Raspberry rice cake

My childhood best friend suffers from coeliac disease, as do other members of her family. This exposed me to a childhood filled with inventive and delicious rice cakes. This one was a favourite on the wheat-avoidant dessert trolley. The almond lilt and the raspberry bite work beautifully in the dense, moist cake base. I actually love it warm – fresh from the Coleraine farmhouse oven in Northern Ireland, where I first tasted it – but a cooled, creamy version is a rich, elegant variation.