Ener-G makes a gluten-free version of pound cake. It’s really more of a small loaf cake and is sold in some stores and online. I’ve heard good things about the product, but have not personally tried it myself. The only store I’ve seen it in was Mother Earth in Ocala, FL, but it’s sold in many other places as well. Check the Ener-G website for availability details.
The absolutely best pound cakes we’ve tried are made from mixes. Sylvan Border Farm and 123 Gluten Free both make exquisite gluten-free pound cake mixes. The Sylvan Border Farm cake is actually called lemon cake but it makes a bundt cake sized lemon pound cake. 123 Gluten Free pound cake also had a hint of lemon flavor. Both of these cakes are indistinguishable from gluten containing cakes!
Sylvan Border Farm products are sold in some health foods stores and online. Recently the company was sold but the new owners are set up to fulfill orders, after a brief suspension while the business was for sale. 123 Gluten Free products are sold online, at some grocery stores (Kroger, for one) and many health food stores, including Return to Eden in Atlanta.
The odd thing about the cakes made from Sylvan Border Farm and 123 Gluten Free is that the pound cakes hold up really well for several days. This is certainly not the case with many gluten-free cakes we’ve made. Most are best if eaten the day they are made or the day after, at the very latest.
Several gluten-free cook books offer pound cake recipes, though most of them will call for three to six (or more) flours. By the time all those flours are purchased, one could just buy a mix instead. It’s seems that only die hard gluten-free bakers enjoy buying, blending and storing all those flours. Thankfully, for the rest of us, the amazing mixes from both Sylvan Border Farm and 123 Gluten Free make is easy to have gluten-free pound cake good enough to serve the most finicky glutenoids we know!





