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 Cake  Posted by
IYes, I know we shouldn't but I have an English recipe for fruit cake that converted very well to being made without flour for a friend of mine who wanted a christmas cake. It is alcoholic but not dry, although I suspect you could substitute apple juice for sherry. The original recipe was for Huntsman's Cake from Elisabeth Aynton English Provincial Cooking. Its not a cheap cake but for a one off is great. It freezes well and I usually slice it before freezing but it can be cut when frozen, the alcohol stops it freezing hard. I suspect that it would work well using just dried apples and pears and apple juice or cider.

1/4 lb. (120 g) butter
1/4 lb. (120 g) castor sugar
4 eggs, separated
1/2 lb. (240 g) self raising flour ) used instead 3/4 lb ground almonds and
1/4 lb. (120 g) ground almonds ) cornflour or rice flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 lb. (120 g) currants ) used combination of dried fruits, dates,
1/4 lb ((120 g) candied mixed peel ) apples, pears, apricots, 1/2 lb (240 g) weight
2 oz. (60 g) glace cherries
2 ox (60 g) shredded almonds
8 fl.oz. (2.4 dl) sherry
1 teaspoon sodium bicarbonate
1 tablespoon vinegar. ) I use cider vinegar

Cream the butter and the sugar. Add the egg yolks one at a time, beating well in. Add the flour, ground almonds, salt, currants, peel, cherries and almonds gradually, then pour in half the sherry. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites, and finally the sodium bicarbonate dissolved in the vinegar. Put the cake mixture into a greased and papered tin and cover with a piece of greaseproof paper. Place in a hot oven, 425 degrees F, 220 degrees C, gas mark 7. After 10 minutes lower the heat to 325 degrees F, 170 degrees C, Gas Mark 3, and bake for 2 hours.

When cooked and still very hot, pour over the remaining sherry, by spoonfuls, and leave the cake in the tin, covered with a cloth, until it is quite cold

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 Wedding Cake HELP  Posted by
I have been gluten free for 8 years, and I just got engaged. My biggest dilemma with planning this wedding is what to do about the wedding cake?

I went to a local food fair of all GF products and located a bakery that does gluten free cakes, my problem - don't remember who they were, where they are at, etc. I contacted my local chapter but I'm not sure if they can help me.

I'm in the 'middle' age category where you don't see many people diagnosed with this disease (i was 25 when I was diagnosed). Has anyone had to deal with this??
My first thought was to have an Ice Cream Wedding Cake made, but I'm not sure how it will hold up.

Any suggestions????????
Thanks
Janet

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 Re: Wedding Cake HELP  Posted by Peter
Gluten-free recipes for rich fruit cake using half rice flour and half fine maize flour are almost indistinguishable from those made using wheat flour.

I had a tiered cake, and made the top tier myself - gluten-free, the rest of the cake was ordinary wedding cake for guests made by a friend.
Make sure the person serving the cake knows to cut your slice from the top tier and then keep it safe for you for later.

Peter

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 Re: Wedding Cake HELP  Posted by
I'd really like to find someone else to make this cake for me. I don't want to make my own Wedding Cake. I'm not a decorator nor a baker.

Any other ideas

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 Re: Wedding Cake HELP  Posted by
Hi Janet,
I am a baker located in the United States. I am also a very active international business man. I find products and services for people and companies around the world. If you have not found a baker yet for your cake send me a note and I will see what I can do

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 Re: Wedding Cake HELP  Posted by
Janet, I completely and totally understand how you feel. I am in the process of trying to figure out what to do about a cake myself. What have you decided to do? I know that a lot of times you freeze the cake before you ice it. My Mom and I are thinking we may need to order a mix (like Dowd and Rogers or something) and make the cake a month ahead of time, then have a baker come over to my house and decorate it - so I do not have to worry about cross contamination. Any input you may have might be helpful. Thanks

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 Re: Wedding Cake HELP  Posted by Malka
Janet-
As a wedding cake is a special order, you might consider finding a Kosher bakery and asking if they can make you a non-gebrots passover wedding cake. On passover, Jews can't eat anything make from wheat, barley, rye, oats or spelt(those grains are called mezonos) or any other gluten-containing grain, except for matzah. Some passover cakes are made with ground up matzah (which of course contains gluten). But there are some Jews who won't even eat things made with this matzah meal so they make "non-gebrots" baked goods which are totally free of mezonos and consequently, gluten-free. Depending on the bakery (whether it's Ashkenazic or Sephardic) it may also be corn free and rice free. And they also know exactly how to make a dairy free (paerve) cake if caisen is a consern for you as well. Everything is watched really closely, as contamination is a religious concern (they have seperate equipment for passover cakes that never touches mezonos). So after this lengthy explaination, another option for you if you can't find a gluten-free bakery is to get a non-gebrots passover cake from a kosher bakery. Good luck and congratulations

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 Re: Cake  Posted by
I am delighted to have found this recipe. It was a desperate search for a fruit cake recipe, with little success - until I saw this.

