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Birthday Cake Recipe?


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pinky Apprentice

Hi,

It's my dad's 60th birthday today, and I'm going to visit him this weekend to celebrate. I want to make a birthday cake that *I* can enjoy too. (As I've learned that trying to eat the frosting off of "normal" cake doesn't work for me-- I wind up eating the cake due to lack of willpower and make myself sick and guilty-feeling for days...)

That being said, I want the cake to taste GOOD, and I don't want to have to practice and such. Also, did I mention I don't really cook, so it needs to be easy to make too.

Yes, a tall order!

Can anyone help me??

Thanks!


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jerseyangel Proficient

The best in my opinion is The Gluten Free Pantry Cake and Cookie Mix. I think it tastes better than conventional white cake mixes. Happy birthday to your dad :)

penguin Community Regular

There's a recipe in one of Martha Stewart's cookbooks for a wheatless hazelnut cake. I made it one year for my mom when she was on atkins. I think it's hungarian, and there are lots of recipes like it out there in cyberspace.

Also, chocolate tortes are flourless, generally, and are easily gluten free.

jmengert Enthusiast

If you can find the Cause You're Special brand of cake mixes, they are wonderful. I just made the lemon cake with lemon cream cheese frosting for some friends who I had over for dinner, and they couldn't tell the difference. Very, very good (too good, as I finished the cake in two days!)

2Boys4Me Enthusiast

If you want to bake an easy one from scratch, search the recipes forum for gluten-free Wacky Cake. It's really good. My husband calls it pudding cake, but I'm not sure why. It's very moist.

My MIL made a cake a couple of weeks ago from a Celimix mix. I didn't get any, but she was impressed.

lonewolf Collaborator

I'll second the motion for the Gluten Free Pantry Cake and cookie mix. I made cupcakes out of it for my son's birthday and no one noticed that it wasn't "normal" cake. And it's just as easy as any cake mix.

penguin Community Regular

Here's a recipe from martha stewart for flourless chocolate cake

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skoki-mom Explorer

I recently made chocolate cupcakes from Pamela's Luscious Chocolate Cake mix. Everyone was impressed, even my parents and kids who eat normally thought they tasted just like regular chocolate cake. I'm a chocolate cake snob, lol, and I really quite liked it.

luceydiana Explorer

I second that for Pamela's chocolate cake mix. I think it is just as good or even better than any regular mix.

Guest nini

I use both the Gluten Free Pantry's Old Fashioned Cake and Cookie mix and Pamela's Deluxe Brownie Mix (has directions for cake on bag) and when I make these NO ONE can tell they are gluten-free. I always always always get compliments on them. I usually make my own frosting, but have also used some of Pillsbury's frostings... some are gluten-free. Just read the labels

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