Newest Flour Blend Info! I am so excited to announce that Freely Vegan Gluten Free All-Purpose Flour is now available! It already has The Plant Based Egg built in and it works even better than the two-ingredient blend below. I developed it to work perfectly in all of my recipes and it went through thousands of hours of testing. Each ingredient was tested to the perfect level and was sourced from the best mill. Freely Vegan Gluten Free All-Purpose Flour is ready to use in all of my recipes right out of the bag!
You can still use any of my older DIY blends, but none of them will give you quite the same results. I posted all of my DIY blends long before the Freely Vegan flour was available because I wanted to be able to share my recipes with you, and these blends do work pretty well. The two-ingredient flour below, in particular, makes very nice yeast breads, pancakes, waffles, biscuits, scones, pie crust, and cookies. Blend two on my 16 Gluten Free Flour Blends post is great in muffins, quick breads, and cakes, and blend 10 makes awesome brownies. All of my older DIY blends will work in most of my recipes, with varying degrees of success. However, none but the two-ingredient blend will consistently work well for full-size sandwich loaves. And, Freely Vegan Gluten Free All-Purpose flour will be your best bet in all of my recipes. Unless you have an allergy or intolerance to one of the ingredients, I would recommend it over any of my DIY blends. You can order it from Freely Vegan or from Amazon.
I already wrote a post with 16 recipes for different gluten free flour blends, but this new blend is special enough to deserve its own post! All of my older recipes are still great, and I have versions for different dietary needs including grain free, potato free, and rice free. What makes this new blend so fabulous is how easy it is to make, how well it works in a wide variety of recipes, and how incredible it is for all kinds of gluten free breads! As you can tell from the post title, you only need two ingredients to make it:
The key to a high-performance gluten free flour blend is to avoid xanthan and guar gums. This blend from Vitacost is one of the few prepackaged blends available that is gum free. It is a very simple blend of just white rice flour, brown rice flour, potato starch, and tapioca flour. (King Arthur also makes a blend very similar to this, but it is a lot more expensive and the package size doesn’t work out conveniently like this one does.)
You do need to replace the usual gums with something that will take the place of gluten, however. The Plant Based Egg replaces both the gums and eggs in gluten free baking, and there is nothing else like it on the market. It works by combining a unique blend of psyllium husk, flaxseed, pectin, agar, chia, and sunflower lecithin. It is available on both Amazon and Freely Vegan.
To make my two-ingredient flour, all you need is two 32 oz boxes of the Vitacost blend (64 oz total) and one bag of The Plant Based Egg! You’ll also need a large container and a scoop or large spoon:
Add the two bags of the Vitacost blend to your container:
Add the bag of The Plant Based Egg to the flour:
Mix really well until all of The Plant Based Egg is evenly blended into the flour. If your container lid fits tightly enough, you can shake the blend up after stirring to be sure it’s thoroughly mixed. That’s it! You are ready to bake!
Please note that I have only tested this blend in my own recipes and do not know how it will work in any other recipes. It is designed to replace both gums and eggs, but you do still need to add additional liquid to make up for the liquid that the eggs would have provided. I recommend using my recipes, or at least comparing mine to the recipe you wish to use to see where the amounts of the key ingredients may differ.
Also, I recommend always using a scale to weigh your ingredients in all baking recipes, because you’ll get consistently good results by doing so. If you do measure this flour blend, stir it up first, then gently spoon it into your measuring cup and level it with a straight edge.
The rest of the photos are just to show how well this new blend works! Look at these sandwich rolls!
This flour makes the best gluten free breads! In fact, they rival the breads I used to make with wheat flour before I got celiac disease. Look at the perfect texture of these rolls:
Here, I used my sandwich roll recipe, but shaped the dough into six mini French rolls and added Trader Joe’s Everything but the Bagel seasoning:
The flour also makes really nice muffins:
Brownies come out perfectly!
The flour also makes a beautiful pie crust, although I over-filled these hand pies as I always do!
Sandwich loaves come out tall and lovely with this flour!
This is my toasted oatmeal bread (recipe coming soon!)
See the beautiful texture!
This flour blend makes amazing cookies that are crispy on the edges and chewy in the centers! Here are oatmeal raisin and chocolate chip cookies:
I made a pesto pizza and this flour makes a wonderful pizza crust that is crunchy on the edges and soft and fluffy on the inside:
I expected good results from this flour in my honee grahams recipe, and it did not disappoint! They were light and crispy and made the perfect base for vegan s’mores topped with Aldi’s dark sea salt chocolate and Dandie’s marshmallows!
The flour also make gorgeous pancakes and waffles!
Because this flour makes such amazing bread, I had to show you another loaf! This multi-grain seeded bread has added molasses, oats, teff, and poppy, sesame, and sunflower seeds!
Cakes come out with a lovely texture when made with this flour! The crumb is light and tender:
It also makes a delicious banana walnut bread:
And, finally, this flour makes perfect biscuits! It is difficult to make really good gluten free biscuits, but these are wonderfully light, tender, and fluffy:
I really hope you’ll give this simple two-ingredient gluten free flour blend a try! It’s my go-to flour now and I know you’ll love it too!
