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[Chickendoodle]

My YD is getting married in May and the groom's sister is a celiac. I am making the wedding cake and he has asked me to make a small separate one that she can eat.

 

Any ideas greatly appreciated (am I right in thinking that you can't even use normal baking powder?). She is quite severely affected I understand so I will need to be very careful to get it right.

 

I would like to ice the cake to match the 3 tier one so anything with a soft topping is out. The wedding cake itself is going to have a chocolate layer, a lemon drizzle and a fruit so the actual content doesn't have to match anything.

 

I will also need to make a vegan one and ideas for that also would be welcome. It's all very well getting a cake from a recipe book but I would like ones that actually taste nice!

 

I know I still have 8 months to go but I like to be organised in my head!!!!

[C&T]

The substitute flours can produce a pretty reasonable alternative - but I'm afraid I can't recall which one is the better one.... With 8 months maybe some trial and error is required!

 

But the good news is that while some baking powders are out, some are OK. You'll just need to check the labels to find the right one.

 

Vegan cake?? Good luck - can't imagine how to go about that one!

[stoice]

For the vegan cake, have you tried The vegan society for recipes?

 

And this site looks pretty good for gluten free and vegan recipes

[Lydia]

There are several versions of lemon drizzle that use mashed potato instead of flour. Here is one from BBC Good Food. Hugh FW does another one which is probably on the River Cottage site.

 

The BBC GF one is quite moist (at least it was when I did it!) but if you iced it with sugarpaste and didn't put anything too heavy on as decoration it might be OK. I don't imagine you could dowel it as they would fall over.

 

There are baking powders that are marked gluten free - supercook do one that is sold in Waitrose (and probably elsewhere) that I use because my sister prefers gluten free.

 

No ideas for vegan I'm afraid.

 

Good luck.

[Chickendoodle]

Thanks everyone - I will get experimenting!

[kinsk]

I'm sure there was a recipe for one in last Sundays Mail on Sunday You magazine, not sure if ours is still hanging around, will have a look.

[Daphne]

I make a very nice orange and almond cake with ground almonds but no flour for a coeliac, and the other day I had a delish ground almond and choc gluten free cake. The almonds make it very moist. I'm sure you might find a whole bunch of recipes online using this approach! They tend to use eggs tho, so no good for vegans I'm afraid.

[Forestchook]

hi,

 

We have a Coeliac friend who gave us this recipe. He got it from the coelic society, but the website on the bottom of the page says www.bbcgoodfood.com I would just post the web address as a link but when i tried to check I could not find the recipe. Mods:I hope i'm okay to post it like this.

 

Gluten Free Lemon drizzle cake.

Cake:

200g butter

200g (caster) sugar

4 eggs

175 ground almonds ( or use polenta or wheat free flour)

Zest of 3 lemons

250g mash potato

2 tbs gluten free baking powder

Drizzle:

4 tbsp granulated sugar

juice of one lemon

 

Heat the oven to 180c/fan 160c/gas 4. butter and line a 20cm deep cake tin. Brat together butter and sugar, then gradually add the egg. Fold in the almonds (or alternative), the potato, the lemon zest and baking powder .

Tip into tin and bake for 40-45 mins

Allow to cool for 10 mins before turning out onto a rack. Mix the lemon juice and granulated sugar and spoon over the cake.

 

I'm not sure how well it would ice but you could give it a try. The potato does sound off putting but its a very yummy cake. We generally use polenta flour in this (although we have made not GF versions with normal flour when its just for us). Make sure you mash the potat well otherwise you can end up with lumps of potato in the cake though.

 

I also have a v nice GF rich fruit cake recipe. We made our friend a birthday cake from it last year, and because it was so nice made ourselves and him a Christmas cake with it. I better not post that one though because it is from a book. I guess I could pm it to you instead if you are interrested. Or does the SIL not like fruitcake.

 

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[Chickendoodle]

Thanks - the lemon drizzle sounds yummy. Unfortunately fruit cake is out but thanks for the offer.

[Krysia]

I use the bbc good food recipie for my coeliac customers, I have already got xmas cake bookings from them. the flour I use (as I do it with soya spread, so it gluten wheat and dairy and nut free) is expensive and has a dove on the logo in a circle I think, I get it in Asda (along with supacook gluten free baking powder)

 

No one can ever believe its made with mash!