Apple Rum Raisin Cake Gluten Free Low Gi Food

APPLE RUM RAISIN CAKE (GLUTEN-FREE, LOW-GI)

Steps:

• In a small sauce pan, place apple pieces, lemon juice, raisins, sugar, cinnamon, and water and cook under medium heat for about 10 minutes until the apples become soft.
• Add rum and mix. Turn off heat and set it aside.
• Preheat oven to 350ºF/180ºC degrees and spray the cake pan with oil.
• In a bowl, combine almond meal, coconut flour, sugar, and baking powder.
• Add beaten eggs, melted butter, apple sauce, and almond extract and mix.
• Add the apple and raisin mixture and walnut pieces (if using) and mix.
• Bake for about 40 minutes.
• When the cake is no longer hot, remove from the pan and cool on a wire rack. Dust with powdered sugar (optional).
• Infuse love, slice and serve.

HOLIDAY RUM & RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Combine raisins and rum; cover and stand until rum is absorbed.
• Stir together: flour, baking powder, salt. Blend butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla in a large bowl on low speed.
• Beat on high speed for 5 minutes, scraping down sides often.
• Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture alternatly with cream.
• Stir in raisins and turn into baking pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and bake: 12 cup bundt pan - 70 to 80 minutes; or 2-6 cup bundt pan - 40 to 45 minutes.
• This cake gets very brown on top. Cool 10 minutes, then remove from pans.
• Brush with Rum & Butter Glaze.
• Allow cake to absorb and repeat until glaze is used up.
• GLAZE: Melt ½ cup butter in saucepan; add 1 cup sugar and ¼ cup water.
• Boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in ½ cup rum. Cool slightly.

APPLESAUCE RUM-RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Place all the raisins in a small bowl with the rum and let sit overnight or at least 4 hours.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13-inch baking pan.
• In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time; mix in applesauce.
• In another bowl, stir together the flours, cornstarch, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and cocoa. Gradually add flour into the batter, mixing until fully incorporated. Stir in the raisins, along with any rum that was not absorbed, and the walnuts. Turn batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in preheated oven until a tester inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool on wire rack.

APPLE RUM RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• In a bowl cream the butter, then beat in the sugars until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the eggs.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, soda, cinnamon and nutmeg.
• Add dry ingredients alternately with the undiluted evaporated milk and rum to the creamed mixture, Mix in the chopped apples, raisins and nuts.
• Pour into a greased 9x12x2 inch baking pan.
• Bake at 350 for 40 minutes or until cake springs back when done.

APPLE RUM CAKE

Steps:

• Line bottom of a 9-inch springform pan with parchment paper; butter parchment paper and sides of pan.
• Set a rack in the middle of the oven; preheat oven to 350°.
• Combine all the filling ingredients in a bowl (glass or stainless); let stand while you prepare the batter.
• In another bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt; mix well and set aside.
• In the bowl of a heavy-duty mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar on medium speed for 5 minutes, until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the eggs one at a time, beating until smooth after each addition.
• Beat in vanilla; using a rubber spatula, fold in half the flour mixture.
• Drain the apples in a colander set over a bowl; add the milk to any rum that drains into the bowl and stir the liquids into the batter, then fold in the remaining flour mixture.
• Spread half the cake batter evenly in the prepared pan; scatter with the sliced apple mixture.
• Scrape remaining batter onto the filling and smooth out.
• Slide a foil-lined cookie sheet onto the rack below the middle one to catch any drips.
• Bake for 55-65 minutes or until cake is risen, firm, and deep golden and the apples are cooked through and tender.
• Let cake cool in pan for 15 minutes, then loosen the cake by running a sharp paring knife around the inside of the pan, scraping the knife against the pan, not the cake.
• Remove the sides and slide the cake off the base to a rack to finish cooling.
• When the cake has cooled completely, invert the cake onto a plate, remove the paper, and invert the cake onto the rack again so it is right side up.
• Make the glaze: stir together the powdered sugar and rum in a small saucepan; mix well.
• Place over medium heat until warm and fluid.
• Drizzle half the glaze over the top of the cake in a series of parallel lines.
• Rewarm the glaze if necessary and drizzle another series of lines on a diagonal to the first ones.
• Wait until the glaze dries, then slide the cake onto a platter.
• Serve with ice cream or whipped cream; this cake is best served on the day it is made.

ALMOND RHUBARB CAKE (GLUTEN-FREE, LOW-GI)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350ºF/180ºC. Oil a 9-inch (21 cm) round baking pan.
• In a medium bowl, place sliced rhubarb, lime or lemon juice and 3 Tbsp sugar. Mix well and set aside.
• In another bowl, place all the dry ingredients from almond meal to salt and mix.
• Add wet ingredients from sour cream or yogurt to almond extract and mix.
• Fold in the rhubarb mixture and mix gently.
• Pour the batter into the round baking pan and top with almond slices.
• Bake for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
• When the cake is no longer hot, remove it from the pan and cool on a wire rack.
• Infuse love, slice and serve with a scoop of ice cream (if you wish)!

SESAME SUGAR SNAP PEAS (GLUTEN-FREE, LOW-GI, VEGAN)

Steps:

• Heat sesame oil in a sauté pan.
• Add sugar snap peas and sauté for a few minutes until peas are tender but still crisp.
• Season with salt, tamari and sake (if using).
• Transfer to a plate and sprinkle sesame seeds on top.
• Infuse love and serve!