gluten-free Pink Girly-girl Bday Cake... Yum!

[anerissara]

Ok, I know I just posted about my first cake success, but I had to add this one for those of you with little girls...a "real" birthday cake! And my hubby's picky family all liked it, in fact one of the relatives who is not gluten-free got the recipe because she liked it.

My dd just turned 4 and she wanted a "pink cake with white frosting and flowers". I did some calling around and found that nestle's strawberry syrup (for milk) is gluten-free...so I made a strawberry birthday cake with cream-cheese frosting and butter cream flowers. It tasted just like the cake mixes that the kids used to love for their birthdays, and it holds up amazingly well so you could do cakes in different forms--the castle molds, or barbie-dress cakes baked in a glass mixing bowl. Here's the recipe:

STRAWBERRY BIRTHDAY CAKE

1 cup rice flour

1 1/4 cups corn starch or tapioca starch

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking soda

3 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. xanthan gum

4 eggs

1 1/4 cup white sugar

2/3 cup mayonaise (gluten-free)

1/2 cup Nestle strawberry syrup (NOT powder, the powder is not gluten-free!)

1/2 cup milk or milk replacer

1. preheat oven to 350 F (175 C). Grease and rice flour two 8 or 9 inch cake pans (or 4 cupcake pans).

2. Mix the rice flour, corn or tapioca starch, salt, baking soda, baking powder and xanthan gum together and set side.

3. Mix the eggs, sugar, and mayo until fluffy. Add the flour mixture, milk and syrup (mixed together) and mix well. Spread batter into the prepared pans.

4. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Caks are done when they spring back when lightly touched or when a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. (If the cake is not done in the center after 25 minutes, I turn down the oven to 200 and let them sit another 5 minutes, then check again). Let cool, take out of pans and frost!

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

2 bars gluten-free cream cheese or Toffuti, if you can't have milk

about 2 cups powdered sugar (I use less, you can keep tasting it until you get it sweet enough for you)

2 tsp. gluten-free vanilla

2 to 4 tbsp. milk or milk replacement

Cream the bars of cheese in a mixer, add sugar 1/4 cup at a time until you reach the desired sweetness. Add vanilla, beat until fluffy. Add milk or milk replacer until you reach a consistancy that's easy to spread.

[teebs in WV]

ooooooooh - this sounds good! I always loved pink cakes! Thanks for sharing.

Tracy

[jerseyangel]

Sounds delicious--and pretty

[Sweetfudge]

mmm, sounds really good! i wish i had a reason to make a cake

[Pink-Bunny]

oooo that sounds really good...

maybe I'll make that for my gram's birthday in feb

[ShannonMarie]

thank you so much. My boyfriend loves strawberry cake and I have been trying to figure out how to make it gluten free. You have no idea how excited I was to see your post.