Gluten free baking

[Anonymous]

I am overwhelmed by trying to bake gluten free baked goods. There are so many cookbooks and blogs. Do you use the bobs red mill flour mix? All the different types of flours?
I am really looking for the treats I miss- meals have not been too much of a problem and I'm eating a lot more healthily in general.
This weekend I discovered the gf English muffins and cupcakes at trader Joes and it got me wanting to bake.

[Anonymous]

If you want to get into it easy, get the King Arthur Flour mixes. They are all good. Trader joes now makes a GF flour that I may test out myself today. It's at least cheaper than some of the others.

[Anonymous]

Spend some time reading the Gluten Free Goddess's blog. She has been a lifesaver for us. Her bread recipe is the best ever--we've turned into home bakers, and do not buy the freezer section GF bread anymore.

[url]http://glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com/
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We've found all of Bob's Red Mill products to be reliable.

P.S. As you start using xanthan gum in your baking, be careful and measure precisely. A little bit can make your baking amazingly like regular gluten-based baking. More than a little bit can turn it all to mush.

[Anonymous]

The Gluten Free on a Shoestring blog has great recipes and also advice regarding different GF flour mixes and when to use them.

[Anonymous]

15:58 here. I made a banana cake with th TJ's flour today, and it came out pretty well. The recipe I used had a lot of moist ingredients (butter, sour cream and bananas), so the cake wasn't dry at all.

I did some research today and there's a strong suspicion that the TJs gf flour is the King Arthur Flour mix repackaged. (a lot of TJs stuff is brand names repackaged). It seems to be working like the KAF stuff.

[Anonymous]

http://www.elanaspantry.com/ Best gluten-free baking blog I have found. Read FAQ's to answer many of your questions.

[Anonymous]

GF baking can definitely be tricky. I've come across recipes in some of my older cookbooks that are actually GF like polenta cakes (like cornbread) or cakes made from rice or pancakes from tapioca flour. So sometimes looking at Italian or Asian recipes might be a source of inspiration.

Also, there was a post on the health forum about someone needing to go GF for their daughter and one poster mentioned about using a bread-maker. I wish I had asked which recipes they used. (So that might be a possibility too.)

[Anonymous]

For baking specifically, The Allergen-Free Baker's Handbook is the way to go. A friend got it for me for my birthday after using it to cook for her DS and it's great.

[Anonymous]

Best gluten-free bread ever:

http://glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com/2009/02/delicious-gluten-free-bread.html

The recipe is for a bread machine, though we make it by hand.