Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Brownie Mix

My two year old seems to have inherited the wheat sensitivity I have (lucky her!), so I decided to go out and buy some wheat free mixes to make her some little treats. I came across this baking mix at Kroger. I’ve been pleased with the quality of other Bob’s Red Mill products and decided to give this mix a try. Instead of wheat, it uses potato starch, sorghum flour, tapioca flour, and corn flour.

I made the “cream cheese brownie” recipe on the package and was very happy with the flavor and texture of these brownies. The mix is a good value too because it makes a lot of brownies and is more reasonably priced than other gluten free baking mixes.

I noticed that these brownies were tastier the second day, and they also held up beautifully when I froze part of the batch to eat later. These have a permanent place on my counter, they’re officially my favorite wheat/gluten free brownie mix.

This brownie mix is available on Bob’s Red Mill’s website or amazon.com: Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free Brownie Mix, 21-Ounce Packages (Pack of 4)

Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix

Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix

This baking mix is an easy, super convenient way to whip up a batch of gluten/wheat free chocolate chip cookies. Instead of wheat, it uses garbanzo bean flour, potato starch, tapioca starch, whole grain white sorghum flour, and fava bean flour.

I decided to bake up a batch of these and found they were excellent. The texture was chewy and the flavor delicious. They won’t taste like the cookies made with wheat you may be used to, but they’re good nonetheless.

Just a note: Skip letting the kids lick the bowl on this one. The bean flours give the batter a very “beany” flavor, although you don’t notice it when the cookies are baked. Also, these didn’t taste as nice when they were frozen and defrosted, which was a bit disappointing.

Bob’s gluten free products are some of the more reasonably priced mixes and I recommend them, especially if you or your child is sensitive to wheat and you don’t want to waste a lot of time and money experimenting with gluten free baking, which can be really tricky to master.

You can get these baking mixes at a small discount by buying them in bulk from amazon.com: Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix, 22-Ounce Packages (Pack of 4)

Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Cornbread Mix

Product Name: Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Cornbread Mix

If you or someone in your family has a wheat allergy or intolerance, you know how challenging it can be having to learn how to bake from scratch without wheat. Wheat free and gluten free mixes like this one from Bob’s Red Mill can be very convenient, especially when you’re just learning how to replace wheat with other grains.

Bob’s Red Mill products are more reasonably priced than some other gluten/wheat free mixes, which gives them a real thumbs up in my book. When I saw this mix in my local grocery store (it was a large chain not a small health food store), I cooked up a batch of cornbread to go along with my beans. I was very pleased with the flavor.

The finished product was a little “wetter” than the cornbread I’m accustomed to, but I’ll have to experiment to see if perhaps using a wider or a different pan yields different results. Also, the cornbread is a little sweet which is fine if that’s how you’re used to eating cornbread. I’m from the South and we don’t eat our cornbread sweet, but I still liked the taste.

The next day I made the leftovers into cornbread dressing, which was also very tasty although again a little on the moist side. Overall it’s a very good product for the price, and very convenient to use too. The Bob’s Red Mill website is a nice source of wheat and gluten free recipes so you can expand your repertoire of wheat/gluten free baking.

Bob’s Red Mill flours and baking mixes are available at amazon.com and you get a small discount since you’re buying them in bulk:

Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free Cornbread Mix, 20-Ounce Bags (Pack of  4)

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