I celebrated my 73rd birthday Dunday with a gluten free spice cake from a mix by Namasta foods. My grandchildren were flabbergasted when they saw me eating it — they had no clue that this great cake was gluten free. When I sat down to write this post, I was surprised that not only is it gluten free, but it contains now soy, corn, potato, dairy, casein, peanuts or tree nuts, and is Kosher.

My other ‘favorite cake’ for the year was a strawberry angelfood cake (a mix from Kinnickinik)  that the family enjoyed at Thanksgiving. Wonderful cake recipes came bakes returned to my gluten free life this year. Click here to read more about it.

While we are on the subject of gluten free cake, you might consider these three recipes for gluten free fruitcake or these three cheesecake recipes (one of them is actually a video demonstration).

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In all the recipes that I examined, most suggest using alcoholic beverages of some sort but specify that this is optional. Also, all the recipes require flour but I see no reason why gluten free flour mixes could not be used.

Here are three more recipes for gluten free fruit cake. In all three of these, the writers slip in comments to the effect that fruit cake baked at home is superior to anything purchased commercially. I hope they are right! Since the three titles almost exactly the same, I will simply suggest that you click here and/or here.

My last suggestion is not a recipe but a musical tribute to the the fruit cake. Enjoy “Grandma’s Killer Fruit Cake”