Gluten-Free Lemon Pudding Cake (enjoy warm or cold)
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A delicious, fresh and light lemon dessert, with a creamy, warm lemon pudding on the bottom, a soft sponge-like middle and a crusted top. Tart, luscious and subtly sweet.
Author: Kelly
Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: Serves 4
Ingredients
Zest of 2 lemons
2 eggs, ideally brought to room temperature (set them out on the counter 20 minutes ahead of time if you can)
2 Tbsp butter, softened
⅓ cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
½ cup coconut palm sugar (or granulated sugar of choice, brown sugar works fine)
1 slightly rounded Tbsp almond flour
2 flat Tbsp tapioca flour
1 cup 2% or whole milk (I tyipically have 2% on hand)
Fresh berries for serving or warmed frozen berries, as desired
Instructions
Heat oven to 350 F.
In a small bowl combine almond and tapioca flours and set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together lemon zest, egg yolks, butter and sugar. Add lemon juice, followed by flour mixture and milk, mixing to combine.
In a separate mixing bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks/indentations form; fold into batter.
Pour pudding cake batter into a baking dish (see notes for size/dish pref) and then place baking dish into a larger dish - add boiling water to the larger dish such that it comes up about 1 inch (2.5 cm) along the sides of the dish. The "water bath" method is used to prevent the pudding cake from drying out while baking - it also minimizes cracking and over-browning the top layer. - it makes a difference and is worth the small extra step.
Place pudding cake with pan in middle rack of oven and bake for approximately 35-40 minutes - the surface should be taking on a nice golden color and the cake top just firm to the touch. If you see that the cake is over-browning while baking (oven heat varies), you can loosely tent with foil.
Remove pudding cake from oven and allow it to cool on a rack for about 10 minutes.
Scoop pudding cake into individual serving dishes or bowls and top with fresh or warmed frozen berries and/or cream/ice cream as desired etc. Or simply enjoy the pudding on its own, it's delicious that way too!
You can also refrigerate and serve this dessert cold according to preference.