soft gingerbread cake

Discover how easy it is to bake a soft and moist gluten-free gingerbread cake with our recipe for gingerbread with light Teffmjöl from da Carla. This cake has natural sweetness from fresh dates and tangy lingonberries, which creates a rich and deep flavour. The combination of teff flour and tapioca flour gives a fine texture, while egg whites whisked to a firm foam add fluffiness. Perfect for the season's parties or as a cosy treat for the colder days.

Batter

• 100 g pitted fresh dates
• 1 dl (50 g) lingonberries (or lingonberry jam with a high fruit content and less added sugar)
• 1 ½ dl water
• 2 tsk gingerbread spice
• ½ dl neutral oil
• 100 g (2 dl) da Carla organic light teff flour
• 50 g (2/3 dl) da Carla organic tapioca flour
• 1 msk baking powder
• 3 eggs

For the tin

• da Carla organic light teff flour
• cold-pressed coconut oil or other solid fat.

Method

• Heat the oven to 175 °C.
• Grease and "flour" a sponge cake tin that holds approx. 1 litre, with fat and teff flour.
• Mix dates and water in a saucepan. Boil for 2–3 minutes until the dates have softened. Blend the mixture smooth with a stick blender. Add lingonberries or lingonberry jam and stir. Mix in the oil and let the mixture cool slightly.
• Mix teff flour, potato flour, baking powder and gingerbread spice in a separate bowl.
• Separate the egg whites and egg yolks. Whisk the egg whites with an electric whisk until a stiff, white foam forms.
• Stir a little of the date and lingonberry mixture into the egg yolks. Then add the rest of the mixture and stir together. Then fold in the flour and spice mixture and stir to an even batter.
• Gently fold in a third of the egg whites at a time into the batter. Don't overwork it.
• Pour the batter into the tin and bake in the middle of the oven for approx. 25 minutes. Check with a skewer – the cake should be dry in the middle.
• Let the cake rest in the tin for approx. 5 minutes.
• Turn the cake out onto a rack and let cool under a tea towel. Freeze whatever isn't eaten within a day.