Gluten Free Cherry Tea Cake

I am sharing a recipe today that I got from a wonderful blog, My Patchwork Quilt.  Miss Patricia shares some of the yummiest recipes!  I have made several of the recipes she has posted, plus I have a growing list of her recipes on my To Make list.  It seems as if every day she posts another recipe I want to try!

This Cherry Tea Cake from My Patchwork Quilt is definitely a keeper.  I made it for my family, and they absolutely loved it!  I so badly wanted to taste it, but since I have to eat gluten free I couldn't.  It smelled so good as it was baking!  After I commented on her blog about what a great recipe it was, she suggested I try making it gluten free.  So I did!  And it was a complete success the first time!  That almost never happens for me!

I had to adapt the recipe just a little bit to make it gluten free.  First of all, I used Bob's Red Mill 1 to 1 gluten free flour.  It already has xantham gum in it.  If you try making this with another gluten free flour, you will have to add xantham gum if your flour doesn't have it in there already.

The only other changes I made were minimal.  I added an extra egg, added the almond extract to the batter instead of the cherry pie filling, and I used frozen orange juice concentrate that was not diluted.  I did that because I have found that gluten free baking needs to have slightly more liquid in the batter to come out soft instead of gummy.

Here is my Gluten Free Cherry Tea Cake fresh out of the oven:

And here it is after I cut into it a bit: (even the rest of my family loved the gluten free version)

Here is a close up - it came out so soft and tender, SO GOOD!  You will love this if you try it!

I want to thank Miss Patricia at My Patchwork Quilt for sharing this recipe!  I plan on making this again and again!  If you haven't checked out her blog, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?? Head on over there right now!  You won't be disappointed!

Here is the recipe I used for my gluten free version of Cherry Tea Cake:

For a printable copy of this recipe, please click HERE. 

Hope you enjoy this as much as we did!  As for me, I am heading over to My Patchwork Quilt right now to check out what goodies she is sharing today!

This post is being shared at Meal Plan Monday #111 at Southern Bite.  When you are finished drooling over the recipes at My Patchwork Quilt, head over to Meal Plan Monday for some more inspiration!