A beautifully golden cake with warm aniseed and turmeric flavours, topped with crunchy walnuts. A unique gluten free treat.
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon of ground aniseed
- ¾ cup of brown rice milk
- 1 cup of caster sugar
- ½ cup of vegetable oil
- 2 cups of LFGF All-Purpose Plain Flour
- 1 teaspoon of Gluten Free baking powder
- 2 teaspoons of ground turmeric
- ⅔ cup of chopped walnuts
- 135ml of water
Method
- Line a 20cm spring cake tin with baking paper. Preheat oven to 150°C.
- Place aniseed and water in a small saucepan over a high heat and bring to the boil. Cook 2 minutes or until reduced to about ¼ cup. Strain and cool.
- Whisk rice milk and the sugar in a jug until sugar has dissolved.
- Whisk oil and aniseed mixture into the rice milk.
- Place LFGF All-Purpose Plain Flour, baking powder and turmeric powder in a large bowl.
- Make a well in the centre of the dry mix. Pour in the milk mixture, whisk to combine.
- Pour mix into the spring cake tin. Scatter with chopped walnuts.
- Place into the oven and bake for 1 ½ hours or until a skewer comes out clean.
- Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then take out of the cake tin, place cake on a wire rack to cool completely.
- Store in an airtight container.
Handy Hints
- LFGF flour works cup for cup with wheat flour.