Summary:
Serves 8 (or 1 if your greedy : )
Difficulty: Easy but time consuming 4/10
This is a once in a while Cake.
Background:
So this is the first gluten free cake i ever tried to make. Thinking that chocolate may be the way to a girls heart. When i found this recipe i thought that it was far to low on flour, so i tripled the quantity, but in retrospect i think that the original recipe i found was correct so here it is.
Ingredients:
Cake
200g plain lactose free chocolate
75ml lactose free milk
175g Soya flower
175g golden caster sugar
175g ground hazelnuts
50g gluten free flower
1 tsp Xanthum gum
5 eggs (separated)
Icing
100g lactose free chocolate
15g Soya Butter
20ml Lactose free milk
25g Chopped toasted hazelnuts
Instructions
- Grease and line a 23cm cake tin.
- Preheat the oven to 180'C/350'F/Gas Mark 4.
- Melt the chocolate with the milk in a microwave.
- Add the butter, sugar, ground hazelnuts, flower and egg yolks until combined.
- In a separate bowl whisk the whites of the eggs until peaking.
- Combine mixtures, and pour into baking tin.
- Bake for 30 minutes. Leave to cool in tin for ten minutes in tin before putting on cooling rack.
- Pore into the baking
- To decorate the cake melt the butter, chocolate, and milk in a microwave and spread out over the cake.
- Sprinkle the chopped hazelnuts on top of the cake.
