Gluten Free Strawberry Cake

ChristyE's Note:

Using "Granny's Strawberry Cake" from RecipeZaar as inspiration, I created this GF cake for my Celiac daughter's birthday. I frost it with a simple vanilla buttercream frosting (pink, of course!).

• Total Time: 45 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 12

• 2 ½ cups gluten-free flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 2⁄3; cup oil
• 4 eggs
• 1 (3 ounce) box strawberry gelatin
• 1 (16 ounce) container frozen strawberries with sugar , thawed
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ½ teaspoon salt

Directions:

1. In a large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients. Mix with an electric mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes.
2. Pour into two greased 9-inch pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean (40 minutes for a 9x13 pan; 20 minutes for cupcakes).

Reviews

[julesowen]

Just wanted to say... BEST RECIPE EVER!!!
I am not gluten free, but my roommate is, so I found this recipe and made the cake for her... and let me just say, DELICIOUS!
Everyone loved it! She was the only GF person at her party, but everyone was raving about it.
The only revisions I made was I blended the strawberries in a food processor before adding to the mix so that there weren't any big chunks. And I also used a GF Baking Mix (by NOW foods), which already had the salt, xanthan gum, & baking powder in it, so I did omit the salt and xanthan gum, but I added the baking powder still because I had heard that GF baking does better with the extra help to rise.
It cooked beautifully in two 9 in pans and then I lavished some wonderful homemade cream cheese icing on it (1 8oz pkg cream cheese, 1 stick of margarine, 1-2tsp vanilla, 3 cups powdered sugar) and it was perhaps one of the most delicious cakes to have entered my mouth. and trust me, many cakes have entered this mouth. :)

[MamanOf3]

Great recipe! My kids and I made two of these cakes for mother's day tomorrow. One for church, and one for our mother's day festivities at my parent's house. We used 2 cups fresh strawberries instead with a couple of heaping tablespoons extra sugar and 1/4 cup of water. For the gluten-free flour blend, I used what I had on hand (1 cup sorghum flour, 1 cup potato starch, 1/2 cup gf oat flour). I just sliced off a bit of the edge of one of the cakes for a taste and thought it was really good. By the way, I am not a gf, my parent's and son are, so I know that this tastes pretty close to the real thing. I plan filling one cake with vanilla pudding and icing with straberry frosting. Thanks for the post!