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A few weeks ago I asked for help re this problem as gdau had just become gluten-free. Gson's birthday yesterday. Recipe from net using gluten free flour and baking powder with veg oil and milk instead of butter. Was very wary as kept picking up info re baked items staying fresh.

OH made it under my instructions and it was beautifully moist - a chocolate sponge made Thursday evening, filled and topped with chocolate double cream yesterday and due to hiccup not picked up until this morning when six of us tested it -- Delicious - so moist - am thinking of trying recipe with ordinary flour etc for us.

OH so proud of his first cake and gdau took his photo with it!!!!

Well that is just lovely Chris.... Well done to OH and more importantly.......It seems Gson and Gdau are proud of him too!! ;-)

Glad its a sucess ...we often prefer wheat/gluten free foods

PH - They do - they love their Gramps dearly and although in their twenties are not afraid to show it!!!

Kemp - I was so pleased with it and happy for OH - I kept saying to him this is new to me, it may not work, but it did!!!!

How funny Chris, because i imagined the Grandchildren to be 3 or 4 yrs old!! Doh!! :S

Congrats on the b`thday cake...................would you like to share the recipe
with us.

Ta.


xxx

Chris ....dont sound so suprised we the general public have been fooled into thinking wheat is best but as many of us are finding its not!!!
Good Luck with more foods

Ice cream made with soya milk is good to

CHOCOLATE SPONGE

RB - 7 oz gluten-free flour, 6 ozs castor sugar, 2 teaspns gluten-free baking powder, 1 teaspn baking soda (bicarb), 2 tablespns cocoa powder, 2 eggs, 180 mils veg. oil, 180 mils milk and 2 tablespns treacle.

Place all dry ingredients in bowl, add the rest and mix for 2 minutes with beater. Pour into two lined 8" sandwich tins and bake at 160o for 25 minutes or as I do (cannot be faffing with sandwich tins) use 8 " lined cake tin and bake for about 45 minutes.

When cool split and place a layer of favourite jam on top and cover with butter cream or fresh cream (add melted chocolate), repeat with second section.

Please note oven temp for standard electic oven NOT fan oven which should be about 150o.

NB please note if using loose bottomed tins DO NOT push up the bottom but hold by sides as this mix is pure liquid! OH nearly did untiI I yelled in time!!

Enjoy!!!

PH - I was very very young mother (lol) as I used to say if dau wished to be 25 that was her problem I was 38 and sticking!

wonderful chris. so glad it turned out well.
How well I know how exciting a good GF result can be! Now there's nothing holding you back!!
mary

Aargh. I was going to pass it on to my sister with her gluten-free kid ... but it's all in those weird Englishy measurements! ;)

With the weird Englishy ingredients ... castor sugar, treacle ...

It looks like only the flour really needs converting, and I might be able to do that w/o too much trouble.

Suggesting that my sister bake something ... that would be the roadblock ...

Janey we can now get GF cake mixes here in S Ontario (Betty Crocker ones are really good, better than Glutino), but still much less variety than in the states, so I pop over the (Niagara) river to N Falls,NY to buy GF mixes and GF pretzels (MUCH cheaper than here even with exchange). Whip up a cake mix in 5 mins and it's in the oven. Bulk barn has some GF mixes in bulk now too. I do GF mixes from scratch as well, so if your sister needs recipes, Canadian-style, drop me a line.
Mary :-)

MM, I should have thought -- I spent part of a week at my sister's last month, splitting my time between babysitting her cats and mum-sitting in the same little town, and when I was raiding the cupboards and drawers in her House&Garden new kitchen, I did see all sorts of packaged mixes for gf things.

I know she has made bread froms scratch in a breadmaker with rice flour, but she managed to make a two-hour production out of the mixing at Christmas. I know because we were waiting for her, to do something else. She's not a scratch kind of gal like me. And she's like a mule when she's doing something, but let somebody else slow things down ...

Chris's recipe just sounded kind of scrumptious. Maybe when we go down for the multiple-birthday party in the summer I'll give it a try myself!

Meanwhile, I have to whip up a couple dozen of my mini-cornmeal & chili pizzas for the freezer myself today. I might take some of them down for them, too.

I seem to have a psychological block to making decent gf bread but the other things turn out fine. mini-cornmeal pizzas sound good . . . . may roll up my sleeves.
mary <3