Gluten free ≠ Healthy Diet

One of my best friends recently discovered she has Celiacs disease. This is when someone cannot digest the wheat protein called gluten.  It's in everything, almost.  I could never imagine me on a gluten-free diet.  I love bread WAYYYYY too much.  Fortunately for her, she loves rice.  So she gets by.

Her birthday is coming up.  A flourless cake? It can be done, but usually these are dense, chocolate torte-like desserts...  I thought I would try and make a proper birthday cake for her made with a different type of non-wheat flour (sorghum flour).  It's kind of a surprise, but she'll find out in less than 24 hours.  I followed the recipe by the Gluten Free Goddess. But I made it a proper chocolate cake, no coffee.  And I used real eggs.  In my opinion, the cake is a little odd tasting. But it doesn't taste too much unlike the Betty Crocker Devils Food Cake Mix.  Maybe it'll taste better with chocolate butter cream frosting.  Will find out tomorrow.