GF Cider Cake From Wren Bay
September 13, 2013
Wren Bay loves to cook, so she has lots of recipes. One of the recipes in the novel is a Cider Apple Cake, using a full cup of cider. It goes without saying the fresher and taster your cider, the better the cake is. I wanted to make this cake for our Sunday dinner but I wanted to make a gluten free version. I am not sure if they used sorghum or oat flour in 1918, (I know they did use almond flour) so I am do not think Wren would be making this. Having said that, if Wren was around today she would so be on the GF bandwagon, if only because it is healthy to no eat too much gluten!
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Gluten Free Cider Cake
Makes one 8’”cake
½ cup of brown sugar or rapadura (I now use coconut sugar)
½ cup, 1 stick butter, softened
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup cider
1 cup of roughly chopped apples (you can leave the skins on)
Dry ingredients
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground ginger
½ tsp ground mace
½ tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
½ cup almond flour
½ cup GF oat flour
½ sorghum flour
Preheat over 325°F
Grease an 8” cake pan.
Cream butter and sugar together in a mixer for a minute, till creamy. Add one egg at a time, then vanilla. In a bowl stir dry ingredients together. Mix in half the dry, add cider and mix in the rest of the dry. Stir in apples and pour batter in greased pan.
Bake 40-50, minutes, till a wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
Notes:
1. An all purpose GF baking mix can be used instead of the almond/oat/sorghum mix.
2. Replacing a 1/4 of cup cider with dark rum is yummy.
3. I like to serve my cake with caramel sauce!
Cider Cake is my very bestest Fall favorite, Clarice. Yours looks heavenly!
Thank you so much for sharing...
Posted by: Louise | September 17, 2013 at 06:33 AM
Yumm! We're doing a lot of GF recipes (we don't have medical conditions that require us to be GF we just have read a lot about how bad wheat is for your insulin levels)
Posted by: Manuela@a cultivated nest | September 15, 2013 at 05:53 PM
Sounds and looks delicious!
Posted by: Tracy A. | September 14, 2013 at 04:14 AM
And those plates, how simply beautiful they are. How lucky you are to have them, especially at this time of year.
Tessa~
Posted by: Tessa | September 13, 2013 at 06:55 AM
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! How delightful!!!
I have to live Gluten Free. My next-door daughter in law does also.
Oh wow, what a delightful and delicious treat, for us. :-)
Thank you my Dear. Thank you "muchly".
Tessa~
Posted by: Tessa | September 13, 2013 at 06:53 AM