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Gluten-Free Stone Fruit Cake – Make the most of the season!

Making the most of the summer season’s stone fruits, I usually bake several trays of this cake to eat on the spot or freeze for those dull winter days when I miss eating these fruits.

In fact, I brought a couple of slices along for my recent train trip from Vienna to Berlin. They travel well and were eyed up enviously by fellow passengers!

The combinations of peach, apricots and plums make a nice melody of flavours, each shining through with its unique flavour and texture. Every other bite you take into this cake will be a different taste sensation.
Apricots

Austrians are crazy for apricots, but for good reasons, they are the best! What sets them apart is their plumpness and exquisite sweetness, which has no comparison to other varieties. I don’t speak much German, but the one word you will not get past noticing is Marillen (apricots) as it is everywhere at the shops, markets and on restaurant menus.  You’ll find it in jam, syrups, inside sweet dumplings, marillenknödel, schnapps & liqueurs, drink cordial, chutneys, pickles, vinegar, in pastries and chocolate cakes like the famous Sacher cake, a savoury sauce to a meat dish or simply sold in abundance at the farmers’ markets in Spring and Summer.

Austria’s Wachau Region

It helps that apricots grow well in Austria, especially from the Wachau region (80 km west of Vienna) where the highly regarded white grape is also grown for Austria’s unique Grüner Veltliner wine. The soil in the Wachau valley is rich in loess; a silty soil known to be one of the most fertile in farming. Wachau lies along the Danube River, giving it that special microclimate to grow the best apricots in the world. In fact, the term “Wachau apricot” is a designation of origin protected by the EU. There’s even an annual Wachau apricot festival from July to August to honour the beloved marillen! If you ever come to Austria, try to come in Spring when some 100,000 apricot trees transform Wachau into a fragrant pink-white sea of blossom. You can easily visit Wachau by bicycle or on a river cruise through the region – the perfect way to enjoy this blossoming landscape in this wonderful part of the world!

Adobe photo of gluten-free stone fruit cake
several square slice of gluten-free stone fruit slices

Gluten-Free Stone Fruit Cake

by Sandra - Fun Without Gluten
Make the most of stone fruit season by baking this gorgeous cake to be served with whipped cream, custard sauce or a scoop of vanilla ice cream. It is equally delicious on its own and can be frozen in slices for another day.
5 from 4 votes
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Course baking, Dessert, Kids' Snacks
Cuisine General
Servings 8 slices

Equipment

  • square cake tray 20 x 20cm (add 10 cm more if doubling the recipe)

Ingredients
  

STONE FRUIT CAKE

GLAZE

  • 1 orange, juiced
  • 2 tbsp apricot jam

Instructions
 

STONE FRUIT CAKE

  • Gather all the stone fruit cake ingredients together.
    ingredients displayed to make gluten-free stone fruit cake
  • Mix the milk and lemon juice together. Cover and set aside to curdle slightly.
  • Line a square 20 cm by 20 cm cake pan with baking paper.
  • Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F.
  • Cream the butter and sugar together until fluffy and light.
  • Whisk in the eggs, one at a time with a tablespoon of flour.
  • Add the flour, baking powder, xanthan gum, ground almonds, yoghurt and milk mixture. Fold everything together gently.
  • Add the orange juice, zest, and vanilla extract. Gently mix to combine.
  • Gently spoon the cake mixture into the prepared cake pan.
    the raw batter for the stone fruit cake in the cake tin
  • Arrange the stone fruit slices and slivered almonds in rows.
    arranging the stone fruit on top of the cake batter
  • Complete the four rows with alternating stone fruit slices.
    completed decoration of stone fruit slices on top of cake batter
  • Bake for 40 minutes, or when a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
    baked gluten-free stone fruit cake once taken out fof the oven

GLAZING THE STONE FRUIT CAKE

  • Gently heat the orange juice and jam in a small saucepan until the jam has melted. Whisk well and if necessary, sieve the warm mixture for a smooth glaze.
    Sieving the orange juice and apricot jam glaze to glaze the cake
  • While the cake is warm, brush the entire top of the cake with the glaze.
    brushing the glaze on the top of the warm cake

SERVING

  • Allow the cake to cool before cutting into slices.
  • Serve the cake in generous slices either warm or cold with some whipped cream, custard sauce or a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Notes

  • Keeps for 3 days
  • Suitable to freeze cut into slices
 
 TIP: Switch the almonds for shelled pistachios, pecans or pine nuts, or all four for a nuttier texture.
Keyword gluten-free baking, gluten-free cake, gluten-free fruit dessert, gluten-free stone fruit cake
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