Over 125 gluten-free recipes that taste just like-or even better than-their wheat counterparts. Plus helpful baking tips for creating light-textured breakfast favorites, muffins and quick breads, yeast breads, cookies, cakes, and pies. This book makes living a gluten-free life simple, affordable, and delicious! NEW UPDATED EDITION.
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"Mmmmm...these baked goodies are DELISH!" --Rachael Ray, author; host of the Rachael Ray Show; Food Network star
About the Author
Elizabeth Barbone is the founder of GlutenFreeBaking.com and an alumna of the Culinary Institute of America. With her solid professional baking background, Barbone is known for creating gluten-free recipes that taste just like their wheat counterparts. In addition to creating recipes for GlutenFreeBaking.com, Barbone travels the country speaking to celiac groups and teaching gluten-free baking classes. She lives in Troy, NY.
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111 of 111 people found the following review helpful
By 4bears
Format:Perfect Paperback
If you are going to get only one gluten-free book, this is the one. Elizabeth Barbone has created wonderful recipes that taste like the old favorites that you remember before going gluten free. Before I had this book my family would always ask me to bring a gluten-free dish to family events--and I was basically the only one who ate it. Now I bring food from this book, and my family begs me to leave the leftovers with them. I recently brought the Classic Chocolate Cake (which is actually the same as the cake recipe on the back of the Hershey's cocoa box except gluten-free) to my mother's birthday, and my family raved. My mother went on and on about how it tasted just like her grandmother's chocolate cake--which, of course, was full of gluten.
One thing that I love about these recipes is that they come out every time. The author has tested every recipe 30-40 times before publishing. My one daughter doesn't eat dairy, so I have exchanged soy milk for regular milk in some recipes and shortening for butter, and the recipes are still fantastic. There is a wonderful recipe for sugar cookies that actually roll out and taste great. I have made these and brought them to baby showers, birthday parties, and church events, and people always say the same thing to me. The comment on how pretty the cookies are and how great they taste. Many, many people have told me that their experience with iced sugar cookies is that they look great and taste awful--not these cookies--they taste as good as they look!
Although the book is called Easy Gluten-Free Baking, there are also recipes for main dishes like meatloaf and chicken and pizza. Our family favorites from this book are: No-Bake Peanut Butter Balls, Classic Chocolate Cake, Molasses Crackle Cookies, Chocolate Pixies, Rosie's Pumpkin Bread, Applesauce Bread, Snowball Cookies, Pie Crust II, Sugar Cookies, Thin Crust Pizza, Chicken with Apple Cider and Onions, Meatloaf and Cod Cakes.
One thing that I love about these recipes is that they come out every time. The author has tested every recipe 30-40 times before publishing. My one daughter doesn't eat dairy, so I have exchanged soy milk for regular milk in some recipes and shortening for butter, and the recipes are still fantastic. There is a wonderful recipe for sugar cookies that actually roll out and taste great. I have made these and brought them to baby showers, birthday parties, and church events, and people always say the same thing to me. The comment on how pretty the cookies are and how great they taste. Many, many people have told me that their experience with iced sugar cookies is that they look great and taste awful--not these cookies--they taste as good as they look!
Although the book is called Easy Gluten-Free Baking, there are also recipes for main dishes like meatloaf and chicken and pizza. Our family favorites from this book are: No-Bake Peanut Butter Balls, Classic Chocolate Cake, Molasses Crackle Cookies, Chocolate Pixies, Rosie's Pumpkin Bread, Applesauce Bread, Snowball Cookies, Pie Crust II, Sugar Cookies, Thin Crust Pizza, Chicken with Apple Cider and Onions, Meatloaf and Cod Cakes.
69 of 69 people found the following review helpful
By B. Hoffman
Format:Spiral-bound|Amazon Verified Purchase
I started a gluten-free diet about a month ago and, as a serious baker, was gravely concerned about my ability to reproduce all my favorite foods. I researched and purchased many books to help me with the transition. This book has been, by far, the most successful and reliable. There has not been a single failure, and several recipes have become fast favorites, competing with or even exceeding past baking favorites made with wheat. Also, the book has a helpful lay-flat spiral binding and some lovely, always appreciated pictures.
I'd say two things cause this book to stand out above the competition. First, the recipes are obviously exceptionally well tested. Second, these recipes are carefully calibrated to produce foods that very closely resemble the classic baked goods most Americans were likely familiar with before a gluten free diet. If you're craving chocolate chip cookies, pancakes, or chocolate cupcakes, this book will give you versions that, frankly, no one would guess lack wheat. The author herself is not gluten-intolerant, so she eats and compares 'regular' versions and gluten free versions. I think this perhaps gives her a leg-up in reproducing wheat based foods so exactly, without letting wishful thinking or shifting taste buds influence her judgments. There is even a chapter devoted to replicating store-bought products like twinkies, oreos and graham crackers. Although this book would be perfect for a family with celiac children, or all-american tastes, the basic recipes and techniques are so well-tested that it would be very useful to the celiac gourmet looking for help adapting the base recipes in his or her favorite creations. [The author also has a paid web site with more well-tested recipes and some product reviews. Although somewhat expensive, I have ultimately found this to be a good value given the quality of the recipes.]
