Gluten Free Cakes

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Permalink Reply by ceshell on March 5, 2010 at 3:29am

I have made several very good GF cakes, so good that people at the parties had no clue that the cakes were GF.

Check Allrecipes.com, there is a recipe for "gluten free yellow cake" and that recipe is now my go-to for GF yellow cakes. Read the user comments and you'll find an adjustment for making it into a chocolate cake; I believe you add appx 1/2c cocoa plus some sugar too. Although for chocolate, we preferred the Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate Cake-Gluten Free. When I taste tested all three of the above cakes, I could NOT believe my mouth, that they were GF. I really was not looking forward to eating them! But was making them for a friend with celiac. Add the right icing and I was glad to finish up my test cakes!

My comment about the yellow cake is that it is quite good although a little bland. When I paired it with Italian Meringue BC and a caramel filling (to replace the butter flavor that doesn't exist in the cake) it was THE BOMB. Also the cake is a little sweet so IMBC was a perfect icing; either that or a chocolate buttercream. I'm not sure if I could have handled the sweetness if it was paired with a vanilla PS buttercream. Ditto the Hershey's - it's a good cake but could use a little pump up...it was excellent when iced and filled with ganache.

Final note is that the AllRecipe reviewers recommended tracking down some Thai rice flour, which is what I used. I cannot guarantee your results if you use normal rice flour; the reviewer said it made all the difference in the final outcome of the cakes. All I know is that with Thai rice flour, the cakes were great.

Also you know of course you can just bake a Flourless Chocolate Cake aka truffle cake. So good, so decadent, and doesn't use flour.

I know you posted this question nearly a month ago but I hope this info helps!

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Permalink Reply by Diana Viera on March 5, 2010 at 7:30pm

Thank you for the information! I've found so many recipes but it's really costly to pick up all those ingredients. I have to make an Abby Cadabby cake for my friend's daughter who is turning 2 on April 1st, then he asked me to make 30 mini cupcakes, 20 regular and 10 allergy free, for the following day. I will definitely check out "AllRecipe" for the yellow cake recipe. Thanks again!

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Permalink Reply by Dena Bryngelson on March 26, 2010 at 3:14pm

There is a gluten free cake mix on the market I saw it at Wally's Boutique (aka Wal-Mart)

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Permalink Reply by Jenny Maynard on April 20, 2010 at 2:24pm

cakecentral.com also has a really good recipe for a gluten free cake. I made it for my stepdad. He loved it!

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Permalink Reply by Kim Allemon on May 5, 2010 at 8:30pm

I Made one it was made from a bo from Walmart was very good made by betty Crocker,, It is one my Profile Popcorn cake,,, Very yummy

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