Ive been making liver cake for years but mine always falls apart in my pocket and ends up under my nails   I used to buy it at my old ringcraft club and it was always "spongy" and firm and never crumbled.  Does anyone know how I can make mine like this ?

A friend told me to use rice flour - I'm not sure if this is the bit that makes a difference but mine doesn't crumble.  I also leave it quite wet before baking and I lob the whole egg in, shell and all !!

I use all organic ingredients in mine

12 oz Organic S/R flour
1 lb or thereabouts Organic New Zealand Lamb
3 Organic eggs(with or without the shells)
2/3 cloves of Organic garlic
1/2 pint of water or Organic milk

Cook the liver first(lightly) then put into food processor, add the flour, eggs, minced garlic cloves, whizz up together, add the water, bung on a non stick baking tray in a preheated oven at 180 C for 25 or so minutes until the "cake"feels like a sponge cake. mark out into strips whilst warm & then into small squares when completely cold, keep in fridge for immediate use or put in resealable bags in the freezer. Mine doesn't crumble either

I substitute the flour with bran & don't use as much water. If you spread it out on a baking tray to about an inch in depth & bake it for a bit longer, you will get something more like a biscuit than a cake. Cut it into cubes while it is still warm.

Some cheese grated into the mix goes down well too..

thank you all, I will give it a go tomorrow - its Alfs birthday on Monday so thought I would treat his pals at agility to some liver cake at our training day on Sunday

Happy Advance Birthday to Alf.
I have tried many different recipes for liver cake, what i found to hold the mixture together once cooked is egg, shells and all. What i do is very similar to MM but without the milk and i use minced offal rather than  just liver on its own.
I don't cook for too long as i have found that for me it tends to head to the more brittle stage.

Wow, birthday party?!!  Lots of other lovely recipes on this site:  http://www.itsaspringthing.co.uk/willows%20kitchen.htm.  My dogs love the quick as a flash tuna bread

Ooh thanks for this link. I can see a baking session on the horizon. I keep thinking of making some treats using gluten free flower, then selling them to raise funds for rescue. We have a show in a couple of weeks so I might give it a go.

I do gluten free garlic biscuits ... think recipes on the Willow site.  They're yummy!  OK, I'm not that mad on them, the dogs are and so is one of my friends who says they make very nice biscuits to eat with cheese!  Coulnd't find a nice cutter so use the lid of a wine bottle, nice sized biccies, specially if packing them to sell for fund raising.  Cut the solid top out first so you can push biscuits through.  A friend uses the recipe and does diddly squit sized treats using an apple corer.  Think she reduces cooking time by 10 mins.  If you do use the recipe, leave biscuits in oven to cool for 10-15 mins, else they come out horrible in the middle.  Think the recipe does say this but just in case it doesn't.  Happy baking.

I made it today, followed MM's recipe and its come out perfect

thank you

"gluten free flower"

Oops I can spell really!!

Thanks MM - getting to the end of my bought livercake - was wondering what I was going to use for training until next year when I can get to a show selling some.

you can buy it on ebay too

I got fed up of all the gore of putting the liver in a blender and then found a receipe for a tuna cake which is made in exactly the same way as the liver cake but adding two cans of tuna instead.  My dogs love it and it saves all the mess.

if you do it moonmaidens way by frying off the liver first it isnt gory when you put it in the blender - I used to spend ages trying to pull the strings of liver away from the rotor bit of the blade !!!

mmm.. blending the raw liver makes me feel a bit.. bleugh!!

Made a batch of liver cake a couple of days ago. I was putting some in the fridge after packing the rest for the freezer. Fortunately I had broken it iin to small ish squares about 2inch each. Sundenly I heard a funny noice at my feet only to find that little pomchi was growling with her mouth full at my gsd a very strange sound and running off to her bed with her prize a whole piece of liver cake which had fallen from the fridge unnoticied by me !

Lucky girl fortnately no ill efects from too much liver !