Grandma Dot's (Gluten Free) Pound Cake

This is a half pound cake.  If halving the recipe, bake for approximately 40 minutes.

Ok, so I couldn't quite have the 4th of July without making my mom's pound cake.  This is the cake she used to make for all our birthdays, Memorial Day, and the 4th of July.  This was my first try at making it gluten free, and I'd say it was very successful.

Ingredients
1 pound (4 sticks) butter, softened
3 cups sugar
6 eggs
4 cups flour (I used 3 cups Bob's Red Mill GF Flour mix and 1 cup rice flour)
1 Tbs baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup coffee
2 tsp. vanilla

Directions
Pre-heat oven to 350
Cream together butter and sugar
Beat in eggs one at a time
In a separate bowl mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt
Mix the vanilla in with the coffee
Stir the dry and wet mixture alternately into the sugar mixture by hand, beginning and ending with the dry
Pour the batter into a well greased bundt pan
Bake for 1 hour - 1.5 hours

For some reason when I make this cake with regular flour it cooks an hour and gluten free it takes nearly an hour and a half.  Check it after an hour.  Take it out when a knife comes out clean.

Top with berries and whipped cream or ice cream.  Enjoy!

Strawberry Shortcake

My mom has taught me many valuable lessons.  One of them is that on the 4th of July you eat Strawberry Shortcake.  Another is that if you know you are going to eat a bunch of cake then skip dinner and have cake for dinner.  So tonight I had Strawberry Shortcake for dinner.

My mom's regular recipe is for pound cake.  This cake is delicious.  I was going to make it gluten free, but then I came across this recipe on GF in the City and decided to try it.

Ingredients
2 1/4 cups GF flour (I used 1 1/2 Bob's Red Mill GF flour mix and 3/4 rice flour)
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into cubes
1 cup heavy cream or half & half
2 tablespoons melted butter
sugar for the top
whipped cream
strawberries

Directions
Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees
Combine the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt
Cut the butter into the flour mixture until small
Add the cream or half & half
Divide the dough into 6 pieces and put on a baking sheet
Brush melted butter over biscuits and sprinkle sugar on top
Bake for 25 minutes
Enjoy with whipped cream and fresh cut strawberries

Mine came out a little wider and flatter than I would have liked, so I suggest forming your dough a bit smaller and taller than mine.

 

 

Dough divided into 6 pieces

Finished biscuit

These biscuits are good as strawberry shortcake, but they would also be good with jelly for breakfast.  Enjoy!