gluten free christmas log cake
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Gingerbread Buche de Noel

Course: Sweet Treats
Cuisine: Dairy-free, Gluten-free, Vegetarian

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup Gluten-free Cornflour
  • 1/2 cup gluten-free flour
  • 1/2 tsp Baking powder
  • 1 tsp Ground ginger
  • 1/2 tsp Mixed spice
  • 3 Eggs
  • 1/4 cup Brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup molasses
  • 1/4 cup Caster sugar
  • 1 quantity Salted Caramel Buttercream see recipe

Instructions

  • Grease and line a 23x33cm swiss roll tin.
  • Sift together dry ingredients and set aside.
  • Beat eggs in a small bowl until thick and pale.
  • Add brown sugar in 4 lots, beating in-between until dissolved.
  • Add molasses and mix well.
  • Fold the wet mixture into the dry mixture.
  • Pour into prepared tin and bake for 12 minutes at 180oC.
  • While the cake is cooking, place a sheet of baking paper on a tea towel on the bench.
  • Sprinkle caster sugar over the baking paper.
  • When cooked, the edges of the cake will have slightly shrunken away from the edge of the pan.
  • Immediately turn the cake out onto the sugared baking paper.
  • Very carefully remove the baking paper that lined the tin.
  • Roll the cake up from a long edge with the sugared baking paper and tea towel.
  • Leave the cake rolled up to cool.
  • When cool, carefully unroll and remove the tea towel and baking paper. Don't stress too much if there is a crack or two, as the buttercream will help to hold it together.
  • Spread 1/3 of the buttercream over the cake and roll it back up.
  • Spread the remainder of the buttercream over the rolled cake, and decorate as desired.