Butterfly buns

Thu, 30 June 2016

Denise’s Delicious Butterfly Buns

Makes 12

150g (6oz) Denise’s Delicious flour blend (see below)

Pinch of salt

1 teaspoon guar gum

1 teaspoon GF baking powder

100g (4oz) butter/margarine, at room temperature

90g (3½oz) caster sugar

2 medium eggs

To decorate

240ml (8floz) whipping cream

Raspberry jam

Icing sugar to dust

Heat the oven to Gas Mark 5/190°C/375°F. Line a twelve-hole queen cake tin with paper cases.

In a medium bowl, sieve together the flour, salt, gum and baking powder.

In a mixing bowl, cream the butter/margarine and sugar together with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.

Lightly beat the eggs in another bowl then add into the butter/margarine mixture gradually whilst beating on the lowest speed.

Mix in the dry ingredients, again on the lowest setting. Mix until the flour is combined but do not overbeat.

Divide the mixture evenly between the paper cases and bake in a preheated oven for 15–20 minutes until golden brown and a skewer comes out dry.

Cool on a wire rack.

To decorate

Whip the cream until it stays on the whisk. If it is too loose, it will run off the cakes, but if it is too tight it doesn’t look well, although it won’t affect the taste.

When the cakes are cold, cut a slice off the top of each and cut these slices in half. Using a teaspoon, put a generous blob of whipped cream on top of the cake. Then place a small amount of jam in the centre of the cream.

Place the two halves of each round upright, cut side down, in the cream to resemble wings.

Dust lightly with icing sugar.

Denise’s Delicious flour blend

Makes approximately 850g (2lb) flour blend

250g (10oz) rice flour

25g (1oz) tapioca flour

275g (11oz) potato flour

275g (11oz) corn flour

13g (½oz) teff flour

1 teaspoon gluten-free (GF) baking powder

1 teaspoon guar gum

Sieve all the ingredients into a bowl and mix well.

Recipes by Denise O’ Callaghan from her book ‘Recipes from my Gluten-Free Kitchen’ (Mercier Press). Denise is the founder of Denise’s Delicious Gluten-Free Bakery whose product range is available across Ireland from the major supermarkets, artisan food stores and the online store at www.delicious.ie.