Coles simply gluten free vanilla cake mix review

I was pretty excited when coles started advertising there simply gluten free range. I was even more excited when I looked at the prices. The vanilla cake mix was just $3. Bargain! Well it is in gluten free world. In my opinion they don't taste too bad either, but I guess you can't go to wrong taste wise when the first ingredient is sugar. I was really happy with this cake mix. It was easy to do and quick. It turned out really well. The cake was light and fluffy and tasted good. The icing also turned out well and tasted good. Overall I thought it was good and I would defiantly buy it again. I also love that this recipe can be made dairy free too by substituting the margarine for nuttlex.

I also have a sneaking suspicion that the vanilla cupcakes mix is exactly the same. I've made this one too and it taste the same it just costs more. So I think if I want cupcakes I'm just going to use this and adjust the cooking time. 

Hope this helps

Sarah 

Passion fruit sponge cake

I know it's been a little while since my last blog post... Children are so time consuming! Today I thought I would share with a recipe I found from coles. It's a passion fruit sponge cake. The cake uses corn flour, which makes it gluten free, and the passion fruit in the icing make the cake delicious. It's also dairy free.

Ingredients

3 eggs
1/2 cup castor sugar
3/4 cup gf corn flour
1 tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
1/2 cup passion fruit pulp
1 cup icing sugar
2 tsp nuttlex

Method
1. Preheat oven to 160 degrees. Grease and line a 20cm round tin.

2. Using an electric mixer, place eggs in the bowl and whisk until firm, to form soft peaks. Place castor sugar into a sieve and slowly add, in small quantities, to the eggs while blending.3. In a separate bowl, sift cornflour, baking powder and salt. Sift again into egg and sugar mix. To combine, use a large spoon and slowly add a little at a time and then fold
4. Pour into the tin and bake for 20 minutes or until cooked. Remove from oven and place on a wire rack to cool
5. For icing, combine passionfruit pulp, icing sugar and unsalted butter and beat until smooth.
6. Serve with slices of mango and strawberries.


http://recipes.coles.com.au/recipes/1118/gluten-free-passionfruit-sponge-cake/