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A Gluten-Free Holiday Week: Thanksgiving Favorites
….and along with a fun new Thanksgiving Dessert Recipe, I am also bringing back my Thanksgiving Prep Series that I ran last year.
It is no secret that Thanksgiving is my ultimate FAVORITE holiday. I host it at my house every single year.
Oh. And this way? I get out of having to host Christmas.
I decided last year to do an entire Thanksgiving Prep Series, where I shared everything from my prep schedule, to each of my allergy-friendly Thanksgiving recipes, and right on down to my Thanksgiving Feast Master Shopping List.
It was met with quite the response. I have never answered SO many Thanksgiving-based emails in my life. But, the rewarding part was afterwards when my inbox was filled with people telling me how the series helped them to get through the holiday without the stress or crazy kitchen mishaps or disasters.
So, in addition to sharing this dangerously decadent Allergy-Friendly, Gluten Free Candied Apple Cranberry Upside-Down Cake, I am bringing back my Allergy-Friendly Thanksgiving Prep series!
Annual CIAF Allergy-Friendly Thanksgiving Prep Series!
PART 1: The Menu and The Plan of The Ultimate Thanksgiving Series
PART 2: Cranberry Citrus Cider Sauce AND Green Bean and Shallot Salad with Champagne Vinaigrette.
PART 3: The Gluten-Free Cornbread Recipe for the stuffing (with the Variation to make the Savory Cornbread Rosemary Muffins to go with the meal) and Crock Pot Mashed Potatoes.
PART 4: Gluten Free Cornbread/Bread Stuffing With Apples, Sausage, Pine Nuts and a secret ingredient that you will NOT want to leave out.
PART 5: Cider Glazed Brined Turkey with Apple Brandy Gravy
PART 6: Toffee Pecan Caramel Apple Streusel (Gluten-free and Egg-free already, but ways to make this baby Dairy-free and Nut-free as well) and Crustless Pumpkin Streusel Pie.
PART 7: The Shopping List
RECIPE TIME!!
Now for this Candied Apple Cranberry Upside-Down Cake. As written it is Gluten-free and Dairy-free, and I also tell you how to easily adapt it to be egg-free and nut-free as well. And one of my favorite things is it is GUM-FREE with a perfect moist crumb.
This cake is a wonderful end to a Thanksgiving feast. And your yummy topping will look FAR better than mine does here. Every time I make this cake, I line my cake pan with a round piece of parchment paper that fits just right into the bottom. It makes the cake come out of the pan perfectly.
Of course, as I was making this cake again the other day, I had no parchment paper. And none of my neighbors were home to beg and borrow from. So I attempted to make it without. Do not do what I did. Use the parchment paper, people!
Half of my favorite part of the cake (the caramelized topping) stayed in the pan. I tried to put some of it back on, but the end result was not near as beautiful as my past successes with this cake. So I repeat. Use the parchment paper. Your cake will look much prettier than this…
Oh. P.S. The raw cranberries pictured below are for garnish only. I do not recommend feeding raw cranberries to your guests. Even my dog will not touch them…and that says a lot.
Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Candied Apple-Cranberry Upside-Down Cake
Easily adapted to be Egg-Free and Nut-free
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup fresh cranberries, measure while whole, then dice them in half
- 1 small apple, peeled and very thinly sliced
- 3 Tbsp Coconut Oil
- 1/2 Cup Coconut Sugar, or Brown Sugar
- 1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
- 1 cup Superfine Brown Rice Flour (such as Authentic Foods brand)
- 1/2 cup Almond Flour -such as Honeyville (For NUT-FREE: use equal amount Corn Flour, OR Quinoa Flour, OR Millet Flour)
- 1/4 cup Millet Flour
- 1/4 cup Arrowroot Starch
- 2 1/2 tsp Baking Powder, Aluminum-Free
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp Sea Salt
- 8 Tbsp Earth Balance Vegan Buttery Stick (or Regular Butter, or Coconut Oil) softened to Room Temperature-IMPORTANT
- 1 Cup Blonde Coconut Palm Sugar OR Granulated Sugar
- 2 Large Eggs, Room Temperature-IMPORTANT (For EGG-FREE: Mix together in small bowl: 3 Tbsp Unsweetened Applesauce with 1 1/2 tsp additional Baking Powder with 2 Tbsp Warm Water and with 1 1/2 tsp Ener G Egg Replacer – use mixture where you would add eggs)
- 1 Cup Plain Coconut Milk (such as So Delicious) Room Temperature-IMPORTANT (or regular Milk)
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
Directions:
1. Preheat Oven to 350 degrees. Generally grease a 9 inch round cake pan. Using the bottom of your round pan, trace around the pan on parchment paper the exact size of your pan bottom. Cut the piece of parchment paper to fit just in the bottom of pan, without letting it go up the sides.
