another!
Moist Banana Cake
4oz butter or margarine 6oz sugar (granulated, caster, or mix in some demerara, whatever you have to hand) 8oz Doves Farm Gluten Free self raising flour 1 1/2 tsp xanthum gum 2 eggs 2 large or 3 medium, very ripe bananas
Heat the oven to gas mark 4; 180C Grease a 2lb loaf tin. Mash the bananas with a sturdy fork. Cream the butter and sugar together and mix in the eggs Mix together the two yellow sludges you now have. Mix in the flour. Scrape into the loaf tin and bake for 40 minutes then lower teh temperature to gas mark 2; 150C and cook for a further 30 minutes.
Really easy to make. For variation you can add in 2 heaped teaspoons of honey, half teaspoon each of cinnamon and nutmeg. Result- absolutely yummy!!!!! Great recipe!
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CommentAuthorJilly17
Aw wow!!! Dont know which way to turn now!!!! Are you coeliac Heather or gluten intolerant?
Ooh yummy! I always just make cakes as normal and just replace the flour with gluten/wheat free flour - they usually turn out fine! Annoyingly most recipies replace the flour with ground almonds which is no good as H2B has a nut allergy! These recipes look good though - might try them!
CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
Jilly17 - I'm wheat intollerant, so not quite as bad as being gluten intollerant or even coeliac for that matter.
Another tip ladies - if you're replacing regualr flour with G/F flour, then it's worth adding a tsp of xanthum gum. I've found that it helps it all to stick together better and doesn't give that powdery texture to the finished product that you can quite often get with g/f cakes Hx
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CommentAuthorKat
I do the same as you KayteeG or did when my coeliac friend lived close and she always said they were good and nobody else could tell the difference
CommentAuthorMrs (Dove) Pidgeon
I made the discovery that Death by Chocolate involves no flour whatsoever...
300g dark hocolate 150g unsalted butter 5 medium free range eggs 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence 100g caster sugar
Toppping 200g dark chocolate 100ml double cream
1. Melt chocolate and butter together 2. Whisk eggs and vanilla and sugar until mousse like and five times original volume 3. Stir together egg mixture and chocolate 4. Bake in oven at 180C for 35-45 mins until firm to touch
To make topping Melt together the cream and chocolate and beat until smooth and glossy.
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CommentAuthorKaya
We're having 1 tier of our wedding cake as gluten free... chocolate sponge with orange flavour filling.... can't even tell the difference between the normal and gluten free ones! Yummers!
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CommentAuthorKayteeG
Thanks for the tip heather! Same here kat - everyone swears by my mince pies at xmas lol! Mrs pigeon - that sounds very naughty - I love it! x
CommentAuthorMrs (Dove) Pidgeon
Shame that the only coeliac I know is diabetic aswell!!!
However Pidge loves this cake. I wouldn't know what it tastes like as I never got any of the one I made him for his birthday.
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CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
KayteeG - mince pies?!? I've yet to master gluten free pastry - it just falls apart on me!!! Would love to know how to make it so we can eat pies more!!! Hx
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CommentAuthorSpecialSundae
I usually use the Doves Farm recipe and roll the pastry between two sheets of cling film and it comes out okay. You just can't treat it like normal pastry.
CommentAuthorMrs*Maria*Louise
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ohh fantastic recepies my 11yr old daughter has coeliac disease so strict gluten free diet for her she was diagnosed before she was 2, i always find using a white mix really useful and following normal receipes but using gluten free ingredients but great thread ladies xx
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CommentAuthorKayteeG
Ooh Heather I supposeI could let the recipe slip...let me see if I can find it for you x
CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
Ace! *waits with baited breath*... ;)
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CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
Not strictly cake, but does anyone know how to make g/f crumble??? I've got a locad of pears I need to use and would be perfect in a crumble but I can't find my recepie!
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CommentAuthorSpecialSundae
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Not quite gluten-free but I've done a decent wheat-free crumble with plain flour, vegetable spread, sugar, spices (dependent on the fruit, probably ginger with pears), rolled oats and/or nuts. I've never been one for weights and measures when I don't have to, so I tend to just work on look and feel. It would be gluten-free if you left out the oats.
CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
As we're wheat free and not g/f, I think I can work with that SS. Thanks hun HX
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CommentAuthorKayteeG
225g cold butter , diced 350g plain flour 100g golden caster sugar 280g mincemeat 1 small egg , beaten icing sugar , to dust
Prep 30 - 40 mins
Cook 20 mins
Can be frozen uncooked 1.To make the pastry, rub the butter into the flour, then mix in the sugar and a pinch of salt. Combine the pastry into a ball - don't add liquid - and knead it briefly. The dough will be fairly firm, like shortbread dough. You can use the dough immediately, or chill for later. 2.Preheat the oven to 200C/gas 6/fan 180C. Line 18 holes of two 12-hole patty tins, by pressing small walnut-sized balls of pastry into each hole. Spoon the mincemeat into the pies. 3.Take slightly smaller balls of pastry than before and pat them out between your hands to make round lids, big enough to cover the pies. Top the pies with their lids, pressing the edges gently together to seal - you don't need to seal them with milk or egg as they will stick on their own. (The pies may now be frozen for up to 1 month). 4.Brush the tops of the pies with the beaten egg. Bake for 20 minutes until golden. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then remove to a wire rack. To serve, lightly dust with icing sugar. They will keep for 3 to 4 days in an airtight container
I just replace the flour with the Dove Farms wheat free flour, and they turn out delicious - the pastry is really crispy and really sweet! x
CommentAuthorKayteeG
And sorry about the delay - I completely forgot! x
CommentAuthorJilly17
You can get completely gluten free oats quite easily so even coeliacs can try the crumble! Yum yum! LOVING this thread!
CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
Bump!
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CommentAuthorJanie
oh wow LOVING This thread! I am looking for a gf wedding cake recipe :)
BUT OMG The chocolate one with orange filling sounds to die for.... i can always replace the sugar with splenda to make it more diabetic friendly....i LOVE this idea and think rather than a fruit cake i'll go for this...i LOVE choc orange!!
THAnk you thank you thank you :)
NOw i have 19 months to perfect the cake, i think once a month would be just about the right number of attmepts ha ha ha
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CommentAuthorKaya
Now Mrs Cobb!!!!!! :-D
CommentAuthorJanie
mind you after 19 i may be sick of it! Maybe just a FEW less tries lol
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CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
I can HIGHLY reccommend the Choc Orange cake - it went down a storm at our wedding - by far everyone's fave!
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CommentAuthorJanie
oooh deffo going for that, we're having a dolly mixtures wedding cake :) YEs you read right....a cake sprinkled with dolly mixtures :) (SOME FAB piccies on google)
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CommentAuthorJanie
is there a recipe anywhere for the chocolate cake and what do you use for the filling??
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CommentAuthorLittleMissBossy
Bookmarked!
Developing on a daily basis more and more wheat intolerance....
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CommentAuthorJanie
i am sure everyone here will already know, but in case you dont....juvela and several other companies, offer boxes of free foods they call a trial.... VERY usefull especially when it comes to saving money spending a fortune on foods you then discover are YUKKY lol I think ds, doves farm do them too....juvela is by far the biggest trial sized box.
also just found out they have a special occasion cake recipe on thier website
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CommentAuthorLittleMissBossy
I didn't know - thank you!
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CommentAuthormrs m
WOW-what a gd thread. I am gluten intolerant and we are having one tier of our wedding cake as gluten free. Heather I also miss pastry but on the plus side its bad for me so probably doing me a favour. lol
Happily in love and can't wait to be married! xx
CommentAuthorJanie
some are literally one or two items, but it gives you the chance to try them
What i am finding VERY annoying is how many of these items you cant buy! I dont get prescriptions yet, as no diagnosis yet other than wheat allergy, and further tests needed. It is so annoying, espeically when my brother gets his on prescription and doesnt use them...ie hs has coeliac, was told he can have the items on prescription, and eats anything eh likes.
SHame i dont talk to him or i would offer to pay his precription charges and order what i want lol
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CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
Wow - I didn;t know about Juvela - I've just registered - thanks sooooo much!
As for a great chocolate cake recipe, I can hightly recommend this one. All I will say is that when I did this a couple of days ago, it needed more like 80 mins in the oven, so worth keeping an eye on it.
