I know sometimes its easier using the separate flours for a good blend, but find it way easier to buy it already mixed. And when it’s labeled, “Perfect Flour Blend” you expect to use it as a sub for any gluten free flour blend that a recipe calls for.
I buy Namaste’s perfect flour blend. I’ve used it for a modified red velvet cake – which ended up coming out perfectly and the recipe called for separate flours and perhaps I just got real lucky with adding up the amount of dry flours and using the exact amount of the blend minus the xanthan gum because the blend has that in it already. This was the only successful baked good that has come out of using this blend though. I made their printed recipe for banana bread and pumpkin loaf and BOTH were gummy and wet on the inside and too cooked on the top. I’ve tried both three times.
However, when it comes to pancake mixes, I’ve used Pamela’s, which is really really good, but so dang expensive. I found a recipe for gluten free pancakes this morning and used my perfect flour blend in place of the “gluten free flour blend” that the recipe called for. It was not separate flours. I thought it would be fail-safe. No. It turned into a thick gummy dough. I added so much liquid that they were wet on the inside even after cooking in the pan. Nasty nasty nasty. DH is a human garbage disposal and literally will eat anything, so he ate them anyways. I decided I would try again substituting water for milk thinking that maybe the milk is causing the gummy thickness. No. Same thing. I was so angry I cried. I really really wanted pancakes. I don’t want to have to buy a gazillion flours to make a comparable pancake and don’t want to spend 20 bucks on a bag of mix (Pamela’s because my local store doesn’t carry smaller bags). If a flour blend is a flour blend, it should work universally and not just for the recipes printed on their own stupid label. I don’t really like bob’s red mill either. I can’t find a basic universal blend of flour that tastes great for pancakes and other baked items like cakes and cookies. Is there a universal blend that is good for everything?
This morning I really truly despised being a Celiac 
I didn’t even eat breakfast – I wanted to torch my kitchen instead. Watching it burn would have made me feel better. I was more angry over the waste of money I think.
Tags: gluten free, Gluten Free Food, no gluten