Also, make sure that all ingredients used don’t have any gluten-containing ingredients. Then make that that they also don’t have a ‘may contain’ warning for gluten, wheat, rye, barley, oats (which aren’t gf), spelt and khorasan wheat (aka Kamut).

Just before baking, arrange 100g of extra blanched almonds all over the top of your cake batter. Continue the recipe as normal and when it’s done, you won’t need to use marzipan or ice the cake at all – you can just begin storing and feeding it. YES! Just like my other books, ‘Gluten-free Christmas!’ contains easy swaps you can make to adapt the recipes to be dairy-free, low FODMAP, lactose-free and veggie/vegan where possible. It’s super important that as many of you can enjoy my recipes as possible, so I worked really hard on testing all of these swaps! Looking for the measurements? Keep scrolling until you see the recipe card for the measurements and method… It’s been a very, very, very long time since I’ve enjoyed Christmas cake like this and even though I’m not usually the biggest fan… this was different.Either way, be sure to wrap the cake tightly in baking paper and foil once baked and cold and preferably store in an airtight container between ‘feedings’ and until ready to decorate and eat. Stored correctly, it should last at least 3 months. Can I make this cake dairy free or vegan? In other posts, I share my recipe for easy home-made 4-ingredient Marzipan (which tastes way better than the shop-bought stuff) and then offer my Christmas Star decoration and lots of other decoration inspiration too. So to replace it with just one specific type of flour… that’s not going to cut it at all. Definitely go for a gluten-free flour blend. Do I need weighing scales to bake your gluten-free Christmas cake? It contains 80+ recipes that, in my opinion, are absolutely essential to a joyous gluten-free Christmas and nothing more. 99% of these recipes are brand new, something I always strive to do whenever writing any book, as giving my readers value for money is very high on my priority list!

If you intend to cut holly leaves from the green fondant icing, I’d recommend using holly leaf cutters. Otherwise it can actually be quite fiddly and time consuming! Does this recipe need xanthan gum? This gluten free Christmas Cake recipe brings the iconic treat into the 21 st Century. Of course, there is nothing to stop you using standard dried fruit only, but why not try something more colourful and altogether exciting? Although I used some of the usual suspects, this cake also throws Morello glacé cherries, blueberries, apricots, crystallised ginger, Iranian pistachios and flaked almonds into the mix. But even the standard fruit has been carefully selected for plumpness and juiciness… Flame raisins and Turkish sultanas are perfect. Oh… and I left out the peel! Sadly, Christmas cake is very difficult to make low FODMAP. The quantity of dried fruit is simply too high.

Your ‘bog standard’ and old school cakes tend to use currants, sultanas, raisins, cherries and sometimes peel. Occasionally, the tradition is extended to Christmassy cranberries, figs and prunes. But choice of fruit matters… As a child, I avoided Christmas cake like the plague… I later worked out that this was because I hated too many currants and raisins in particular… both of which seemed to be the bulk of the cake. We are baking this treat in both large traybakes and individually wrapped slices and we’ll be adding it to our Honeybuns online Christmas shop which will be going live towards the end of October. Without gluten to bind the cake batter together, you can be left with a very loose and crumbly sponge texture which won’t work for this recipe.

And if a huge percentage of the recipes were already available on my blog for free or previously published in other books, I just couldn’t honestly say that! So yep, almost every single recipe is totally unique to this book, of course, with the other 1% being gluten-free Yorkshire puddings – a must at Christmas! Can you tell us what’s inside the book exactly? Whilst some recipes in this book do use onion, as I can’t tolerate it myself, you’ll find that those recipes always have an easy substitute. And… like all good Christmas Cakes, it can be made well in advance of Christmas, so that it is not only at its best for the main event, but leaves you free to plan lots of other gluten free Christmas Treats. Not all Traditional Christmas Cakes are equal – Choosing the best ingredients for YOUR cake

Gluten-free Christmas cake recipe: Ingredients

There does seem to be a variety of mince pies this year from regular gluten free to frangipane topped and slices which makes a nice change. It is also nice to see a couple of places have a gluten free yule log too when for the past year or so only Tesco have had this.