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These Heavenly Hunks use rolled oats, shredded coconut, and cocoa butter to make a sweet, chewy hunk that's closer to dessert than breakfast.

In the order I tried them:

Birthday Cake: The first I tried (it was on the discount shelf) and somehow my favorite, which is a huge surprise to me, a person who never seeks out coconut. But these taste like a vanilla coconut cake with frosting (!!) as the cocoa butter brings a creamy richness reminiscent of buttercream. These hunks say to refrigerate after opening, for freshness. I did, but it makes the hunks more dense. I've read some people prefer them that way for texture reasons, but I don't, and since the other bags don't recommend keeping them cold, I don't think I will.

Peanut Butter Chocolate: Smells like peanuts, doesn't really taste like them. The coconut feels like a weird third wheel here, but the mini chocolate chips are nice and smooth.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip: A lot like the peanut butter chocolate hunks, only without the (false) promise of peanut butter. A bit dry and crumbly, good chocolate, weird coconut threads.

Brownie: This one doesn't have coconut in it and reminded me of the no-bake chocolate oat lumps they used to serve in my elementary school cafeteria except dry, not as delicious, and ever so slightly gritty. Very cocoa forward and as such kind of acrid. I wanted them to be saltier, too. Probably my least favorite flavor.

My local Kroger analogue is selling these now, and Costco has a big bag of the choc chip for a very good price.

runpunkrun

Bob's Gluten Free Vanilla Cake Mix is rice-, oat-, nut-, and soy-free and can be prepared dairy-free. You add butter or oil, three eggs, and water. I used avocado oil and Trader Joe's almond/cashew/macadamia milk instead of water, as I had a carton open and was trying to use it up. It was actually the reason I bought this mix in the first place.

The cake is very easy to put together. The instructions say to use the stand mixer, so I did, even though it goes against my nature because I hate washing things. I guessed and went with the paddle attachment, but I think I could have mixed it by hand like I wanted and it would have been fine, maybe even more tender. Beating the batter as directed gave it the consistency of stringy pudding (!!) (maybe we can blame the nut milk for this) and it did not spread on its own when squeeged into the pan. I had to spread it myself, but didn't get it even and thus had a crooked cake. It's was very low in the 9 x 13 inch glass pan I put it in, but it rises a lot in the oven. It didn't brown at all, though, so keep a toothpick handy to test for doneness if you go the dairy-free route. You can also bake it as a layer cake or cupcakes and cooking times are provided.

I might have overcooked mine a bit as it wasn't as moist and tender as I'd hoped, but it was still light and fluffy. The vanilla flavor isn't as nice as if you'd used extract, but I suppose there's nothing stopping you from adding an extra dash on your own. It's very good with some sliced and sugared strawberries, like a shortcake, and also very good with a vanilla buttercream, like a sheet cake. I used this vegan buttercream from Minimalist Baker with Miyoko's salted vegan butter, the lower amount of powdered sugar, and a splash of nut milk, and it came out really nice.

I picked this mix up at my local Kroger analogue over in the "natural" section with all the other Bob's products. I'd try it again. Though I'd cook it a little less at 30 minutes, and maybe throw in that extra dash of vanilla extract.

Current Ingredients: Sugar, Potato Starch, Tapioca Flour, Whole Grain Sorghum Flour, Baking Powder (Monocalcium Phosphate, Baking Soda, Cornstarch), Salt, Xanthan Gum, Natural Vanilla Flavor Powder (Sugar, Cornstarch, Vanilla Oleoresin).

harmonic_tabby

I recently tried two different brands of gluten free frozen meals and was not deeply impressed. The "bettergoods" meals I tried were just fine but of course I'm hoping for better than "just fine". And the meal from "Blakes" was a confused mess of really great and icky.

I have really enjoyed most of the meals I've gotten over the years from "Amy's" and I have no complaints about any of them. I was just hoping to widen the possibilities for those times I defaulted to something frozen from the freezer instead of having to actually cook myself.

So, what brands available in north american grocery stores do y'all have experience with and like eating??

fred_mouse

Purchased today, at the extravagant discount price of $3.50(AUD) for one pot of lumlum Thai Green Curry flavour pot noodles. These are labelled as vegan, non fried noodles, no preservatives, gluten free, no MSG. Product of Thailand.

caveat: It's been a while since I've had two minute noodles, and I'm not entirely sure if I've previously had pot noodles, so I don't have a good reference to compare these to. Plus, while the instructions say 'leave for five minutes' I left for significantly longer, because I forgot about them. Which is to say that my upcoming complaint about the texture of the noodles may be entirely unwarranted.

