Gluten-free Gingerbread Cake
I love gingerbread. I love the dark, moist, spiciness of it. The primary flours I use are teff and brown rice. You can substitute cornmeal or corn flour for the brown rice flour. I think cornmeal and molasses are a magical combination. My grandmother used to make steamed brown bread and cornmeal and molasses are both essential ingredients in it. I’ll rework a recipe at some point so we can start enjoying some gluten-free brown bread too! But for now, here’s a gingerbread cake!
Gluten-free Gingerbread Cake
1/3 cup butter/oil
1 cup applesauce
3/4 cup warm water
2/3 cup molasses
1/4 cup honey or agave
1/2 cup ground flax
1 cup brown rice flour*
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1 1/2 cup teff flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. sea salt
1 Tbsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. ground ginger
3/4 tsp. ground cloves
Mix top seven ingredients (above line). This allows the cornmeal/flour or rice flour an opportunity to moisten a bit. Mix dry ingredients separately and then combine with the wet ingredients. Spread in a 8 x 11 1/2 inch cake pan and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.
*or corn flour or cornmeal
For a fancy version: make this an “upside-down cake” by layering the bottom of the cake pan with thinly sliced pears or apples before pouring the cake batter over top. It’s also really special baked in a cast-iron skillet.
© 2010 Kim Wilson, www.simplynaturalhealth.com/recipeblog
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Kim Wilson has spent over 12 years developing recipes based on whole, natural ingredients. She has seven diet and health books currently in print and still enjoys working on recipes to satisfy a variety of needs. She is particularly motivated to develop recipes that help those dealing with food allergies and conditions like candida. If you are looking for tasty recipes that avoid animal products, wheat, soy, dairy, eggs, yeast and other problematic foods, you've come to the right place. It's Kim's sincere hope that you find some highly enjoyable, highly beneficial foods on this blog. You can check out more articles as well as information on her books at www.simplynaturalhealth.com
Great recipe! We all loved it. It sure is nice to have some healthier gf recipes. I love that this recipe doesn’t use refined sugar and that it uses flax. I can feel good about what we are eating. Thank you!
I like gingerbread, but I wasn’t sure the rest of my family would, especially not the ones who don’t want to or need to go gluten-free. However, everyone has enjoyed it and I’ve even made it twice in one week. I’m so happy to have a recipe that everyone likes that is also healthy and gluten-free. I figure it is better than bread with tons of honey or cinnamon sugar on it, which is what some of my kids might normally choose. Thanks for figuring out the recipe and posting it.
So glad to hear it was a hit with the family.