{"id":73,"date":"2008-01-28T18:53:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T02:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/lemon-cake\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T17:12:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T01:12:29","slug":"lemon-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/lemon-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Cake with Cherry Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This cake came from a mix:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sylvan Border Farm<br \/>\nGluten-Free Products<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylvanborderfarm.com\/lemon-cake-mix.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Lemon Cake Mix<\/a><br \/>\n1 lb, 10.7 oz (762.6 g)<br \/>\nMendocino Gluten-Free Products, Inc.<br \/>\nP.O. Box 277, Willits, CA 95490<br \/>\n(800) 297-5399; Fax: (707) 459-1834<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylvanborderfarm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.sylvanborderfarm.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INGREDIENTS: Sugar, Potato Starch, White Rice Flour, Brown Rice Flour*, Aluminum-free Baking Powder, Amaranth Flour, Quinoa Flour*, Xanthan Gum, Lemon Juice Powder, White Cornmeal*, Garbanzo Bean Flour*, Soy Flour*, Salt. *Organically Grown<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mix cost me a mere 99 cents, because it was being discontinued from the store where I got it. I finally used it the other day.<\/p>\n<p>We made it for Miriam, as a cake to bring to other children&#8217;s birthday parties. It&#8217;s really hard on her to watch everyone else eat cake (and pizza and other special treats) and not be able to have any herself. So we bring her lunch and a sweet treat. We used this cake at her cousin&#8217;s birthday party and I froze the rest in single servings for future parties.<\/p>\n<p>The recipe couldn&#8217;t be simpler: 1 bag mix, 3\/4 cup orange juice (we used jarred lemon juice), 3\/4 cup oil (we used sunflower), and 4 eggs (we used 4 tablespoons flaxseed meal nuked in 1 1\/3 cups of water). Then you beat the heck out of it for two minutes. They recommend a big mixer with a dough hook but we don&#8217;t have one, so I used a stick blender with a whisk attachment, which worked well.<\/p>\n<p>The mix includes a recipe for a lemon glaze but I made a cherry one instead, boiling sugar, cherry juice, dark cherries (chopped), and a pinch of salt. As recommended, we poured it hot over the hot finished cake (with some holes poked in it) and let it cool. The cake soaked up the sauce.<\/p>\n<p>The cake is extremely dense. I don&#8217;t know if my not using eggs was a factor, or that we didn&#8217;t beat it with the recommended equipment. Or maybe it&#8217;s supposed to be that dense. It was good though, despite the fact that it was so carby (the mix prepared as suggested has 15 servings and each has a whopping 42 grams of carbs , with virtually no fiber) it made my teeth hurt. Miriam doesn&#8217;t eat much of it at a time, but she was satisfied with it. I think it would make a good base for an ice cream cake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/lemon_cake_cherry_top_1982.JPG\" alt=\"Lemon Cake with Cherry Sauce\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cake came from a mix: Sylvan Border Farm Gluten-Free Products Lemon Cake Mix 1 lb, 10.7 oz (762.6 g) Mendocino Gluten-Free Products, Inc. P.O. Box 277, Willits, CA 95490 (800) 297-5399; Fax: (707) 459-1834 http:\/\/www.sylvanborderfarm.com\/ INGREDIENTS: Sugar, Potato Starch, White Rice Flour, Brown Rice Flour*, Aluminum-free Baking Powder, Amaranth Flour, Quinoa Flour*, Xanthan Gum, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,26,52,3,53],"tags":[7,6,8,77,5,12],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desserts","category-food","category-food-products","category-recipes","category-sweets","tag-dairy-free","tag-egg-free","tag-gluten-free","tag-photos-food","tag-vegan","tag-vegetarian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}