Toffee Pecan Gluten Free and Grain Free Bundt Cakes
As I was making these around the holidays, I polled people as to what they thought, if Santa would prefer some of these little bundt cakes or cookies? Most people said the cakes or both cakes and cookies!
Equipment
- 1 6 hole mini bundt cake pan, individual pans, or cupcake pan
Ingredients
Toffee Pecan Bundt Cakes
- ½ cup chopped pecans
- ¾ cup almond flour, gf
- ½ cup tapioca starch, gf
- ¼ cup cassava flour, gf
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1¾ teaspoons baking powder, gf
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, gf
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg, gf
- 3 large eggs
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup sugar or cane sugar
- ¼ cup milk or dairy free milk, gf
- ½ tbsp vinegar
- ¾ cup vegetable oil or avocado oil
- ½ teaspoon Nielson-Massey Vanilla Paste or Vanilla Extract, gf
- 3 ½ tbsp rum, gf or 1 teaspoon rum extract, gf plus 2 tbsp milk
- ¼ cup Trader Joe's Sea Salt Caramel Chips, gf, chopped for topping
- ¼ cup pecans, chopped for topping
Chocolate Glaze
- ½ cup dark chocolate chips, gf
- 1 tbsp pure maple syrup
- 1 tbsp honey
- 2 tbsp butter or dairy free butter, gf
- 1-1½ teaspoons hot water
Instructions
Toffee Pecan Bundt Cakes
- Prepare the bundt pans by greasing with an oil spray or vegetable oil. Lightly shake with gf flour, shaking out the excess.
- In a large bowl, combine the ground or finely chopped pecans, almond flour, cassava flour, tapioca starch, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and spices.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs and the sugars until well combined. Add the oil, milk, vinegar, vanilla paste or vanilla, and rum or rum extract and additional milk.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the large bowl of dry ingredients and stir until thoroughly combined.
- Fill the Bundt cake holes, cupcake holes, or other mini cake pans 2/3's full.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 14-16 minutes. Cool 10 minutes. Loosen the edges from the pan and remove the cakes from tray or mini cake pans by inverting unto a parchment over a wire rack. Cool completely.
- Drizzle with glaze and add pecans and sea salt caramel chips.
Chocolate Glaze
- Combine the ingredients in a small saucepan and heat over low until melted and combined. Cool to lukewarm before drizzling over the cakes.
Notes
Makes 7 mini bundt cakes or 5-6 individual small bundt cakes.