How the buggery bollocks do you cook with gluten free flour?

[HecatesTwopenceworth]

ARRGGHHH!!

kids off school and they want to bake.

I am quite a reasonable cook, well, I used to be! But couldn't get to grips with gf flour so don't really do much now.

However, they want to bake! Yesterday we tried biscuits. Ha. Came out as one very thin cake! (they'd joined up in the oven!)

today tried to bake a cake. It's been in there 2 hours now and it's just gloop! I took it out, realised it was basically still just mixture, wondered if adding some more flour, whizzing it up and putting it back in might help. It hasn't.

So what is the big bloody secret to cooking with gf flour, because I haven't got a fecking CLUE!!!

Yes diff, Shiver would know.

The Doves Farm Self Raising works brilliantly with the fairy cake recipe on the back of the pack which in my experience is all children ever want to bake anyway. Claudia Roden's orange and almond cake is pretty foolproof though maybe more to grown-up's tastes (though my 4 year old loves it).