Author: ukjohnd
Gluten Free Coffee and Walnut Cake
This weekends baking project was a Gluten Free Coffee and Walnut Cake to accompany my favourite roast lamb dinner with Roasted whole New Potatoes, Leeks and Greens and Balsamic Roast Chantelle Carrots.
Took Recipe from here at hungryhinny.com
Ingredients
- 50g walnut halves, plus 8 extra to decorate
- 225g goldencaster sugar
- 225g butter
- 4 eggs
- 225g gluten free plain flour (Doves Farm)
- 1 tsp xanthan gum
- 2.5 tsp baking powder
- 3 tsp instant coffee
- 2tbsp milk
For the icing
- 125g butter
- 300g icing sugar
- 2 tsp instant coffee
- 1 tbsp milk
Blitz the Sugar and Walnuts in a food processor until Walnuts finely chopped.
Add sugar, walnuts, butter and eggs to food mixer and beat until creamed.
Sieve Flour and mix in Baking Powder and Xanthan Gum
Slowly add flower to food mixer whilst still beating.
Dissolve the coffee in 1 tsp water and 2tbsp of milk then add to mixer.
Mix until smooth.
Bake in two lined 7″ cake tins at 180C for 25-30 min.
Leave to cool in tins for 10min then cool on a cooling rack.
For the icing using a mixer/blender
Sieve the icing sugar and add the butter and beat until smooth.
Dissolve the coffee in a tsp of water and 1tbsp of milk.
Beat until coffee mixed through the icing.
Top with Walnut 1/2’s
Came out way better than I thought, moist light sponge.
Slow Ass Jolene – YouTube
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Oddly works, Slow Ass Jolene is Dolly Parton slowed down 25%
14 years
Forgot my annual birthday post. Lucky to get a shiny red one this year from my lovely wife.
Gluten Free Apple Loaf Cake
Took the prize for best gluten-free cake I’ve made so far.
Adapted from this recipe.
Ingredients
- 125g butter or margarine
- 75g sugar
- 2 eggs
- 125g gluten-free plain white flour (Doves Farm)
- 1 heaped teaspoons gluten-free baking powder
- 2 small-sized apples
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
Lemon Icing
- 100g Icing Sugar
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
Mix together the butter, sugar and eggs until creamy.
Add the flour and baking powder.
Peel and chop up the apples into small chunks and add to the mixture along with the lemon juice.
Fill the mixture into your baking tin – I used a Large Silicon Loaf Tin as it’s easier to get the cake out as gluten-free cakes can be more crumbly.
Bake for 45-60 minutes at 180C
Leave to cool.
For the icing just mix the Icing sugar with the Lemon Juice and pour on top of the cake, then grate the rind of the lemon on top.
Saturday Baking – Olive Bread
House to myself on a Saturday so time for a spot of Baking using up some left over olives. Next time would probably add more Olives.
First off an Olive Bread based on this recipe.
Ingredients:
200g strong wholemeal bread flour
300g strong white bread flour
2 tsp of fast acting yeast
1 teaspoon pouring salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1 1/2 tablespoon olive oil
350ml luke warm water
90g chopped mixed fresh olives.
1 tsp dried rosemary
Mix all ingredients except the olives and rosemary in a large bowl.
Knead for 10min until smooth and elastic.
Add Olives and rosemary and knead to mix them evenly distributed through the dough.
Place on Baking tray, cover in cling film, leave in warm place for 1hr or until doubled in size.
Knock back and again leave in warm place for 1hr or until doubled in size.
Dust with flower.
Bake at 200C for 30 min with pan of boiling water at bottom of the oven.
Leave to cool on cooling rack.
Folk version of (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right – Beastie Boys Cover
Odd but it works
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