Gluten free, Dairy free, Coconut flour Pineapple cake

Hi everybody how have you all been doing?  I am so happy Diwali has brought me a special gift in my blogging world!! Yup!  I am excited to share with you all are you interested in hearing? This is my first ever product review!  I never thought I would get a chance like this, when I was glancing through my mails on my iphone, I chanced upon an email from Indigo herbs saying products dispatched!  Excitedly I opened up my email to see what products they had sent I was jumping with joy in my heart  to see Organic Coconut flour, Organic Banana powder, Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, Organic Coconut Sugar, Organic Raw white  Sesame Tahini paste, Organic Raw Black Sesame Tahini Paste.  Thank you Indigo Herbs for giving me an opportunity to create a recipe for you and so glad that I got a chance to try all these lovely products.

I have been quiet busy we had Diwali this week, did you all enjoy and had a safe Diwali.  I haven’t brought you what I made for Diwali but something different for a change, bake this for a thanksgiving celebration or for Christmas or for a birthday or just a weekend treat, well it’s so delicious you don’t need a reason to bake this cake.  My photos don’t make justice to this cake if you love coconut this is for you. I baked this cake a fortnight ago but, as I was prepping up for Diwali I couldn’t post it.

I am a bit of a health freak, I stopped baking regularly once I realised I was making my family eat too much unhealthy stuff, I started looking for things I could change to make it bit healthier say if not 100% at least to some extent, when I decided I started changing flours then how I could cut down on fat and refined sugar.  The thing which I still am unable to compensate is Sugar, my family have come to terms with flours and fat but not with sugar, they are fine with unrefined sugar but I am not allowed to reduce itJ.  So, I can’t do anything about it unfortunately.  When I shop I keep looking for different ingredients I can bake with one such product I had an eye for a long time was Coconut flour, I was always tempted to buy and try it out but somehow I kept postponing.  Probably I was waiting for a good Organic product as this one.

These days people have started thinking about their diet seriously, they are switching on to gluten free, dairy free, egg free, paleo diet etc.  So, here is your stop for Organic products to buy online which is worldwide shipped with a full postal guarantee.  I was so happy to receive emails telling me, its dispatched and when it will arriving then another email telling me when it will be delivered and who is delivering it, his name and what time!  Isn’t it fantastic?

Somerset is a county in South west England, and is known for its beautiful country side with rolling hills and is a beautiful country side.  Here in Somerset is Glastonbury is not just famous for a musical festival but also Indigo Herbs who are online suppliers of organically developed healthy/alternative life style products bringing about natural health products of the best quality as their website states.    They have brought about products for all kind of life style, organic blends which can be used as substitutes for different kinds of food diets.

As this was the first time I was using Coconut flour in my baking I had to do some research on how to use it, lots of people said it’s a very highly absorbent flour, some of them said you need to use a tried and tested recipe to get a perfect bake, it all scared me a bit, but as I had already decided to go with it.  I gave it a go, Coconut flour is a unique non-grain fibre rich protein highly absorbent flour.  Coconut flour is made from coconut milk when it is pressed the left over coconut bits that is the solid which is left over is dried over at low temperature and ground to produce a soft fine powder.  So we all know about coconut flour now let’s get baking with it.

Ingredients:
100grms Samai flour(little millet)
75 grms Sorghum flour ( Jowar)
40 grms Organic Coconut flour
145 grms Caster sugar
40 grms Organic Coconut sugar
150 grms Coconut milk
150 grms Pineapple puree
¼ Cup Organic extra virgin Coconut oil
¼  Cup Olive oil
1 ½ tsp Baking powder
½ tsp Baking soda
3 Eggs
3 tbsp Pineapple Juice

For the Chocolate layer (Optional)
20 grms Coco powder
2 tbsp coconut sugar
1 tbsp of Pineapple juice

For the Icing:
1 Cup Icing Sugar sifted
1 tbsp Pineapple juice
¼ cup desiccated coconut

METHOD:
Preheat the oven to 180°C / Gas mark 4, Grease a Bundt cake with any of the gluten free flour about I mixed it with a bit of coconut flour as well.
In a bowl mix all the dry ingredients millet flour, sorghum flour, Baking powder and Baking soda sieve well and keep aside.
In another bowl mix the wet ingredients Coconut sugar, Caster sugar, coconut milk, Pineapple puree, coconut oil and olive oil blend them well together
In a bowl break one egg at a time and beat them well adding both the sugars until fluffy to this add the wet ingredients until smooth.
Completely incorporate the dry ingredients with the help of a spatula.
I made a Chocolate mixture using the ingredients above the chocolate layer heading.
Pour in the cake batter into the prepared Bundt tin in two parts layering the Chocolate mixture.
Bake this for about 55 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean when inserted near the tube of the tin.
Let it cool then release the cake around tap gently and unmold it from the pan onto a wire rack.
In a bowl combine the Icing sugar with the pineapple juice until it is thick and runny, pour this over the cooled cake allowing it to drip it down the sides of the cake then sprinkle some desiccated coconut over it to get a more coconut flavour if you prefer otherwise just leave it as it is.

