Editorial Review
For celiacs and others unable to eat wheat, it’s not just the dessert tray that’s forbidden: hearty staples like bread and pizza are also off limits. Now, this exciting cookbook allows allergy sufferers to indulge in a wide variety of baked goods, all delicious and all gluten-free. Featured are more than 100 recipes, including homey treats like biscuits and blueberry muffins; chocolate chip and other cookie jar classics; old-fashioned favorites such as eclairs, pie crust, and lemon squares; artisan style breads; and more than 20 cakes, from a simple vanilla layer cake to a decadent German chocolate cake. A thorough grounding in classic baking techniques, as well as detailed instructions in how to buy, mix, and measure gluten-free flours, ensure success for even novice gluten-free bakers. Rounding out the book is a pertinent discussion on how readers can incorporate baking into busy schedules, and why it is so important for emotional, as well as physical, well-being.
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Customer Reviews
Only GF baking book you need 
2008-10-04
I've stopped using all my other baking recipes since I acquired this book. Its recipes and specific flour mixture create truly delicious baked goods, and few people would know they're GF.
GF Cooking 2008-08-31
An interesting and detailed book. Be advised that one needs to plan ahead before experimenting with this chemistry. The author also advises of that!
GF Easy 2008-08-30
This book is wonderful especially because it bakes GF with a minimum of ingredients. If you have done any GF baking you know it requires many ingredients and many egg whites. Most of these recipes use whole eggs and a brown rice flour mix (that you can buy already mixed at Authentic Foods) that is easy to have on hand. If you are new to GF baking, by all means start here.
Buy this book! 2008-08-20
I bought this book and several others to bake a treat for a family whose daughter has celiac disease and numerous food allergies - egg, soy, nuts, and citrus among others. I found a recipe for chocolate sandwich cookies, which was easily adaptable for the child's needs, using pure palm shortening instead of soy shortening, egg replacer for the eggs, and parchment paper instead of cooking spray. (Bonus: you can reuse each sheet of parchment paper once, since the cookies do not lose a lot of butter while baking.) The recipe was overall easy to prepare, and made oodles of little sandwich cookies, which were delicious enough to stand on their own merits. I tested the cookies on several unsuspecting people, and everyone raved about them. My husband ate about six before he could stop himself. So my friends' four-year-old daughter was able to have "Oreo" cookies for the first time in her life, thanks to this book. I didn't try any other recipes in this book, and I gave it to my friend so she could explore it further; but I imagine the other recipes will taste as delicious because the author appears to have put a great deal of thought and effort into creating recipes that recreate textures and flavors people love.
Great cookbook for the person with Celiac 2008-07-14
I have tried two of the recipes and found them both to be excellent. My brother has Celiac and I made him chocolate chip cookies for a graduation and he loved them. There were others at the party who did not know they were "special" cookies and they enjoyed the cookies as well. I also made a family cheese pie recipe that normally has a graham cracker crust and I subed their pie crust and it turned out great! No one even knew. I'm excited to try some of the other recipes to surprise him when he comes to dinner at my house.
a pleasant surprise 2008-07-10
For celiacs and others unable to eat wheat, it’s not just the dessert tray that’s forbidden: hearty staples like bread and pizza are also off limits. Now, this exciting cookbook allows allergy sufferers to indulge in a wide variety of baked goods, all delicious and all gluten-free. Featured are more than 100 recipes, including homey treats like biscuits and blueberry muffins; chocolate chip and other cookie jar classics; old-fashioned favorites such as eclairs, pie crust, and lemon squares; artisan style breads; and more than 20 cakes, from a simple vanilla layer cake to a decadent German chocolate cake. A thorough grounding in classic baking techniques, as well as detailed instructions in how to buy, mix, and measure gluten-free flours, ensure success for even novice gluten-free bakers. Rounding out the book is a pertinent discussion on how readers can incorporate baking into busy schedules, and why it is so important for emotional, as well as physical, well-being.
Easy to Follow 2008-07-08
When going gluten-free, the last thing one needs is a cookbook requiring you to invest in a dozen new flours that you have never heard of and don't know yet how to use. What I like so much about this cookbook is that it doesn't! She presents a formula for a "baking mix" which can be pre-made for easy use later (thereby not requiring you to combine several things for every recipe) and then most of the recipes call for this standard baking mix. I think this makes things easier, but also is more economical. Many of my favorite recipes are for things I never thought I'd have again - lemon bars, peanut butter balls, cupcakes and pizza crust (though the crust does not use the standard baking mix, understandably). I was so happy to get this cookbook and even though I haven't tried most of the recipes, I feel like the ease of use and presentation of options make a somewhat limiting-sounding diet not sound so limiting after all.
Great Cookbook!! 2008-06-30
This is a great gluten free cookbook. I have made a bunch of the recipes and they are wonderful!!
Finally! REAL food again! 2008-06-23
This wonderful book gives our family back the taste of real food - but keeps everything gluten-free. Annalise offers helpful tips, suggestions, and fabulous recipes. Cakes, cookies, even breads, Annalise has created recipes that are both easy and oh-so-tasty! THIS is my cookbook!
best GF chocolate chip cookies ever!!! 2008-06-04
I got this cookbook about a year ago and have been happily using it ever since. It has the best recipe for GF choc chip cookies I have ever tried. I think the big difference is in the superfine flour blend, which I order now from authentic foods. I also love the pie crust. I have taken a pie and the cookies to a family reunion and no one even suspected they were gluten free. They were gone in minutes!! I make all my kids birthday cakes using this book. Also great muffin recipes, apple pie, pizza crust is wonderful if you like a crispy cracker thin crust like my family. If you buy one GF cookbook to bake with, make it this one. Everything I have tried in it is excellent. You will love it.
