Gluten Free Cappuccino Cake recipe
Making a gluten free cake doesn’t have to be hard when you’ve got a Honeybuns cake mix!
This delicious coffee cake is super easy to make and looks and tastes so delicious, no one will ever guess how quick it took to make it! Win win!
The texture of this cake is very similar to Mediterranean almond/polenta based cakes. Namely they are more “low rise” and moister than a typical “sponge cake”.
This is a one tier cake. To make a 2 tier cake, double the quantities, and then double the amount of icing to sandwich it together.
Suitable for: Gluten free
To make this cake dairy free, we would recommend that you use rapeseed oil, replacing the 170g butter with 170 ml of rapeseed oil.
Ingredients
140g Brown sugar
70g Sorghum flour
70g Ground Almonds
25g Ground golden flaxseed
1.5 tsp Gluten free Baking powder
0.2 tsp Vanilla powder
2 Eggs
170g Butter, melted
200ml Very strong coffee, cooled
Icing
100g Butter, softened
200g Icing sugar
1 tsp Vanilla extract
Instant powdered coffee, for dusting
Method for the cake
Firstly, grease and line a 7’/18cm round cake tin and pre-heat the oven to 180°C / Gas 4.
To make the cake, empty the dry ingredients into a large bowl, add the 2 eggs and stir.
Melt the butter and slowly add this to the mixture, then whisk until a smooth batter is formed.
Next, add the coffee and stir thoroughly before adding the mixture into the tin.
Bake for 25-30 minutes until golden brown and well risen.
We suggest that you use a clean skewer in order to check your cake is baked in the middle, as sometimes it can look brown on the outside but isn’t fully cooked yet.
Once you’ve removed your cake from the oven, allow it to sit for a minute before turning it out onto a wire rack and leaving it to cool before icing.
Method for the icing
To make the butter cream, put the slightly softened butter into a bowl and beat with an electric whisk until light and fluffy.
Sieve the icing sugar into the butter and whizz for 2 minutes, then add the vanilla extra and whisk again until it has all come together.
Transfer your butter cream onto your fully cooled cake and distribute evenly before lightly dusting with a powdered coffee and decorating with your choice of topping! We’ve opted for chocolate stars!
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