Thnking Day - Quesadilla Salvadorena

This past February 22 was official Girl Scout Thinking Day. This is a day to remember that Girl Scouting and Girl Guiding is a world wide organization encompassing 124 countries. Every year we have a big crazy event and it usually involves food (surprise!!) This year the Theme is Extreme Poverty and Hunger. Each troop will pick a country to represent and a food item for the country.
My troop is not doing a country, but organizations that assist people worldwide.
So I had to pick a food to make and chose a cake from San Salvadore. It is called Quesadilla Salvadorena, but is not a Mexican type Quesadilla , it is cake.
I made two versions, one gluten free and one regular. I actually found some recipes that used rice flour. I chose to use my gluten free mix ( see previous blog for mix recipe). This is not a healthy food by any account.
The batter to this cake is beautiful. It's soft and fluffy, just lovely. The end cake texture is very dense and sweet. You can actually pick the whole thing up out of the baking pan without it falling apart. I found the texture of the gluten free cake to be better than the flour based cake -- weird.

Quesadilla Salvadorena-

1 cup gluten free flour mix
1 cup sugar
1 cup sour cream
4 ounces Parmesan Cheese - grated
3 eggs
1 stick of trans fat free margarine
1 tsp baking powder
Sesame Seeds

1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Grease 8 x 12" baking pan. You can also use 2 round cake pans or a spring form pan.

3. In a large bowl, cream together margarine and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. In a separate bowl sift together the gluten free flour mix and baking powder.

4. Add flour mixture to the creamed mixture a little at at time. Add sour cream and parmesean cheese mixing well.

5. Spread batter into baking pan and decorate with seasame seeds.

6. Bake for 40-50 minutes, until done.

As you can see with the sour cream, butter, eggs and cheese this is not at all healthy. A small piece is good. Seasame seeds are optional if you don't like them.