So: prep - getting in to the packaging was a little frustrating, as if there was a perforated tear line in the sealing plastic I didn't find it. Similarly opening the flavour sachet. Not recommended for people with hand issues.

Flavour: there was a generous amount of flavouring paste, it smelled great, and it was sufficient for the amount of water added. I ended up drinking it all before eating the noodles, and as a soup it was wonderful. Definitely the bit that I would want again. Importantly for me, this was really good flavour, not passable flavour with lots of salt to make it feel like more flavour. 5 star flavour.

Noodles: These were uncanny valley levels of wrong. Slightly flat rather than round noodles, the mouth feel was slightly gritty (this is commonly my experience with rice based products). Even if they weren't overcooked, these two complaints would still be there. Impossible to scoop out with the fork - after drinking the soup, I just supped them from the pot. Grudgingly, I'm giving the noodles 2 stars, because of the user error involved.

Overall: worth it as a one off. I really needed something as a pick me up, and buying a treat at this price was worth it. I would not be buying it as a regular item, partly because I don't really like 'cup' noodles (I do like two minute noodles in the pressed blocks. Yes, I realise they aren't functionally different). If you like cup noodles and you find them at a reasonable price, then I think I recommend them. 3.5 / 5 stars.

ingredients: brown rice noodles (74%) (organic brown rice flour, water), Green curry flavour paste (26%)(coconut milk, cane sugar, cumin, chilli, salt, lemongrass, garlic, shallot, galangal, tumeric, soybean, coriander, lime peel, citric acid).

leecetheartist

Here in Australia there are now two other gluten free alcohol free beers safe for coeliac sufferers.

We've been enjoying SOBAH's Non Alcoholic Davison Plum GF Pale Ale for a while now and sometimes they do the Wattleseed as GF too. They're an indigenous run company in Queensland and great, but not always easy to get in Western Australia.

BUT breaking news here in Western Australia let me introduce you to a Western Australian brewery who is doing not one, but two gf and non alcoholic beers.

They do a bunch of alcoholic gf beers too, but that's not of interest to us, you can check them out if you want.

https://somedaysomehow.beer/products/wherever

and

https://somedaysomehow.beer/products/whenever

or you can check them out at

https://freespiritdrinkco.com.au/collections/gluten-free

sonia

Following up on cereal snacks, I also like to snack on granola, but there's always that worry that the oats will be cross-contaminated. Purely Elizabeth granola uses organic certified gluten-free oats, and is made in a facility that processes soy, milk, eggs, peanuts, and other tree nuts.

The Chocolate Sea Salt flavor is crunchy, chocolate-y, and delicious. For some reason, it comes with added probiotics. To seem healthier, maybe? No soy lecithin! The salt isn't overly intrusive the way it is in some chocolate salt combos. A real treat!

Full ingredients: Organic Certified Gluten Free Oats, Organic Coconut Sugar, Organic Coconut Oil, Organic Fair Trade Dark Chocolate Chunks (Organic Cane Sugar, Organic Chocolate Liquor, Organic Cocoa Butter, Organic Vanilla Extract), Sunflower Seeds, Organic Puffed Amaranth, Cocoa Powder, Organic Quinoa Flakes, Cinnamon, Sea Salt, Organic Chia Seeds, Probiotic Cultures (Inulin, Palm Oil, Bacillus Coagulans GBI-30 6086).

The Pumpkin Cinnamon flavor is also crunchy, still pretty sweet, but less obviously dessert-like. The dominant note is cinnamon. It has pumpkin seeds rather than pumpkin flesh, so it's not really pumpkin-flavored. Also delicious.

Full ingredients: Organic Certified Gluten-Free Oats, Organic Coconut Sugar, Organic Coconut Oil, Organic Pumpkin Seeds, Organic Sunflower Seeds, Organic Puffed Amaranth, Organic Quinoa Flakes, Organic Chia Seeds, Organic Cinnamon, Sea Salt.

And I see on the Purely Elizabeth website that they now sell Chocolate Chip Cookie granola which looks pretty amazing, but I haven't had it. Has anyone here tried that?

fred_mouse

This was bought in Western Australia, at my local IGA (supermarket), and the short review is: don't buy this.

