Gluten-Free Flavor Flours - by Alice Medrich (Paperback)

About the Book

Alice Medrich's groundbreaking work, which won the James Beard Award for the best book of 2014 in baking and desserts, is now publishing in paperback with a new title that highlights gluten-free baking.

Book Synopsis

The James Beard Award-winning gluten-free cookbook, now in paperback!

Baking with flavor flours--oat flour, sorghum flour, teff, coconut flour, and nut flours, like almond and hazelnut--adds a new dimension to dessert recipes. Rather than simply adding starch and structure to a dessert (as is the case with wheat flour), these flours elevate the taste of the dessert as well. The recipes incorporate the most popular alternative flours available on the market today and use them in interesting ways, both alone and in combination. Gluten-free bakers will find a whole new range of baking options at their fingertips. Chapters are organized by flour, each one highlighting the best recipes that flour can be used for--be it muffins, tarts, and scones made with sorghum flour; cakes, cookies, and crumbles made with oat flour; or chocolatey desserts made with teff. The chapter opener text highlights useful information for each flour: the taste, its flavor affinities, and how it's best used, stored, and more. With 125 accessible and delicious recipes, including Double Oat Cookies, Buckwheat Gingerbread, Chocolate Chestnut Soufflé Cake, Blueberry Corn Flour Cobbler, and Coconut Key Lime Tart, living gluten-free has never been tastier.

About the Author

Alice Medrich has won more cookbook-of-the-year awards and best in the dessert and baking category awards than any other author. She received her formal training at the prestigious École Lenôtre in France, and is credited with popularizing chocolate truffles in the United States when she began making and selling them at her influential Berkeley dessert shop, Cocolat. She has since left the retail world, devoting much of her career to teaching and sharing her expansive knowledge about baking (check out her online baking course on craftsy.com). Find her at AliceMedrich.com, and follow her on Twitter @AliceMedrich.