soft gingerbread cake

Discover how easy it is to bake a soft and moist gluten-free gingerbread cake with our recipe for gingerbread cake with light Teffmjöl from da Carla. The cake gets its natural sweetness from fresh dates and tart lingonberries, which creates a rich and deep flavour. The combination of teffmjöl and tapiokamjöl gives a lovely texture, while egg whites whisked into a firm foam add fluffiness. Perfect for the season's parties or as a treat with coffee on the colder days.

Dough

• 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 teffmjöl
• 50 g (2/3 dl) da Carla organic tapiokamjöl
• 1 msk baking powder
• 3 eggs

For the tin

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

Method

• Heat the oven to 175 °C.
• Grease and "flour" a cake tin that holds about 1 litre, using fat and teffmjöl.
• Mix the dates and water in a saucepan. Simmer for 2–3 minutes until the dates have softened. Blend the mixture smooth with a hand blender. Add the lingonberries or lingonberry jam and stir. Mix in the oil and let the mixture cool slightly.
• Mix the teffmjöl, tapiokamjöl, baking powder and gingerbread spice in a separate bowl.
• Separate the egg whites and 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. Fold in the flour and spice mixture and stir until you have a smooth batter.
• Gently fold in a third of the egg whites at a time into the batter. Do not overwork it.
• Pour the batter into the tin and bake in the middle of the oven for about 25 minutes. Check with a skewer – the cake should be dry in the middle.
• Let the cake rest in the tin for about 5 minutes.
• Turn the cake out onto a wire rack and let it cool under a tea towel. Freeze whatever isn't eaten within a day.