

Gluten Free Vegan Christmas Cake using Rice Flour
About this recipe:
This delicious celebration cake is made without eggs or dairy products and is gluten free as well making it ideal if you are catering for gluten free, egg free, nut free or casein free diets. You can serve this cake ‘naked’, with minimalist decoration or add your own vegan version of traditional marzipan and icing.
Equipment:
18cm/7″ deep, round cake tin, parchment or greaseproof paper, 2 x mixing bowls and blender
Ingredients:
Cake
150g FREEE Rice Flour
1 tsp FREEE Xanthan Gum
2 tsp mixed spice
100g glacé cherries
500g mixed dried fruit
1 apple, grated
1 orange, grated rind and juice
150g brown sugar
125g sunflower oil
75ml water
oil, for tin
cranberries, redcurrants, bay leaf, rosemary or holly leaf (without holly berries) to decorate
Method:
150°C, Fan 130°C, 300°F, Gas 2
Cake
- Pre-heat the oven.
- Rub some oil around the inside of a 18cm/7” deep, round cake tin with a double layer of parchment or greaseproof paper.
- Take a 300mm/12” square of parchment, fold the corners to meet in the middle, press to make folded flaps. This will be used to reduce the risk of burning the cake top.
- Put the flour, xanthan gum and mixed spice into a bowl and stir to combine.
- Measure out the cherries, chop them in half and put them into another mixing bowl.
- Weigh the mixed dried fruit into the mixing bowl.
- Add the prepared flour, stir to mix and set aside.
- Grate the apple into a jug or blender and grate in the orange rind.
- Squeeze the orange juice and add this to the jug with the sugar, oil and water.
- Mix with a stick blender or pulse in a blender until smooth.
- Pour onto the prepared fruit and flour and mix everything together well.
- Tip the mixture into the prepared tin, pushing it down and smoothing the top.
- Place the prepared parchment paper square over the cake tin with the folded flaps pointing down. The paper should loosely cover the tin when it goes into the oven.
- Bake for 2-2¼ hours.
- Allow the cake to cool in the tin for 12 hours.
- When quite cold, remove the cake from the tin and wrap the cake in aluminium foil and store in a cake tin.
Decoration (optional)
- Place a small selection of cranberries, redcurrants, bay leaf, rosemary or holly leaf (without holly berries) on top.
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Rowena
What a treat to find for my son whose allergies mean finding recipes is exceptionally challenging. This recipe was great. I used candid peel and vanilla extract as I didn’t have pods. I also but in a slosh of brandy and used spread rather than oil as we didn’t have the right sort of oil. I used clementine as we didn’t have orange. Cooking took much longer as I did half as much again of the recipe measurements. The outcome was delicious! A very, very satisfied family who said this was like they remembered Christmas cakes being like. I made it on Christmas Eve and it was fab for Christmas Day! Thank you ?
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Dawn
This cake was made for me by my son’s girlfriend. It is the best gluten free, vegan cake I’ve ever tasted. It’s delicious and the non vegan gluten eaters said it was delicious too.
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Claire
This cake is amazing. Dense, packed with fruit and moist. Depending on the moisture in your apple and orange, you might need to adjust the water. It does still look a bit wet on the surface when it comes out, even when skewer comes away clean. After left to cool, this appearance disappears and it just looks moisture and yummy! Definitely will be making again.
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Best Xmas cake ever! I took advice of other review and added walnuts and used whatever dried fruits I had so seems a flexible cake. I didn’t use xantham gum but used flaxseed. I made my own healthy marzipan from scratch- absolutely delicious. Making it again soon for this Xmas .
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Tamara
Absolutely revolting and ended up in the bin. Followed the recipe exactly but had liquid pouring out of the tin. Cooked for half an hour extra as so moist but still to no avail (the Vegan Christmas pudding was however a complete success!).
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Miss Natalie Dale
Amazing! Made this morning and am now enjoying a slice with green tea. Made a few changes to recipe. I used 250g of dried fruit and then added 100g of chopped dates and 100g of walnuts. I also added two grated carrots to add some veg! Cut the brown sugar down to 100g and added some natural honey. Also took the greaseproof paper off the top for the last hour. Delicious, am very very happy!
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Mrs andrea edwards
my daughter loved this cake-she said it was the beat she had ever had. it was very moist and sticky,which we both loved.its already on my list for next christmas!
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Ms sarah childs
Thankyou so much for this recipe! It is DELICIOUS. Used Agar instead of xanthum, maybe why took an extra hour cooking, but at the end, was the best fruit cake, vegan or not, that I've eaten
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