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making gluten-free lemon drizzle cake

Marvellous looking cake isn’t it!  Moist, buttery, my mouth’s watering just looking at that little bubble of lemon loveliness drizzling down the side.  If I tell you this cake is made without any flour will you believe me?
Oh you do?  You’re waiting for the BUT about how it tastes though.
Well, drum roll please…. no ifs, no buts, no maybes.  This cake really tastes as good as it looks. Double helpings all round proved that!  It’s  the perfect choice for anyone who usually has to pass on the delights of baked goodies.  Like 4 year old coeliac Megan who can now have her cake and eat it.
The best gluten free cake I ever made rejected wheat-free flours in favour of ground nuts (mmm cue drooly memories of Chocolate and Orange cake).  This lemon drizzle cake demands the same but with an added twist.  Did you notice the hidden extra in the mixing bowl?

I’ve been wanting to use mashed potato in a pud ever since I visited the Ministry of Food exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.  I doubt a wartime version of this cake would have been as tasty minus the lemons and with rationed amounts of sugar and butter.  I’m willing to find out though and feel re-inspired to have another thumb through my ‘Thrifty wartime ways to feed your family‘ cook book.

to make gluten-free lemon drizzle cake

200g butter, softened
200g sugar
4 eggs
175g ground almonds (replace with polenta or wheat-free flour for a nut free version)
250g cold mashed potato
zest of 3 lemons
2tsp gluten free baking powder (Supercook does one)
For the drizzle:  juice of one lemon, 4 tbsp sugar

  • Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.
  • Butter and line a deep, 20cm round cake tin (serves 8-10)
  • Beat the sugar and butter together until light and fluffy, then gradually add the egg, beating after each addition.
  • Fold in the almonds, cold mashed potato, lemon zest and baking powder.
  • Tip into the tin, level the top, then bake for 40-45 mins or until golden and a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
  • Turn out onto a wire rack after 10 minutes cooling.
  • Mix the granulated sugar and the lemon juice together, then spoon over the top of the cake*, letting it drip down the sides.
  • Let the cake cool completely before slicing.
  • Store in an airtight container in the fridge and eat within 3 days (this won’t be difficult!).  In my experience the moistness and greater quantity of eggs in flour-less cakes means they don’t keep as well (things start to grow!)

* you may have noticed I drizzled the bottom of my cake.  Two reasons for this:
1) I didn’t want to risk the cake collapsing by trying to flip it over
2) the top was so beautifully crusted I thought it would soak in better bottom up.
This is what you can expect it to look like fresh from the oven.
© recipe from the
BBC Good Food website, one of my favourite sources of food porn.  There are many more gluten-free recipes including other deserts and savoury pastries and bakes.

I also have a non-gluten free Easy Peasy Lemon cake recipe

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24 comments

  • Joanna @ Zeb Bakes
    October 3, 2010

    What a fabulous recipe! I will have to share that with my sister who has many coeliac friends who she bakes goodies for. Thanks Nic!

    Reply
  • Tom
    October 3, 2010

    Yum-o!

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  • nina - tabiboo
    October 3, 2010

    Blimey that does look good.

    I haven’t tried baking cakes with mashed potaoe (yet) as it’s eggs that gets my little one – though I did try an egg free lemon drizzle cake – it came out flat!

    Emjoy the rest of the day,

    Nina xxx

    Reply
  • Everlovin' Dad
    October 3, 2010

    Hi Nic, I take it you will keep a piece for your mum
    when you see her this week won’t you?

    Reply
  • Johanna GGG
    October 4, 2010

    What a great recipe! I am sure megan would have been excited to have some cake

    love mashed potato in baking – I’ve tried potato bread, chocolate cake, pizza bases but my favourite would have to be the boston bun! My mum even tried a GF pastry recently which had mashed potato – she loved it

    Reply
  • Simon
    October 4, 2010

    Reading this recipe and looking at your pictures has got my mouth watering and I have only just had my breakfast.

    Reply
  • Norm
    October 4, 2010

    Looks gooooooood! I had a colleague who was gluten-intolerant at my last school and often made cakes which used ground almonds in place of the flour. I have never tried mashed potato in one though!

    Reply
  • Nip it in the bud
    October 4, 2010

    Joanna – a pleasure. When you find a recipe this good you just have to share it!

    Tom – couldn’t agree more 😉

    Nina – that’s a bind not being able to eat eggs. Will keep little Boo in mind if I come across any suitable cake recipes. At least there are lots of biscuity/flapjack alternatives for her

    Dad – ‘fraid not. This is the cake you missed out on at Nan’s last month when everyone had two slices! (always posting a few weeks/months behind!)

    Johanna – I’ll be trawling your archive for sure. Intrigued by the potato pizza base – have been dabbling with the idea of using polenta.

    Simon – I know the feeling! You’d get on well with G who started the day with apple pie for breakfast

    Norm – I shall definitely be doing further experiments with my mash. Perhaps even with my peruvian purples!

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  • mangocheeks
    October 4, 2010

    ID would love this, not sure what he woudl think of the mashed potato in it though. Well I will just have to try it out someday.

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    • Nip it in the bud
      October 4, 2010

      don’t tell him it’s there and he’ll never know. None of my tasters could guess what the secret ingredient was!

      Reply
  • Margaret
    October 5, 2010

    What a lovely lemon drizzle cake. The mashed potato must have made it lovely and moist too.

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    • Nip it in the bud
      October 7, 2010

      thanks, it did. I used floury red skinned potatoes from the allotment – they broke down beautifully in the water and needed hardly any mashing

      Reply
  • Ann
    October 6, 2010

    Looks delicious, I must try it, I love lemon flavour and also fancy trying the mashed potato idea.

    Reply
    • Nip it in the bud
      October 7, 2010

      reckon it would work well with all sorts of combinations :o)

      Reply
  • Mel
    October 15, 2010

    Tracy made the lemon drizzle cake for Megan and Olivia’s Christening yesterday and it really was delicious. Nobody guessed the secret ingredient!

    Reply
    • Nip it in the bud
      November 8, 2010

      Mel – glad to hear it :o)

      Reply
  • Choclette
    November 7, 2010

    Now just think how this would have looked if you’d used the Peruvians. Sounds like a fantastic cake – really moist and delicious.

    Reply
  • Nip it in the bud
    November 8, 2010

    Purple cake is definitely next on my list (still not loving the dry texture of Peruvians on their own). I wonder if the lemon flavour with a non-yellow coloured cake will be too much of a mind bend?

    Reply
  • Gilllie
    June 14, 2013

    Cake in oven now! Can I freeze when cold?

    Reply
    • Nip it in the bud
      June 14, 2013

      Hi Gillie, I hope you were pleased with how it turned out. re. freezing, I have no idea I’m afraid – ours was eaten so quickly it wasn’t something I even had to consider. All I would say is that as it’s so moist I’d be a bit wary of freezing as I’m not sure if it would be soggy when it defrosted? that’s just me though as I’ve never been very successful at freezing things and being happy with the thawed result.

      Reply
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