The longer notes:

It was on the discount shelf, so it was $7.50 rather than $15, which is a thing that tempts me to try something new. It was labelled "Apple and Rhubarb Crumble, gluten free" and "400g" on the top (note: the company name is not there. I had to look in the fine print to find it). It was in an aluminium tray with a plastic lid, about the same size as a standard takeaway container. It looked like a reasonable size for two people to have generous portions, and three to have reasonable sized portions.

As there were no cooking instructions, I assumed it was ready to eat. I chose not to heat it up, because the oven would have been too hard, and the metal tray meant not in the microwave. This wasn't a dreadful mistake, but it was some amount of mistake, because the topping wasn't actually cooked. For people who like biscuit (cookie) dough raw, that would be fine, but I wasn't that enthused.

I reckon it was 80% topping. The fruit was almost entirely large chunks of apple. Neither the apple nor the rhubarb were cooked enough, so every now and then there was a crunchy bit. The rhubarb was also obviously stringy. The topping was at least felt to be more butter than it was sugar, so it wasn't horrendously sweet (although, given the ingredients list, this may have been wrong).

To add to all of these failures, I've just looked at the ingredients list: gluten-free flour, brown sugar, rhubarb, butter, cooked apple, baking powder. Obviously, the 'gluten-free flour' is a problem. But 'brown sugar' has to be a lie, no way that beautifully yellow topping had brown sugar in it. There was not more rhubarb than butter or apple.

If I have the energy, I'll go see if I can find the contact details for the company, and make a complaint.

jesse_the_k

I’m a big ginger fan, so a new entry in the ginger cookie space inspired a comparison between

Partake
MI-DEL
Tate’s

for science!

( all three have good points )

sonia

This is a cereal of small round o's that carefully never mentions Cheerios on the packaging. They're slightly smaller and slightly crunchier than I remember cheerios being, but they're a pretty good substitute. If you like putting any kind of milk over your cereal (which I don't), I bet these wouldn't get soggy too fast.

It says gluten-free right on the front, but then in small print on the side (I noticed after buying them) it says, "Made in a facility that also processes soy, dairy, wheat, eggs, sesame, and tree nuts." It also says "Top 9 allergen free" and "3rd party tested." So it's a judgment call. I don't think I would buy them again myself, especially since it's $7 or 8 for a 7 oz box.

There's a whole holier than thou "pure foods" blurb on the back of the box that I was willing to ignore, but it makes the facility thing even more annoying.

The plain unsweetened version has organic cassava flour, organic coconut oil, and sea salt. They have a slightly sour taste that must come from the cassava, but it's a fine plain snack.

The cocoa version has organic cassava flour, coconut flour, organic coconut sugar, organic cocoa powder, organic coconut oil, organic vanilla extract, and redmond real sea salt. These are a great chocolatey snack! I would really be tempted by these if it weren't for the facility thing.

I bought the cinnamon version a while ago and wasn't so impressed with that one, but I gave these other flavors a try because they were on sale.

Company website: https://lovebirdfoods.com

runpunkrun

Pamela's Bread Mix: This bag has all the dry ingredients you need to make one loaf of bread, including a little packet of yeast. You just add water, eggs, and oil, throw it in the stand mixer for three minutes and then squeegee it into a loaf pan. The batter is thick and sticky and stays where it's put, so you'll want to smooth out the top with wet or oily fingers to get a nice, even crust. Maybe even press down the batter around the edges of the pan so that it's lower than the center and creates a domed top when it bakes.

The instructions are the bare minimum—no explanation of how you can tell it's done, or how to store it once it is—but it does give directions for making this bread in a bread maker or an oven. There are also instructions for how to turn this mix into dinner rolls (it's the same, only you bake it in muffin cups), and four variations on the plain loaf: molasses, 3 seed, cheese, and herb bread.

It smells really nice while it bakes and creates a firm loaf with the texture of a quick bread, dense with no chew. It tastes slightly sweet and slightly sour in a way that reminds me of baking soda, but as it includes none, I guess we're going to have to blame the millet, which can give baked goods an earthy, slightly burnt taste.

This is dairy free, easy to make, and probably easy to find (I found it in the "natural" section of my local Kroger analogue), but it doesn't have much flavor and I missed the chewiness I get from breads made with psyllium husk. And I still had to clean up the kitchen afterwards! All in all, I'd rather buy a loaf or, sigh, bake one from scratch.

