Hi,
i'm wanting to bake a cake for mothers day. I'm vegan and gluten free - i'm struggling to find a recipe. Every recipe seems to have eggs. It's harder to bake a cake with gluten-free ingredients. I have the babycakes book but there's nothing in there i really want to bake and the ingredient list is vast.
I really wanted to make a lemon drizzle or lemon polenta type cake.
If anyone has i good recipe i'd be so grateful.
Many thanks
helly

the only gluten free stuff I have ever attempted has been from babycakes - and the only gluten free stuff I have thought tasted amazing was from babycakes!  its an odd and lengthy list of ingredients for sure, the first thing I made from it was the cupcakes and I called them my $150 cupcakes because I felt like I spent about that much and tons of time amassing all of the crap I needed to make them!  But it was so worth it, and in the end I was left with a lot of extra stuff after the cupcakes and that made it so much easier to keep making recipes from the book.  I know you said there was nothing in the book you even wanted to make, but if you are after a lemon taste, her vanilla cupcakes definitly have a lemon-y taste to them.....

i think you'd be okay finding a recipe for a gluten-free lemon polenta cake and just sub in "flax eggs" for the real eggs, or even use egg replacer. 

http://letherbakecake.blogspot.com/2009/09/not-pretty-but-perfect-lemon-polenta.html

you could also use a 1/2 cup of almond milk + 1 tsp lemon juice + 1 heaping tbsp arrow root power in place of 3 eggs in the recipes i'm seeing - that might work as well.

have you checked out this blog?http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/she has great vegan recipes & tons of desserts!

Thank you for your suggestions.It's so annoying to be gluten free as well as vegan, makes life so much harder. I just wanted to find a gluten free&vegan recipe for a lemon cake already done. It's hard to just sub because i don't know what it'll be like and using gf flour can be a lot different.
it's not that i don't want to bake anything from babycakes, but i live in a small town and know they wont have all the ingredients, and at the moment i don't have the money to buy lots of ingredients, as i'm currently ill and off work.
Thank you for your help

I try to stay gluten free as well. I've found the easiest way to bake gluten free vegan is to follow a vegan recipe but use gluten free flour in place of whatever flour they suggest. Usually you need about 1 1/4 cups gluten free flour for every 1 cup of regular flour.

You can also buy gluten free cake mixes at most grocery stores that carry an organic section but they may not be vegan and I'm pretty sure I've even seen that Duncan Hines offers a gluten free option in the regular cake mix section, but it may not be vegan either.

Have you tried your local book stores or library for gluten free vegan cookbooks as well?

Good luck!

Thank so much for all the tips. Desperate I eventually bought as many of the babycakes ingredients i could find in my town. exhausting! and expensive..all my months living allowence practically gone, nevermind, at least i get to bake my cake and eat it!!
I couldn't find soy milk powder or coconut flour, both needed for the frosting. any help for substitutes or other tips for icing (i don't want to use sugar or icing suagr).
thanks so much! 
p.s. hapygirl - thanks for your advice, i searched the entire internet and i found a mix at my store which was vegan, egg free and gluten free but luckily i read instructions which say to add EGGS , bit contradictory! 
xx

I found a cookbook today called allergy free desserts. The recipes are gluten free, dairy free, egg free, soy free and nut free.

It's got a recipe for a lemon glaze that looks simple. It's 2 cups confectioners sugar, 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice. It also has several yummy looking cake recipes. It has multiple cake recipes as well. I can't wait to try some of them!

So i just made the vanilla cupcakes from babycakes cookbook....they're still slightly warm, i cut one open and they're really 'gummy' almost like they're not cooked totally but i've follwed the recipe down to a 't'.  Really miffed as spent so much money and it's for an occasion! any comments / is this meant to happne?!

I've made the red velvet cupcakes from Babycakes - made with spelt so not gluten free. But I think if you let them sit they should be okay. If you have followed everything exactly then it is what it is, I think the thought and effort behind all of this is really what counts. It's all about presentation anyway.

Okay - i've found out why it went wrong. the flour. Cannot get hold of 'garbanzo-fava bean flour' here in the UK and no idea what the equivalent is. I used a gluten free mix instead. Such a shame. Any ideas of the equivalent i could have one last go.x