I have mentioned before how I love to bake and it is hotly debated topic in our house as to whether it is more important to have good flavour or whether the item in question is gluten free. Even when we are out and about, I see items touted as gluten free when to be quite honest you might as well be chewing a piece of cardboard. It is getting better out there but it is still my holy grail to try and bake the perfect gluten free bread.
So I’m delighted with this recipe – a perfect light cake, a delicious lemon flavour balanced by raspberries and gluten free treat! No hockey pucks with this one and any berries will work, even small pieces of chopped apple with some cinnamon would be a great alternative.

Lemon & Raspberry Loaves
Makes 12
Oven at 180C

9oz butter
4 1/2 oz caster sugar
6 1/2 oz Gluten free flour (you can use half gf flour and half polenta too)
3 oz ground almonds
Zest and juice of 1 lemon
3 large eggs
250 gr Raspberries
Lemon syrup made from juice of 1 lemon and 1 oz sugar

Beat the sugar and butter together until light and fluffy
Beat in the eggs and flour alternating 1 egg with 1/3 of the flour
Beat in the ground almonds and the zest and juice of the lemon

Transfer to muffin or mini cake pan tins which have been greased and lightly floured
Press in 2 raspberries into each cake and bake for about 20 minutes until lightly golden and cooked through
While they are in the oven, dissolve the juice with the sugar
When the loaves are cooked, cool for about 5 minutes then remove from their tins and place on wire tray over a flat baking sheet.
Spoon the syrup over and leave them to full cooly