Chocolate Beetroot cake:
100g drinking chocolate 230g Doves Farm gluten free self raising flour 1tsp Xanthan gum mixed in with the flour 200g caster sugar 100g dark chocolate, minimum 60% cocoa solids 125g unsalted butter 250g cooked beetroot, (not pickled!) - you can get it vaccum packed in the salad sections of supermarkets 3 large eggs, beaten
3. Sift the drinking chocolate with the self-raising flour into a mixing bowl, and then mix in the sugar.
4. Melt the chocolate and butter together in a bowl over hot (not boiling) water.
5. Purée the cooked beetroot in a food processor, then whisk in the beaten eggs.
6. Add the beetroot and the chocolate mixtures to the dry ingredients and mix together thoroughly.
7. Pour the mixture into a greased lined 25cm cake tin. Bake for 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
8. Remove from the oven and leave the cake to stand in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.
9. Split the cake in half.
10. To make the filling: beat the cream cheese icing ingredients together until creamy and spread liberally on the bottom half of the cake. Place the other half of the cake on top.
11. To make the chocolate ganache: heat the cream in a pan and bring just to boiling point, then remove the pan from the heat.
12. Place a damp towel on the worktop and place the pan of hot cream on this.
13. Add the chopped chocolate to the cream and beat vigorously until thoroughly mixed. Allow to cool slightly.
14. Spread the ganache on top of the cake and leave to set.
15. Sprinkle with the white chocolate to decorate.
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CommentAuthorJanie
oh wow thanks, i LOVE beetroot and never had it in a cake but wanted to try it, so will deffo give it a go, and let you know how it goes
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CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
I'd never thought of it either, but thoguht I'd give it a go. It's seriously the BEST choc cake I've ever had. Really moist and so, so yummy!
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CommentAuthorkerriface
Wow, hadn't seen this thread! H2b is coeliac and severly intolerant to gluten. I'm making our cake, this will help!
CommentAuthorJanie
has anybody found a make of bread that is edible? I HATE them all! I even tried making my own with juvela mix and it was rank lol. Tried genius, seeded one is ok with some fillings, tried juvela pre packed one (not fresh) tesco, and all sorts. Just cant bring myself round to managing to eat any of it without gagging or feeling it is sticking in my chest and ughh the texture!
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CommentAuthorLittleMissBossy
Beetroot in a cake is delicous. Gives moisture. Like courgettes - also love courgettes in cakes.
Last Christmas (2010) I got from h2b a book called "baby cakes" - all recipes wheatfree and a lot of them glutenfree.
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CommentAuthorJanie
never had courgettes in a cake either!
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CommentAuthormrs m
Sainsburys own brand is edible wouldn't go so far as to say nice.
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CommentAuthorLittleMissBossy
I have a few raw foodie friends and they stick to a fairly strict raw food diet. It's amazing what they eat - so versatile and creative. I was invited to a raw food gathering the other day and one of my friends makes the most amazing raw sweets - raw cake and raw choc fudge. They are obviously all wheat- and glutenfree.
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CommentAuthorLittle Kettle
Spelt bread. Not sure if it's G/F though...actually, just googled it and no, it's not. But it's blooming good though if you're not a coeliac and just wheat intollerant.
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CommentAuthorLittleMissBossy
No it's not - I bake a lot with spelt flour. It's a bit drier and needs mire moisture so again courgettes or similar are perfect in cakes.
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CommentAuthorJilly17
No spelt is an ancient wheat and less likely to be intolerant of it as is so underused now. Is fine for a wheat intolerance but not gluten. Rye bread is lovely but again has gluten in it. I like the Genius breads and find them all more paletable if toasted first. My friend did give me a part baked Ciabatta roll which was LUSH so have contacted her to give me the name of that one. I am trying not to look at the recipies as back on liquid meal replacement diet to rest my gut but will be book marking this for a little treat in about 2 months time!!!
CommentAuthorJilly17
It was a Dietary Specials part baked Ciabatta roll, really delicious. Most big supermarkets stock the range and she gets hers from Asda. If you go to the Dietary Specials website you can sign up and get money off vouchers
CommentAuthorJanie
i LOVE the DS sausage rolls i have to say (not a cake but there you go, i am changing subject slightly again) i treid genius bread and wasnt really all that into it. I tend to just go without bread these days a lot. OMG Some of them were hard to swallow, literally! lol If it is something i ahve to get use to then i guess i have to, but at the moment i would rather go without than eat the gf breads!
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CommentAuthorLittleMissBossy
Shop bought gf bread stinks. Vile. But I believe - hope - there's a way to make it yourself.
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