This recipe will bring delight to everybody who is following a gluten-free diet. It's a wonderful chocolatey cake, topped with dark chocolate icing. A truly indulgent, chocolately treat!
Sorghum (juwar) flour and tapioca flour can be found in Indian /Southern Asian and some Chinese/Oriental stores. Xanthan gum can be found online.
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I first saw this recipe on the authors's blog, and on my favorite forums.glutenfree message board. I gave it a try today. This is the best GF chocolate cake I have ever made. Moist and tender and not at all heavy. Gluten eaters would never know the difference. I made 24 cupcakes, and baked them for 25 minutes. One adjustment, however. The measurement for xanthan gum should be 1.5 teaspoon, not 1.5 tablespoons. I also used a simple buttercream tinted green for Saint Patrick's day. I'm sure the frosting posted with the recipe is great too. - 15 Mar 2008 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
This first time that I tried this recipe it wasn't particularly good... but then I actually read the comments and reduced the amount of xanthum gum and it was really good! Nobody believed that it was gluten free! - 23 Feb 2009 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)