Icing

[KarenFe]

I have seen several gluten-free cakes online and they don't have icing on them. Is icing ok for someone on a gluten-free diet to have? I sure hope so!

I'm looking for a good vanilla gluten-free cake as well as a chocolate one. Does anyone have any favorites?

Thanks so much!

Karen

[sixtytwo]

My favorite vanilla frosting is: one stick of butter, 8 oz. of cream cheese, a bag of confectioner's sugar, a couple of teaspoons of gluten-free vanilla and milk to make it the consistency you want it. To make chocolate frosting, add real cocoa to it to make it as strong or light as you want it. I love to make cupcakes and have one of those cupcake trees, which make such a fun birthday time or for any occasion. Have fun.

[happygirl]

Gluten free pantry chocolate cake mix.

Icing: Open Original Shared Link

[caek-is-a-lie]

I like to make Bob's Red Mill Chocolate Cake from the mix and make my own chocolate butter cream frosting from the recipe on the back of the Ghiradelli cocoa power (baking cocoa) can. But I only use 1 cup of sugar because that's really all it needs. The best part is, there's no rice in any part of this cake (I'm rice intolerant, too, lucky me.)

[jerseyangel]

Our favorite--Cause Your Special Moist Lemon Cake Mix with homemade buttercream frosting. I use the frosting recipe on the side of the Domino's Confectioner's Sugar Box.

[NorthernElf]

I'm lazy so I buy icing - I've had success with the canned Great Value brand from Walmart. However - some brands DO have wheat starch in them, so read those labels !

[purple]

Here is my favorite homemade choc. cake and its super easy:

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I like to add 3/4 cups of choc. chips or part peanut butter chips. I have made it with rice flour mix or sorghum flour mix or some of both and its great everytime. I doubled it and made a 2 layer cake with the directions for Rissaroos black forrest cake (recipes below).

Here is a really yummy frosting. It makes more than enough for a 2 layer cake so you may want to make 1/2 a recipe:

https://www.celiac.com/gluten-free/index.php?showtopic=48238

I remembered an old favorite I used to make:

Fluffy Pudding Frosting

1 cup cold milk

1 sm. pkg instant pudding mix (gluten-free)

1 8oz. cool whip

Pour milk into bowl, add pudding mix. Whisk until blended, 2 mins.

Stir in cool whip, gently, with rubber scraper until all one color. Frost, keep cake/cupcakes in fridge. Frosts 24 cupcakes. (I had extra fluff to eat with a spoon...mm.