Lazy Daisy Coconut Cake

This recipe was featured on http://www.seriouseats.com. It was one bowl recipe that I thought would make an amazing gluten free cake, and I was right. They also feature a column "Gluten Free Tuesday" where a new gluten free recipe is published each week. 

 makes one 9-inch square pan, active time 15 minutes, total time 1 hour

Ingredients

For Cake:

1 cup rolled oats

3/4 cup boiling water

1/2 cup milk

1/2 plus 1/8 teaspoon salt

8 tablespoons (4 ounces) unsalted butter, very soft

1 3/4 cup (12 1/4 ounces) packed light brown sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 large eggs

1/2 cup shredded sweetened coconut

3/4 cup brown rice flour

1/3 cup potato starch

3 tablespoons tapioca starch

2/3 teaspoon xanthan gum

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

For Topping:

6 tablespoons (3 ounces) unsalted butter, very soft

3/4 cup (5 1/4 ounces) packed light brown sugar

3 tablespoons milk

2 cups shredded sweetened coconut

1 cup walnuts (or pecans), chopped

Procedures

Combine oats, boiling water, and milk; let sit 20 minutes. Adjust oven rack to upper and lower middle position and preheat to 350°F. Grease 9- by 9-inch pan. 



Add salt, butter, sugar, and vanilla to oat mixture and stir to combine. Stir in eggs and coconut. Add brown rice flour, potato starch, tapioca starch, xanthan gum, baking soda, and cinnamon to bowl, then stir until completely combined. Pour into prepared pan and bake on middle rack until just set, about 30 minutes. 



While cake is baking, mix topping in same unwashed bowl: toss butter, brown sugar, milk, coconut, and nuts to form moist crumbs.




As soon as cake is baked, remove from oven and spread topping over the top. Return pan to oven and increase heat to broil. Briefly heat until topping melts and coconut is lightly toasted, about 1 minute. Transfer pan to wire rack to cool.



Tomato Soup Spice Cake

Anyone remember the soap opera Passions. Grace Bennett always brought a Tomato Soup Cake to any celebration, while secretly everyone made fun about it behind her back. " Oh look Grace brought her famous Tomato Soup Cake, Thanks Grace!" I know it sounds gross. Anyhow, it's actually quite a delicious spice cake and I think you should try it. And who can forget the Martimmy created by a doll who turned into a boy and loved by Tabitha the witch. Try one to wash down the cake.

Tomato Soup Spice Cake
From: Campbell's Kitchen
Prep: 20 minutesBake: 40 minutesCool: 20 minutes
Serves: 12

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/3 cups sugar

4 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/2 teaspoons ground allspice

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoons ground cloves

1 can (10 3/4 ounces) Campbell's® Condensed Tomato Soup

1/2 cup vegetable shortening

2 eggs

1/4 cup water

Cream Cheese Frosting

Directions:

Heat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 13x9-inch baking pan.

Stir the flour, sugar, baking powder, allspice, baking soda, cinnamon and cloves in a large bowl. Add the soup, shortening, eggs and water. Beat with an electric mixer on low speed just until blended. Increase the speed to high and beat for 4 minutes. Pour the batter into the pan.

Bake for 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let the cake cool in the pan on a wire rack for 20 minutes. Frost with the Cream Cheese Frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting:

Beat 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened, 2 tablespoons milk and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract in a medium bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until the mixture is creamy. Slowly beat in 1 package (16 ounces) confectioners' sugar until the frosting is desired consistency.

Martimmy

3 (12 fluid ounce) cans frozen lemonade concentrate (thawed or diluted)

1 (2 liter) bottle ginger ale

1 cup frozen orange juice (thawed or diluted)

1 quart cranberry juice cocktail

1 orange, thinly sliced

1 1/2 ounces rum or tequila has been recommended as the alcohol amount to be added. Although it's slightly sacrilegious, I actually use vodka, and usually a lot more than 1 ½ ounces.

Shake with ice and strain into a Martimmy glass.