2. In bottom of pan on top of parchment, place the oil and then put in oven for 1 minute, until oil is fully melted. Then add sugar evenly over bottom of pan, mixing with oil. Place pan back in oven for 2-3 minutes. Remove from oven, sprinkle cinnamon over sugar, lay thinly sliced apples in a ring and place cranberries over apples. Place pan back in over for 3 minutes, or until it begins to bubble slightly. Remove from oven while finishing batter prep.
3. In medium bowl, mix together Superfine Brown Rice Flour, Almond Flour, Millet Flour, Arrowroot Starch, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, and Sea Salt. Whisk together until light and airy.
4. In bowl of electric stand mixer, beat Earth Balance Butter (or Regular Butter) and Sugar for 3 – 5 minutes until light and fluffy. Then add eggs (or Egg Replacer), one at a time, continue mixing. Add vanilla and mix again until incorporated.
5. While mixer is going on low speed, slowly add 1/3 cup of the milk then add 1/2 of dry ingredient mixture. Then another 1/3 cup of the milk, and the remaining half of the dry mix. Finish with the last of the milk. Stop occasionally to scrape down sides with rubber spatula. Once all dry mixture is added, continue to mix until well-incorporated and batter seems light.
6. Pour batter over apple-cranberry mixture.
7. Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean. Let cool for 5 minutes, then invert onto plate. Remove parchment paper from cake top. Top with homemade Coconut Whipped Cream. And for even more Dairy-free Whipped Cream Recipes and resources, visit Go Dairy Free.
And for more Thanksgiving Favorites:
Cranberry Ice Cream from Simply Sugar and Gluten Free
Creative Leftovers: Baked Turkey Croquettes from Daily Bites
Plumberry Sauce or Jam from Diet Desserts and Dogs
Pumpkin Granola from She Let Them Eat Cake
Thanksgiving Prep from Tasty Eats At Home
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This cake looks wonderful. I just submitted my recipe for the roundup as well.
Yay! Thanks so much for joining in, Valerie! Those collard greens look amazing!
I’m so glad you’re bringing back your Ultimate Thanksgiving Prep series! It will help so many people. Your cake looks incredible…want to send some to Texas?
Thanks for hosting A Gluten-Free Holiday this week, Kim!
Hugs,
Amy
Thanks Amy! This is such a fun event. Cannot wait to see what everyone else has planned. And if only gf baked goods traveled better. I would have one of these cakes waiting at your doorstep!
This cake is stunning!! Thanksgiving at your house sounds like it will be a heaven. (For the guests, at least!)
Thanks Hallie! And I just love your idea for baked turkey croquettes. I am so going to do that with our leftovers this time!
The cake looks delicious! Thanks for sharing and thanks for the giveaway!
The cake looks Delicious!
Also Thank you for the giveaway chance! We love Asian food, and just beginning the gluten free path has made enjoying it confusing at best.
I can’t wait to try this cake! I love apples and cranberries together!
I am SOOO making this right now, to teach at my Gluten Free Thanksgiving Cooking class tonight. I will be directing people right to your blog! And the comment about your dog not eating the raw cranberries made me laugh right out loud! Thank you Kim!!!!
Wow, this cake looks amazing (even if you didn’t have the parchment paper)!
I’m Canadian, so we celebrated our Thanksgiving already, but I’ll definitely be bookmarking this recipe to use next year… or I may just make it anyway because it looks so tasty.
I love cranberries! It’s so interesting to see so many different ways you use them. Delish!