Somethings to note:
Please check your oven as my oven very heated up I bake my cakes in Gas mark 3, I have mentioned above the usual cake baking temperature.  I baked my cake for 55 minutes.
I was just thinking I shouldn’t have used chocolate layer this way next time I would completely make it a chocolate cake or a marble swirl cake.
I have cut a circle in a cardboard using a Bundt pan and a hole in the middle and insert it into the tin, this helps the cake sliding on to the board nicely.
I have given 3 tbsp of pineapple juice don’t wonder why I have not said anything about it, as the batter had become slightly thicker than I wanted it to be I used it to thin it down.
I used Canned Pineapple and the juice from it, if you are going to use fresh pineapple just check if they are sweet otherwise you might end up with a sour cake and your sugar wouldn’t match it.
I have used canned coconut milk as well, buy the best product I did not use the water but the thick cream on top when you open it.
Hope you Enjoy baking this cake, My family and friends told me that it was very moist for a gluten free flour and they could never think it was a gluten free.  If you bake this cake do write to me and tell me how it turned out

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Gluten free, Dairy free, Coconut flour Pineapple cake

Gluten free, dairy free Coconut flour pineapple cake, rich and moist delicious cake

Course Dessert

Cuisine International

Prep Time 30 minutes minutes

Cook Time 55 minutes minutes

Total Time 1 hour hour 25 minutes minutes

Servings 8

Author Jayasri

Ingredients

• 100 grms Samai flour little millet
• 75 grms Sorghum flour Jowar
• 40 grms Coconut flour
• 145 grms Caster sugar
• 40 grms Coconut sugar
• 150 grms Coconut milk
• 150 grms Pineapple puree
• ¼ Cup Coconut oil
• ¼ Cup Olive oil
• 1 ½ tsp Baking powder
• ½ tsp Baking soda
• 3 Eggs
• 3 tbsp Pineapple Juice
• For the Chocolate layer Optional
• 20 grms Coco powder
• 2 tbsp coconut sugar
• 1 tbsp of Pineapple juice
• For the Icing:
• 1 Cup Icing Sugar sifted
• 1 tbsp Pineapple juice
• ¼ cup dessicated coconut

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 180°C / Gas mark 4, Grease a Bundt cake with any of the gluten free flour about I mixed it with a bit of coconut flour as well.
• In a bowl mix all the dry ingredients millet flour, sorghum flour, Baking powder and Baking soda sieve well and keep aside.
• In another bowl mix the wet ingredients Coconut sugar, Caster sugar, coconut milk, Pineapple puree, coconut oil and olive oil blend them well together
• In a bowl break one egg at a time and beat them well adding both the sugars until fluffy to this add the wet ingredients until smooth.
• Completely incorporate the dry ingredients with the help of a spatula.
• I made a Chocolate mixture using the ingredients above the chocolate layer heading.
• Pour in the cake batter into the prepared Bundt tin in two parts layering the Chocolate mixture.
• Bake this for about 55 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean when inserted near the tube of the tin.
• Let it cool then release the cake around tap gently and unmould it from the pan onto a wire rack.
• In a bowl combine the Icing sugar with the pineapple juice until it is thick and runny, pour this over the cooled cake allowing it to drip it down the sides of the cake then sprinkle some desiccated coconut over it to get a more coconut flavour if you prefer otherwise just leave it as it is.

Notes

Please check your oven as my oven very heated up I bake my cakes in Gas mark 3, I have mentioned above the usual cake baking temperature. I baked my cake for 55 minutes.
I was just thinking I shouldn’t have used chocolate layer this way next time I would completely make it a chocolate cake or a marble swirl cake.
I have cut a circle in a cardboard using a Bundt pan and a hole in the middle and insert it into the tin, this helps the cake sliding on to the board nicely.
I have given 3 tbsp of pineapple juice don’t wonder why I have not said anything about it, as the batter had become slightly thicker than I wanted it to be I used it to thin it down.
I used Canned Pineapple and the juice from it, if you are going to use fresh pineapple just check if they are sweet otherwise you might end up with a sour cake and your sugar wouldn’t match it.
I have used canned coconut milk as well, buy the best product I did not use the water but the thick cream on top when you open it.

Thank you Indigo Herbs for sending me these products. All the opinions is my own and are under no influence.