Gluten free Lime-Raspberry Cake

 

Gluten free quick lime-raspberry cake

The beauty of this cake is it's simplicity and versatility. You can basically use any flour and add any fruit or flavour, and it will always turn out great. Just stir the ingredients together in five minutes, and 40 minutes later you'll pull a lovely cake out of the oven.

I found the basic recipe on the Romanian site Carte de Retete, performed by Adina's beautiful mini chefs - watch the video, it's too cute, even if you don't understand the Romanian. Originally, it's a cake made with yoghurt and strawberries (prajitura cu iaurt si capsuni). I've made it that way several times and then decided that it's a fantastic base for many variations.

As stated above, you can make it with basically any flour, with or without gluten, it will always turn out yummy.

Since I don't like it very sweet, I reduced the sweetener from 175 g of sugar to a total of 140 g, of which 100 g erythritol (which has only 70% of the sweetness of sugar) and 40 g raw cane sugar. That was plenty sweet for DH and me, but feel free to use the whole 175 g of sugar.

Ingredients for one 24 cm / 9.5 inch round spring form:

• 200 g (7 oz.) flour (any suitable gluten free or normal plain cake flour; I used 100 g/3.5 oz. fine yellow corn flour, 70 g/2.5 oz. sweet rice flour and 30 g/1 oz. potato starch)
• 175 g (6 oz.) sugar (I used 100 g/3.5 oz. erythritol and 40 g/1.5 oz. raw cane sugar)
• 3 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. xanthan if using gluten free flour that doesn't contain any gums
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• juice of 1 lime (ca. 3 tbsp. lime juice)
• zest of 2 limes
• 4 eggs
• 5 tbsp. plain yoghurt
• 3 tbsp. oil (I used olive oil)
• 100 g (3.5 oz.) raspberries, fresh or frozen

Preparation:

• Grease spring form and preheat oven to 150°C / 300°F (fan assisted)
• Place all ingredients except for the raspberries in a large bowl, stir together until well combined, pour into spring form.
• place raspberries on top, press gently down a bit.
• Bake the cake at 150°C / 300°F in a fan assisted oven (or slightly higher temp. in a static oven) for 40-45 minutes.
• Let cool completely.
• Top it with powdered sugar or whipped cream or ice cream, or have it plain like we did, just as you like!

Bon appetit!