Thank you, I am going to try baking it later today. Unfortunately I do not have almonds or similar, so will just have to improvise!

Many years ago, I had a friend called Liz Hardwick, out of interest

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 Re: Wedding Cake HELP  Posted by
Wedding Cake ReSOLVED!

Just wanted to give you an update (although late as it is) . My wedding was August 23 of 2003 and I had the top layer of my cake specialty made by a local baker which was gluten free. They were familiar with this condition (which shocked me) and were very very helpful. The bottom 2 layers were 'normal' wheat flour cakes, and the top layer was my special cake. No one knew but my family and the groom about the special cake.

We cut into the top layer as our 'first piece' feed eachother, etc. and my husband even ate it - he liked it! Basically it was just a flourless cake they made. It was a little crumbly but it worked out wonderfully!

The top layer was then packaged up for us to take home and the bottom 2 were sliced for the guests.

I live in the western suburbs of Chicago and the baker was in another suburb of Chicago. If anyone is in the vacinity and would like their information, please contact me indivudally at jbrads@acehardware.com and I'll be happy to supply you with their information.

Thanks for all your help and thoughts.
Janet

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 Find a recipe for an eight year old birthday cake (homemade  Posted by
I have an 8 year old niece has been recently diagnosed as having celiac. My own son's 8th birthday is next month and I would like to bake a cake for my niece so she may have a slice of cake in her party bag to take home, (and hopefully the family can enjoy too!). Can any one help

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 Re: Find a recipe for an eight year old birthday cake (homem  Posted by
br /> The easiest way would be to find a health food store to
purchase a pre-packaged gluten-free cake mix. Otherwise
you'll have to purchase many different flours to make a mix
plus buy xanthan gum(quite expensive) and other items you
would not normally have in your cupboard

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 Re: Find a recipe for an eight year old birthday cake (homem  Posted by Peter
Look at http://www.peter-thomson.co.uk/glutenfree/Gluten_free_Cakes_and_buns.html
and the following pages.

http://www.peter-thomson.co.uk/glutenfree/Birthday_Cakes.html


Peter

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 Re: Wedding Cake HELP  Posted by
I am getting married in England In July...do you make gluten free wedding cakes to order????
Hopefully, Paula

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 Re: Wedding Cake HELP  Posted by
Paula,

I'm sorry, I'm not the baker, I found a baker in Chicago that would make a FLOURLESS cake for me.

In England, I've heard its more popular to find gluten free or flourless cakes -

Good luck
Janet

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 Re: Find a recipe for an eight year old birthday cake (homem  Posted by
I loathe the thought of packet mixes as they are always so processed. The following is a delicious cake and no-one realised at my son's birthday that it is gluten free. It is also quite a firm cake and therefore easy to carve if you wish to shape the cake into a novelty cake.

8 oz butter
8 oz caster sugar
8oz grated chocolate
4oz ground almonds
4 oz rice flour ( or plain flour if you don't need to be gluten free)
6 eggs (separated)

beat the butter and sugar to a cream and beat in the chocolate which has been gently melted. Add beaten egg yolks the flour and almonds. lastly fold in the whisked egg whited. Pour into a large round tin or two sandwich tins and bake in a moderate oven for 40 ish minutes or longer if in one tin.

Yummy

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 Re: Wedding Cake HELP  Posted by
I am too searching for a gluten-free cake. My aunt suggested that I make a "normal" wheat cake perhaps a slab cake or similar for our guests and that I make a cheesecake for myself and a few other guests that can not have gluten flour.
Her comment was that as long as it had no crust or a crust of rice cookies vs the normal crust that it would be a nice change. She has celiac disease & i am allergic to wheat plus there is at least one other guest that will be able to eat gluten free product as well.
And she also suggested to serve the cake later so its not a huge focal piece and that way the majority of guests won't really be that focused on the "event" of the cake. More that they just snack on it between dances & drinks.
Our wedding is June 4/05 in Nova scotia, small town & not very ethnic so finding an alternative baker will be justifiably difficult. That's why the cheesecake idea may actually work in my situation. Just a thought--good luck & please consider posting whatever you decide--I'd love to see what your solution was

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