Today was my birthday...GF cake...YUCK!

spiregrain

Good mixes:

Namaste Spice Cake
Anything Pamelas
Most things chocolate or otherwise strongly flavored (consistency turns out better than vanilla somehow, & vanilla does a poor job of masking stronger flour flavors like bean flours)

While we're at it, I love Pamela's bread mix and the Gluten Free Pantry pie crust mix.

Whole Foods sometimes has pretty good gf stuff.

Some of this stuff, you can get through amazon.com's subscribe and save program and its a lot cheaper that way.

Eadne

The best gluten free cake ever: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chocolate_roulade_79152

It has the taste and texture of cake despite the complete absence of flour in the recipe. It's impossible to describe how good it is... someone made it for me and I honestly questioned whether it was actually gluten free! The basic cake roll can be decorated as a Yule log, a caterpillar cake, a steam train cake, or simply with cream/fruit/chocolate. This cake with change your life

gramanana

I'm lucky, I don't eat a lot of cake or cookies. However, there is a great gf bakery that I go to about once a month. If you're in the Chicago area you should look up Rose's gf bakery in Evanston. I didn't like the bread, but the cake and some of the cookies are the best.

Also, I have a cookbook that uses almond flour (Elena's Pantry), it has the best recipes ever.

slowturtle1

I've used both the yellow and the chocolate Hodgson's Mill (http://www.hodgsonmillstore.com/en/Gluten-Free-Chocolate-Cake-Mix/71518-02135-001_Group-1.aspx) and everyone liked it.

We tried the Betty Crocker GF mix and found it salty.

I agree with others, make it yourself.

We discovered a restaurant that serves some delicious GF cakes, including one that's Vegan, but in general our local GF bakery is crap. We discovered the Hodgson's Mill mixes and LOVE them! The ones I tried (yellow and chocolate) also don't have soy in them which is key for us since my husband is also allergic to soy.

jimmie25

my mum made gluten free cherry cheesecake and berry muffins for my birthday a week ago and they turned put delicious. i never buy premade stuff anymore cause they taste really weird. the one's i've tasted anyways.

khbut

I've made good and bad it's just trial and error.
my parents have come over a couple of times with a piece of gf cake from a bakery they found selling it and it was just like cake should be.
Did you're husband complain to the bakery that it wasn't the white fluffy cake he asked for and fell apart,they should be able to make a good gf cake if they are going to sell them to the public..it was a shame is happened for you're birthday. Hope you get a better one next year.

AlsDonkBoxSquat

I make all my baked goods myself, I find that store bought just isn't very good. I also find that so far pound cake and brownie recipes translate the best. The trick is finding the right flour mix to get a good consistency and color. For me, I like 50% rice flour and 50% sorghum flour, and don't ever forget the xanthun (sp) gum. I find that my mix works pretty well 1 for 1 in recipes that call for wheat flour.