Recipe: Tasty Vickys Gluten-Free Flour Mix 4 - Cakes & Cookies

Vickys Gluten-Free Flour Mix 4 - Cakes & Cookies. This mix will work for most breads too but is better suited to muffins, cookies. Great recipe for Vickys 'Free-From' Victoria Sponge Cake, GF DF EF SF NF. Just a very basic, everyday free-from cake recipe, easy to adapt to other flavourings. Great recipe for Vickys Easter Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookies, GF DF EF SF NF. Easter always poses problems for people with allergies to things like dairy and soya, every holiday does really.

I hate for my kids to miss out on any treats. I made these for the twins to take to their school nursery. It's light enough to create cakes and muffins that have a nice crumb, and aren't gummy at all. You can cook Vickys Gluten-Free Flour Mix 4 - Cakes & Cookies using 3 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Vickys Gluten-Free Flour Mix 4 - Cakes & Cookies

1. It's 130 grams of sorghum flour.
2. It's 170 grams of potato starch (not flour).
3. It's 60 grams of buckwheat or millet flour.

Safe whole grains for gluten-free baking include: rice flour sorghum flour millet flour amaranth flour oat flour, and teff flour (a fairly high-protein grain). Grain Seeds buckwheat and I usually add ½ teaspoon of xanthan gum per cup of flour mix used in the recipe. The batter should be like a thick cake mix, stiff enough to hold its shape but drop slowly from a spoon. Olivia Chadwick Potato starch and tapioca flour are two up and coming light and airy flours used to lower the density and create a lighter overall flour mix.

Vickys Gluten-Free Flour Mix 4 - Cakes & Cookies instructions

1. This mix will work for most breads too but is better suited to muffins, cookies, cakes & cupcakes.
2. Simply blend together and use in place of your usual GF cake flour blend.
3. Add 1tsp xanthan gum to every 360g / 2.5 cups or as recipe suggests.
4. Recipe can be doubled/tripled etc and stored for 3 months. Gluten-free blends are best kept in the fridge.

Whisk together the flour or flour blend, xanthan gum, and Cake Enhancer. This secret family-recipe also doubles as a waffle mix, so you can get double the fun! To prepare vegan pancakes or waffles, replace the eggs with yogurt, applesauce, or aquafaba. America's Test Kitchen knows how to make gluten-free food taste just as good as the regular stuff. The ATK team tells Fresh Air about the best packaged pasta, and the secrets of gluten-free baking.