Birthday Cake

[tkdman02]

Hello my Wife has celiac disease and it will be her birthday on July 19th she really really wants to have a strawberry cake since she hasn't had one since she was really really young she wants to find a way she can have one, well I am just not sure if the fresh strawberries would mess up the batter? any ideas would be great I was thinking of taking a yellow cake and adding the fruit? or would it be possible to adapt a regular cake recipe down, I was thinking of using maybe a 4 Flour Bean mix from Bette or a Rice flour mix but everything we have tried with rice flour hasn't exactly gone well leaves a stony taste even when xanthum gum is added

[catfish]

I know what you mean about the rice flour. No matter how I cook it, the result always ends up gritty. I've read people's reccomendations to try "sweet" rice flour, which is apparently not really sweet but just ground more finely, which can be purchased at Asian markets. While I have no experience with this yet, I suspect it would be the best approach for baking, especially for cakes. What I would do is look for a good gluten-free yellow cake recipe and substitute strawberry Jello mix for a portion of the sugar required in the recipe. This should give the cake a nice pink color, pleasant flavor, and it will help moisten it as well as make it less crumbly. I think you could probably add some pieces of strawberry to the mix as well, but I'd go easy or you will have to adjust the recipe to compensate for the additional moisture, etc. I think the Jello mix method plus the addition of fresh strawberry topping would be your best bet!

[tkdman02]

Great I will have to try try thanks for the reply

[tammy]

Hi,

I just made a delicious chocolate birthday cake yesterday. I used The Gluten-Free Pantry's mix by Danielle. Perhaps the yellow cake mix with fresh strawberry extract would work and then put fresh strawberries on top of the cake for decorations.

Either way, I am sure she will enjoy the strawberry flavor!!!

[Boojca]

The Gluten-Free Pantry yellow cake is yummy...even the kids at my sons daycare liked it. They asked why it was so "crumby" but other than that, they liked it.