GF + DF Delicious Lemon Orange Cream Frosting

I'm excited to share with you one of the first things I ever made that was both Gluten and Dairy Free.

About 4 weeks after learning of all the changes we needed to make for my husband's diet, it was going to be his birthday.  I was extremely worried that I wasn't going to be able to make him anything edible for him to enjoy on his special day.

I spent weeks online trying to figure out HOW I was going to manage the most simplest thing...a birthday cake. (Remember I was still really new at this).

I started on Amazon and typed in gluten and dairy free white cake.

Then I proceeded to buy 6 Bob's Red Mill Vanilla cake mixes.

Then I spent several days looking online for a simple frosting that I could make.

Many of the recipes included crazy ingredients I hadn't yet acquired.

I wanted a simple recipe.  Everything was too much to handle already.  I needed a simple frosting recipe to make for my husband.  So I made one up.  

I was super proud of my recipe.  The cake and the frosting were delicious.  

Believe me, I gave myself a huge pat on the back for this one. I stored the cake in the fridge and I loved the cool, refreshing, delicious cake.

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Lemon + Orange Cream Frosting

An original gluten and dairy free recipe from Freshly Completed.

http://freshlycompleted.blogspot.com/

Makes enough to frost tops and sides of two 9-inch cake layers

Start to Finish 20 minutes.

·                   2Ingredients

½ C. Non-dairy Butter (Earth Balance Natural Buttery Spread)

1 tsp. Vanilla

5 1/2 cups sifted Powdered Sugar

¼ C. Lemon Juice

2 Tbs. Orange Peel zest

Directions

Beat non-dairy butter and vanilla until fluffy. Add powdered sugar alternately with Lemon juice beating well after each addition.  Add 1 tbs. orange peel zest and beat until nice and fluffy.  Frost cake.  Add last tablespoon of orange peel zest to top of cake.  Enjoy!

And since I wasn't planning at the time to blog about this cake I don't have any fancy pictures.  But here are some from his special day.  And where as I stressed and spent weeks planning his birthday cake...I spent 0 time thinking about his birthday candles.  

He's pretending to blow these "candles" out.  I just added some in post editing.

Thanks for joining me in my first What's for Dinner Wednesdays?

Okay, I know this isn't dinner...but you get the idea.