Cherry Chocolate Cake (Gluten-Free)

This recipe comes to us from Marie George.
Preheat oven to 350F.
Ingredients:
2 ½ cups rice flour
1 ½ cups white sugar (a diabetic could substitute Splenda)
2 Teaspoons baking soda
1 Teaspoon salt
2 ½ Teaspoons xanthan gum (1 teaspoon per cup of flour)
½ cup Hersheys Baking Cocoa Powder
2/3 cups canola oil
1 Tablespoon Vanilla
2 Cups of clear Soda (Sprite, 7-Up or the like, or cold coffee or water)
2 Tablespoons gluten-free white vinegar
Blend all the dry ingredients together in a 9 x 13 inch baking pan, add the wet ingredients, then the soda last. Stir (do not whip) until all of the dry ingredients are wet. Bake 35 to 40 minutes. Test for doneness by pressing on the center. Remove and let cool before frosting.
Optional: Dusting of ...

This recipe comes to us from Shannon Taylor.
Ingredients:
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup pumpkin
1 teaspoon lemon juice
¾ Featherlite Flour Mix
1 teaspoon gluten-free baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon ginger
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon xanthan gum
Filling:
8 oz. cream cheese
1 cup powdered sugar
4 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
Directions:
Beat eggs for 5 minutes until light in color and thick. Gradually add sugar. Stir in pumpkin and lemon juice. Mix dry ingredients together and fold into pumpkin. Pour into well greased and floured pan (15 x 10)- cookie sheet. Bake at 375F for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and turn onto clean kitchen towel that is sprinkled with powdered kitchen towel th...

½ cup espresso (or very strong coffee)
¼ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
¾ cup white sugar
18 ounces chocolate
1 cup unsalted butter
6 eggs
8 ounces whipping cream
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
Preheat oven to 300F degrees. Set aside an un-greased springform pan.
Add espresso, salt, sugar and baking powder. Stir until completely dissolved and set aside. In microwave oven melt the chocolate, checking for doneness every 30 seconds. Cut the butter into pieces and beat it into chocolate, one piece at a time. Beat in the hot sugar-water. Slowly beat in eggs, one at a time.
Pour the batter in pan and bake cake at 300F degrees for 45 minutes. The center will still look wet; it will also be a little fallen.
As the cake cools, w...

Celiac.com 01/15/2010 - King Cakes are used to select Mardi Gras Kings and Queens as well as to celebrate the season in households and at parties across the country. King Cakes have many looks, the most classic being a crown shaped pastry dotted with the sugared colors of Carnival: purple, gold and green.  Some have fillings, others do not, though they all house a hidden trinket like a plastic (formerly porcelain) baby.
The trinket hidden inside each cake adds to its popularity, although the uninitiated often fail to recognize that finding the trinket inside your piece of cake may come not only with privileges (good fortune and/or becoming the King or Queen of the ball) but just as often with responsibilities (bringing the next cake!). 
Make sure the next person to bring a King C...