I’m sold! This looks like a perfect flour blend. Thanks!
It’s pretty fantastic, Chely! I’m using it for everything now!
Having trouble finding the egg replacement blend pictured. What other brand or how many egg servings are in this one? Thanks
The Plant Based Egg will be available on freelyvegan.com and on Amazon in a few weeks! You can also order now by emailing theplantbasedegg@gmail.com. Each bag contains the equivalent of two dozen eggs when baking with wheat flour, or will make about 4.25 lbs of gluten free flour blend. No other egg replacement will work the same way as the formulations are completely different.
Have you tested with the King Arthur gum-free blend? If not, will you? I can purchase KAF locally.
Great question! I have not tested the King Arthur flour with just adding The Plant Based Egg like I have with the Vitacost flour. It should work, though, as the two are very similar. I didn’t test the King Arthur because it’s more expensive and the amounts don’t work out conveniently like they do with the Vitacost flour. However, it is readily available in lots of stores. If you have a digital kitchen scale and want to try it, use 6.2 % of The Plant Based Egg and 93.8 % of the King Arthur gum free flour. (That’s one 24 oz box of the King Arthur flour plus 45 g of The Plant Based Egg.) I’ll get some of the King Arthur flour so I can do a comparison with the Vitacost flour, but it will be a few weeks before I’ll have time to really test it.
Hello! I wanted to say that the Plant-Based Egg is brilliant, but that I cannot buy it because flax seeds make me ill. Is there any chance of a flax-free Plant-Based Egg in the future?
Thank you! It would be tricky to make The Plant Based Egg without any flax. However, you are not the first person who has told me they can’t use flax, so I’ll consider giving it a try.
Thank you! I’m very hopeful; it would be nice to eat pizza again
Pizza is truly wonderful! Try making the crust with my two-ingredient flour and you won’t be able to tell that it’s gluten free at all!
Hello!
What if in the country I’m in, not one of the store cary the plant based egg replacer, nor the vitacost gluten free flour blend..? 🤷🏼♀️
The Plant Based Egg is available on Amazon and both Vitacost and Amazon ship internationally so you should be able to order both from another country. We will be launching a gluten free flour with The Plant Based Egg already added next year and hope to find international distributors next year as well!
Definitely ordering these! So to clarify.. you make the flour using the gf flour and egg replacer, and then for recipes you use more of the egg replacer in place of eggs in the recipe as well or is it cool to just omit the eggs from the recipe altogether because they are in the flour already? Just wondering how much I should order. Also, I’m from Canada.. do you ship there? Thanks!! Your recipes look amazing! I can’t wait to try some!
Thank you, C.C.! You do not add additional egg replacement when using my flour blends, because they already have the right amount of The Plant Based Egg to sub for both the usual gums and the eggs. I do not know how these blends work in standard recipes, though. I developed all of my baking recipes with these blends so you might have to tweak standard recipes. You would definitely have to adjust the liquid amount to compensate for not using eggs. (If you use my recipes, just follow them as written!) Canada is a little tricky and we’re working on it! You should be able to order The Plant Based Egg from Amazon.com in the USA and pay the shipping to Canada. Someone tried it, though, and wasn’t able to check out. Vitacost definitely ships internationally, so we are going to see if we can be on their site as well soon.
When will you have the recipes up for the bread?
I’ll be posting several new bread recipes this week, but I already shared my sandwich rolls, pumpernickel bread, honee sunflower bread, pizza crust, and hot cross buns recipes. If you click on “Gluten Free Bread” in the categories section, you should see all of those.
I looked and did not see the Toasted Oatmeal bread recipe. Hopefully this is one you will be adding. Or did I miss it? Thanks.
You didn’t miss it, and it is coming up right away. It’s already photographed and I just need to find the time to write the post! The new Freely Vegan website goes live tomorrow and building the site has been really time consuming!
Great! I’ll keep an eye out for it! Thanks!
Hi Deborah,
When I went online to order some of this flour and checked ingredients, it has xanthan gum in it…as well as potato starch. I work in a health and neuroscience lodge where we don’t serve any of the inflammatory trigger foods, or gums. Do you have a recommendation for a substitute? I am ever so glad to find the vegan egg product for blending into the flour blend…and by the way, your testing process is astonishing! I would love to be able to just mix two ingredients and have a workable flour! Thanks so very much for your amazing work!
Peg
Vitacost has two versions of their flour blend and I only use the gum free one. However, it does contain potato starch. On my 16 GF flour blends post, though, I do have four versions that are potato free and they might work for you!
Is there some place that you have posted actual bread recipes to follow to make a loaf of bread? My 14 year old has to be gluten free and all of the bread recipes I have followed so far are not desirable.
Hi Jennifer! Yes, I do have several recipes already posted and will be sharing lots more very soon! Click on this link to see all of my published bread posts and recipes: https://www.vegankitchenmagick.com/category/recipes/gluten-free-breads/