Gluten-Free Food,Kiwi Style

SLIDE CAKE SLICE

A quick and classy looking and tasting slice – very similar to Louise Cake but with a crumbled topping rather than meringue

180g butter, softened

1/3 cup caster sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

1 egg

2 cups GF baking flour

3 tsp  guar gum

3 tsp baking powder

2 ¾ cup blackberry or boysenberry jam, warmed for easy spreading

Preheat oven to 170oC.  Grease and line a slice tin, overhanging the baking paper.  Cream butter, sugar and vanilla until creamy.  Beat in egg, then sift in flour, guar gum, and baking powder.  Spread three quarters of the batter into the tin using a hot wet spatula or hands. Spread warmed jam over top. Take tiny pieces of the remaining batter and flatten between thumbs and forefingers, and place all over the top of the jam, beginning with the edges. Bake for 35 minutes.  Let cool in the tin completely before lifting out by the baking paper and cooling on a wire rack.