Cooking with wheat and gluten free flour.

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Is there any difference when cooking with these?

Want to make a cake for ds birthday on friday, plus some biscuits for him if possible. Have not cooked with wheat&gluten free flour before. Is there anything I need to do with them. Standard recipes (for normal flour) do I just use the flour I got instead?

yes you need to add a teaspoon of xanthan gum or they'll crumble ..its a stabiliser

you can get in asda (its a powder) or from barbaraskitchen.co.uk

thanks for that . Will pick some up tomorrow.

This may not be exactly your answer, but M&S do a really nice wheat-free choc-and-orange cake. For wheat-free bikkies, I would go to Sainsburys.

Not saying you shouldn't do your own, but if you get stuck and need an alternative, these are my suggestions.

thanks Its really good to know for future (or if my stuff goes fantastically wrong)

the raspberry jam shortbready biscuits from the free from range at sainsbury's are great