Question

You would like to bake a special birthday cake for a friend who has celiac disease. the original cake recipe is made with eggs, flour, milk, sugar, vanilla, and butter. to make a cake that is safe for your friend to consume, you plan to substitute _____ for the ____ in the recipe.

Answer 1

A normal Cake is made with eggs, flour, milk, sugar, butter and vanilla. This cake can be consumed by everyone. But people with the Celiac Disease cannot eat this cake, because this cake contain an ingredient which trigger the disease. So if you want to bake a cake for your friend who has this disease, you need to substitute Flour with gluten free flour. Gluten flour is the ingredient that triggers this disease.  We can have other options or substitutes for flour as well that don't have gluten in it, like using oatmeal or oats instead of flour within the recipe.

Answer 2

Substitute GLUTEN FREE RICE FLOUR or GLUTEN FREE ALMOND FLOUR for the FLOUR in the recipe.

Celiac disease is triggered by consuming gluten, a protein. It can be found in wheat which is the primary source of flour in baking and cooking. Other food that contains gluten are barley, rye, triticale and oats. 

Since Celiac disease is a serious genetic autoimmune disease, it can be deadly when one consumes food that is rich in gluten. Thus, gluten free food are used to substitute food that contains gluten.