Fruit cake with no flour pleeeese!

Sarahsaver

I had a recipe when i was a teenager in the 80's, Patrick Anthony did it on Look east. There was no flour and no eggs, and i think no fat either! I was a vegan at the time. Now I'm an 'eat anything that moves except stilton' omnivore, but I have a friend who cant eat flour. Party on Tues and I want to make a cake.

crossleydd42

Try this webpage: http://www.doingfreedom.com/gen/1102/flourlessrecipes.html
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ritaing

Hi, Is it wheat in the flour or gluten that they cannot eat i have a good sponge cake recipe that is gluten free.
Oven Temperature 180c/160c fan/350f/gas mark 4
Ingredients,
150g/5oz Glutafin Gluten-free White Mix
1 5ml tsp Gluten-Free Baking Powder
110g/4oz Caster Sugar
2 Medium Eggs
110g/4oz Soft Margarine
1 5ml tsp Natural Vannilla Essence

Put all ingredients in a bowl and mix well beat for 2 minutes until light and pale and fluffy pour into two 7''cake tins and bake for 20 minutes until the sponge is pale golden brown and springs back when lightly touched dont cook too long it goes hard on the bottom sandwich together with cream or jam dust with icing sugar. I fill mine with whipped cream greek yoghurt and asda extra special lemon curd mmmmmmmm. Rita. You can use other gluten free flour and you can buy it in supermarket.

troll35

I assume your friend needs gluten free food. This site has a cake that uses gluten free flour which you can pick up in most large supermarkets or healthfood shops.

http://www.abc.net.au/farnorth/stories/s979475.htm
or
http://www.glutafin.co.uk/en/article.asp?chco_id=308 which uses something called glutafin fibre mix. On the same site in the christmas cake and brandy trifle recipe it refers to the above recipe for rich fruit cake as being gluten and wheat free.
hope this helps.
You may be able to find other alternatives if you search on google for gluten and wheat free recipes.

ritaing

Hi me again i didn't see that you wanted fruit cake so here is one.
Oven Temperature 170c/150c fan/325f/gas mark 3
175g/6oz Glutafin Gluten-free fibre mix
225g/8oz Mixed Dried Fruit
50g/2oz Cherries
1 5ml tsp Gluten-free Baking Powder
110g/4oz Soft Margarine
110g/4oz Soft Brown Sugar
2 Medium Eggs
50g/2oz Ground Almonds
1 Lemon grated rind of

Topping
25g/1oz Demerara Sugar

Reserve 2 15ml tbsp of the Fibre Mix and combine with the dried fruit and cherries. Place remaining ingredients into a large mixing bowl. Beat together for 2 mins until light and fluffy. Stir in the fruit and spoon the mixture into a greased and lined 7'' deep round cake tin or a 2lb loaf tin. Smooth the surface with a spoon dipped in water. Bake until pale golden brown in colour and a skewer comes outclean when inserted in the centre of the cake. Sprinkle with the demerara sugar topping and bake for a further 5 mins. Leave until cold before removing from tin.Rita

Sarahsaver

this is great:)
there was a recipe with no flour or any flour substitute must be on a scrap of paper at my mums house somewhere!

Noozan

This is the flourless recipe I use:

1lb mincemeat
12oz mixed dried fruit
4oz chopped dried apricots
4oz chopped figs
4oz chopped glace cherries
4oz walnut pieces
8oz crushed cornflakes
4 eggs
can of evaportaed milk
1 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp baking powder

Put all the ingredients into a large bowl and beat together. Bake in a 10 inch double lined and greased tin at 150 degrees for approx 1 3/4 hours. Leave to cool in tin for 10 mins; then turn out onto wire rack.

I usually just decorate with a bit of glace fruit on top but this cake will ice and marzipan ok, if you want to do it as an alternative Christmas cake.

juno

Noozan wrote:

This is the flourless recipe I use:

1lb mincemeat
12oz mixed dried fruit
4oz chopped dried apricots
4oz chopped figs
4oz chopped glace cherries
4oz walnut pieces
8oz crushed cornflakes
4 eggs
can of evaportaed milk
1 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp baking powder

Put all the ingredients into a large bowl and beat together. Bake in a 10 inch double lined and greased tin at 150 degrees for approx 1 3/4 hours. Leave to cool in tin for 10 mins; then turn out onto wire rack.

I usually just decorate with a bit of glace fruit on top but this cake will ice and marzipan ok, if you want to do it as an alternative Christmas cake.

If you do this one then make sure your baking powder doesn't have flour in! A lot of shop bought ones do.

wigginsmum

If it has to be gluten-free be wary of some cornflakes because they're made with malt extract.

Jules

Noozan

juno wrote:

If you do this one then make sure your baking powder doesn't have flour in! A lot of shop bought ones do.

Thanks for that, it didn't occur to me! I just had a dig in my cupboard and the "Super Cook" baking powder says it's gluten free :xmassmile

juno

Noozan wrote:

Thanks for that, it didn't occur to me! I just had a dig in my cupboard and the "Super Cook" baking powder says it's gluten free :xmassmile

I make my own with cream of tatar, bircarb of soda and cornflour. It's 2 spoons of one to one of the others, but I can't remember which.