This cake looks amazing! Great job! Love cranberries in baked goods. I’ll make a note not to feed the raw ones to anyone though!
I am so excited to look through all these Thanksgiving recipes, as these are the first holidays where I need to accomodate my son’s allergies.
I was so excited to look through all these recipes later, I shared it on pinterest before I saw the rules for the giveaway.
I tweeted about this post
And posted it on facebook too.
I also pinned it on pinterest
Would love to get this book so I can start trying to make Asian style food. It seems difficult since soy is used so much, but I’m sure there have to be some alternatives.
Sara, I use Bragg’s Coconut Aminos all of the time in place of soy sauce and it really does impart a really similar flavor!! We do not do soy sauce either! And you will love the book! It has so many good ideas!
Disregard my previous comment about Bragg’s. My mind is not working properly. The brand of Coconut Aminos that i use is http://www.coconutsecret.com/aminos2.html
I must have Bragg imprinted on my mind because of all of the Apple Cider Vinegar I have been drinking of theirs lately. LOL
I’m still making your muffins with cranberries from last year, so of course I have to try this cake. Don’t add me to the giveaway. I am reviewing the cookbook on my blog next week. W
Thanks Wendy!! So glad you are still making those cranberry muffins. Those are a big favorite in this house. I just made them with a twist last week. I got some persimmons in my bountiful basket so I made persimmon cranberry muffins with that recipe and replaced the bananas with persimmons. Holy moly. They were SO good!
I so very much miss steamed dumplings. I’d love this book so I can enjoy them again. thanks!
I linked up, but don’t enter me. Already have the cookbook. BTW, the cake looks beautiful.
Thanks Tia! Love those Pumpkin Muffins! And I even got to try them in real life so I KNOW they are good! xo
I linked up a “two for one” post with the two ingredient turkey breast (and one of the ingredients is the turkey breast!) and my tortilla chip stuffing. Both make Thanksgiving so much easier.
GORGEOUS cak, Kim! Oh, to come to your house for Thanksgiving … that would be heaven!
xoxo,
Shirley
Love your recipes that you shared, Shirley! Two for one is always a good idea in my book. And if you and Mr GFE showed up at my house for Thanksgiving, it would seriously make it the best holiday EVER!!
xo
k
This looks like the perfect dessert for Thanksgiving! Definitely a great flavor combination to celebrate the holiday.
Sarena, this is a really nice holiday dessert. I have to actually hide it from my boys though because they just love to pick off all of the caramelized candied topping (although I cannot blame them – I do too).
I would love to win this book! I am loving all of these holiday recipes.
Cake looks delicious. I’ll be trying it this weekend. My husband loves cranberries, and so do I. Thanks for the great recipes.
Thanks Karin! Hope you enjoy it!
OO that looks so yummy! Every year I make Alton Brown’s Mooless Chocolate Pie, using Mi-Del gluten free ginger snaps for the crust. GF, DF, and super rich! Here’s a link to the recipe:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/moo-less-chocolate-pie-recipe/index.html
Gaile, I love the look of that recipe. It would be a dangerous dangerous thing to make in this house. Would be gone in minutes.
Hmmmm. . . . I was sure I left a comment this morning, but not here! Let me just repeat: that cake look amazing. And I must find a way to reproduce it!
Ricki, if anyone can reproduce this cake for your diet it would be you!!
You are one of the most creative recipe developers I know!
This cake looks so amazing, flavors and colors-cranberries are just one of my favorites!!!! I’m still working at branching out to use different flours, this looks perfect! Excited to try this Thank you!
Linda, playing with the different flours will give you so much versatility! And it also helps give good texture. Have fun playing!
We have such amazing traditions in my family over Thanksgiving. We eat dinner at my Grandmothers, gather up the entire family and chop down our Christmas Trees in the woods (in our small MN town) then go have pie and hot cocoa and my house. Afterward we play Bingo with prizes that my Grandmother collects throughout the year and wraps for us….then we make popcorn and watch a movie! Every year, this is what we do. Every year it is the time I most look forward to. Now to make the FOOD more gluten-free will be the challenge.
