Karen shares her modern twist on a classic with her gluten free christmas cake recipe.
Gluten free christmas cake recipe.
Method preheat your oven to 160 c fan forced.
Spoon christmas cake batter into your baking tin.
Prepare a 20 cm round cake tin with baking paper lining the sides and the base.
3 teaspoons gluten free baking powder.
Preheat the oven to 150 c.
4 tablespoons orange juice.
Ingredients for the gluten free christmas cake 350g mixed dried fruit 100ml brandy or orange juice 150g butter softened 150g soft light brown sugar 3 eggs beaten zest of 1 large orange 50g blanched almonds chopped 50g glace cherries halved 2tsp vanilla extract 150g gluten free plain flour 1 tsp.
Dear cassandra you should be fine to make the cake now using gluten free flour but would suggest that you follow the same storage guidelines as you would a standard christmas cake.
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If using a prepared flour blend that contains xanthan or guar gum omit the xanthan gum from the recipe.
Mix in the dried fruit and nuts or seeds.
Suggested guidelines for storing the cake would be to wrap the cake in a double layer of greaseproof paper and then in double foil.
Method preheat the oven to 160c 140c fan gas 3.
In a food processor beat the butter margarine with the banana and the lemon juice and rind.
If you find that with the gluten free flours you ve used the cake is crumbly don t despair.
Pour into a bowl.
Grease a 20cm round deep cake tin and line the base and sides with greaseproof paper.
The gluten free flours i used in this cake are.
For the filling 4 large eggs 225g dark brown muscovado sugar 225g butter softened plus extra to grease 175g doves farm gluten wheat free plain flour blend 125g doves farm gluten wheat free self raising flour blend 100g blanched almonds halved optional.
A beautiful tropical fruit and nut topping takes the place of the usual icing and marzipan.
1 2 teaspoon ground allspice.
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Mix the ground almonds rice flour and corn flour in a bowl with the mixed spice and salt.
Add the almonds and walnuts and mix through.
200g tapioca flour starch 200g brown rice flour and 100g potato starch.
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175g gluten free flour.
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I love a moist fruity christmas cake resplendent with frosted icing almond rich marzipan and not forgetting the little.
Combine dried fruit spice vanilla orange zest juice olive oil and eggs.
Sieve which ever flours you are using with the baking powder.
Place the dried fruit orange and lemon zest in a bowl.
200g mixed dried fruit.