Receta Gluten & Dairy Free Coffee Cake Topped with Berries & Pine Nuts
Do you have a baking fantasy? I do! Mine has to do with Payton Manning showing up at my door with a box of my favorite Rainbow Seven Layer Cookies and a couple of tickets to the Super Bowl. Because you know the Broncos are going this year, right?
Seriously though, my my down to earth baking fantasy has to do with the recipe turning out right in the first place. I’m not much of a baker, which is why I rely on mixes and premade gluten free pie crusts. Heck I can’t even get premade pie dough to work out no matter how hard I try. It’s sad really because I used to be quite the bread baker when I was a kid. Nowadays, I let my daughter do the baking. Well, I did until I realized she was the one who was eating all the cupcakes and hiding cans of frosting and sprinkles in her room. Can you say, “Sugar fiend?”
These days I try to keep it simple and stick to fool proof baking like Gluten Free Coconut Macaroons, Gluten Free Pumpkin Bread, or Gluten Free Cranberry & Coconut Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce. Luckily, gluten free baking has become so much easier thanks to all the great all purpose gluten free baking mixes on the market. They make my baking fantasies a reality. And without getting a gluten headache or any tummy pain, too!
Speaking of which, do you know what a pain it is being unable to make delicious nut laden recipes because you have a child with nut allergies? That’s why pine nuts are such a wonderful thing! They’re seeds, not nuts, and can be substituted for nuts in many recipes. (They may be processed on the same machinery as other nuts, so if you’re hyper-allergic to nuts, best to avoid them altogether.)
So here’s to baking fantasies coming true with my Gluten & Dairy Free Coffee Cake Topped with Berries & Pine Nuts!
Gluten & Dairy Free Coffee Cake Topped with Berries & Pine Nuts
Inspired by this recipe
Ingredients
Coffee Cake
- 3 tablespoons shortening
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose gluten free rice flour blend
- 3/4 cup sugar or sugar substitute
- 1/4 cup buttery spread, softened
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup rice milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla (gluten free)
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose gluten free rice flour blend
- 2 teaspoons baking powder (gluten free)
- 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons sugar or sugar substitute
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 1/2 cups frozen berries, thawed and drained of juices
- 1/3 cup Diamond of California pine nuts
- Glaze
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar or sugar substitute (confectioners style)
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla (gluten free)
- 1 tablespoon rice milk
Directions
Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
Grease and flour the bottom and side of a 9-inch round springform cake pan with shortening and gluten free rice flour blend.
In a large bowl, beat 3/4 cup sugar, softened buttery spread, and egg with electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy.
Beat in 1/2 cup rice milk and 1 teaspoon vanilla until just blended.
Using a spatula, stir in flour blend, baking powder, xanthan gum and salt.
Evenly spread batter, which will be the consistency of dough, in the pan with a spatula.
In medium bowl, stir together 2 tablespoons sugar and the cinnamon. Sprinkle half of the sugar mixture over batter.
Add berries and pine nuts to remaining sugar mixture and toss until well coated.
Spoon berry and nut mixture over batter. Press lightly into batter.
Bake 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
In a small bowl, combine glaze ingredients until thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle over warm coffee cake. (If your berry layer is still very moist after baking, the glaze will spread out and cover the entire coffee cake. If so, you may want to use a pastry brush to gently even out the glaze.)
Let coffee cake sit for 10 minutes. Place cake pan on a decorative platter and gently remove springform ring from cake pan.
Serve warm or at room temperature.
Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Cook Time: 35 Minutes
Total Time: 50 Minutes
Servings: Serves 8
Serving size: 1/8 of cake
Diamond Nuts. Bake and you shall receive.
Disclosure: Compensation was provided by Diamond Foods via Glam Media. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not indicative of the opinions or positions of Diamond Foods.