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Working With Your Oven

Fran Costigan - Working With Your Oven

This event was on Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 1:00 pm Pacific, 4:00 pm Eastern

Are you tired of burnt bottoms and soggy centers? Do you feel like your oven is more of a foe than a friend? Well, fear not my friends, because the queen of vegan baking, Fran Costig… Read More.

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Question:

The recipes I have tried just have a weird taste to them. Is there something I can mix into the cookie dough or bread dough that could change that ‘off’ taste?

— Ann Smith

Answer:

That's a big question. And so the answer is that you need to learn how to bake gluten-free. There are some better gluten-free items on the market today. I know that I am not gluten free my daughter-in-law's gluten-free. So I'm quite aware of that. I use when I bake gluten-free. I use Bob's Red Mill. One to one all-purpose gluten-free flour or baking. Yeah baking flour. That's what it's called and it's got a blue label and it's very easy to find it's complete meaning it has xantham or guar gum in it. You just whisk it up personally. I find that that does the best bakes other people have used cup for cup and some other gluten-free baking flour mixes, but I'm sorry to tell you that it isn't as simple as just swapping out many people say or you'll see recipes that say, oh use one cup of one half cup of hoey pastry flour 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour. I'm going to use one cup of gluten-free flour. It takes more finessing than that to bake gluten-free and we have gluten-free recipes that taste real that deliver delicious tasting baked goods in the course. I'm really happy to say I worked really hard on doing that. But you know, another thing and is you're talking about gluten free baked goods. There are many desserts that are naturally gluten free.
Fran Costigan

Fran Costigan

Director of Vegan Pastry

FranCostigan.com