Gluten free lime and blueberry cake with coconut - delicious celebration cake that's much healthier than it looks. It's also easy to make!
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I love catering my own events but what I struggle a bit with is dietary requirements.
I don't think I'm too bad at gluten free now - there are so many options out there - but egg-free I struggle with when it comes to desserts.
My poor egg-intolerant friend had to miss out on dessert at our first bubba's naming ceremony because my brain just wasn't up to the challenge.
I wanted a special cake for the little guy.
I didn't want anything like a themed Birthday cake, but I did want to match the navy and lime colour theme - yay for blueberries and lime zest.
This cake was a bit of a throw-it-all-in-and-see-if-it-works and thankfully it did.
I did made some substitutions like replacing some of the butter with coconut oil.
Quite a few people asked me for the recipe so I'll take that as a win.
Mine collapsed a bit in the middle but I pretended it was meant to be that way and loaded it up with icing and blueberries and it actually looked quite pretty if I do say so myself.
The lovely golden colour is from the rapadura sugar which I've started using in a lot of my baking in an attempt to cut down on refined sugar.
Yes I know it's still sugar... baby steps.
In case you are wondering, the cupcakes are mum's carrot cake recipe and they are seriously good.
I might even say they're the best ever carrot cupcakes. But they're not egg-free.
If you have a good egg-free cake recipe, I'd love if you'd share it with me. Enjoy!
You might also like my gluten-free chocolate cupcakes.
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Recipe
Lime and blueberry cake with coconut
Ingredients
Cake
- 100 g coconut oil
- 100 g butter
- 125 g raw sugar
- 125 g coconut sugar
- 4 free-range eggs
- Grated zest of one lime
- Juice of half a lime
- 100 g almond meal
- 30 g coconut flour
- 20 g desiccated coconut
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
Icing
- 400 g raw sugar
- 150 g butter
- 1 teaspoon lime juice
- 40 g coconut milk
- 100 g blueberries
- Extra lime zest and desiccated coconut to serve
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 160C fan-forced and grease and line two 20cm round cake tins.
- Place the coconut oil, butter, raw sugar and coconut sugar in the bowl of a food processor and process until smooth and creamy.
- Scrape down the sides and mix again until combined.
- Scrape the sides again and add the eggs, one-at-at time making sure one is incorporated before adding the next.
- Add the lime juice, almond meal, coconut flour, coconut and baking powder and mix until combined.
- Divide between the two cake tins and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until a cake tester inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Leave the cakes to cool in the tins for 10 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- To make the icing, process the raw sugar in a high-powered blender until it is the consistency of icing sugar (alternatively use icing sugar).
- Place the butter in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat until soft then add the icing sugar and mix, slowly at first, until incorporated then add the lime juice and coconut milk and increase the speed and beat until light and fluffy.
- To serve, place one cake on the serving plate and pile with half the icing and some blueberries.
- Place the second cake on top and top with the rest of the icing and blueberries and sprinkle with lime zest and coconut.
My Kitchen Stories says
I have a niece who cant eat eggs too. This looks so bright and lovely
Claire says
It would be so hard!
Hotly Spiced says
I think your cake looks gorgeous. I love the sound of limes and blueberries. I don't have any friends who have an issue with eggs so I haven't had to go down that road. What a difficult allergy to have! xx
Claire says
It would be awful wouldn't it?!
The Life of Clare says
Looks beautiful! I'm glad you've not cut out sugar completely! There's enough of that going around. What we need is real honest good cakes, and this looks like one of them!
Claire says
You said it perfectly Clare!
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef says
Lime and blueberry and then coconut sounds incredibly good, Claire. Very pretty to look at too!
Claire says
Thanks Maureen!
Kristin says
I have a great egg free and butter free chocolate cake! I'll email it to you... x
Claire says
Oh yes please!
Kirsty @ The Natural Foodie says
I baked this one on the weekend and it worked a treat: http://beyondthescullery.com/?p=120
She has also made it with GF flour and it works, but is a little precious to cut.
Some people use egg replacers like flax or mashed banana. Honestly though, I just take the eggs out of a lot of recipes and it seems to work. Just give it a try x
Claire says
Thanks Kirsty that looks delicious! I must try just ditching the egg and see what happens.
Diane says
Egg-free is always a hard one and I keep searching for good egg substitutes to help cook for my vegan son (yes, vegan SON)......
Claire says
Hmm that's a challenge Diane!