Current Ingredients: Sorghum Flour, Tapioca Flour, White Rice Flour, Sweet Rice Flour, Brown Rice Flour, Evaporated Cane Sugar, Inulin, Millet Flour, Honey, Rice Bran, Sea Salt, Xanthan Gum, Yeast Packet (active dry yeast).

Pamela's Products are manufactured in a Gluten-Free Certified Facility and peanut-free facility. Their products are produced on equipment that processes tree nuts, coconut, eggs, soy, and milk.

runpunkrun

Birthday Cake Sandwich Cookies: These taste just like a Golden Oreo. Sandwiched between two crisp vanilla cookies, the creme has "fun, colorful sprinkles" to make them birthday cake flavor, but the creme isn't thick enough to see them from the side unless you pry the cookies apart, so that's not really a big selling point. They're very good, though, and like the Goodie Girl S'mores cookies don't taste gluten-free at all. Like the S'mores, a box of these also has 24 cookies in one sleeve, and they also got stale before I finished them, but I'll keep buying them all the same.

Current Ingredients: cane sugar, gluten free whole grain oat flour, palm oil, rice flour, high oleic sunflower oil (or canola oil), invert sugar. Contains less than 2% of each of the following: soy lecithin, corn starch, inulin, baking soda, xanthan gum, salt, natural flavors, edible glitter (gum arabic, spirulina extract, red cabbage extract, turmeric extract, radish extract, beet juice concentrate, vegetable juice), ammonium bicarbonate.

fred_mouse

Today, we wandered into a random supermarket in Dublin (I remember it said 'Good Food Market' on the branding, if that helps anyone identify it). After some wandering, we found their gluten free 'section', which seemed to be scattered across random shelves in one aisle.

In the bikkies section, I found custard creams. Now, custard creams are one of the options that one gets in what I think of as one of the family tradition bikkie selections - the Arnotts Family Selection (title may be different; there is a plain and a creams variation). I have not seen a GF version in Aus, which means it is ~15 years since I'm likely to have eaten one. They are advertised as 'crunchy biscuits with a vanilla flavour filling'.

Taste wise and texture wise they are about perfect, when held up to the rose coloured memories. They are beautifully short biscuits, the amount of filling nicely balances the biscuits. Size wise they are a bit smaller than I was expecting (it is possible that the regular ones are also smaller than my memory), and I was on my third one before I realised. I think there are nine in the packet, so enough for a small group of friends to share.

Brand is 'love more' with the tag line 'fabulous free from foods'. Information on the side says 'baked in a dedicated free from bakery', with an address in Wales. Ingredients lists are translated into ES, SV, NO, and FI, which I'm interpreting as Spain, ~~Sweden~~ maybe Switzerland?, Norway, Finland, so presumably can be found in those countries as well as Ireland and the UK.

Allergen advice lists them as 'gluten free, wheat free, and milk free' and 'suitable for vegans'. They do not contain oats, soy, or umm, a third thing I remember noticing and have forgotten. They do contain potato, but I'm pretending to be okay with that.

Overall: highly recommended,

runpunkrun

Fudge Striped Crunchy Oat Flour Cookies: Well, you know exactly what these are going to be just from the name, but I wanted them to be like the Keebler fudge stripe cookies of my youth and they were not. The oat cookie—the ad copy calls it a "shortbread" which it is not—is indeed crisp and has the occasional crunch of a sugar crystal for added interest, but, and I know it's unsporting to say this about a dessert, they're a little too sweet for me. The chocolate is perfectly fine, but unremarkable. I mean they're fine! But just fine. They're also much thinner than the Fudge Stripe cookies I remember and feel somewhat insubstantial.

Comes in a single sleeve of 24 cookies. Certified GF and kosher.

Current Ingredients: gluten free whole grain oat flour, confectionery coating (sugar, vegetable oil [palm kernel and/or palm], cocoa powder processed with alkali, buttermilk, soy lecithin, natural flavors), cane sugar, palm oil, brown cane sugar. Contains 2% or less of: invert sugar, sodium bicarbonate, natural flavor, soy lecithin, ammonium bicarbonate.

fred_mouse

For dw gluten free

I'm currently in Italy, and one of the fabulous things I've discovered is that they are really good about gluten free here (although you have to watch out because the boundaries on what is gluten free are a bit different - if I remember later I'll drop the link I have that gave me the info into comments). And, because the Italians are very much about their cereal based items, there are so many choices. Especially in the bikkie aisle.

