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Gluten Free Mama, Mama's Coconut Blend Flour, All Purpose Flour, 32-Ounce Pouches (Pack of 2)

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I never used white flour much prior to becoming gluten free but there are some recipes that simply don't turn out as well with any other type of flour. One of those is dutch babies which turns out light and fluffy made with this flour blend:
4 EGGS, 1 cup MILK, 1 cup MAMA'S FLOUR BLEND with 1/2 tsp XANTHAN GUM (always add xanthan when using a GF flour). Add ingredients one by one (in order) to a blender until blended well then pour slowly into the middle of a 10-12 inch iron skillet pre-heated in 425 oven until 1/4-1/2 cube BUTTER is (just) melted in it then swirled to cover sides. Bake for 18-20 minutes and serve immediately. Good with sauteed apples and cinnamon topped with sour cream or yogurt with a sprinkle of brown sugar or (my favorite and the easiest) LEMON WEDGES squeezed over with a sprinkle of POWERED SUGAR.

I love this flour mix. I have 3 kiddos, one is on a gluten free diet and one is on a gluten free/casein free diet. This blend makes baking for them so easy. I have used my everday receipes with this and things turn out great! I love having this on hand.

Coconut flour makes very yummy donuts! I have also used it for making pancakes, and got very good results. Will definitely be buying this product on a regular basis.

This flour has me baking on a regular basis again since we went gluten free. There is NO grit! My GF son is a hard-to-please eater and he said the yellow cake I made was the best he's ever had! You can't go wrong with this!

This blended flour is wonderful for those on a GF diet and works well in baked goods, giving a richness without excessive coconut flavor. To determine if this product is right for you, it is important to consider how you plan to use it. If you are looking to add a little fiber to smoothies or sauces or soups, you may want 100% coconut flour. If you are wanting it for flavorful baked goods recipes with fiber, this should work perfectly! If you are making your own flour blend and wanting a flour that will not effect blood sugar so much, this is not what you need.

If you read the reviews elsewhere on Amazon for pure 100% coconut flours--which this product is not--you will find some users were expecting the benefits of coconut flour with the ease of all-purpose wheat flour. There are good reasons for blending other flours with coconut flour:coconut flour alone can be difficult and expensive to use because it requires a lot of liquid--usually in the form of eggs and oils--to make a recipe work properly. This product "Gluten Free Mama, Mama's Coconut Blend Flour" has solved some of that problem by blending in other flours. If you are trying to avoid carbs, this likely is not the flour for you. HOWEVER, if like me you are trying to avoid gluten while also adding fiber in your diet, this may be exactly what you seek. Note again, this is a blend of several flours, so if you did not catch the word "blend" in the description above as some reviewers did not, take note. Each of the flours in the blend brings something to the table, but if you seek the benefits of 100% coconut flour, look elsewhere on Amazon--but before purchasing it do read the reviews from people who expected it to work like all-purpose flour in their baking. (Most of the poor reviews for both products are not the fault of the product but of the purchasers.)

Although this is marketed as a coconut product, it really isn't. People seem to be having success baking with this. Now, coconut flour is delicious and tastes great in many substitute recipes, but does not have the same consistency or taste as wheat flour. When I saw all these success stories I grew suspicious.

I looked up the ingredients for this and the first one is white rice flour. Coconut flour is the fourth ingredient (after potato starch!). Each serving packs a walloping 46g of carbs.

If you are not necessarily gluten-intolerant but just living a low-carb lifestyle (Primal, Paleo, Atkins, Ketogenic, etc.), you'll want to avoid this.

can't understand what the fuss is about. bakes better than 100% coconut flour, of course, but not worth the taste or health sacrifices.

I completely missed the "blend" note, thinking it was coconut flour. I'm sure many people are looking for the gluten free part, but if you're looking for lower carb, or non-grain flour (like a Primal diet), this won't work. It has rice flour and potato starch in it - carb city!