Individual Ginger & Lime Cakes

This has been quite the week for baking. Banana muffins, blueberry muffins and now Ginger & Lime cakes!

I wasn’t too sure how these were going to turn out as I totally made the recipe up lol but I gotta say… They are amazing! Even if I do say so myself.

So easy easy to make, taste delicious and as always wheat & gluten free!

Ingredients:

225g rice flour
100g wheat free oats
1 heaped tbs of baking powder
2 tbs of honey
2 tbs rice bran oil (vegetable oil would be fine)
50g of chopped dried pineapple
3 tbs of dried ginger
80 – 100g of fresh ginger (grated)
1 egg
1/2 pint water
1 tbs of vanilla extract

For the frosting:

250g mascarpone
150g cream cheese
2 limes (juice and rind)
1 lemon (juice and rind)
3 tbs of sweetener (not essential)
Crystallised ginger (for decoration)

Step 1

Combine all the dry ingredients including the fresh ginger and pineapple. Then add the egg, oil and vanilla mixing until everything is combined.

Step 2

Add the water in stages. A little at first then keep adding until the mixture resembles a thick batter. The whole half pint may not be needed.

Step 3

Spoon into muffin cases or as I did here, I bought some square cardboard cake cups. It’s Easter and I was feeling fancy!

You wanna bake these for about 15 – 20 minutes on gas mark 4, 350 fahrenheit or 180 celsius.

Step 4

While these are baking mix together the cream cheese, mascarpone, juice of two limes, 1 lemon and the rind of both.

You can add sweetener or even icing sugar to sweeten it up but I haven’t and don’t think it’s essential.

Step 5

Once the cakes are cooked, remove from the oven and allow to cool.

Once cooled, lather with the frosting, grate over some lime rind and top with a piece of crystallised ginger!

Cuppa tea and your good to go!

Blueberry Muffins

When I was at Uni two of my housemates Sam and Kev had a crafty nack of getting me to cook them all manor of meals and desserts at the drop of a hat.

‘Betting’ that I wouldn’t be able to make a whole list of things they knew I would prove them wrong lol Frankly they lived like kings haha

Obviously I loved it, however I fear they have imparted this canny method to my work colleagues. I took some of my banana muffins in to work today and they were curious as to what tomorrows batch should be lol Blueberry or lemon and poppy seed were their preferences. I had some blueberries needed using up… So, here we are!

These literally took me 5 minutes to throw together and 15 to bake.

Ingredients:

1 tub of blueberries
225g brown rice flour
100g wheat free oats
2 tbs of honey
1 heaped tbs of baking powder
1 egg
3/4 cup of water or orange juice
2 tbs of rice bran or vegetable oil

Combine all the dry ingredients, add the honey, egg, oil and the water. Mix well and the blueberries.

When adding the water be cautious not to add too much. You don’t want the mixture too runny.

Spoon into cake cases, sprinkle with a few more oats and bake for 15 minutes.