Gluten free foods are becoming more readily available on supermarket shelve and within restaurants and cafes around. Whether you have adapted a gluten free diet into your lifestyle due to health issues such as an intolerance or coeliac disease, or maybe to give you a healthy approach to food, gluten freeing has never been easier.
Once you have understood which foods you have to avoid and which foods are safe, you can start experimenting with baking. Making sponges can be a little challenging at first as you might find they come out dryer that your previous gluten filled cake, this is because gluten binds the mixture. A gluten free cake may need a binder depending on your choice of cake, cakes such as a banana loaf usually do not need the extra assistance as the banana helps to do this job. Other simpler sponges may require some xanthan gum to assist, however it may take some experimenting to get the balance right.