Gluten Free Cake Mix

OMG we've hit the motherload!  FINALLY some one is jumping on the Gluten Free Cake bandwagon.  We made this tonight and substituted one of the teaspoons of vanilla with LemonExtract.  It was so moist, not grainy or heavy like some of the other ones we have tried.

Chocolate Covered Cake Doughnuts

Vanilla (Yellow) Cupcakes

(recipe from Cooking With Coconut Flour by Bruce Fife )

3 tablespoons butter, melted

3 tablespoons coconut milk

3 eggs

1/3 cup sugar or substitute (we use Zsweet mixed with Sugar Twin)

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 cup sifted coconut flour

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

Blend together butter, eggs, sugar, salt, coconut milk & vanilla.  Combine coconut flour with baking powder & whisk into batter until there are no lumps.  Pour batter into greased muffin cups.  Bake at 400 degrees F (205 C) for 15 minutes.  Top with frosting of your choice.  Makes 6 cupcakes.  

For the 'doughnuts' we used a mini bundt cake pan.  

Frosting:

Melted sugar free dark & milk chocolate discs with a little bit of coconut oil (to thin it down, but the coconut oil sets back up so it's not too thin once dried).

Who says we can't have your cake and eat it too?

Well since most frostings have sugar in them, we haven't been able to find one without, Rob made us Chocolate Cake today, using our Coconut/Almond Pancake Mix Recipe Found Here:  He added about 1/8-1/4 cup of Cocoa using Special Dark Cocoa, then a little extra sweetener (ZSweet).  Then for the frosting it is any Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe, except for storebought powdered sugar which he can't have he made his own using ZSweet/Arrowroot Powder.  For each cup of sugar (Zsweet) you are going to make Powdered sugar out of then add 1-2 Tablespoons of a starch (arrowroot).  He made it powdered in a coffee/spice grinder :-)  Then he added Cocoa to it.  It's REALLY yummy!  We cooked it in a sandwich maker in our office :-)  So the only calories in the icings if from the butter/cream cheese.

For simplicity here's the recipe all in one spot:
Cake Ingredients:
2 eggs
2 T Virgin coconut oil or butter, melted
2 T milk (can use coconut milk)
2 T Stevia or Zsweet
1/4 t salt
1 T sifted coconut flour
2 T Almond Flour
1/2 t baking powder or substitution (1 part Baking Soda, 2 parts Cream of Tartar. 2 parts Starch (we used Arrowroot flour)
capful or Vanilla
1/8-1/4 cup of Cocoa using Special Dark Cocoa
Method:
Blend together eggs, oil, milk, sugar & salt. Combine coconut & almond flours with baking powder & thoroughly mix into batter. Heat 1 T coconut oil in a skillet (we've found about 375 on an electric skillet works well for pancakes. Spoon batter onto hot skillet making pancakes about 2 & 1/2 to 3" in diameter. Batter will be thick, but will flatten out when cooking. Makes about 8 pancakes.


Chocolate Frosting *adjust ingredients as needed to taste
1 package cream cheese
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup powdered sugar (1 cup of ZSweet, 2 T arrowroot powder, blended in blender or coffee/spice grinder).
1 t vanilla extract
1/2 cup Cocoa Powder

Directions

1. In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter until creamy. Mix in the vanilla, then gradually stir in the confectioners' sugar. Store in the refrigerator after use.