Oh my goodness! Molly, your Thanksgiving tradition sounds absolutely special in every way. i can completely see why it is so important to you and why it holds such a special place in your heart! And I just love the idea of the bingo game with gifts that your Grandmother has collected! Thank you so much for sharing your tradition with me!
Kim this is stunning! You’ve done it again, you’re such a good recipe developer! Thanks for making the every-allergy-friendly adaptations! i think this would make a fantastic Thanksgiving brunch addition too! With a small note that read, DO NOT EAT THE CRANBERRIES, DECORATION ONLY! My mouth is secreting acidic juices right now!
Thanks, Maggie! You are too sweet! A note for you guests on the cranberries would be a good idea. If my 4 year old could read, it would have saved him a very unhappy mouthful. LOL
Your Candied Apple-Cranberry cake is delicious! I also added some orange zest to the batter.
Wow! Catherine you are quick. Orange zest sounds like an AMAZING addition. What a great idea!
Looks like some really good recipes here. Too busy to look right now, but will have time this weekend to look them over when I can enjoy them.
I just shared this on Facebook.
Hello! I’d like to win the Asian cookbook. I first heard about in another fave GF blog, http://www.thespunkycoconut.com and found it at the library! It would be nice to OWN it
Cheers!
This cake sounds delicious, will have to try it. Love the book, and a chance to win !!
Hi. Below is a link to a recipe on my blog for vegan gluten free corn pudding. It’s a family favorite and a very easy Thanksgiving dish.
http://www.theglutenfreemaven.com/2010/11/make-and-take.html
Thanks, Amy! I included it in the linky! I love your recipe for the corn pudding!!
I’d love to win the cookbook b/c I’ve missed Asian food since having to cook allergy free
I have been wondering for ages if there was a wheat-free way to make those little parcelly things you showed on the cookbook cover… I’m pretty excited to find out there is…
This is an exciting series to follow! Thank you so much for sharing all your wonderful tips and recipes. I have the app for my iPhone and would love this cookbook you’re giving away too! The more tools and resources I have, the easier and more fun my time is in the kitchen.
I am really looking forward to this series… and I’d love a copy of the gluten-free Asian cookbook. We’ve really been missing Asian foods!
love this! i’m so happy to have discovered your blog.
i would be thrilled to win the book!
here is a link to my post on allergen-free pesto – http://sewnnatural.com/blog/2011/10/harvest-allergen-free-pesto.html
The cake looks awesome! I’m new to the dairy-free world, thanks to my son’s dairy sensitivity–he’s 7 weeks. I love finding new blogs with recipe ideas–thanks for yours!
Shared on twitter. I’m @maryhorowitz.
This recipe looks great. I think I’ll have to test it out first, you know to make sure.
Diane, you rock! All of your recipes are awesome! Thanks so much for linking up! And yes. You will have to test it first. Just to make sure you are not poisoning anyone, of course.
Wow. All these recipes look amazing! Thanks for sharing. The cookbook looks awesome too!
Want to send some of that cake to me as a care package? I have a copy of the book – love it so you don’t need to enter me, just came by to beg for cake!
Carol, the package should be arriving….NOW (fingers snapped and magic wand waved)…
xo
k
This book looks awesome! Thanks for doing a giveaway.
the cake looks fabulously lovely. this is going to be fun reading everyones favorites!
I have started looking at gf recipes that are also sugar free or nearly sf since my diabetic brother was diagnosed in January of this year with celiac disease. He finally has the answers for his misery! We don’t live close to each other and I’m trying to put together a cookbook of recipes that I’ve come across that sound good and that he can eat and enjoy. The cake looks fabulous and I have some other friends who are gf who can get this for the Holidays.
You know, I think I figured out why I love your photos- those splashes of color! Love that red. It just makes me happy. This cake sounds really good. I have a cranberry cake that a friend made for me that I posted some time ago:
http://www.bookofyum.com/blog/gluten-free-desserts-vic-and-hallies-easy-cranberry-pie-recipe-1167.html
Actually, maybe I’ll add it to your roundup right now (because it is REALLY tasty).
Love cranberries in all sorts of things!
-Sea
I just posted about this give a way on Facebook.
I just tweeted about your give a way.
FB: Jeanene Clark Brown
Twitter: Jeanene_Brown
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