The Best Gluten Free White Cake

A few years ago, my best friend asked if I would make her a gluten free white cake. In my relative newness to gluten free baking, I assured her that I could do that. Ha. It took me 6, maybe 7-8, different recipe attempts, (I stopping counting after I dumped the third mess into the trash.) The taste and/or texture was never quite right.

If you are familiar with gluten free baking, then you likely already know that recipes for traditional chocolate desserts are fairly simple to convert to gluten-free most of the time. This is evidenced by The Best Gluten Free Chocolate Cake, no one ever believes that one is gluten-free. This is not true for all dessert recipes. Chocolate provides so much flavor that without it, the more “unique” flavors of the gluten free flour alternatives will often show through. This made it much harder to achieve a classic white cake flavor.

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m rather picky about my gluten free baking. (It has caused many an eye roll from my husband as I decide something just isn’t quite right, while he and my kids are happily devouring it. ha) Because I am not restricted from eating the traditional versions myself, I often make both items side by side to taste the both versions and see if the gluten free recipe measures up. “Good enough for gluten free” isn’t something I ever want to share with you.

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups brown rice flour
• 2/3 cup potato starch
• 1/3 cup tapioca starch
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
• 4 eggs
• 2 cups white sugar
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 cup butter melted and cooled
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon almond extract

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease (2) 8" round cake pans with butter and line the bottom of each pan with a greased parchment circle. Stir together the dry ingredients and set aside. Beat the eggs and the sugar together until creamy. Add half of the dry ingredients and beat again. Add the buttermilk, butter, vanilla and almond extracts and beat to combine. Add the remaining dry ingredients and beat just until combined.
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For Complete Instructions : barefeetinthekitchen.com

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