lightly lemon gluten free white cake – geoff’s new favorite!

Lightly Lemon Gluten Free White Cake. Perfect for layer or birthday cakes. gfandme.comThis gluten free white cake is Geoff’s new favorite cake! We have been trying to come up with a great white cake recipe for a couple of years now, and I think this is it. The lemon is very mild – just enough to add the smallest hint of citrus – so what you are left with is a moist, airy not-too-sweet vanilla cake. If you follow this blog, you know I am not much of a cake decorator (this is about as fancy as I can get) but if you are so inclined, this would be a fantastic recipe to use for a birthday cake or a gf layer cake. Sandwiched on either side of a layer of lemon custard or raspberry jam, it would be to die for!

Great tasting white cake, like white bread, is hard to make gluten free. Unlike, say, a chocolate cake, there’s just nothing in a white cake to hide the unfamiliar aftertaste that some gf flours leave behind. In this recipe, though, the combination of the almond flour and the lemon does just that, but without taking over from the delicate vanilla. We’ll be making this one again…and again…and again… (Scroll down for the recipe.)

Like this? You might like these other recipes from gfandme.com:

Orange Chiffon Cake. gfandme.comgluten free orange chiffon (a bit nit picky, but worth it!)

gluten free cream puffs. gfandme.comgluten free rice flour cream puffs (you won’t believe how easy these are!)

gluten free chocolate potato cakechocolate potato cake (mashed potatoes never tasted so good)

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chocolate hazelnut cupcakes with Nutella frosting

You can really taste the hazelnut flour in these rich and decadent chocolate hazelnut cupcakes. Great served plain, but once you add the creamy Nutella frosting (recipe below) you will NOT be able to stop at one!  chocolate hazelnut cupcakes. gfandme.com I used to make the glutenous version of these almost every year for Geoff for Valentine’s Day. He LOVED them. So when I found hazelnut flour in the grocery store the other day, I knew exactly what I was going to do with it – convert his old favorite to gluten free. I figured it’d be good, but it turned out even better than I expected! We actually like the gluten free version better. The hazelnut flour gives the cakes a more complex flavour and better texture. Scroll down and hit continue reading for the recipe.

Looking for gluten free Valentine’s Day treats? You might like these other recipes from gfandme.com

gluten free sponge cake made in the microwavemicrowave, single serving sponge cake (for the Valentine who’s in a hurry!)

gluten free ferrero rocher. gf and meGluten free ferrero rocher (easier than you’d think!)

gluten free dark chocolate cake Dark Chocolate Cake (Valentine’s Day classic!)

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