ALWAYS CAKE...

i'm a cake guy, it seems.

i mean, 

i NEVER think about cake at a bakery 

(i also almost never go to bakeries)

and i NEVER order cake at a restaurant for dessert 

(vegan hottness is rare in these parts)

but i sure do love to eat some cake when i'm home,

or at work,

and to do that, i've gotta make it, and when i'm making it these days,

i'm trying to create some expert gluten-free freshness for my face.

yeah.

yesterday, 

in anticipation of some more time with my celiac maniac,

i fired up a lil cakey goodness, in a ring  ...or halo, even, of wheatless wonder.

mmmm.

check the teleport:

YEAH!

it's regular crumb vegan cake,

but with TWO kinds of drizzle decadence on top.

one's double dark chocolate,

and the other is COFFEE!!!

that makes mocha, neighbors, and mocha is F*ing delicious.

i couldn't decide if the picture was overly buttholey,

so i also took a chunk out, (to eat) and maybe make it a little less like a crinkler.

teleport:

right? that's less bum-bum, and more sweetness.

i have a few bundt pans, and i use them occasionally, as a treat for my treats-

i admit i'm kind of a boring purist about cake shape, 

and circles are my favorite forever.

so, a no-middle circle counts, kinda, 

even with the bundty bumps that make it more suitable for drizzly decoration.

and the drizzle really is what activated the excellence in this one, friends.

f'real.

the cake itself is good.

like, surprisingly so, given my initial failures last summer using similar techniques.

turns out, if you use just one flour, or prepacked blend of flour,

you are fully F*ing up.

uh-huh.

the best thing about gluten free baking?

too much is always the only right amount.

and that's no joke.

i had four different packages opened in order to make this work,

and it worked, and it's great, and i had three slices before the day was done.

what can you do?

you can follow the recipe and make one for yourself!

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GF BUNDT!

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preheat your oven to 360℉

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grease up your non-stick bundt pan 

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in a medium-sized mixing bowl, cream together:

8 T (1 stick) vegan butter;

2 tsp vanilla;

1 cup organic sugar.

stir in:

1/2 cup vanilla non-dairy yogurt.

mix well, then add:

1 cup bob's gf ap baking blend (bean-based) flour;

1 cup bob's gf 1:1 rice-based flour;

2 tsp baking powder;

1 tsp baking soda;

1/3 cup gf oat flour;

1/4 cup tapioca starch;

1 1/4 cup non-dairy milk.

stir well, and thoroughly, and spoon the batter evenly into the ring pan, man.

bake it for 35 minutes, or until the center is solid and a cake tester comes out clean-

let it cool five minutes, then turn it over and out onto a wire rack to finish chilling out.

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transfer your cake to wax paper (or put your wire rack over the sink?)

and hit it with the double drizzle-

i had leftover chocolate ganache, which i re-melted, 

and dripped over the golden exterior of this bad baby 

in strips and stripes and stripes and strips,

and then i whipped up some coffe-style icing to activate the exxxtra expertism.

yeah.

3/4 cup powdered sugar;

4 tsp powdered instant decaf coffee;

1/2 tsp vanilla;

1-2 tsp non-dairy milk to liquefy the sugar-

y'all dunno how dope this is until you do it, so do it, and bask in the mocha majesty.

that's real.

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it's so cold nobody is outside.

it's so cold the whole town is basically hibernating.

it's so cold that my ears want to snap off.

it's so cold that indoors, too close to a window, i'm still so cold, 

even with the heat way up.

i'm gonna need more cake to bulk up and bear this brutality, bro.

it's all week long, according to the current weather reports,

and that's a lot of subzero stinging to suffer through.

the woodsly goodness does this every year, so that's not a surprise-

but, that doesn't mean it's a welcome circumstance, regardless.

i've got on all the layers, and i'm dreaming of wearing a mountain of blankets while i tattoo.

instead, we're all gonna be chilly, and that's just what we're gonna do.

it's all really happening, and while the cake helps, when there isn't one baking, 

the house is still that much colder, and my purple-tinged fingers aren't having it;

frosty icicles for digits?

it's not ideal for typing. i am finding that out right now;

never quiet, never soft.....