Are you looking for a fun and easy halloween themed gluten free bake to make, well this super easy loaf cake is the perfect thing to try! I made mine with these vibrant green and purple colours which are super variable based on your preferences and what you have!
This is a super fun halloween twist on the classic bake of vanilla and chocolate marbled loaf. This recipe can also be made to suite what you want, you could make the original loaf cake or you could turn this recipe into cupcakes, circular cakes or into a square cake! This one is also super easy to make, with an all in one method for the cake base, you can weigh out all your ingredients into one bowl and mix them together to get your perfect cake mixture. All you need to do to add a fun halloween twist is split the cake mixture into two and beat in your chosen halloween colours. Pour your colours into the same cake tin (or coloured spoonfuls into cupcake cases) and mix them together with a toothpick to make a super vibrant marbled pattern.
This is a perfect bake if you want to add a bit of halloween flair to party preparations or a cozy Sunday bake. You can even change the flavours to what best suites you and your preferences, you could switch the lime for lemon, or even oranges. Its also fully gluten free and celiac safe but don't worry no one will be able to tell, with its super fluffy rise and light and airy texture, there will be no complaints from your non gluten free friends.
As well as being gluten free, you can also make this cake dairy free and vegan if you wish to. To make it dairy free there are a few simple substitutions that you need to make:
Replace the butter for a hard dairy free alternative
Replace the milk for a dairy free milk like almond or coconut milk
And that's all you need to do to make the perfect gluten and dairy free loaf for this halloween season!
To make the cake vegan all you will need to do is make the dairy free substitutions as well as changing the three eggs for a substitution. You could use:
Replace one egg with 1/4 cup of applesauce
Replace one egg with 1/4 cup of yoghurt
Replace one egg with one mashed banana
I haven't tried these substitutes myself so I would love to know how they turn out. If you try them make sure to comment and let me know on my instagram page @rubysgfkitchen!
You don't need any special equipment for this bake or hours of time, so its a perfect one to make with kids or friends as you can get super creative with the flavours, coolers and icings.
Anyway here's the recipe for this cake, if you try it let me know what you think on my instagram @rubysgfkitchen.
Ingredients
175g Gluten free self raising flour
175g Butter, softened
175g Caster suger
3 Large Eggs
3 tbsp Milk
1/2 tsp Zanthem Gum
1 tsp Baking Powder
2 Limes
2 Colour of your chosen food dye (Powder or gel would work best)
For the icing
1 limes worth of lime juice
125g icing suger
Method
Preheat the oven to 180 fan. Line one loaf pan (or one circular pan or cupcake tin) with greaseproof paper.
In a bowl grate and juice the limes using the zest and one limes worth of juice in the cake batter, leaving the other limes juice for the icing.
In a bowl beat together all the ingredients for the cake with an electric whisk until the batter is smooth.
Split the batter into two bowls and mix In one of your chosen dyes into each half.
Distribute the batter into your chosen tin (Spoon each colour into the time so that they alternate in the tin) and use a tooth pick to swirl the colours together (Be careful not to over swirl as the colours may over-mix.
Place them in the oven for 40 minutes or until a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean. (At around 20 minutes my loaf began to brown but was not cooked so I covered it in clingfilm so watch out for that as you don't want your cake to burn or dull in colour!)
Leave the cakes to cool in they're tin for 5 minutes and then take them out to put them on flat surfaces to completely cool.
Whilst the cakes Cool make the icing: Sift the icing sugar into a bowl and slowly mix in the lime juice until a thick pipeable consistency is made (If its to thick and you use all the lime juice add a dash of water to thin it out).
Once the cakes are completely cool pipe on your lime icing and decorate.
Slice and enjoy!
Thank you for reading. If you do bake this let me know by snapping a photo and tagging me on Instagram @rubysgfkitchen.
Happy Baking,
Ruby x
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