The 'classic american' focus of the book is it's main virtue, because most celiacs will be craving just these kinds of foods. However, this is not the book to turn to if you are looking to make healthy, low-calorie, or 'whole-grain' type recipes, multi-component five star restaurant style desserts, or want to experiment with the newest, most unusual or health-food-store type ingredients like stevia, amaranth flour, or mesquite. Most recipes use some combination of white rice flour, cornstarch, sweet rice flour (and also xanthan gum)-- i have often substituted brown rice flour with great success, just to avoid a totally refined sugar/starch bomb (and I have found that purchasing finely ground rice flour does make a difference for products like cakes). Otherwise, most of the ingredients are pretty standard ones: butter, sugar, eggs, baking powder, cinnamon etc.. There are occasional uses of ingredients like shortening and jello (in poke cake), but not very often. Except for those who object to refined products like sugar and cornstarch, it's hard to imagine a gluten intolerant baker who wouldn't find this book extremely helpful.
I'd say two things cause this book to stand out above the competition. First, the recipes are obviously exceptionally well tested. Second, these recipes are carefully calibrated to produce foods that very closely resemble the classic baked goods most Americans were likely familiar with before a gluten free diet. If you're craving chocolate chip cookies, pancakes, or chocolate cupcakes, this book will give you versions that, frankly, no one would guess lack wheat. The author herself is not gluten-intolerant, so she eats and compares 'regular' versions and gluten free versions. I think this perhaps gives her a leg-up in reproducing wheat based foods so exactly, without letting wishful thinking or shifting taste buds influence her judgments. There is even a chapter devoted to replicating store-bought products like twinkies, oreos and graham crackers. Although this book would be perfect for a family with celiac children, or all-american tastes, the basic recipes and techniques are so well-tested that it would be very useful to the celiac gourmet looking for help adapting the base recipes in his or her favorite creations. [The author also has a paid web site with more well-tested recipes and some product reviews. Although somewhat expensive, I have ultimately found this to be a good value given the quality of the recipes.]
The 'classic american' focus of the book is it's main virtue, because most celiacs will be craving just these kinds of foods. However, this is not the book to turn to if you are looking to make healthy, low-calorie, or 'whole-grain' type recipes, multi-component five star restaurant style desserts, or want to experiment with the newest, most unusual or health-food-store type ingredients like stevia, amaranth flour, or mesquite. Most recipes use some combination of white rice flour, cornstarch, sweet rice flour (and also xanthan gum)-- i have often substituted brown rice flour with great success, just to avoid a totally refined sugar/starch bomb (and I have found that purchasing finely ground rice flour does make a difference for products like cakes). Otherwise, most of the ingredients are pretty standard ones: butter, sugar, eggs, baking powder, cinnamon etc.. There are occasional uses of ingredients like shortening and jello (in poke cake), but not very often. Except for those who object to refined products like sugar and cornstarch, it's hard to imagine a gluten intolerant baker who wouldn't find this book extremely helpful.
30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
By Celiac Baker
Format:Perfect Paperback
I own at least 15 other gluten-free cookbooks and this is one of the two best. The waffles are better than the best wheat-flour ones I used to make.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very Much a "Hit"
I've been buying gluten-free baking books for a while now, ever since I decided to cut back on gluten products, and they tend to be very much "hit or miss. Read more
Published 13 days ago by Garnet
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great recipes
I have made the brownies and the chocolate chip cookies and gotten great reviews from people who are not on a gluten free diet. The bread is the best I have had. Read more
Published 1 month ago by E. Klein
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Fabulous!
I think this is an AMAZING book. The ingredients are easy to find and the recipes produce wonderful results. Read more
Published 1 month ago by LMagenis
2.0 out of 5 stars
This book does not meet the dietary guidelines for my gleuten free,...
This book was recommende by a friend Who had pruchased the book and was happy with it. It is beautifully illlustrated and easy to read. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ethel Holt
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Gluten Free baking recipe book out there!
Every recipe in this book is delicious! The book is easy to understand, well organized, and offers many extra tips to be successful baking Gluten Free. I highly recommend it.
Published 2 months ago by Deborah A. Haynes
1.0 out of 5 stars
STUNNED AND DISAPPOINTED
I have been an avid bread baker for years. I love developing my sourdough starter and using it in a variety of recipes. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Sandra M. Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars
Easy Gluten-Free Baking
This book has an excellent array of replacement recipes for the celiac including a gluten free TWINKIE recipe!!! I made them this Christmas and my family enjoyed them.
Published 3 months ago by QPJ
5.0 out of 5 stars
I've been using if and find it better than the gluten free bakery in...
My sister and I decided to go gluten free when her doctor reccomended it for her. It's helped my digestion. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Joanne P. Maguire
3.0 out of 5 stars
Some good recipes some dissappointments.
The pros are she used basic white rice flour, brown rice flour, cornstarch and potato starch for most recipes. Read more
Published 4 months ago by DG Rivers
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent recipes!
My friends think I am some sort of culinary genius because I make light, moist, fluffy, flavorful gluten-free cakes and breads--but I'm NOT a genius; it's all due to this book. Read more
Published 4 months ago by J. Davis
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