Gluten-Free Maple Sponge Cake
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Who doesn’t love a little maple in their Fall recipes? Even if you are gluten-free or Keto, this decadent dessert is sure to please everyone. Serve with more maple syrup, fruit, or even ice cream. What a great way to spoil yourself on a brisk Fall day than serving this Gluten-Free Maple Sponge Cake.
Gluten-Free and Keto Cake
We aren’t a gluten-free family, nor are we Keto. But there are tons of people who are out there. Having a recipe like this to be able to share with friends and family who would otherwise miss out is priceless.
An estimated 25% of Americans follow a gluten-free diet. Common reasons include gastrointestinal issues such as celiac disease. Keto is a diet that is similar to Atkins in that between 70-80% of a person’s caloric intake is from fats.
Mostly my reason for having this recipe in my arsenal is I have friends and family with gastrointestinal issues (IBS and wheat allergies mostly). Making sure that I can still show my love through feeding them is super important to me.
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Not Another Diet Food
Trust me, this cake does not taste like diet food. It’s moist and sweet and definitely worth the time to make it. Serve it with a steaming cup of coffee for dessert to really treat that loved one.
Gluten-Free Maple Sponge Cake Origins
My second marriage, while it was doomed to fail, introduced me to caring for someone with a chronic illness. He had been diagnosed with Chrones disease before we started dating. Due to the surgery that he endured due to the illness, he had gastrointestinal relations to a lot of food. He also had issues with how his body absorbed (or chose not to absorb) nutrients in food.
Learning to watch what I cooked and fed him was a rough experience. Even though we are no longer married, I am glad that I got to be so close to another side of how food can affect a person’s health. I learned a lot in that marriage.
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Gluten-Free Maple Sponge Cake
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Gluten-Free Maple Sponge Cake
Ingredients
- 4 medium eggs
- 2 medium egg yolks
- 1 cup pure maple syrup
- 1/4 cup milk
- 3 tbsp butter
- 2 cups almond flour
- 2 tbsp arrowroot *can substitute cornstarch*
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- Place eggs, egg yolks, and mapel syrup in top of double boiler. Place over hot water and beat with an electric mixer only until foamy; do not cook. Remove from heat.
- Heat milk with butter and pour half of it into egg mixture; reserve other half.
- Beat mixture in double boiler on low until thickened but not to the point of a custard-like consistency.
- Sift the flour. Sift again with the arrowroot, salt, and baking powder.
- Pour egg mixture slowly into the flour mixture while stirring constantly. Add remaining milk-butter mixture and vanilla. Pour into two 9"x5" loaf pans lined with wax paper in the bottom. Butter the paper and sides of pans.
- Bake at 375F for 30 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool on wire racks. Serve with whipped cream, fruit, or vanilla ice cream, as desired.
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These sound perfect! I love anything maple. Thanks for sharing at Fiesta Friday party