Gluten-Free Berry Shortcake
- Prep Time:
- 20 min
- Cooking Time:
- 50 min
- Serves:
- 8 - 10
Ingredients
¼ cup water plus 2 Tbsp. ground flax seed
1 cup almond flour
¾ cup gluten free all purpose flour blend
¼ cup coconut flour
¾ cup coconut sugar or choice of sweetener
2 tsp. baking powder (preferably aluminum free)
1 ½ tsp. baking soda
¼ tsp. sea salt
1 cup milk or coconut milk
1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil or melted coconut oil
1/3 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 tsp. grated lemon zest
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
2 cups fresh mixed berries, divided
Baby mint leaves for garnish (optional)
SOUR CREAM FROSTING
2 cups sour cream
¼ cup pure maple syrup or 1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F and line a 5 x 11-inch loaf pan with parchment paper
- Mix water and flax seed and set aside for 15 minutes
- In a large bowl combine dry ingredients
- In a separate bowl whisk together wet ingredients including the flax mixture and add to dry ingredients. Mix to combine and pour the batter into prepared loaf pan
- Bake for 50 minutes or until the cake passes the toothpick test. Cool cake in the loaf pan
- Remove the cake from the pan and carefully slice across in half, creating two layers
- For the frosting, using an electric mixer beat the sour cream, sweetener and vanilla until combined
- To assemble, frost first layer of the cake with half the frosting, and scatter with half the berries. Then place the other half of cake on top, spread the remaining frosting over the cake and garnish with remaining berries. Add some fresh mint leaves for decoration if you wish



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