At the moment, I'm working my way through a packet of Conad (supermarket chain) Alimentum senza glutine wafer alla nocciola (nuts; specifically hazel nuts, if I have my translation right. But think Nutella as the filling). Wafer biscuits were a significant treat of my childhood -- either they weren't readily available, or it was one of the things that was outside the budget, so they were a birthdays and feast days food.

These are really close to my memory. A little more chewy, a little less powder goes everywhere with a satisfying crunch, but oh, so good. And that might be meeting regional preferences, because my vague impression is that the ones we got were from somewhere else in Europe, and typically had different flavour fillings. The filling is a bit sweet, but the wafer layers are not, so it mostly balances out.

runpunkrun

So Delicious Cookie Dough: The coconutmilk ice cream is smooth and creamy and has a strong taste of coconut. The lumps of cookie dough are tasty and enjoyably gritty, like you're actually eating cookie dough, and they have a firm and distinct texture but are easy to bite into when frozen. It's probably quite similar to actual cookie dough, though I can't say for sure because I've never been one to eat raw cookie dough. The chocolate flecks are mostly on the outside in the ice cream, though the ingredients indicate they're inside the cookie dough as well, and it's their usual bittersweet chocolate with nice flavor and no wax or grease to it. This is very good, as long as you like the taste of coconut. Personally, I found it overpowering.

Current Ingredients: Organic Coconutmilk (Filtered Water, Organic Coconut), Organic Cane Sugar, Cookie Dough (Rice Flour, Brown Sugar, Water, Vegetable Oil [Palm And Canola], Dark Chocolate Chips [Cane Sugar, Chocolate Liquor, Cocoa Butter, Vanilla Extract], Guar Gum, Natural Flavor, Sea Salt, Baking Soda), Organic Coconut Oil, Chocolate Chips (Cane Sugar, Organic Coconut Oil, Cocoa, Chocolate Liquor, Natural Vanilla Flavor), Organic Tapioca Syrup, Pea Protein, Locust Bean Gum, Guar Gum, Natural Flavor, Annatto Extract (Color).

runpunkrun

Chocolate Vanilla Creme Cookies is a really awkward and trademark-free way to say "like an Oreo" while also leaving out the "sandwich" part: Two extremely crisp chocolate cookies with a bit of vanilla creme squished between them until it oozes out the cookie holes on the top and bottom. The chocolate cookies are on point, if like weirdly crispy, but the vanilla creme is unexpectedly soft—not in a bad way—but it also has a very distinct flavor I can only describe as "Easter candy question mark." Does it taste like a Peep? Or a jelly bean somehow? It's fine! It probably just tastes like marshmallow, which sets these apart from what I remember of Oreos, but, depending on who you are, that might be a selling point.

20 cookies, all in a single sleeve, but they didn't get stale while I was eating them over the course of two weeks. I'd buy these again.

Certified GF.

Current Ingredients: Powdered Sugar (Sugar, Corn Starch), Sugar, Palm Oil, Tapioca Starch, Rice Flour, Cocoa (Processed With Alkali), Tapioca Syrup; Less than 2% of: Cassava Flour, Cocoa Powder, Water, Potato Flour, Soy Lecithin, Salt, Xanthan Gum, Baking Soda, Natural Flavor.

nerakrose

Warburton's (UK) has just come out with a new product: soft pittas. I came across them by chance in Tesco the other week, looking for something else, and decided to grab them as they did (through the plastic packaging) definitely seem very soft.

positives:
- they freeze well. I stick them in the toaster directly from the freezer for about 2 minutes, they heat through and soften perfectly
- they have an actual air pocket like a real pitta!! none of that dense flat bullshit from other brands
- hold together very well, easy to cut and fill
- soft!!
- they claim to be high in fibre, without getting too tmi about my digestion about it I would say that's true

negatives:
- needs a bit more salt, it's a bit on the bland side

these are very versatile and I've gone through four packs in two weeks already, I just can't stop eating them. I use them as sandwich bread a lot, I've been wanting a good GF replacement for pågen skærgårdsbrød for a while and this is hitting that sweet spot for me.

runpunkrun

Coco Whip Original: This has the exact vibes of Cool Whip, only dairy-free (and soy-free!):

silky
sweet
found in the freezer case
doesn't deflate, run, or separate

It has a slight taste of coconut, but it's not overwhelming. I put it on some strawberries and a slice of orange almond loaf and it was a perfectly appropriate topping for a strawberry shortcake, even with the hint of coconut, but it'd also be great in a tropical desert like a banana cream pie, where you can lean into the coconut flavor.

