Gluten free birthday cake?

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	Hello, I am new to the forum. I tried searching for this but didn't see the question I had. My daughters are aproacing their 3rd birthday and for the last month we have been on a gluten free diet. The change has done her good and we want to keep the diet going. As far as gluten free cakes are concerned I have been wondering what you guys have done in the past. Have you had a regular cake and a GF cake? Have you just had the GF cake and made everyone eat it? Did you get it from a bakery and what reaction did you get from what you did.   Like I said it seems to have been helping so we really want to stay true to the gluten free casin free diet.   Charlie I am a meanie..made gluten free cake and made everybody eat it..it doesn't taste bad, just a different texture; however, I have also made cupcakes in the past and made one that was decorated way up and that was the GF one for my dd and the rest I made with flour. I noticed when I made the G/F brownies, they had a cake texture, could work or I would shop at naural health food stores, I know my local supermarket carries all sorts of boxed g/f c/f s/f cakes and cookie mixes. Renee ~ I also found this site that talks about assessing social skills...maybe you can use this to have the conversation with your school: http://www.communitygateway.org/faq/social_skills/page5.htm Thanks for the tip Lesley!!  Charlie..I forgot where to get the cake.. Most Health food store do stock mixes for GF/CF brownies and cakes. I have also used Lisa Lewis's  special foods for special kids (or whatever it is called). If you are trying to reduce sugar as well, you might want to try substituting juice, date sugar or fructose and make it yourself. We had everyone eat the GF cake.  It wasn't bad -- maybe a little heavy on the cocoa flavor (it was a chocolate cake).  Luke didn't care for it.  A treat for him would be a bowl of potato chips.  I may try a different flavor GF cake next time. Thanks for the tips! We went shopping at Whole Foods Market and found some GF cake mixes. Frosting might be a stretch as my wife tried a carmel frosting that was pretty grainy. I like the cupcake idea. Maybe we will just make everything GF and tell everyone to dig in! Thanks again! There is this awsome brand of gluten free cake mixes called Cherrybrook Kitchen.  We got my son a chocolate mix for his birthday.  It was the closest to a regular cake I've ever had.  With icecream, no one noticed.     I served both a regular and a GFCF cake.  The GFCF cake was actually better and more popular.  I got the cake mix and icing mix from missrobens.com.  The consistency of the cake was crumbly like corn bread - really good! Namaste makes good vanilla and chocolate cake mixes (gfcf) and cherrybrook makes a decent frosting....I buy the Namaste brand mixes at a specialty shop called "Low Carb Life" and the frosting at Whole Foods... we seem to have the best luck with cupcakes...easy for little hands and they look cute in little colored wrappers.... we serve only gfcf at parties (for son and his friends) and there are never any leftovers... Have you purchased Lisa Lewis's Special Diets for Special Kids One?  It has some really good cake recipes.  She has a pineapple velvet cake that is yummy. Here is a good recipe (you can replace the coconut milk with pinapple juice): http://newdiets.com/Desserts/Yellow_Cake.shtml The website also has a carmel apple and chocolate cake.
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