This gluten free loaf cake is perfect if your just finding your feet as a gluten free baker. Its great tasting and easy to make, the whole thing is done within an hour. Chocolate and coconut is a flavour combination thats been tried and tested and the coconut does an amazing job of keeping your sponge from drying out.
So what’s stoping you? Give this one a try, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
Gluten free chocolate and coconut loaf cake
2017-08-26 12:00:12
Serves 8
Delicious layers of coconut and chocolate sponge, topped with chocolate icing
Prep Time
20 min
Cook Time
40 min
Total Time
1 hr
For the cake
- 150g Butter, softened
- 100g Caster sugar
- 50g Soft brown sugar
- 3 Eggs
- 1tsp Vanilla paste
- 125g Doves gluten free self raising flour
- 25g Ground almonds
- 50g desiccated coconut
- 2tbsp Coco powder
- A pinch of salt
For the icing
- 55 Butter, softened
- 85g icing sugar
- 30g cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp milk
Instructions
- 1. Preheat oven to 180c/160c fan/gas 4. Grease and line your tin.
- 2. Mix 50g of the light brown sugar with your caster sugar and salt. Cream this with the butter until its light and fluffy.
- 3. Beat in your eggs one at a time, making sure each is fully incorporated before adding the next. Add 1tsp of vanilla paste with your last egg.
- 4. Mix together the flour with your xanthan gum and ground almonds. Incorporate this with your egg mixture, bit by bit, making sure you have no lumps.
- 5. Take around 1/3 of your mix and add it to another bowl. To this add the coco powder and beat to incorporate.
- 6. Add your coconut to the larger mixture and beat until incorporated.
- 7. Add half of your coconut mixture into the tin and spread evenly.
- 8. Add all of your chocolate mixture into the tin and spread evenly.
- 9. Finally add the remainder of your coconut mixture into the tin and spread evenly.
- 10. Bake for 40minutes then test the cake by inserting a skewer into the deepest part. If it doesn't come out clean return the cake to the oven 5 minutes at a time, until it does.
- 11. While the cake is cooling, add your icing ingredients to a clean bowl and beat until its light and fluff
- 12. Once your cakes fully cooled down, add a layer of icing on the top.
Notes
- Turn this into a marble cake by alternately adding small amounts of each batter and running a knife through the resulting mix right before adding to the oven.
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