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Questions Doubts and Requests => Questions? Technical Issues? The Survival Guide => Topic started by: Cuilidh on April 12, 2014, 08:21:00 am
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I am about to make Quirky Jo's carrot cake (http://quirkycooking.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/one-bowl-thermomix-carrot-cake-gluten.html) but will be using plain flour instead of gluten free. Do I need to make any changes to anything or can I make a straight substitution? Thanks
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Most carrot cake recipes using plain flour have baking powder as well as bi-carb Marina. :)
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Thanks, CC ... so, do you think if I used the same quantity of plain flour plus, perhaps, 1 1/2 tsp baking powder that would work?
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I would try it Marina. ;D
I've quickly looked on the forum at other recipes and they tend to use 1tsp of both bi-carb and baking powder but Jo's recipe has more carrots and flour so you will probably need that extra 1/2tsp. ;)
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OK, I'll give it a go and see what happens - I'll give a piece to DH to try first and see if he survives, and if he does then I'll try a bit as well!!
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OK, I'll give it a go and see what happens - I'll give a piece to DH to try first and see if he survives, and if he does then I'll try a bit as well!!
LOL :D :D :D
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OK, I'll give it a go and see what happens - I'll give a piece to DH to try first and see if he survives, and if he does then I'll try a bit as well!!
I hope he survives. ;D ;D ;D
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LOL I think this is the first time Ive heard of someone asking how to substitute gluten into a gluten free recipe! Looking forward to hearing how it worked, fingers crossed for your hubby :)
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Well, it's done. I haven't tried it on DH as yet, though. I made one cake and 9 small muffins / cup cakes ... and I have eaten 3 cup cakes and am still here to tell the tale, so the 1 1/2 tsp baking powder worked. It is a really tasty, light cake. I am very pleased with it. The only thing is that the muffins stuck to the paper cups so perhaps I would grease the muffin tins and bake them directly in the tin next time. The recipe is well worth trying. The only changes were a direct substitution for the flour, the extra baking powder, I used tinned pineapple (the 440 gm tin, drained, came to 300 gm fruit). I also ran out of walnuts so used almonds and cashews to bring the nuts up to weight.
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Great to hear it worked for you Marina and they passed the taste test ;) :D
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Thanks for your help, CC. I needed that wee nudge to give me the confidence to give it a try.
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Marina, I find that greased individual silicon cup cake mould work well for recipes that tend to stick to the paper cup cake wrappers. I always use the silicon ones for honey joys now as I was having trouble with the paper sticking to them.
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Thanks, ES, I don't often make cupcakes / muffins and this has never happened to me before, but I will certainly look at getting some silicone cup cake moulds in.
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Silicone cup cake moulds are also great in the varoma or air fryer.