Baking brownie and subbing gf flour

[northerngoldilocks]

I need to make a dairy free, soya free, gluten free cake. I usually just do do and sf and make the brownie from the hummingbird bakery book using choc with no soya and substituting Pure for the butter. Does anyone know if I can just used gluten free flour in place of the regular? Some websites say you need to add xanthian gum as a binder. Do I need this? (Recipe has 3 eggs in case that helps?)

Any advice gratefully received

no, for cakes gf flour is good. but look at the ingredients that you don't get one with soya flour.

Brilliant - thanks

Brownies are very forgiving. I would recommend using rapeseed oil or rice bran oil instead of margarine. It works better for brownies.

The Pure is tried and tested (plus I have some) so will stick with that this time but will look into oil as Pure has palm oil which i would prefer to avoid

Just in case anyone searches for this thought I'd update. We made the brownie, subbed the flour and didn't add any extra liquid and it was lovely.

There’s a dr oatker brownie recipe that uses ground almonds instead of flower