I keep this in the freezer, and it defrosts pretty quickly if you leave it out on the counter. After an hour it softens enough to spoon around the edges of the carton, or you can just dig into it frozen where it'll have the texture of ice cream. You can then put it in the fridge or refreeze it, which makes this a very tasty and convenient topping. I'm looking forward to trying it on top of some gingerbread.

Also comes in a "Light" version with half the fat.

Certified GF & vegan.

Current Ingredients: Filtered Water, Organic Coconut Oil, Organic Tapioca Syrup, Organic Cane Sugar, Pea Protein, Guar Gum, Sunflower Lecithin, Xanthan Gum, Natural Flavor.

runpunkrun

High off my success with S'mores Oatmilk Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert last year, I decided to try more So Delicious products. I had some winners and some...runners up.

Here are the results of a year-long trial, arranged in decreasing order of pleasingness. All of the following products are soy-free and certified GF and vegan.

The Best

( Dipped Salted Caramel Bar )

( S'mores )

( Salted Caramel Cluster )

( Mint Chip )

( Very Vanilla )

The Rest

( Chocolate Cookies 'N' Cream )

( Dark Chocolate Truffle )

( Chocolate Salted Caramel )

( Peanut Butter Brownie )

( Cookies & Crème )

( Strawberry )

jesse_the_k

These are graham crackers, except graham flour by definition is wheat. Crispy and decorative diamonds a little bigger than your thumb, these cookies are really tasty. They claim that watermelon seed(!) contributes to the crispiness but my money is on the tapioca. As my local GF pal put it, "1 box = 1 serving." (Actually, 1 box has ~120g, or four servings.)

Dairy-free as well as gluten-free.

Current Ingredients Seed & Nut Flour Blend (watermelon, cashew, sunflower, flax), Tapioca Starch, Arrowroot, Coconut Sugar, Organic Coconut Oil, Honey, Honey Extract, Organic Cinnamon, Baking Soda, Rosemary Extract (for freshness), Sea Salt, Cream of Tartar, Vanilla Extract

My first GF graham cracker was Pamela’s, available in either honey or honey cinnamon. Now they sell rectangular ones, but I loved the mini hexagons sized for snacking. The Simple Mills version are just as tasty and don’t have milk.

runpunkrun

Goodie Girl Magical Animal Crackers: I think we can all agree, the most important thing about animal crackers is what kind of animals we'll be eating. "Magical" ones according to the box. This includes:

Unicorn
- on a scooter
- playing a guitar
- dabbing
Mermaid (isn't this at least partly cannibalism??)
- mermaid hugging/subduing a fish (cannibalism all the way down)
Dragon
Narwhal (I'm sorry, but these are real animals?)

Despite its non-magical nature, the narwhal was my favorite because it was a nice shape and noticeably thicker than the other cookies, more like what I expect from an animal cracker. The guitar-playing unicorn was particularly thin as well as being a weird narrow rectangle because the unicorn was at open mic night, I guess, and standing upright on its hind legs. It just raises a lot of questions is all. Anyway. How do they taste? The oat flavor is quite pronounced, which I normally don't mind, but found distracting here, and I missed the traditional animal cracker flavor of lemon or vanilla. So they're not my platonic ideal of an animal cracker, but once I managed my expectations, they were good enough.

Current Ingredients: gluten free whole grain oat flour, cane sugar, palm oil, rice flour, invert sugar. Contains 2% or less of: natural flavors, sodium bicarbonate, soy lecithin, inulin, salt, xanthan gum.

celli

I am still learning to bake, so I rely on mixes for a lot of things. I have found several box mixes that I like, but my absolute favorite is Magnolia Mixes Gluten Free Lemon Pound Cake Mix (the first item on this page).

You add eggs, butter, and sour cream to the existing mix. You can also make an optional glaze with confectioner's sugar and lemon juice.

I have taken this to events and people who regularly eat gluten have said you can't tell by tasting it. It's just lemony enough for me, and it's got a great texture. I think it's better the second day, when the glaze has had a chance to work its way into the cake a little.

The purchase link on the Magnolia Mixes website takes you to Amazon, but my local grocery store carries it as well.

