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Best gluten-free sponge?
Hello, I’d like to make some cakes which need to be reasonably sturdy so I can carve them and either decorate with sugarpaste or chocoform (I’ve got Mayen’s rocket cake and Paul Bradford’s wrap cake in mind) but I also need to cater for coeliac-sufferers. Chocolate, vanilla and lemon sponges would all be very welcome. Any suggestions?
There’s a member recipe here http://www.cakeflix.com/questions/gluten-free
If you type in the above search box ‘gluten free’ you’ll see other suggestions, links for recipes and also for web sites who supply gluten free cake mixes.
Thanks to both of you! The recipe suggested using the link from madeitwithlove looks a little complicated to me as it’s made up of quite a few dry ingredients including ground almonds and I’m just not certain that I won’t have a nut-allergy sufferer at the party…
I’ll have a go at Ali244’s suggestion as I already have the Doves Farm gluten-free flour – fingers crossed! I may even end up doing a tier of normal and a tier of gluten-free of the same recipe so I can see if anyone can taste the difference – apart from the ones intolerant to gluten of course; that would not be good!
