Gluten the Enemy

Gluten-Free Hungarian Fruit Cake

Ms H   Judit Hadnagy 

It is a delicious cake with low sugar content and full of nuts: walnut and almond. It is excellent for breakfast with honey and marmalade.

The preparation takes 15 minutes and the baking 50 minutes.

Ingredients:

4 medium	Eggs
100g	Brown sugar
100g	Gluten-free flour (Dove Farm)
40g	Maize flour
10g	Potato starch
1 tsp	Baking powder
1 tsp	Xantan gum
100 g	Sultana
60g	Walnut chopped
60g	Almond chopped

Method:

·      Set the oven to 180⁰C

·      Separate two eggs into 2 bowls

·      Mix the flours, with xanthan gum and baking powder

·      Whisk the egg whites until gets hard

·      Add two more eggs, the sugar to the egg yolks and mix them well until gets white.

·      Add all the remaining ingredients and mix them well.

·      Finally add the egg white to the mixture.

·     Transfer the pastry into a baking tin ( 25cm x 10cm x 8cm)

·      Place the baking tin into the preheated oven for 50 minutes.

Optional: Cover the cold cake with marzipan