Per the company, this mix is gluten, nut, and soy free. It can be prepared either with or without dairy (you substitute dairy free butter and dairy free vanilla yogurt), but I haven't tried the dairy-free version so I can't speak to it. Made in a gluten-free and nut-free facility.

Ingredients (from the site): Gluten Free Flour (Potato Starch, Rice Flour, Tapioca Flour), Sugar, Baking Powder (Monocalcium Phosphate, Bicarbonate of Soda, Cornstarch (Nongenetically Modified Corn)), Lemon Juice Powder (Lemon Oil, Dextrose), Sea Salt, Baking Soda, Xanthan Gum

runpunkrun

Goodie Girl Mint Cookies are thinner and, dare I say, mintier than a Girl Scout Thin Mint, but taste very much like the cookies I remember, right down to the occasional hit of salt in an otherwise unremarkable (but crisp) chocolate cookie. The chocolate coating is a bit greasy, but it's been a long time since I had a Thin Mint, so it's possible that's authentic as well. If you like(d) Thin Mints, you'll probably like these.

Each box has 24 cookies in a single sleeve, but I easily finished them off before they got stale.

Certified GF. Kosher.

Current Ingredients: confectionery coating (sugar, vegetable oil [palm kernel and/or palm], cocoa powder, processed with alkali, buttermilk, soy lecithin, natural flavors), gluten-free whole grain oat flour, cane sugar, palm oil, cocoa processed with alkali; contains 2% or less of: molasses, sodium bicarbonate, salt, inulin, soy lecithin, peppermint oil, ammonium bicarbonate.

runpunkrun

Goodie Girl cookies are so quietly gluten-free I have looked at them multiple times at my local Kroger before finding them in Walmart's GF section, picking them up to take a good look, and finally seeing the tiny little certified GF logo on the lower corner of the box. They have a Girl Scout cookie vibe with colorful boxes and playful flavors and even have a thin mint analogue. More on that later.

I started my journey with their S'mores Sandwich Cookies: One chocolate cookie, one cinnamon graham cookie, with sweet vanilla creme filling between. They don't taste like a S'more, exactly, but they are tasty and you can at least see where they're coming from. One box contains 24 cookies, but they're all in a single sleeve and only stayed fresh about ten days, so by the time I finished them the cookies were getting a bit soft, but they still tasted good. I liked these so much I bought them again and took a page from the Girl Scout Handbook and froze the next box to see if it would stop them from getting stale, but they basically became just as soft in the freezer. Still good though.

Certified GF, vegan, and kosher.

Current Ingredients: cane sugar, gluten free whole grain oat flour, rice flour, palm oil, high oleic sunflower oil (or canola oil), tapioca starch, invert sugar. Contains less than 2% each of the following: cocoa (processed with alkali), soy lecithin, corn starch, inulin, baking soda, xanthan gum, salt, cinnamon, natural flavors, organic maltodextrin, tricalcium phosphate, ammonium bicarbonate.

runpunkrun

Psyllium husk can add great structure and chew to GF breads, turning bread batter into an actual bread dough that you can knead and shape, but it can also turn your baked goods a sad purple. I discovered this the hard way the first time I used psyllium husk when the Yerba Prima I bought because it was a local company turned my hamburger buns a dismal purple grey. They weren't purple in the cookbook, so obviously this could be avoided, but how? A mystery.

Then, literal years later, A CLUE: I read about "blond" psyllium husk at The Loopy Whisk (UK), but I can't find anything for sale in the US labeled that way.

A few weeks after that I'm scrolling through a recipe for a GF flour blend without rice flour and, through sheer luck, find A LEAD. Based on a recommendation from Fearless Dining, I buy a bag of Anthony's Whole Psyllium Husks, use them in a loaf of sandwich bread and tears, tears (metaphorical) on the side of my face because my bread comes out a lovely yellow color with not a shade of grey to be seen. It looks just like normal bread. Praise the husk!

Anthony's Whole Psyllium Husks are organic, batch tested, and verified gluten free. I bought mine at Amazon.

Do you use psyllium husk in your baking? Do you have a favorite brand that doesn't turn your bread grey? Please share in the comments!

Late Breaking News!

Sources at Wikipedia report:

Seed produced from Plantago ovata is known in trading circles as white or blonde psyllium, Indian plantago, or isabgol.

Which is what Anthony's contains while my Yerba Prima just says it contains "Psyllium." I've cracked the code!

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